Bo Li's CV
CURRICULUM VITAE
Bo Li
Department of Mathematics and
The NSF Center for Theoretical Biological Physics
University of California, San Diego
EDUCATION
EMPLOYMENT
- CAM (Computational and Applied Mathematics) Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA, August, 1996 - July, 1999.
- Assistant Professor, Department of
Mathematics, University of Maryland,
College Park, August, 1998 - June, 2004.
- Assistant Professor,
Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling,
University of Maryland,
College Park, August, 2003 - June, 2004.
- Associate Professor, Department of
Mathematics, University of California,
San Diego, July, 2004 - present.
- Senior Scientist, The NSF Center for Theoretical Biological Physics,
UC San Diego, September, 2007 - present.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
- Citation for excellence in teaching,
School of Mathematics,
University of Minnesota, 1996.
- Summer research award, Graduate School,
University of Maryland, College Park, 2000.
- PI, National Science Foundation
grant DMS-0072958, 7/15/00-6/30/03.
- PI, Department of Commerce grant
70NANB-2H0131, 9/1/02-12/31/04.
- PI, National Science Foundation
grant DMS-0451466, 7/1/04-6/30/08.
- Co-PI, Department of Energy
grant DE-FG02-05ER25707, 8/15/05-8/14/08.
- Co-PI, National Science Foundation
grant DMS-0619173, 9/1/06-8/31/07.
- PI, National Science Foundation
grant DMS-0811259, 7/1/08 - 6/30/11.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
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Colloquia and seminars at
Georgia Tech,
Iowa State University,
NC State University,
Penn State University,
Stanford University,
UC Berkeley,
UC Irvine,
UCLA,
UC San Diego,
UC Santa Barbara,
University of Delaware,
University of Iowa,
University of Maryland,
University of Utah,
Wayne State University,
NIST,
Research Center CAESAR at Bonn,
Peking Univversity,
Zhejiang Univversity,
Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing and
Institute of Physics of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences,
etc.
- Conferences and workshops
- Minisymposium on Computational Problems in Materials Science, in
Third SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science,
Philadelphia, May 21-24, 2000.
- Workshop on Numerics of Microstructure,
Oberwolfach,
Germany, June 17-23, 2001.
-
The Southeast Conference on Applied Mathematics,
North Carolina State University,
November 9-11, 2001.
- The
Interphase---9th international workshop on numerical
methods for free boundary problems,
University of Maryland at College Park,
January 9-12, 2002.
- Minisymposium on Modeling, Analysis and Computations in Materials
Science, in SIAM
50th Aniversary and 2002 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, July 8-12, 2002.
- AMS special session on Stochastic and Multiscale Problems in the
Sciences, in Joint
Mathematis Meetings, Baltimore, January 15-18, 2003.
-
Workshop on Continuum Models for Epitaxial Growth,
Bonn, Germany, August 4-6, 2003.
- Workshop on
Multi-scale Challenges in Soft Matter Materials,
SAMSI, North Carolina, February 15-17, 2004.
- Minisymposium on Multi-scale Modeling and Simulation of Complex
Fluids, in Fourth
SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials
Science, Los Angeles, May 23-26, 2004.
- Workshop 2, January 10-14, 2005, in
Nanoscale Material Interfaces: Experiment, Theory and Simulation,
a two-month scientific program at the
Institute for Mathematical
Sciences, National University
of Singapore, November 24, 2004 - January 23, 2005.
- SIAM
Southern California Section Meeting and
The 5th Southern California Applied Mathematics Symposium (SoCAMS),
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, April 24, 2005.
-
International Workshop on Computational Science and its Education,
Capital Normal University, Beijing,
August 29 - September 2, 2005.
- Minisymposium: Advances in Computation of Complex Fluids and Advanced
Materials, SIAM Conference on
Computational Science and Engineering,
Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa, Costa Mesa, California, Februry 19-23,2007.
-
Workshop on
Nonequilibrium Interface and Surface Dynamics: Theory,
Experiment and Simulation from Atomistic to Continuum Scales,
Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling,
Univeristy of Maryland, April 23-27, 2007.
- Summer schools
OTHER RESEARCH EXERRIENCES
- Developed code for "Maxfelm: a Finite Element Package for
Three-dimensional Scattering Simulations in Diffractive Optics"
with Dr. David Dobson.
Summer project sponsored by
Honeywell, Inc., 1993, 1994.
- Participated in Virtual Integrated Prototyping for Epitaxial Growth,
a project initiated and supported by
DARPA/NSF,
July, 1997 - June, 1999.
- Researcher, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute,
University of Minnesota, 1991-2001.
- Senior scientist, the NSF Center for Theoretical
Biological Physics,, UC San Diego, Fall, 2007-present.
CURRENT STUDENTS
- John Shopple
(Ph.D. student, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego)
- Alex Bilik (Ph.D. student, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego)
- Yang Xie (Undergraduate researcher, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engieering, UC San Diego)
ADVANCED GRADUATE COURSE DEVELOPMENT
- Math 285J, Seminar in Applied Mathematics:
Weak Convergence Methods for Variational Problems Modeling Crystalline Solids.
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA, Spring quarter, 1998
(Course descripbtion).
- AMSC 698V, Advanced Topics in Applied Mathematics:
Mathematical and Computational Problems in Materials Science.
Department of Mathematics,
University of Maryland, Fall semester, 2003
(Course web page).
-
Math 273A, Scientific Computation:
Topics in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science.
Department of Mathematics,
UC San Diego, Fall quarter, 2005
(Course web page.)
EDITORIAL BOARD
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Associated editor, Communications in Computational Physics (CiCP).
ORGANIZING COMMITTEES
- Co-organizer (with John
Lowengrub) of the minisymposium on Computational
Problems in Materials Science,
Third SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science,
Philadelphia, May 21-24, 2000.
- Organizing committee member,
Nonequilibrium Interface Dynamics:
Theory and Simulation from Atomistic to Continuum Scales, a three-week
program at the Center
for Scientific Computation and Mathematical
Modeling, University of Maryland,
October 13-31, 2003.
- Co-chair (with
Weizhu Bao,
Ping Lin,
and Jian-Guo Liu)
of the organizing committee,
Nanoscale Material Interfaces: Experiment, Theory and Simulation,
a two-month scientific program at the
Institute for Mathematical
Sciences, National University
of Singapore, November 24, 2004 - January 23, 2005.
PROPOSAL AND ARTICLE REVIEW
Last updated by Bo Li on July 4, 2008. © Bo Li, 1998-2008.