Faculty Profile

Photograph of Fang-Hua Lin

Fang-Hua Lin

Silver Professor of Mathematics
linf@cims.nyu.edu
212-998-3137
Warren Weaver Hall, Office 717

Education

Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Minnesota, USA, 1985.
B.S., Mathematics, Zhejiang University, China, 1981.

Research Interests

My research interests are in nonlinear partial differential equations, geometric measure theory and geometric & applied analysis. Recent researches are concentrated mainly on the analysis of classical and complex fluids including liquid crystals, the theory of homogenizations and geometric variational problems.

Selected Publications

E. Carlos Kenig, F. Lin, and Z. Shen, "Homogenization of elliptic systems with Neumann boundary conditions", Journal of the American Mathematical Society 26, no. 4, 901-937 (2013)
F. Lin, "Some analytical issues for elastic complex fluids", Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 65, no. 7, 893-919 (2012)
F. Lin, X.-B. Pan, and C. Wang, "Phase transition for potentials of high-dimensional wells", Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 65, no.6, 833–888 (2012)