Fanghua Lin Explained

Lin Fanghua
Native Name:	林芳華
Birth Date:	1959 3, mf=yes
Birth Place:	Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
Citizenship:	United States
Fields:	Analysis
Alma Mater:	Zhejiang University University of Minnesota
Known For:	Ginzburg–Landau equation liquid crystal behaviour
Awards:	Bôcher Prize (2002)

Fanghua Lin (; born March 11, 1959), also written as Fang-Hua Lin, is a Chinese-born American mathematician. He is currently the Silver Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He applies rigorous analysis to nonlinear systems and is a leader in this field.^[1]

Biography

Lin was born in 1959 in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China, and graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Zhejiang University in 1981. He went to the United States to obtain his PhD from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota in 1985. From 1985 to 1988, he was an instructor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Then he went to the University of Chicago, becoming a full professor there from 1988 until 1989. In 1989, he started his professorship at New York University. He was then awarded the Silver Professorship at the Courant Institute.^{[2] [3]}

Lin made substantial contributions in Ginzburg–Landau theory.

Awards and honors

• 1989–1991, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
• 1989–1994, Presidential Young Investigator Award
• 1990, Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Kyoto^[4]
• 1999, Ordway Chair Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota
• 2002, Bôcher Memorial Prize, by American Mathematical Society for fundamental contributions to our understanding of the Ginzburg-Landau equations^[5]
• 2004, Shiing-shen Chern Prize
• 2004, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences^[6]
• 2014, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society^[7]
• 2022, SIAM Fellow, "for significant contributions to our understanding of the properties of solutions throughout nonlinear partial differential equations"^[8]

External links

• The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Fang-Hua Lin

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Silver Dialogue . 2008-01-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070712024559/http://silverdialogues.fas.nyu.edu/page/Fang_Hua_Lin . 2007-07-12 . dead .
2. Web site: 陈省身奖获得者林芳华教授简介. 2004-12-23. Zhejiang University. 2019-04-29.
3. Web site: Fang-Hua Lin. New York University. 2019-04-29.
4. Book: Lin, Fang-Hua. Static and moving defects in liquid crystals. In: Proceedings of the international congress of mathematicians (Kyoto, 1990). Math. Soc. Japan. 1991. I. 2nd. 1165–1171.
5. Hua Lin . Fang . Some dynamical properties of Ginzburg-Landau vortices . Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics . 49 . 4 . 1996 . 0010-3640 . 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0312(199604)49:4<323::AID-CPA1>3.0.CO;2-E . 323–359.
6. http://news.163.com/2004w05/12552/2004w05_1084520006195.html NetEase: 华裔教授林芳华和田刚当选美国艺术科学院院士
7. http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
8. Web site: SIAM Announces Class of 2022 Fellows. March 31, 2022. SIAM News. 2022-03-31.