CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: HONGQIU CHEN Department:MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES


EDUCATION
DEGREES DISCIPLINE INSTITUTION YEAR
Ph. D. Mathematics University of Texas at Austin 1998
M. S. Mathematics Institute of Systems Science, Acdemia Sinica, China 1988
B. S. Applied mathematics Chengdu University of Scences and Technology, China 1983

EXPERIENCE
RANK/POSITION DEPARTMENT/DIVISION INSTITUTION/COMPANY/ORGANIZATION PERIOD
Instructor Department of Applied Mathematics Chengdu University of Sciences and Technology, Chengdu, China 1983-1985
Research Fellow Institute of Systems Sciences Academia Sinica, Beijing, China 1988-1990
Visiting Assistant Professor The Graduate School and University Center City University of New York, New York, USA 1998-2000
Assistant Professor Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Memphis, Memphis, USA 2000-2006
Associate Professor Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Memphis, Memphis, USA 2006-2018
Professor Deparment of Mathematical Sciences University of Memphis, Memphis, USA 2018-
Professor Invite U.F.R. Mathematiques et Informatique Universite Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux, France May 2003, July 2005, April 2008, May-June 2011, May-June 2013
Research Assistant Professor under support of NSF Department of Mathematics, Statisctics & Computer Science University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA 2004-2005
Invited Visiting Professor Department Mathematics Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan January 2009 (one week)
Invited Visiting Professor Department of Mathematics National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan May-June 2010 (one month), March 2016 (three weeks)
Professor Invite Laboratoire d’Analysis et de Mathematiques Appliquees Universite de Paris Est-Creteil (Ex Universite Paris 12), Paris, France June-July 2011 (one month), June 2015 (one month), June 2018 (one month), July-August 2021 (three weeks), December 2021 (ten days)
Invited Visiting Professor Center of Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computing National Chiao Tung University of Taiwan, Hsinchu, Taiwan November 2012 (one week)
Invited Visiting Professor Archimedes Center for Modeling, Analysis & Computation University of Crete, Hiraklion, Greece July 2013 (three weeks)
Invited Visiting Professor   Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University May 2015 (10 days)
Invited Visiting Professor Division of Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia January -February 2016 (10 days)
Invited Visiting Professor Department of Mathematics University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA April -May 2016 (one month), May 2017 (three weeks), May 2018 (one month)
Invited Visiting Professor Department of Mathematics Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Korea February-March 2016 (three weeks), July 2018 (two weeks)
Invited Visiting Professor Instituto de Matematica, Estatistica e Computao Cientfica State University of Sao Paulo at Campinas, Campinas, Brazil May -June 2016 (one month), July-August 2022 (one month)
Invited Visiting Professor School of Mathematical Sciences Tshinghua University, Beijing, China June 2017 (three weeks)
Invited Visiting Professor School of Mathematics and Statistics Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand March 2018 (one week)
Invited Visiting Professor Mathematics Research Promotion Cente National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan July 2018 (one week)
Invited Visiting Professor Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway May 2019 (two weeks)
Invited Visiting Professor Institute of Computer Science Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (ICS-FORTH), Hiraklion, Greece June 2019 (three weeks)

HONORS/AWARDS
HONOR/AWARD INSTITUTION/COMPANY/ORGANIZATION YEAR
Alfred Sloan Dissertation Fellowship Alfred Sloan Foundation 1997
NSF-AWM Travel Award Association of Women Mathmematicians 2004
Nonlinearity Most Highly Downloaded Article of a Year (152 times) Nonlinearity 2004
Invited Professor University of Reading sponsored by London Mathematical Society, UK 2005

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
SUBJECT INSTITUTION
Calculus I (U) University of Memphis
Topology (G) University of Memphis
Elementary Number Theory (U) University of Memphis
Differential Equations (U) University of Memphis
Business Calculus (U) University of Memphis
Experiences in Mathematics (U) University of Memphis
Ordinary Differential Equations (U/G) University of Memphis
Introduction to Real Analysis I & II (U/G) University of Memphis
Nonlinear Wave Phenomena (G) University of Memphis
College Algebra (U) University of Memphis
Real Analysis I & II (G) University of Memphis
Discrete Mathematics (U) University of Mephis
Partial Differential Equations I & II (U/G) University of Memphis
Trigonometry (U) Unviersity of Memphis
Foundations of Mathematics (U) University of Memphis
Complex Variable Analysis (G) University of Memphis
Linear Algebra (U/G) Universityof Memphis
Linear Algebra (U) Universityof Memphis
Fourier Analysis (G) University of Memphis
Calculus III (U) University of Illinois at Chicago
Linear Algebra (U) Hunter College, City University of New York
Advanced Calculus (U/G) Hunter College, City University of New York
Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations (U) The Pennsylvania State University
Intermediate Algebra I & II (U) The Pennsylvania State University
Functional Analysis (U) Chengdu University of Science and Technology, China
Calculus (U) Chengdu University of Science and Technology, China


STUDENT ADVISING/MENTORING
CURRENT DEGREE NAME YEAR OF GRADUATION
Postdoctorial Xiaojune Wang 2014-2015
Masters Tai Nguyen 2020
PhD Pamela Guerrero 2025

Refereed Journal Publications

[1] The Rationality of the Discrete-Ordinates Method in Computing the Critical Criterion for the Thickness of a Slab Geometry Reactor, (in Chinese), Journal of Systems Science and Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 8 (1988) pp. 107-112.    

