Faculty Profile

Fang-Hua Lin

Silver Professor of Mathematics

linf@cims.nyu.edu

212-998-3137

Warren Weaver Hall, Office 717

http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/linf

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)