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Montreal Summer

Academic Activities /学术活动:

Editorial boards / 编委 Students Supervision and Examiner / 学生指导及答辩

Reviewer/ 评审活动

Research grants / 科研基金

Recent conference talks and organizations / 学术会议演讲和组织

Recent colloquium/seminar talks/学术报告

1. Editorial board for  some SCI journals

         Associate editor, Applicable Analysis, 2014-present  (SCI)

         Associate editor, International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, 2015-present (SCI)

         Editorial board,  Communications in Analysis and Mechanics, 2023-present (SCI)

       Editorial board, Advance in Mathematical Physics, 2010-present  (SCI)

       Editorial board, Mathematics published by MDPI, 2018-present (SCI)

       Editorial advisory board, Advances in Differential Equations and Control Process, 2010-present

       Associate editor, International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, Series B, 2010-2015

       Editor board, Abstract and Applied Analysis, 2008-2018

 

Editorial board for non-SCI journals

2. Students Supervision and examiner

   2.1 Students Supervision

    Graduate students:
        Xiaowen Li       Ph.D. student  (November, 2022--November, 2023), at McGill University (joint training Ph.D program supported by China Scholarship Council)
                                  Project: Stability of traveling waves for singular chemotaxis models
        Shufang Xu       Ph.D. student  (November, 2022--November, 2023), at McGill University (joint training Ph.D program supported by China Scholarship Council)
                                  Project: Nonlinear stability of viscous shock waves for Burgers equations with sigularities
        Lizhen Zhang    Ph.D. student  (October, 2022--October, 2023), at McGill University (joint training Ph.D program supported by China Scholarship Council)
                                  Project: Stochastic Navier-Stokes Equations with density-dependent viscosity
        Lin Yang    
      Ph.D. student  (June, 2022--June, 2022), at McGill University (joint training Ph.D program supported by China Scholarship Council)
                                  Project: Nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations with time-delay
        Jianing Xu        Ph.D. student  (September, 2019--September, 2020), at McGill University (joint training Ph.D program supported by China Scholarship Council)
                                  Project: Subsonic/supersonic/transonic solutions for Euler-Poisson system from semiconductor models
        Jiaqi Yang   
    Ph.D. student  (September, 2019--September, 2021), at McGill University (joint training Ph.D program supported by China Scholarship Council)
                                  Project:  Time-delayed reaction-diffusion equations in cylindrical domain
        Tianyuan Xu   
 Ph.D. student  (November, 2018--November, 2019), at McGill University (joint training Ph.D program supported by China Scholarship Council)
                                  Project: Traveling waves for Time-delayed reaction-diffusion equations with degenerate diffusion
        Liping Luan      Ph.D. student  (September, 2018--September, 2019), at McGill University (joint training Ph.D program  supported by China Scholarship Council)
                                  Project: Euler-Poisson equations with time-dependent damping for bipolar semiconductor models: critical case
        Weixuan Shi     Ph.D. student  (December, 2018--August, 2019), at McGill University (joint training Ph.D program  supported by Nanjing University Aeronautics and Astronautics)
                                  Project: Optimal decay rates of solutions for Euler-Poisson equations in Besov space
        Xiaochun Wu   Ph.D. student  (October, 2017--October, 2018), at McGill University (joint training Ph.D program supported by China Scholarship Council)
                                  Project: Asymptotic behavior of subsonic solutions for n-dimensional hydrodynamic system of semicondutor with subsonic contact boundary
        Almaz Butaev  Ph.D. student  ( September, 2012-- August 2017)  at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (co-supervision with Prof. Galia Dafni )
                                 Thesis:  On some refinements of the embedding of critical Sobolev spaces into BMO, and a study of stability for parabolic equations with time delay
        Qifeng Zhang   Ph.D. student  (August, 2013--April, 2014), at McGill University (joint training Ph.D program by China Scholarship Council)
                                  Time-delayed reaction-diffusion equations and numerical computations
                                  Currently, assistant professor at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China
        Joshua Lackman   Master student (September, 2013--2015) at McGill (co-supervision with Prof. Gantumur Tsogtgeral)
        Tianyuan Xu    Master student  (November 2016 -- May, 2017), joint training master student program, from South China Normal University, China
                                 
Research project :  existence and stability of nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations with degenerate diffusion                         
   
    NSERC Undergraguate students:

        Da Qi Chen    U1 from University of Waterloo, NSERC summer research student at McGill (May-August, 2013)
                               Project: Mathematical analysis on 1D Euler-Poisson equations of  semiconductors
                               Currently, Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University
 