[2] The Rationality of the Discrete-Ordinates Method for the Time-Dependent Neutron Transport Equations, (in Chinese), Journal of Systems Science and Mathematical Sciences Vol. 8 (1988) pp. 190-192 3  (with G.Tian).

[3] Approximate theory of the discrete-ordinate and multiple-group method for solving time-dependent neutron transport equations, (in Chinese), Acta Mathematica Scientia Vol. 9(1989) pp.7-20  (with X. Jin).       

[4] Existence and asymptotic properties of solitary-wave solutions of Benjamin-type equations, Advances in Differential Equations Vol. 3 (1998) pp.51-84 (with J.L. Bona).   

 [5] Comparison of model equations for small-amplitude long waves, Nonlinear Analysis TMA Vol. 38 (1999) pp.625-647 (with J.L Bona).

[6] Travelling-Waves for the Generalized KdV-Burger's Equations, Contemp. Math. Vol. 255 (2000) pp. 1-23. 

[7] Solitary waves in nonlinear dispersive systems, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-Series B, Vol.2 (2002) pp. 313-378 (with J.L. Bona).  

[8] Local and Global Well-posedness Results for Generalized BBM-type Evolution Equations: Proceedings in Honor of J.A. Goldstein's 60th birthday, (ed. G.R. Goldstein, R. Nagel, S. Romanelli) Marcel Dekker: New York, (2003) pp. 35-55 (with J. Bona).   

[9] Existence of Periodic Traveling-wave Solutions of Non-linear, Dispersive Wave Equations, Nonlinearity, 17 (2004) pp. 2041-2056.   

[10] Periodic Initial-Value Problem for BBM-Equation, Computers and Mathematics with Applications,   Vol. 48 (ed. G. Anastassiou) (2004) no. 9 pp. 1305-1318. 

[11] Comparison of quarter-plane and two-point boundary value problems: The BBM-equation, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, Vol. 13 (2005) pp. 921-940 (with J. Bona, S.M. Sun and B.-Y. Zhang).   

[12] Long-period limit of nonlinear dispersive waves: the BBM-equation, to appear in Differential and Integral Equations,  Differential and Integral Equations, Vol. 19 (2006) pp. 463-480.

[13] Comparison of quarter-plane and two-point boundary value problems: the KdV-equation, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-Series B, Vol.7 (2007) pp. 465-495 (with J. Bona, S. Sun and B.-Y. Zhang).

  

[14] Existence of Cnoidal waves for Boussinesq-type systems of equations Nonlinearity, Vol. 20 (2007) pp. 1443-1461 (with M. Chen and N.V. Nguyen). 

[15] Well-posedness for regularized nonlinear dispersive wave equations Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems Vol. 23 (2009) pp. 1253-1275 (with J. Bona). 

[16] Approximating initial-value problems with  two-point boundary-value problems: BBM-equation, Bulletin of Iranian Mathematical Society, Vol 36 (2010) pp.1-25 (with J. Bona, S. Sun and B.-Y. Zhang).

 

[17] Conservative Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for the generalized Korteweg-de-Vries equation, Mathematics of Computation 83 (2013) pp. 1401-1432 (with J. Bona, O. Karakkashian and Y. Xing).  

[18] Periodic Traveling-wave Solutions of Nonlinear Dispersive Evolution  Equations,  Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, Series A 33 (2013) pp. 4841-4873 (with J. Bona).  

[19] Global well-posedness for the BBM-equation on a quarter plane, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical System, Series S 7 (2014) pp. 1149-1163 (with J.L. Bona and C-H Hsia).

[20] Global well-posedness for the BBM-BBM system on a quarter plane, Advances in Differential Equations, 21 (2016) pp 1604-1621 (with J.L. Bona and C.-H. Hsia).

[21] Stability of solitary wave solutions to a coupled BBM system, J. Differential Equations 261 (2016) no. 2, pp 1064-1621 (with Xiaojun Wang).

[22] New results for the BBM equation, J. Mathematical Study 49 (2016) pp 111-131.

[23] Existence and orbital stability of solitary-wave solutions for higher-order BBM equations, J. Math. Study 49 (2016) pp 293-318 (with S.-M. Sun and J.-M. Yuan).

