Research Summary (November 2009)

Current Research

• Mathematics and Biochemistry-Biophysics - Research Initiative. (people, research description, publications, presentations, funding, etc.)
  Informal Seminars on Mathematics and Biochemistry-Biophysics
• Computational modeling and numerical analysis of solvation of molecules, PI, NSF grant DMS-0811259, 7/1/2008 - 6/30/2011.
• Senior Scientist of the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP), an NSF Physics Frontiers Center located at UC San Diego, NSF PHY-0822283, 7/1/2008 - 6/30/2013.
• Book project: Weak Convergence Methods for Variational Models of Crystalline Solids, Springer-Verlag, 2010.

Recent Presentations

• Bo Li, Surface Relaxation vs. the Ehrlich-Schwoebel Effect in Thin-film Growth, Workshop: Nonequilibrium Interface Dynamics: Theory and Simulation from Atomistic to Continuum Scales, University of Maryland, April 23-27, 2007.
• Bo Li, Coupling the Level-Set Method with Variational Implicit Solvent Modeling of Molecular Solvation. Variations of this talk were given in Summer School: Coarse-Grained Physical Modeling of Biological Systems: Advanced Theory and Methods, August 11-15, 2008, and Seminar, October 10, 2008, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, UC San Diego, and in the IMA workshop: Solvation, December 8-12, 2008.
• Bo Li, The Poisson-Boltzmann Theory of Continuum Electrostatics with Application to Variational Solvation of Molecules. Variations of this talk were given in Informal Seminar on Mathematics and Biochemistry-Biophysics, UC San Diego, February 3, 2009, and International Workshop on Selected Topics in Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Materials and Biological Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, September 11, 2009.
• Bo Li and Zhongming Wang, Solutions to a Model Poisson-Nernst-Planck System and the Determination of Reaction Rates, International Workshop on Selected Topics in Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Materials and Biological Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, September 11, 2009.
• Bo Li, Level-Set Variational Solvation Coupling Solute Molecular Mechanics with Continuum Solvent, International Workshop on Continuum Modeling of Biomolecules, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, September 14-16, 2009.
• Bo Li, Continuum Electrostatics for Ionic Solutions with Nonuniform Ionic Sizes, Seminar of Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, September 18, 2009.

Seminars and Colloquia

• 2009-2010 Department of Mathematics Colloquium
• Informal Seminars on Mathematics and Biochemistry-Biophysics
• Center for Theoretical Biological Physics seminars

Teaching in Winter quarter 2010

• Math 210B: Mathematical Methods in Physical Sciences and Engineering, Winter quarter, 2010
• Faculty Matlab coordinator for Math 20D and Math 20F, Winter and Spring 2010.
  Math 20D Matlab Assignments, Math 20F Matlab Assignments, Resources for Matlab faculty coordinator and senior TA

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