 
Young visiting  researchers (research associates and postdoctors) :  
       
Ruijun Xie                   March 2023 -March 2024, visiting professor at McGill, from Anhui University of Finance and Ecomomics, China
                                             Research project :  Reaction-diffusion equations with time-delay from biology
        Haifeng Hu                 July 2021 -July 2023, visiting professor at McGill supported by China Scholarship Council, from Changchun University, China
                                             Research project :  Hydrodynamic models for semiconductor devices
        Yuehong Feng             May 2021 -May 2022, visiting professor at McGill supported by China Scholarship Council, from Beijing University of  Technology, China
                                             Research project :  Navier-Stokes equations  and Euler-Poisson equations
        Shanming Ji                
July 2019 -July, 2020, visiting professor at McGill supported by China Scholarship Council, from South China University of Science and Technology, China
                                             Research project :  high dimensional Euler-Poisson equations                                                                                             
        Yang Wang   
             September, 2019--September, 2020, visiting professor at McGill University  supported by China Scholarship Council, from  Shanxi University, China
                                             Research Project:  Reaction-diffusion equations in cylindrical domain
        Huiyong Chen             
February -- August, 2019, visiting professor at McGill University, Professor from Jiangxi Normal University, China
                                             Research Project:  Mathematical History
       Jingyu Li                      September--November, 2018, visiting professor at McGill University, Professor from Northeast Normal University, China
                                             Research Project:  stability of subsonic solutions for Euler-Poisson equations from semiconductor models with sonic boundary
        Zejia Wang                  August 1-30, 2018, visiting professor at McGill University, Professor from Jiangxi Normal University, China
                                             Research Project:  Nonlinear diffusion equations
        Kun Li                        December of  2017-- December of 2018, visiting professor at McGill, Associate Professor  from Hunan 1st Normal University, China
                                              
Research project :  Traveling waves and reaction-diffusion equations                                                                                              
        Lili Fan                        (February 2017 -- March, 2018), visiting professor at McGill, Associate Professor  from Wuhan Polytechnic University, China
                                              
Research project :  Nonlinear waves to Navier-Stocks equations                                                                                                 
        Zhi-Xian Yu                   (May -June, 2017), visiting professor at McGill, Associate Professor  from University of Shanghai  for Science and Technology, China
                                              
Research project :  Traveling waves and reaction-diffusion equations                           
        Shanming Ji                 (January -February, 2017), visiting postdoc at McGill, from South China University of Science and Technology, China
                                             Research project :  Traveling waves and reaction-diffusion equations                                                                                              
        Federica Di Michele  (May 04 -- June 04, 2015), Postdoc from University of L'Aquila, Italy
                                              
Research project :  hybrid-quandam-hydrodynamic models of semiconductors                                                                              
        Linyan Li                     (August 15, 2015 -- August 15, 2016), Associate Professor from Jingdezhen Ceremic Institute, China,
                                             Research project :  Dynamical models in physical sciences                                                                                                            
        Suxiang Zhang            (March 1, 2015 -- February 28, 2016), Assistant Professor from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
                               
             Research project :   hydrodynamic system and scientific computations                                                                                            
        Yuguang Zhu               (Junen 1, 2014 -- July 31, 2015), Associate Professor from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China
                                            
Research project :  scientific computations to the dynamic models of differential equations related to economics                              
        Xiongfeng Yang          (August-September, 2013), associate professor from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
                                             Research project 1 :   transonic solutions to bipolar hydrodynamic models of semiconductors 
       
                                     Research project 2:  stability of critical  oscillating  traveling waves for time-delayed reaction-diffusion equations                              
        Rui Huang                   ( July-September, 2010), associate professor from South China Normal University, China
                                            
Research project :  stability of traveling waves for time-delayed reaction-diffusion equation with dispersion                                      
        Yong Wang                 (July-September, 2010), assistant professor from Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

                                             Research project :  large-time behavior of solutions to bipolar hydrodynamic models of semiconductors                                          
        Fuchun Liu                   (May-June, 2010), associate professor from Guangdong University of Technology, China
                                             Research project :  control theory to fluid dynamic system                                                                                                                    

  2.2 Ph.D. defence external examiner

3. Research grants  

                                   
My research has been supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Fonds de recherche du Quebec Nature et technologies (FRQNT) , and Fédération de  cégeps (the former name: Cegeps International).  