[24] Stability of solitary-wave solutions of systems of dispersive equations, Appl Math Optim 75 (2017), no 1, pp 27-53 (with J.L. Bona and O.A. Karakashian). On line, November 17 (2015) DOI 10.1007/s00245-015-9322-4

[25] Well-posedness for a higher order nonlinear dispersive equations posed on a quarter plane, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical System, Series A 38, no 1, January (2018) pp. 397-429. doi:10.3934/dcds.2018020.

[26] Well-posedness for the coupled BBM-BBM system, Journal of Applied Analysis and Computation 8, no 3 (2018) pp. 890 - 914 (with Cristina Haidau).

[27] Finite element methods for a system of dispersive equations, Journal of Scientific Computing Vol 77, no 3 (2018) pp. 1371-1401 (with J.L. Bona, O.A. Karakashian and M.M. Wise).

[28] Numerical study of the second-order correct Hamiltonian model for unidirectional water waves, Water Waves, 1, no 1(2019) pp. 3-40 (with J.L. Bona, Y. Hong and O.A. Karakashian).

[29] Further theory for a higher-order water wave model, Online Journal Pure and Applied Functional Analysis 4, no 4 (2019) pp. 685-708 (with J.L Bona and C. Guillope).

Presentations - Conference (refereed *)

American Math. Soc. Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Special Session on "Qualitative Analysis and Control of Evolutionary Partial Differential Equations", the University of Tennessee Chattanooga, October 2022.

American Math. Soc. Central Sectional Meeting, Special Session on "Applied Analysis", the University of Texas at El Paso, September 2022.

KUMUNU+ISU Conference on PDE, Dynamical Systems, and Applications, Lincoln, Nebraska, October 2021.

American Math. Soc. Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Special Session on "Applicable Analysis of PDE Systems which Govern Fluid FLows and Flow-Structure Interaction", Virtual, October 2020. (Originally scheduled at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Special Session on "Recent developments Analysis and Computations in Fluid Dynamics", Palm Springs, California, December 2019.

Second International Conference on Applications of Mathematics to Nonlinear Sciences (AMNS-2019), Pokhara, Nepal, June 2019.

Workshop on Discontinuous Galerkin Methods and Nonlinear PDEs in Honor of Ohannes Karakashian on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday, ICMS-FORTH, Hiraklion, Greece, June 2019.

Workshop on Modeling of Nonlinear Dispersive Waves: Mathematical Theory and Numerical Approximation, CIEM, Castro Urdials, Spain, May 2019.

The 11th IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory, Special Session on "Nonlinear Waves", University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, April 2019.

The 12th AIMS International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations and Applications, Special Session on "Nonlinear Evolution Equations", Taipei, Taiwan, July 2018.

The 12th AIMS International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations and Applications, Special Session on "Water Waves and Other Dispersive Phenomena", Taipei, Taiwan, July 2018.

Workshop on Discontinuous Galerkin Methods and Nonlinear PDEs in Honor of Ohannes Karakashian on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday, ICMS-FORTH, Hiraklion, Greece, June 2019.

2018 UNIST Workshop on PDES in Fluids, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Mathematics, Ulsan, Korea, July 2018.

American Math. Soc. Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Nonlinear Evolution Equations, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, March 2018.

(45 minutes principal lecture) Sino-French Conference on Modeling, Mathematical Analysis and Computation in Honor of Claude-Michel Brauner on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, June 2017.

The 10th IMACS International Conference on “Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory”, Special Session on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Integrable Systems, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, March-April 2017.

The 11th AIMS International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equa- tions and Applications, Special Session on Evolution Equation and Integrable Systems, Orlando, Florida, July 2016.

The 11th AIMS International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equa- tions and Applications, Special Session on Classical and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Orlando, Florida, July 2016.

The 77th Midwest Partial Differential Equations Seminar, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 2016.

Workshop on Applied Mathematics, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, March 2016.

(45 minutes principal lecture) Workshop on Theoretical, Numerical and Experimental Studies of Nonlinear Dispersive Water Waves, Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum (TSIMF), Sanya, China, July 2015.

The 9th IMACS International Conference on “Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory”, Special Session on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Integrable Systems, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, April 2015.

The Mini-symposium entitled Dynamical Problems in Applied Mathematics, The 39th SIAM Southeastern Atlantic Section Conference (SIAM-SEAS), University of Alabama at Birmingham, March 2015.

Solitary waves and their stability for coupled systems of KdV-type equations, Workshop on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Korea, May 2014.

(Principal lecture) Solitary-wave solutions and their stability for systems of coupled KdV-equations, Workshop on “Wave Phenomena: Numerical Methods and Analysis”, Archimedes Center for Modeling, Analysis & Computation, University of Crete, Greece, July 2013. 

(Principal lecture) Well-posedness of coupled nonlinear dispersive equations, One-Day PDE Conference, Universite de Poitiers, June 2013.

