Qiang Du, Verne M. Willaman Professor of Mathematics

Mathematics

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 at Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University

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, is a mathematician

Mathematician

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 and computational scientist

Computational scientist

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 affiliated with the Pennsylvania State University Department of Mathematics and Materials Sciences.

Ph. D.

After completing his BS degree at University of Science and Technology of China

University of Science and Technology of China

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 in 1983, Du earned his Ph.D.

Ph.D.

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 degree from Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

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 in 1988. His thesis was written under the direction of Max D. Gunzburger.

Publications

As of July 2010, two of Du's the most highly cited papers are

• Qiang Du., Max Gunzburger
  Max Gunzburger
  Max D. Gunzburger, Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Florida State University, is an American mathematician and computational scientist affiliated with the Florida State interdisciplinary Department of Scientific Computing. He was the 2008 winner of the SIAM W.T. and Idalia...
  
  , and Janet S. Peterson, "Analysis and approximation of the Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity", SIAM Review 34 (1992), no 1, 54-81.
• Qiang Du, Vance Faber
  Vance Faber
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  , and Max Gunzburger
  Max Gunzburger
  Max D. Gunzburger, Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Florida State University, is an American mathematician and computational scientist affiliated with the Florida State interdisciplinary Department of Scientific Computing. He was the 2008 winner of the SIAM W.T. and Idalia...
  
  , "Centroidal Voronoi tessellations: Applications and algorithms", SIAM Review 41 (1999), no. 4, pp. 637–676.

Students and post-doctorates

As of July 2010, 10 students had completed their Ph.D. degrees under Du's supervision. He had also supported 6 post-doctorates.