Large time-stepping methods for phase field equations

Prof. Zhonghua Qiao

Department of Applied Mathematics,

 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Abstract.  In this talk, we will review our recent work on phase field equations. Several energy stable methods will be discussed.

Short CV of Prof. Zhonghua Qiao

Awards

The 2013-2014 Early Career Award, The Research Grants Council of Hong Kong

Research Funds External funds:

  1/2014-12/2017, Principal Investigator, ECS grant (HK$1,000,800 including HK$100,000 ECS Award for educational activities).

  10/2012-9/2014, Principal Investigator, GRF grant (HK$490,800). 

  1/2013-12/2016, Co-Investigator, NSFC/RGC (HK$1,004,783 from RGC and 800,000 RMB from NSFC, and HK$150,000 has been injected to my research grant account 3-ZG1V (PI)).

  10/2010-9/2012, Principal Investigator, GRF grant (HK$544,640).

Internal funds:

  3/2012-2/2014, Principal Investigator, Internal grant of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK$110,000).

  5/2012-4/2013, Principal Investigator, Starting grant of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK$40,000).

  3/2010-8/2011, Principal Investigator, FRG grant of Hong Kong Baptist University (HK$120,000).

  3/2009-2/2010, Principal Investigator, FRG grant of Hong Kong Baptist University (HK$147,000).

Publications:

  115 citations in Web of Science with an H-index of 7.

  ResearcherID at Web of Knowledge: B-5308-2009

  http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-5308-200

Supervision of graduate student

• Chief supervisor of Qiujin Peng (Ph.D student) at PolyU from October, 2012

Contribution to PolyU service  

  Deputy Service Teaching Coordinator in Department of Applied Mathematics  

  Deputy Colloquium Liaison Officer in Department of Applied Mathematics

  Committee member in the Departmental Learning & Teaching Committee

Contribution to professional/community service  

  Conference/Workshop organizing committee member:

  12/2013 The 2nd International Conference on Engineering and Computational Mathematics (ECM2013), Hong Kong.

  1/2013 The 8th International Conference on Computational Physics (ICCP8), Hong Kong.

  5/2012 2nd Workshop on Computational Mathematics, Hong Kong.

  12/2011 The 4th Intl. Conference on Scientific Computing and Partial Differential Equations, Hong Kong.

  Member of SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

  Faculty Advisors (with Prof. Xiaojun Chen at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University): The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Chapter of SIAM

  SIAM Representative in The 2nd International Conference on Engineering and Computational Mathematics (ECM2013), Hong Kong.

  Editors-in-Chief (with Prof. Guangwei Yuan at Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics): CAM Digest, which is a collection of articles on topics related to computational and applied mathematics and those who practice it. It is distributed bi-weekly to members of the CAMNet. Up to now there are thousands of members in this society. It is also one of my contributions to promote HKPolyU in the applied mathematics community.

Referee–Journals:

  SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

  Journal of Scientific Computing

  Journal of Computational Physics

  Computers & Fluid

  Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

  Applied Mathematics and Computation

  Communications in Computational Physics

  Chinese Physics Letter

  International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics

  International Journal of Computer Mathematics

  Journal of Computational Mathematics

  Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

  Science China Mathematics