Solitary waves and their stability  for a class of  systems of nonlinear dispersive  equations: BBM-BBM type, Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, The Eighth IMACS International Conference on nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory, University of Athens, Athens, Georgia, March 2013.

Initial-boundary value problem for coupled dispersive equations, Special Session on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Integrable System, Joint Mathematics Meeting, San Diego, January 2013.

 (Plenary lecture) Solitary-wave solutions and their stability for systems of coupled KdV- equations, International Conference on Mathematical Modeling, Analysis and Computation, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, July  2012.

Analysis on stability of solitary-wave solutions for a system of nonlinear dispersive equations, The 9th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Special Session on Applied Analysis and Dynamics in Engineering and Sciences, Orlando, July 2012.

Initial-boundary-value problem of systems of nonlinear dispersive equations, The 9th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Special Session on Analysis and Simulations of Nonlinear Systems, Orlando, July 2012.

Long-wave limit of periodic solutions of nonlinear wave equations, The 9th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Special Session on Nonlinear and Dispersive Partial Differential Equations, Orlando, July 2012.

(Hour lecture) Initial-boundary value Problems for coupled nonlinear dispersive equations, Workshop on Boundary Value Problems for linear elliptic and integrable PDEs, International Center for Mathematical Sciences, (ICMS), Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2012.
 

(Principal lecture) Analysis on Stability of Solitary-Wave Solutions for Systems of Nonlinear Dispersive Equations, The 68th Midwest Partial Differential Equations Seminar, Notre Dame  University, Indiana, November 2011.

(Hour lecture) Systems of coupled nonlinear dispersive equations, Equations aux Derivees Partielles et Applications, Journ'ee en l'honneur de Jerry Goldstein,  Poitiers,  France, June, 2011.

Solitary-wave solutions of a system of nonlinear dispersive wave equations, American Mathematical Society  Regional Meeting, Special Session on Analysis and Control of Dispersive PDEs, Lexington, Kentucky, March  2010.

(EDP seminar lecture) Long wavelength limit of two-point boundary-value problems, Universit'e de Paris -- Nord, Villetaneuse, France, June 2009.

Boundary Value Problems for Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Equations, The 5th IMACS  International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory, Special Session on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Integrable Systems, Athens, Georgia, March 2009.

(Hour lecture) Boundary Value Problems for Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Equations, Workshop on Nonlinear Wave and Dispersive Equations, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, January 2009.

(90 minute colloquium lecture) Traveling waves, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan,  January 2009.

Limiting boundary-value problems for nonlinear dispersive wave equations, Special Session on Nonlinear, Dispersive Waves, First Joint Meeting of the American Math. Soc. and the Shanghai Math. Soc.,  Fudan University, Shanghai, China, December 2008.

(One hour)  Sharp well-posedness results for BBM-type equations, International Workshop on Differential Equations,  Zhejang Normal University, Jinghua, China, December 2008.

(45 minutes)  Boundary-value problems for nonlinear wave equations, Fifth World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts, Orlando, Florida, July 2008. 

Approximating unbounded domains with bounded domains, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, September 2007.

(45 minutes) Periodic traveling waves in nonlinear wave equations, International Conference on Applied Partial Differential Equations, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, July 2007.

(One hour) Well-posedness for nonlinear wave equations, Summer School on Applied Partial Differential Equations, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, July 2007.

(45 minutes) Cnoidal-wave solutions of a class of nonlinear dispersive equations, International Workshop on Nonlinear Dispersive Waves, National Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Seoul, Korea, June 2007.

Two Point Boundary Value Problems: the BBM and KdV Equations, American Mathemtical Society Annual Meeting, Special Session on Initial- and Boundary-Value Problems, Solvability, and Stability for some Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations: Theorem, Computation, and Application, New Orleans, LA, January 2007.

Sharp Results of Regularized Benjamin-Ono-type Equations, Workshop on Nonlinear Waves, Cincinnati, Ohio, December 2006.

Well-posedness of Regularized Benjamin-Ono-type Equations, American Mathematical Society Regional Meeting, Special Session on Special Session on Evolution Equations in Physics and Mechanics, University of Arkansas, Fayettvilles, Arkansas, November 2006.

The Relationship between Finite Intervals and Infinite Intervals: the BBM-equation, Americal Mathematical Society Regional Meetings, Special Session on Boundary Value Problems for Differential Equations with Applications, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 2006.

 Long-period Limit of Nonlinear Dispersive Equations: the BBM equation, SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, University of Washington, Seattle, September 2006.

Spatially Periodic Problems in Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Theory, The AIMS' Sixth International Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Special Session on Nonlinear Dispersive Waves, Poitiers, France, June 2006.

 Using Finite Intervals to Approximate Infinite Intervals: the BBM-equation, The AIMS' Sixth International Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Special Session on Semigroups, Evolution Equations, and Boundary, Poitiers, France, June 2006.

