Wei-Ming Ni Explained

Wei-Ming Ni (; born 23 December 1950)^[1] is a Taiwanese mathematician at the University of Minnesota, Presidential Chair Professor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and was formerly the director of the Center for PDE at the East China Normal University. He works in the field of elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations.^{[2] [3]} He did undergraduate work at National Taiwan University and obtained his Ph.D. at New York University, in 1979, under the supervision of Louis Nirenberg.^[4] He is an editor-in-chief of the Journal of Differential Equations, and was an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in 2002.^{[5] [6]} As said by the journal Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems:

Major publications

• Gidas, B.; Ni, Wei Ming; Nirenberg, L. Symmetry and related properties via the maximum principle. Comm. Math. Phys. 68 (1979), no. 3, 209–243.
• Gidas, B.; Ni, Wei Ming; Nirenberg, L. Symmetry of positive solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations in . Mathematical analysis and applications, Part A, pp. 369–402, Adv. in Math. Suppl. Stud., 7a, Academic Press, New York-London, 1981.
• Lin, C.-S.; Ni, W.-M.; Takagi, I. Large amplitude stationary solutions to a chemotaxis system. J. Differential Equations 72 (1988), no. 1, 1–27.
• Ni, Wei-Ming; Takagi, Izumi. On the shape of least-energy solutions to a semilinear Neumann problem. Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 44 (1991), no. 7, 819–851.
• Lou, Yuan; Ni, Wei-Ming. Diffusion, self-diffusion and cross-diffusion. J. Differential Equations 131 (1996), no. 1, 79–131.
• Ni, Wei-Ming. Diffusion, cross-diffusion, and their spike-layer steady states. Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (1998), no. 1, 9–18.

Notes and References

1. Web site: NI, Wei-Ming. 5 September 2023 . sse.cuhk.edu.cn.
2. Web site: Wei-Ming Ni's Home Page . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200811152608/http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~wmni/ . 11 August 2020 . 22 October 2020 . University of Minnesota.
3. Web site: Welcome to Center for PDE . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200714002522/http://cpde.ecnu.edu.cn/peopledetail.php?id=3 . 14 July 2020 . 22 October 2020 . cpde.ecnu.edu.cn.
4. Web site: Wei-Ming Ni - The Mathematics Genealogy Project . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200707230455/https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=11637 . 7 July 2020 . 11 July 2020 . Mathematics Genealogy Project . Department of Mathematics - North Dakota State University.
5. Web site: Journal of Differential Equations Editorial Board . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200819071433/https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-differential-equations/editorial-board . 19 August 2020 . 22 October 2020 . www.journals.elsevier.com.
6. Chen, Chiun-Chuan; Lou, Yuan; Ninomiya, Hirokazu; Polacik, Peter; Wang, Xuefeng. Preface: DCDS-a special issue to honor Wei-Ming Ni’s 70th birthday. Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 40 (2020), no. 6, i-ii.