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Bo Li
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
and Senior Scientist
The NSF Center for Theoretical Biological Physics
University of California, San Diego

Current Research

  • Mathematics and Biochemistry-Biophysics - Research Initiative.
  • Collaborative research: hybrid finite-element level-set methods for stress-driven interface dynamics, PI, NSF grant DMS-0451466, 7/1/04 - 6/30/07, extended to 6/30/08.
  • Multiscale design of advanced materials based on hybrid ab initio and quasicontinuum methods, Co-PI, DOE grant DE-FG02-05ER25707, 8/15/2005 - 8/14/2008.
  • Modeling, analysis, and simulation of epitaxial growth and morphology of thin films (growth instabilities, roughening, coarsening, dynamic scaling, stress, electromigration, geometrical models, etc.).
  • Book project: Weak Convergence Methods for Variational Models of Crystalline Solids, Springer-Verlag (Preface).

Recently Published and Submitted Papers

  • Li-Tien Cheng, Joachim Dzubiella, J. Andrew McCammon, and Bo Li, Application of the level-set method to the implicit solvation of nonpolar molecules, J. Chem. Phys., 127:084503, 2007. Selected for The Virtual J. of Nanoscale Sci. & Tech., Volume 16, Issue 10, 2007. (Preprint in PDF, published version in PDF at the journal website.)
  • Yan Gong, Bo Li, and Zhilin Li, Immersed-interface finite-element method for elliptic interface problems with non-homogeneous jump conditions, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 46(1):472-495, 2008. (Preprint in PDF.)
  • Jianwei Che, Joachim Dzubiella, Bo Li, and J. Andrew McCammon, Electrostatic free energy and its variations in implicit solvent models, J. Phys. Chem. B, 112(10), 3058-3069, 2008. (Preprint in PDF.)
  • Bo Li, Minimization of electrostatic free energy and the Poisson-Boltzmann equation for molecular solvation with implicit solvent, submitted for publication, 2008. (Preprint in PDF.)

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Teaching in Spring quarter 2008

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