     NSERC fundings
      1.  ``Sharp traveling waves for degenerate diffusion equations with delay",  NSERC Individual Discovery Grant 2022-03374,    years: 2022-2027.      $27,000/year,   in total $135,000
      2. ``Non-monotone traveling waves for reaction-diffusion equations with delay", NSERC Individual Discovery Grant 354724-2016,    years: 2016-2021.      $18,000/year,   in total $90,000  
      3.   ``Damped Euler-Poisson equations and nonlinear diffusion waves", NSERC Individual Discovery Grant 354724-2011,   years: 2011-2016.          $10,000/year, in total $50,000    
      4.  ``Phase transitions and partial differential equations of mixed type", NSERC Individual Discovery Grant 354724-2008,    years: 2008-2011.  $14,000/year, in total $42,000

     FRQNT fundings:
      5.  ``Euler-Poisson équations de modèles semi-conducteurs avec limite sonique " FRQNT grant 256440,  years 2018-2021.          $32,000/year, in total $96,000
      6. ``Stabilitédes ondes oscillatoires de déplacement pour les équations de réaction-diffusion à retardement ",  FRQNT grant 192571, years: 2015-2018.         $36,000/year, in total $108,000
      7. ``Études des équations d'évolution non linéaires de la dynamique des fluides", FRQNT grant 164832,    years: 2012-2015.       $28,000/year, in total $84,000
  
 
     CEGEP International
      8. ``Collaboration internationale de la recherche scientifique à Beijing ", Fédération de  cégeps, year: 2014-2015.      $3,000
      9. ``Collaboration internationale de la recherche scientifique à Italie ", CEGEP International,   year: 2013-2014.    $3,000
     10. ``Collaboration internationale de la recherche scientifique à Hong Kong et au Japon ", CEGEP International,   year: 2012-2013.   $3,000
     
     
JSPS Invited Foreign Researcher Program
     
"Asymptotic behavior of subsonic solutions to Euler-Poisson equations for semiconductor models", JSPS Invited Research Program (Short-Term), December 14, 2022-January 14, 2023.
      Collaboration with Professor Shinya Nishibata at Tokyo Institute of Technology.

4. Reviewers

5. Recent conference talks and organizations

    2023  
         Co-organizers:   International Workshop on PDEs and Computations,  McGill University, Montreal, Canada, May 15, 2023

                  Co-organizers: 23w5066 Partial Differential Equations in Fluid Dynamics, Canada Banff International Research Station-IASM Hangzhou site,  Hangzhou, China, August 06-11, 2023.

                  Co-organizers:  MS 315 [00982]: Partial Differential Equations in Fluid DynamicsICIAM 2023, Tokyo, Japan, August 20-25, 2023

                     Co-organizers:  SS 14: Global or/and Blow-up Solutions to Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Their ApplicationsThe 13th AIMS Conference on Dynamical System and Differential Equations, Wilmington. NC, USA, May 31-June 5, 2023

                      Invited speaker:   ICIAM 2023, Session 60:  Reaction-Diffusion Systems and Applications in Life Sciences,  Tokyo, Japan, August 20-25, 2023

                           Invited speaker:   13th AIMS Conference on Dynamical System and Differential Equations, Session 2: Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations and ApplicationsWilmington. NC, USA, May 31-June 5, 2023

                           Invited speaker:   13th AIMS Conference on Dynamical System and Differential Equations, Session 7: Emergence and Dynamics of Patterns in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Related Fields,   Wilmington. NC, USA, May 31-June 5, 2023

                             Invited speaker:   13th AIMS Conference on Dynamical System and Differential Equations, Session 8: Propagation Phenomena in Reaction-Diffusion Systems,  Wilmington. NC, USA, May 31-June 5, 2023

                         Seminar talk:  Structural stability of subsonic steady-states for hydrodynamic model of semiconductor with sonic boundary effect, at Nonlinear Analysis Seminar at Ookayama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, January 13, 2023
        Seminar talk:  Subsonic/supersonic/transonic steady-states for Euler-Poisson equations of semiconductor with sonic boundary, at Nonlinear PDEs Seminar of Kyoto University,   Japan,  January 06, 2023

              Seminar talk:  Optimal decay rates of solutions for 3 dimensional Euler equations with time-dependent damping, at Kanazawa Analysis Seminar of Kanazawa University,  Japan  January 06, 2023

     2022
           Session Co-organizer: Frontiers in Pattern Formations and Wave Propagations for Reaction Diffusion Equations - Part I - III, 2022 SIAM Conference on Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, March 14-18, 2022, Berlin, Germany. (Zoom meeting)

            Plenary Speaker:  2022 Conference on Partial Differential Equations and their New Progress (zoom meeting), January  14-17, 2022,  Nantong University, China. 