Existence and Stability of Cnoidal Waves of Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Equations, American Mathematicsal Society Regional Meeting,  Special Session on Analysis and Geometry of Non-linear Evolution Equations, Notre Dame, IN, April 2006.  

Long-period Limit of Nonlinear Dispersive Waves: the BBM-equation, American Mathematicsal Society Regional Meeting, Special Session on Qualitative Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Miami, FL, April 2006.   

(45 minutes) Stability of Periodic Traveling Wave Solutions, Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Phenomena, Current Trends in Mathematics:  Algebra, Geometry, Differential Equations,  Numerical Analysis, Applications to Biology,  Euroconference Series, Anogeia, Greece, July 2005. 

Travelling Waves with Small Propagation Velocity for Boussinesq-type Systems of Equations, The 4th IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computaion and Theory, Special Session on Solitary Waves and Patters on Compact Manifolds, Athens, Georgia, April 2005.  

Periodic Traveling Waves of Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Equations, The 4th IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computaion and Theory, Special Session on Modeling and Analysis, University  of Athens, Georgia, April 2005.   

Travelling wave solutions of nonlinear dispersive wave Equations, American Mathematical Society Regional Meeting, Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, Nashville, October 2004.   

Comparison of quarter-plane and two-point boundary value problems: the BBM-equation, American Mathematical Society Regional Meeting, Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, Evanston, IL, October 2004.  

 Periodic Traveling Waves of Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Equations, The AIM'S Fifth International Conference on Dynamical and Differential Equations, Special Session on Nonlinear Dispersive Waves, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, June 2004.

Periodic travelling wave solutions of systems of Boussinesq-type nonlinear, dispersive wave equation, University of Campinas, Brazil, June 2004. 

Initial and Two-point-Value Boundary Problem for BBM-equations, American Mathematicsal Society Regional Meeting,  Special Session on Theory of Initial-and Boundary-Value Problems for Some Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, April 2004.   

More on Solitary-wave Solutions for non-linear Dispersive Wave Equations, The Third IMACS International Conference on  Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, April 2003.  

(One hour)  Solitary-wave Solutions of Systems of Nonlinear Wave Equations, the 51st Midwest Partial Differential Equations Seminar, University of Illinois at Chicago, April 2003.    

A New Method to Discuss Existence of Solitary Waves for Nonlinear, Dispersive Equations, American Mathematica Society Regional Meeting, Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, Orlando, Florida, November 2002.  

Periodic Traveling-Waves for Nonlinear, Dispersive Equations, American Mathematical Society Regional Meeting, Special Session on Computational Methods in Analysis, Orlando, Florida, November 2002. 

(One hour principal) Non-linear Wave Phenomena and their Applications, International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, June 2002.   

How does the balance between dispersion and nonlinearity affect well-posedness for generalized BBM-type equations when the initial data is not smooth? AMS-IMS-SIAM Summer Research Conference, Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, June 2001.  

Stability of Solitary Waves of Nonlinear System Equations, Third International Congress on Nonlinear Analysis, Catania, Sisly, Italy, July 2000.  

Well-posedness of generalized BBM-equations with non-smooth data,  The Second IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory, University of Georgia,  Athens, Georgia,  March 2001

Uniqueness of Solitary-wave Solutions, The Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, The Fifth International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation (WAVES2000), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 2000.  

Degree Theory of Positive operators in Solitary-wave Solution Study, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, May 2003. 

Well-posedness of generalized BBM-type equations with periodic initial disturbances, American Mathematics Society Regional Meeting. Special; Session on Evolution Equations, University of Alabama at Birmingham, April 2002  

Nonlinear Wave Phenomena: Solitary Waves and some Applications, Michigan State University, March, 2001. 

How does the Non-analyticity of the Dispersion Relation affect the Properties of Solitary Waves? AMS-IMS-SIAM Summer Research Conference, Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, July 1998.  

Solitary Waves in Stratified Fluids,  the special session entitled, theoretical, numerical and experimental aspects of nonlinear, dispersive wave propagation, Fourth International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspect  of Wave propagation, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, June 1998.    

Comparison of Model Equations for Small-amplitude Long Waves, Nonlinear Dispersive Waves: Theory and Applications, Euroconference Series, Crete, Greece, July 1997.

Decay of Solitary Waves, Modern Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Session, New York Journal of Mathematics Conference, Albany, New York, June 1997. 

Internal Solitary Waves in the Presence of Surface Tension, American Mathematical Society Regional Meeting , Special Session on Partial Differential Equations, Memphis, Tennessee, March 1997. 

Existence of Solitary-Wave Solutions of Benjamin-type Equations and the Decay Properties of their Outskirts, Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, Second World Congress of Nonlinear Analysis, Athens, Greece, July 1996.  

Presentations - Universities/Industry (refereed *)

(One hour seminar lecture) School of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing China, June 2017.

