Gui-Qiang Chen

Gui -Qiang G. Chen (Chinese陈贵强, Pinyin Chén Guìqiáng; born May 25, 1963 in Cixi, Zhejiang province of the People's Republic of China) is a British- American mathematician of Chinese origin, which deals with partial differential equations. He is a professor at Northwestern University.

Chen studied Mathematics at Fudan University in Shanghai with a bachelor 's degree in 1982 and his doctorate in 1987 at the Academia Sinica in Beijing. As a post - graduate student, he was from 1987 to 1989 at the Courant Institute, while from 1987 was assistant professor at the Academia Sinica simultaneously. He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago, 1994 Associate Professor and in 1996 Professor at Northwestern University in 1989. Since 2008 he is professor at the University of Oxford.

He was a visiting scientist at the IMA ( Institute of Mathematics and its Applications ) in Minneapolis, at the MSRI (1990/ 91), at the Institute for Advanced Study (1994 ), at Stanford University, the University of Nice, at IPAM ( Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics ) in Los Angeles, at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, at the Mittag-Leffler Institute, the MATCH ( Mathematical Center ) in Heidelberg, at Fudan University and the Centre for Advanced Study, Norwegian Academy of Sciences in Oslo.

It dealt, for example, hyperbolic -elliptic among other nonlinear partial differential equations ( PDE) and conservation laws whose application for example, in continuum mechanics ( like Navier -Stokes equations and Euler equations) and differential geometry ( isometric embedding problem), nonlinear PDE mixed type ( or hyperbolic - parabolic ), free boundary value problems and numerical analysis of partial differential equations.

In 1989 he received the first prize in mathematics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was Sloan Fellow (from 1991 ) and was awarded the Humboldt Research Award. Chen held 2008 DiPerna Lecture ( Nonlinear Conservation Laws of Mixed Type in Mechanics and Geometry ).

Writings

• Multidimensional conservation laws: overview, problems, and perspective. In: Alberto Bressan, Gui -Qiang G. Chen, Marta Lewicka, Dehua Wang (Editor): Nonlinear conservation laws and applications. IMA Vol Math Appl., 153, Springer, New York, 2011, pp. 23-72.