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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. 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. 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.) 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, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 2008 (revision submitted). (Preprint in PDF.) 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., 2008 (in revision). (Preprint in PDF). Bo Li, John Lowengrub, Andreas Ratz, and Axel Voigt, Geometric evolution laws for thin crystalline films: modeling and numerics, Invited review article, Commun. Comput. Phys., 2008 (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. Coarse-Grained Physical Modeling of Biological Systems: Advanced Theory and Methods, Summer School, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, UC San Diego, August 11-15, 2008.

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

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