(One hour seminar lecture) State University of Sao Paolo at Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, June, 2016.

(One hour colloquium lecture) King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Division of Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, January, 2016.

(One hour seminar lecture) Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Virginia, September 2015.

(One hour seminar lecture) Oklahoma State University, Still Water, Oklahoma, March 2015.

(One hour seminar lecture) University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, March 2015, October 2017.

(Colloquium lecture) Solitary waves and their stability  for a class of systems of nonlinear dispersive  equations, National Chia-Tung University of Taiwan, November 2012.

(Colloquium lecture) Solitary waves: a nonlinear and dispersive phenomenon, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Virginia, October, 2012.

(Colloquium lecture) Solitary waves and their stability for systems of nonlinear dispersive wave equations, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,  November  2009. 

 (PDE seminar lecture) Boundary value problems, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2009.

(Colloquium) Solitary-wave solutions of systems of nonlinear dispersive wave equations, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 2009.

(PDE seminar lecture) Sharp results on global well-posedness for BBM-type equations, Universite de Paris -- Nord, Villetaneuse, France, June 2008.

(PDE seminar lecture) Variational problems derived to study nonlinear dispersive wave equations, TATA Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India, June 2007.

Solitary Waves: Mathematical Theory, University of Texas, Pan American, Edinburg, Texas, September 2005.

 Existence of Solitary Wave Solutions for Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Equations, Providence University, Taiwan, March, 2005. 

Comparison of quarter-plane and two-point boundary-value problems: the BBM-equation, Academia Sinica, Taipai, Taiwan,  March 2005.

Modeling comparison of BBM-equation with two different boundary conditions, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, March 2005. 

Two mathematical methods in studying solitary-wave solutions, The Chinese University of Hongkong, Hongkong, China, June 2002.  

Concentration-compactness Method used in Nonlinear, Dispersive Wave Equations, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, April 2003.  

Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Equations, Institute of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, June 2002.  

Solitary-waves Solutions of Systems Equations, American Mathematics Society Regional Meeting, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, April 2000.  

Nonlinear Dispersive Phenomenon: Solitary Waves, University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, February 2000. 

Sand Beach Protection and Nourishment,  University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, February, 2000.  

Nonlinear Waves and Applications, Oklahoma State University, Still Water, Oklahoma, January, 2000.   

History and Discovery of Solitary Waves, lecture to the graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin, October 1997. 

Nonlinear Wave Phenomena: Solitary Waves, a series of lectures given at the Graduate School and University Center of CUNY, New York, October-November 1998. 

Solitary Waves in Stratified Flows and Other Fluid Systems, Seminar in the Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, the University of Texas at Austin, October 1997.


SUPPORT

(External)

ACTIVITY AGENCY/SOURCE AMOUNT PERIOD
SEARDE conference National Science Foundations (CO-PI) $26000 October 2014
The 70th Midwest Partial Differential Equations SeminarNational Science Foundations via University of Illionis at Chicago $8000 Novmber 2012
Internal Support
ACTIVITY AGENCY/SOURCE AMOUNT PERIOD
New Faculty Research Grant University of Memphis $8500 2001-2002
International Travel Fund University of Memphis $500 2001
Differential Equations Weekend (CO-PI) Academic Enrichment Fund, College of Arts and Sicences $2000 2002-2003
Differential Equations Weekend (CO-PI) Academic Enrichment Fund, College of Arts and Sicences $1500 2005-2006
Travel Enrichment Fund College of Arts and Sicences $500 March 2009

OUTREACH

Project/s summary
PROJECT PARTICIPANTS PERIOD SPONSORSHIP
Saturday Morning Mathematics Seminar for High School Students Karen Uhlenbeck, Katherine Socha and Hongqiu Chen July 1997 The University of Texas at Austin
Summer Honors Days for Outstanding Texas High-school Juniors Karen Uhlenbeck, Jerry L. Bona. 1997 The University of Texas at Austin

SERVICE
UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE/ACTIVITY PERIOD
Department of Mathematical Sicence Undergraduate Committee 2000-2004, 2008-2010, 2012-2014, 2016-2017
Department of Mathematical Sciences Master Degree Graduate Committee 2000-2002, 2013-2014, 2016-
Department of Mathematical Sciences Library Committee 2000-2002
Department of Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Search Committee, 2002, 2022
College/School Committee of department head search 2002
College of Arts and Sciences Grduate Council 2008-2012
Department of Mathematical Sciences Blaylock Colloquium Committee 2011-2012
Department of Mathematical Sciences Organizational Committee for the 34th SEARDE Conference 2013-2014
Department of Mathematical Sciences AWM student chapter 2013-2014
Department of Mathematical Sciences Service Course Committee ??
Department of Mathematical Sciences Hiring Committee ??
Differential Equations Weekend Organizational Committee for AMS Sectional Meeting 2015
Department of Mathematical Sciences Chair of Colloquium Committee 2016-
Department of Mathematical Sciences Chair of PDE Seminar Committee 2016-

