Qiang Du

Qiang Du, (Chinese: 杜强), Verne M. Willaman Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University, is a mathematician and computational scientist 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 in 1983,^[1] Du earned his Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1988. His thesis was written under the direction of Max D. Gunzburger.^[2]

Publications

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

• Qiang Du^[2]., Max Gunzburger, and Janet S. Peterson, "Analysis and approximation of the Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity", SIAM Review 34 (1992), no 1, 54-81. MR1156289
• Qiang Du, Vance Faber, and Max Gunzburger, "Centroidal Voronoi tessellations: Applications and algorithms", SIAM Review 41 (1999), no. 4, pp. 637–676. MR1722997

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.

External links

• Qiang Du at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
• Qiang Du's home page

References

1. ^ "Qiang Du's Bio". http://www.math.psu.edu/qdu/bio.html. Retrieved 2010-07-29. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Qiang Du at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.