Fengyan Li Associate Professor Ph.D. Brown University Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing Curriculum Vitae pdf

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Research  

• Research Interests
  General interests: Design, analysis and implementation of accurate, robust and efficient numerical methods for differential equations
  
  • Discontinuous Galerkin methods and central discontinuous Galerkin methods
  • Divergence-free techniques in high order methods for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations
  • Efficient methods: high order fast sweeping methods, hybridization for eigenvalue problems
  • High order methods for MHD equations, time dependent and time harmonic Maxwell equations, Hamilton-Jacobi equations, eigenvalue problems
• Publications
• Research Group
  • Postdoc: Dr. Liwei Xu (Fall 2009-present)
  • PhD Graduate Students:
    • He Yang (Fall 2010-present)
    • Matthew Reyna (Summer 2011-present)
    • Maojun Li (visiting doctoral student from Chongqing University China, August 2011-present)
  • Previous Members
    • Sergey Yakovlev (Summer 2008-Summer 2011): Currently a Postdoc Fellow at U of Utah
    • Visiting Master Student: Yue Cheng (Spring 2011)
    
    

Honors and Awards  

• RAMP-Up Career Campaign Award, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2010
• NSF CAREER Award, DMS-0847241, 2009
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 2008
• Stella Dafermos Award, Brown University, 2004

Teaching

• MATH-6860-01: Finite Element Analysis, Spring 2012

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Contact Information

Department of Mathematical Sciences
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street, Amos Eaton 332
Troy, NY 12180

Telephone: (518) 276 - 3201
Fax: (518) 276 - 4824
Email: lif at rpi dot edu

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