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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. (people, research and project description, publications, presentations, etc.) Related seminar: 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. Multiscale design of advanced materials based on hybrid ab initio and quasicontinuum methods, Co-PI, DOE grant DE-FG02-05ER25707, 8/15/2005 - 8/14/2009. Book project: Weak Convergence Methods for Variational Models of Crystalline Solids, Springer-Verlag, 2009.

Recent Publications 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. (Published version in PDF - permission and copyright of SIAM.) 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, published version in PDF at the journal website.) Bo Li, John Lowengrub, Andreas Ratz, and Axel Voigt, Geometric evolution laws for thin crystalline films: modeling and numerics, Review Article, Commun. Comput. Phys., 6(3), 433-482, 2009. (Preprint in PDF, published version in PDF at the journal website.) Li-Tien Cheng, Yang Xie, Joachim Dzubiella, J. Andrew McCammon, Jianwei Che, and Bo Li, Coupling the level-set method with molecular mechanics for variational implicit solvation of nonpolar molecules, J. Chem. Theory Comput., 5(2), 257-266, 2009. (Preprint in PDF, published version in PDF at the journal website.) Bo Li, Minimization of electrostatic free energy and the Poisson-Boltzmann equation for molecular solvation with implicit solvent, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 40, 2536-2566, 2009. (Published version in PDF - permission and copyright of SIAM.) Bo Li, Continuum electrostatics for ionic solutions with nonuniform ionic sizes, Nonlinearity, 22, 811-833, 2009. Selected for inclusion in IOP Select - collected articles from the Institute of Physics. Subject: Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics. (Preprint in PDF, published version in PDF at the journal website.) Bo Li, Zhongming Wang, Benzhuo Lu, and J. Andrew McCammon, Solutions to a reduced Poisson-Nernst-Planck system and determination of reaction rates, 2009 (submitted). (Preprint in PDF.) P. Setny, Z. Wang, L.-T. Cheng, B. Li, J. A. McCammon, and J. Dzubliella, Dewetting-controlled binding of ligands to hydrophobic pockets, 2009 (submitted). (Preprint in PDF.)

Recent Presentations Surface Relaxation vs. the Ehrlich-Schwoebel Effect in Thin-film Growth, Nonequilibrium Interface Dynamics: Theory and Simulation from Atomistic to Continuum Scales, a program held at the University of Maryland, April 23-27, 2007. Coupling the Level-Set Method with Variational Implicit Solvent Modeling of Molecular Solvation. This talk, with some variations, has been given in a 2008 summer school and a regular seminar in Fall 2008, in the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, UC San Diego, and in the IMA workshop: Solvation, December 2008. The Poisson-Boltzmann Theory of Continuum Electrostatics with Application to Variational Solvation of Molecules, Informal Seminars on Mathematics and Biochemistry-Biophysics, UC San Diego, February 3, 2009.

Seminars and Colloquia 2008-2009 Department of Mathematics Colloquium Informal Seminars on Mathematics and Biochemistry-Biophysics Center for Theoretical Biological Physics seminars

Teaching in Spring quarter 2009 Math 20C: Calculus and Analytic Geometry for Science and Engineering, Lecture A00. Math 270C: Numerical Mathematics.

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