Gui-Qiang Chen

Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-2730 
PERSONAL DATA

  email:	gqchen@math.northwestern.edu
  phone:	847-491-5553             fax:  847-491-8906



ACADEMIC POSITIONS

1996-Present  Professor, Northwestern University
1994-1996     Associate Professor, Northwestern University
1989-1994     Assistant Professor, The University of Chicago
1987-1989     Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMS, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York



 VISITING POSITIONS

2005        Visiting Member, Institut Mittag-Leffler, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden  
2005-08     Changjiang Distinguished Visiting Professor, Fudan University (Shanghai) and the Ministry of Education (Beijing), PRC
2003        Visiting Member, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK 
2001        Senior Fellow, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, Los Angeles
1996        Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Nice, Nice, France
1994        Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, New Jersey
1992,1994   Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, Stanford, California  
1990-1991   Visiting Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Berkeley, California
1989        Visiting Member, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications(IMA), Minneapolis, Minnestota 




AWARDS/HONORS/RECOGNITIONS


  •  Humboldt Fellow, 2003, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany

  •  Sloan Fellow, 1991-1997, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, USA

  •  Chinese National Prize of Sciences, 1990, PRC

  •  Argonne-University of Chicago Fellow in Mathematics, 1989-1991, USA

  •  Chinese Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics (1st place), 1989, PRC

  •  Best Paper Prize (1st place), Beijing Mathematical Society, 1988, PRC

    

    EDITORSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS
    

  • SIAM Journal of Mathematical Analysis (SIMA)

  • Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics (ZAMP)
(Zeitschrift fur angewandte Mathematik und Physik)

  • Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis (CPAA) 

  • Acta Mathematica Scientia

  • Chinese Annals of Mathematics (CAM)

  • Journal of Partial Differential Equations

  • Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica

  • Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations (JHDE)

    

    NATIONAL COMMITTEE SERVICE
    



  • Program Director, 2005-2006: Activity Group on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (SIAG/APDE)
  Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)


  • Co-Chair, Organizing Committee,Second SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (PD06)
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)


  • Scientific Committee and AMS Program Committee for the Joint International Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and Shanghai Mathematical Society
American Mathematical Society (AMS)


  • AMS-MAA Program Committee for the Joint National Meetings, San Diego, January 6-9, 2008
American Mathematical Society (AMS)
and The Mathematical Association of America (MAA)


  • AMS Program Committee for National Meetings: 2007--2010
American Mathematical Society (AMS)



    

    RESEARCH INTERESTS 
    

  • Partial Differential Equations

  • Nonlinear Analysis

  • Geometric Analysis

  • Numerical Analysis

  • Fluid Mechanics

  • Mathematical Physics

  • Applied Mathematics

    

    FORMER Ph.D. GRADUATE STUDENTS 
    

  • Dehua Wang, Ph.D. (1996): University of Chicago; now a professor of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh

  • Milan Krakta, Ph.D. (1998): University of Chicago; now Wolverine Trading, Chicago

  • Bo Su, Ph.D. (1999): Northwestern University; now a professor of Mathematics, Iowa State University 

  • Tianhong Li, Ph.D. (2003): Northwestern University; now a professor of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China)

  • Mikhail Perepelitsa, Ph.D. (2004): Northwestern University; now an Assistant Professor of Mathematics of Vanderbilt University

  • Jun Chen, Ph.D. (2005): Northwestern University; now a Van Vleck Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

  • Dianwen Zhu, Ph.D. (2005): Northwestern University; now a Krener Assistant Professor of Mathematics of the University of California at Davis.


    

    FORMER BOAS ASSISTANT PROFESSORS under the PDE Emphasis years
    

  • Mikhail Feldman, 1997-99; now a professor of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin at Madison

  • Konstantina Trivisa, 1997-2000; now a professor of Mathematics, University of Maryland at College Park

  • Monica Torres, 2002-05; now a professor of Mathematics, Purdue University.

  • Kyungwoo Song, 2002-05; now a professor of Mathematics, Kyung Hee University (Seoul,  Korea).



    

    SERVICE ACTIVITIES
    

NORTHWESTERN PDE CONFERENCE, March 21-24, 1998

NORTHWESTERN CENTENNIAL PDE CONFERENCE, March 11, 2000

NORTHWESTERN NONLINEAR PDE CONFERENCE, October 4-6, 2002

NORTHWESTERN PDE CONFERENCE, June 12-15, 2003

FIRST CHICAGO AREA PDE WORKSHOP, October 11, 2003

Workshop on Multidimensional Euler Equations and Conservation Laws,
November 6-9, 2003

SECOND CHICAGO AREA PDE WORKSHOP, May 8, 2004

International Conference on Stochastic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, June 26-30, 2005

THIRD CHICAGO AREA PDE WORKSHOP, February 25, 2006

60th Midwest PDE Seminar, November 17-18, 2007