OTHER
SOCIETY/ORGANIZATION/JOURNAL COMMITTEE/EDITORIAL BOARD/OFFICE PERIOD
Nonlinear Analysis Member of Editorial Board 2008-2010
South East Region Differential Equations Organization Organizational Committee for the 34th SEARDE conference 2013-2014
SIAM-SEAS Officer Elect 2013
SIAM-SEAS Treasuere January 1-December 31, 2014
SIAM-SEAS President January 1-December 31, 2015

Appendix A

Academic Year (please indicate year) Course # Course Name Credit Hours Percent Taught Enroll Labratory Supervised(S)/Instructed(I) New Preparation (Y) /(N)
Fall 2017 Math 8501 Nonlinear Wave Phenomena 3 100 5   Y
Fall 2017 Math 2120 Differential Equations 3 100 54   N
Spring 2017 Math 7361 Complex Analysis 3 100 5   N
Spring 2017 Math 2120 Differential Equations 3 100 42   Y
Fall 2016 Math 4/6391 Partial Differential Equations 3 100 7   N
Fall 2016 Math 1710 College Algebra 3 100 78   N
Fall 2015 Math 4/6391 Partial Differential Equations 3 100 10   N
Fall 2015 Math 3120 Differential Equations 3 100 36   N
Spring 2015 Math 3242 Introduction to Linear Algebra 3 100 38   N
Spring 2015 Math 1710 College Algebra 3 100 16   N
Fall 2014 Math 7016 Fourier Analysis 3 100 6   Y
Fall 2014 Math 3120 Differential Equations 3 100 42   N
Sprin 2014 Math 1720 Trigonometry 3 100 84   N
Spring 2014 Math 3120 Differenttial Equations 3 100 30   N
Spring 2014 Math 4391/6391 Partial Differential Equations II (self study) 3 100 2   N
Fall 2013 Math 4391/6391 Partial Differential Equations I 3 100 9   N
Fall 2013 Math 1710 College ALgebra 3 100 69   Y
Spring 2013 Math 4392/6392 Partial Differential Equations II 3 100 5   N
Spring 2013 Math3242 Introduction to Linear Algebra 3 100 15   N
Fall 2012 Math 1420 Foundations of Mathematics 3 100 61   N
Fall 2012 Math 4391/6391 Partial Differential Equations I 3 100 12   Y
Spring 2012 Math1710 College Algebra 3 100 71   N
Spring 2012 Math 4242/624 Linear Algebra 3 100 15   Y
Fall 2011 Math 1710 College Algebra 3 100 38   N
Fall 2011 Math 2701 Discrete Structure 3 100 15   N
Spring 2011 Math 1710 College Algebra 3 100 65   N
Spring 2011 Math 3242 Introduction to Linear Algebra 3 100 25   N
Fall 2010 Math 1420 Foundations of Mathematics 3 100 35   N
Fall 2010 Math 4391/6391 Partial Differential Equations I 3 100 8   N
Spring 2010 Math 3120 Differential Equations 3 100 28   N
Spring 2010 Math 1710 College Algebra 3 100 65   N
Fall 2009 Math 1420 Foundations of Mathematics 3 100 45   N
Fall 2009 Math 3120 Differential Equations 3 100 25   N
Spring 2009 Math 1420 Foundations of Mathematics 3 100 45   N
Spring 2009 Math 7351 Real Analysis II 3 100 9   Y
Fall 2008 Math 7361 Complex Analysis 3 100 5   Y
Fall 2008 Math 1720 Trigonometry 3 100 25   N
Spring 2007 Trigonometry math1720 3 100 61   N
Spring 2007 Mmath7032/8032 Nonlinear Wave Phenomena 3 100 4   Y
Fall 2006 Math 1830 Elemnentary Calculus 3 100 65   N
Fall 2006 Math 4391/6391 Partial Different Equations (Part I) 3 100 8   N
Spring 2006 Math 4392/6392 Partial Differential Equations (Part II) 3 100 3   Y
Spring 2006 Math 1720 Trigonometry 3 100 30   N
Fall 2005 Math 1720 Trigonometry 3 100 33   Y
Fall 2005 Math 4391/6391 Partial Differential Equations 3 100 13   Y
Spring 2004 Math 1710 College Algebra 3 100 60   N
Spring 2004 Math 2701 Discrete Mathematics 3 100 17   Y
Fall 2003 Math 1710 College Algebra 3 100 52   Y
Fall 2003 Math 7350 Real Variable Analysis I 3 100 9   Y
Spring 2003 Math 7302/8302 Nonlinear Wave Phenomena 3 100 5   Y
Spring 2003 Math 2000 Experiences in Mathematics 3 100 23   N
Fall 2002 Math 3120 Differential Equations 3 100 16   Y
Fall 2002 Math 2000 Experiences in Mathematics 3 100 27   N
Spring 2002 Math 2000 Experiences in Mathematics 3 100 29   Y
Spring 2002 Math 4351/6351 Introductions to Real Analysis II 3 100 8   Y
Fall 2001 Math 4351/6351 Introductions to Real Analysis I 3 100 8   Y
Fall 2001 Math 1830 Elementary Calculus 3 100 62   N
Fall 2000 Math 1182 Foundations of Mathematics 3 100 10   N
Fall 2000 Math 1182 Foundations of Mathematics 3 100 10   Y
Fall 2000 Math 1830 Elementary Calculus 3 100 60   Y