         Invited Speaker: 2022 CMS Winter Meeting,  Session: Analysis of PDEs, Toronto, Canada, December 2-5, 2022.

         Invited Speaker: 2022 CMS Winter Meeting,  Session: Mathematical Modeling and Analysis in Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology, Toronto, Canada, December 2-5, 2022.

         Invited Speaker: 2022 CMS Summer Meeting,  Session: Mathematical Modeling and Analysis in Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology, St-Johns, Newfoundland, Canada, June 3-6, 2022.
   
      2021
                  Applied and Pure Analysis    at 2021 CMS Winter Meeting (zoom meeting), December  4-8, 2021,  Canada. (Invited Speaker
                  Spatial Dynamics of Evaluation Systems in Ecology and Epidemiology   at  2021 CMS Winter Meeting (zoom meeting), December  4-8, 2021,  Canada. (Invited Speaker
                  The International Conference on Current Progress in Mathematics (zoom meeting), November  13-14, 2021,  Shanghai  University, China. (Plenary Speaker
                  Conference on Nonlinear Analysis and Reaction-Diffusion Equations (zoom meeting), August  18-20, 2021,  Xidian University, China. (Plenary Speaker
                  International Conference on Reaction-Diffusion Equations, Theory and Its Applications in Epidemiology and Ecology (zoom meeting), June 28-30, 2021,  Lanzhou University, China. (Plenary Speaker
           International Workshop on Recent Advances in PDEs (Zoom Meeting), June 18-20, 2021, Nanjing University of 
Aeronautics and Astronautics, China (Invited speaker)
     2020
                  Nonlinear Evolutionary Partial Differential Equations: Theory and Applications (NEPDE 2020)  (zoom meeting), December 1-4, 2020,  Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. (Invited Speaker
          Conference on Parabolic and Ellipitic Equations Part 1-Part V (Zoom Meeting), October 10-20, 2020, South China University of 
Technollogy, China (Invited speaker)
             International Workshop on Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (Zoom Meeting), December 10-12, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
(Invited speaker)
      2019
               
9th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), July 15-19, Valencia, Spain (session invited speaker)
            2019 Annual Meeting and Conference of the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB),  (July 21-26, 2019, Montreal, Canada), (Session Organizer)
           
International Conference on  Dynamical Systems and Applications, (June 20-23, 2019, Lanzhou University, China) (Invited speaker)
                2019  IMS Workshop on PDEs(January  25-26, 2019, Chinese University of Hong Kong ),  (Invited speaker)
   2018

                2018 Changchun International Conference on Partial Differential Equations (July 18-21, 2018, Northeast Normal University, China), (Organizer)
                Global or/and Blow-Up Solutions for Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Their Applications  at The 12th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications
            (July 5 - 9, 2018, Taipei, Taiwan) (Session Organizer )
   2017 
               "Free boundary problems and nonlinear PDEs" (September 26-28, 2017, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan),  (Invited speaker)
               "Workshop on free boundary problems and related topics" (July 16-18, 2017, Beijing, China), (Invited speaker)
              "The 14th International Conference on Free Boundary Problems: Theory and Applications" (July 9-14, 2017, Shanghai, China), (Invited speaker)
              " 2017 Tianfu International conference on Partial Differential Equations" (June 16-18, 2017, Chengdu, China), (Invited speaker)
            Short course:  Nonlinear waves for partial differential equations from fluid dynamics流体动力学中偏微分方程的非线性波  (June  22- July 3, 2016, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China)  (Lecturer)                
            Short course: Nonlinear waves for partial differential equations from fluid dynamics流体动力学中偏微分方程的非线性波  (June  8-15, 2016, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China)  (Lecturer)

      2016 
             "The 14th Summer School and International Conference on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations"  (August  1-5, 2016, Harbin University of Engineering, Harbin, China) ,
(Invited speaker)
             "Workshop on  Partial Differential Equations"  (July 9-10, 2016,  Captial Normal University, Beijing, China), (Session Chair)
           
Workshop on Differential Equations, teaching and research 微分方程课程教学与科研研讨会 (2016年6月29日-30日, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China)      (Invited speaker)    
           "
Workshop on PDE models of semiconductor divice"   (June 13, 2016, Shangdong Normal University, Jinan, China), (Key speaker)
          Short course:  
Diffusion phenomena to partial differential equations from fluid dynamics / 流体动力学中偏微分方程的扩散现象  (July  1-6, 2016, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China)  (Lecturer)
         
