INVITED PRESENTATIONS

• Colloquia and seminars at
  Georgia Tech, Iowa State University, NC State University, Penn State University, Rush University, San Diego 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, University of Washington, Seattle, Wayne State University, NIST, the NSF Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, UC San Diego. 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, 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, SIAM 50th Aniversary and 2002 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, July 8-12, 2002.
  • AMS special session on Stochastic and Multiscale Problems in the Sciences, 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, 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 on Advances in Computation of Complex Fluids and Advanced Materials, SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 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.
  • Applied Mathematics Summer School, Zhejiang University, China, July 18 - August 5, 2007.
  • Minisymposium: From Microscopic Models to Continuum Laws: Current Challenges in Epitaxial Growth, SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Mesa, Arizona, December 10-12, 2007.
  • Workshop on Solvation, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, Universty of Minnesota, December 8-12, 2008.
  • International Research Workshop on Selected Topics in Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Materials and Biological Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, September 11, 2009.
  • 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.
  • Workshop on Numerical Methods for PDEs, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, July 28 - August 1, 2010.
  • Taiwan Mathematical Society Annual Meeting, December 10-12, 2010.
  • International Conference on Applied Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Research, Tianjin and Beijing, China, June 13-16, 2011.
  • SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, San Diego, November 14-17, 2011.
  
  
• Short Courses and Summer/Winter Schools
  • Summer School: Coarse-Grained Physical Modeling of Biological Systems, the NSF Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, UC San Diego, August 11-15, 2008.
  • Short Course on Applied Mathematics in Biophysics, Taiwan National Center for Theoretical Sciences (NCTS), and Center of Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computing (CMMSC), National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, December 14 and 15, 2010.