Short course:  Diffusion phenomena to partial differential equations from fluid dynamics / 流体动力学中偏微分方程的扩散现象  (June  20-25, 2016, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China)  (Lecturer)

    2015

              "Nonlinear Evolution Equations" at  "2015 Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting" (December  4-7, 2015, Montreal, Canada)  (Invited speaker)
             "Advances in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations" at  "2015 Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Meeting" (June 5-8, 2015, Charlottetown, P.E.I., Canada)  (Invited speaker)
          "Analysis of Partial Differential Equations" at "The 8th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2015) " (August 10-14, 2015, Beijing, China) (Invited speaker)
          "The 4th International Conference on Nonlinear Evelotionary Partial Differential Equations", June 02-07, 2015, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China   (Invited speaker)
          Short course:  Time-delayed reaction-diffusion equations  / 时滞反应扩散方程  (July  1-6, 2015, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China)  (Lecturer)
         
Short course:  Time-delayed reaction-diffusion equations  / 时滞反应扩散方程  (June  20-25, 2015, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China)  (Lecturer)


        2014      “
               ”The 3rd International Conference on Nonlinear Evelotionary Partial Differential Equations", June 03-08, 2014, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China  
 (Invited speaker)

           "International Conference on Partial Differential Equations and Variational Methods",  May 22-25, 2014, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China  (Invited participant)

           
"Complexity in reaction-diffusion systems" at  the 10th AIMS International Conference, July 07-11, 2014,  Madrid,  Spain  (Invited speaker)

          
 "Recent Advances in Evolutionary Equations" at  the 10th AIMS International Conference, July 07-11, 2014,  Madrid,  Spain  (Invited speaker)

          "Global or/and blowup solutions for nonlinear evolution equations and their application" at  the 10th AIMS International Conference, July 07-11, 2014,  Madrid,  Spain
             
(Co-organizer)

      2013
              "Functional Differential Equations with Applications" at  "2013 Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting" (December 6-9, 2013, Ottawa, Canada)  (Invited speaker)

             "
Hyperbolic Conservation Laws and Related Applications" at ``The Second Pacific Rim Mathematical Association Congress" (June 23-29, 2013,
           Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China)
 (Invited speaker)

         "Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and their Applications" at  "2013 Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Meeting" (June 4-7, 2013, Halifax, Canada)  (Invited speaker)

     2012      2011      2010      2009      2008

6. Recent colloquium/seminar talks (not updated until 2015)

          January 09, 2015, Colloquium talk at School of Mathematical Sciences, Capital Normal University, China

          January 08, 2015, Colloquium talk at Faculty of  Sciences, Beijing University of Chemtrical Technology, China

          January 06, 2015,  PDE seminar talk at Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
         
          January 06, 2015, Colloquium talk at School of Mathematical Sciences, Capital Normal University, China

          January 04, 2015,  PDE seminar talk at School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, China

          January  04, 2015, colloquium talk at Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
       
          December 18, 2014, Colloquium talk at School of Mathematics, South China Normal University, China

          July 3, 2014,  PDEs seminar talk, Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of L'Aquila, Italy

          June 5, 2014,  Colloquium talk at  Tiu Ka Ping College of Science, University Shanghai For Science and Technology, China
           
          June 3, 2014,    PDE seminar talk at Department of Mathematics, East China Normal University, China
         
          May 27,  2014,  Colloquium talk at School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, China

          May 27, 2014,  Colloquium talk at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China   

          May 26, 2014,  Colloquium talk at Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China  
     
          March 14, 2014,  AMI Seminar talk at University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

          July 03, 2013, Colloquium talk at Northeast Normal University, China

          June 30, 2013, Colloquium talk at Tiu Ka Ping College of Science, University Shanghai For Science and Technology, China         

          December 13, 2012, PDE seminar talk at Osaka University, Japan     
 
          December 5, 2012, PDE seminar talk at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

          November 23, 2012,  colloquium talk at South China Agricultural University, China  

          November 19, 2012,  colloquium talk at South China Normal University, China  

          June 6, 2012, colloquium talk at South China Normal University, China
 
          May 30, 2012, seminar talk at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

          May 29, 2012, colloquium talk at Providence University, Taiwan         

          October 28, 2011, colloquium talk at Shanghai Jiao Tong University,  China

          October 28, 2011, seminar talk at Shanghai University, China

          September 26, 2011,  CRM-McGill Applied Mathematical Seminar talk, McGill University, Canada

          June 13, 2011, long seminar talk at MathMods summer school, Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of L'Aquila, Italy
 
          March 1, 2011, PDE seminar talk at School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA


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