Appendix B

I am advising Ph.D graduate student Pamela Guerrero (F2017--)
 
Supervised undergraduate Michael Hollandsworth Jr. to fulfill an honors contract, Spring 2017.
 
Supervised undergraduate Kenneth Crwoford to fulfill an honors contract, Spring 2017.
 
Supervised undergraduate Joshua Albert to fulfill an honors contract, Spring 2017.
 
Supervised undergraduate Noah Middleton Jr. to fulfill an honors contract, Spring 2017.
 
Letter of recommendation written for Ruze Zhou to apply for school transfer (2016).
 
letter of recommendation written for Christopher Xavien Chattman to apply for an internship (2015).
 
Letter of recommendation written for Loxton Gumbs to apply for graduate schools (2015).
 
Letter of recommendation written for Raluca Clendenen  to apply for a faculty position (2014).
 
Letter of recommendation written for Courtney Muldrow to apply for an internship (2014).
 
letter of recommendation written for Will Terry to apply for graduate schools (2014, 2015).
 
Member of PhD committee for Raluca Pop Clendenen (2014).  
 
letter of recommendation written for Kyle Edwards to apply for graduate schools (2013).
 
letter of recommendation written for Matthew Roberson to apply for graduate schools (2013).
 
Member of Ph.D committee for Razvan Alexandru Mezei (2011). 
 
Letter of recommendation written for Marko Puljic to apply for a faculty position (2010).
 
Member of PhD committee for Naima Naheed (2009).
 
Member of PhD committee for Angela Murdock (2006). 
 
Member of Ph.D committee for Ciprian Gal (2006).
 
While Nadia Gal was taking my Real Variable Analysis class in the fall of 2003, I helped her to prepare her doctoral qualifier Examination in mathematical analysis which occurred in March, 2004.  
 
 Member of Ph.D. committee for Ismail Kombe (2003).  
 
Additional Information on Advising/Mentoring outside of University of Memphis
 
Letter of recommendation written for Cristina Haudau to apply for a faculty position (2015, 2017).
 
Letter of reference written for Muhammad Usman o apply for a faculty research award at University of Dayton (2013, 2015).
 

Appendix C

Additional Information on Research/Scholarship/Creative Activities
 
Research papers
 
Manuscript "The effect of higher-order dissipation on solutions of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation" to be submitted for publication (with J.L. Bona, Y. Hong, M. Panthee and M. Scialom).
 
Manuscript "Coexistence of stable and unstable solitary-wave solutions of systems of coupled KdV-equations" to be submitted for publication (51 page manuscript, with J.L. Bona, O.A. Karakashian)
 
"Stability and instability of solitary-wave solutions of coupled BBM-equations" in preparation (with J.L. Bona, C. Guillo'pe and O.A. Karakashian).
 
"Some new thoughts on the generalized BBM-type differential equations", working in progress (with P. Guerrero, C.A. Haidau and S. Pantic).
 
"Long-periodic limit of nonlinear dispersive equations: higher-order water wave models", work in progress (with J.L. Bona, Y. Hong, M. Panthee,and M. Scialom).
 
Lecture note on Nonlinear Wave Phenomena (with J.L. Bona) has been used as a special topic cours at University of Memphis, University of Illinois at Chicago and Purdue Unviersity.
 
 
  Conference and workshop Participation   
 
1. International Dynamical Systems Conference, Springfield, Missouri, May 1996. 
 
2. Annual AMS-MAA Meeting, Orlando, January 1996  (Participated in the Special Session on  Mathematics & Education Reform).   
 
3. Regional American Math. Soc. Meeting, Columbia, Missouri, November 1996.
 
4. Annual AMS-MAA Meeting, San Diego, January 1997 (Participated in the Special Sessions on  Mathematics & Education Reform and on Nonlinear Waves). 
 
 5. Conference on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Institute for Computational Mathematics, Bloomington, Indiana, June 1997.
 
6. Discovery Learning Seminar, University of Texas at Austin (1996-1998).
 
 7. AMS Regional Meeting, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, March 1998.
 
 8. Symposium on Three-Dimensional Aspects of Air-Sea Interaction, Nice, France, May 1998.
 
 9. Second Annual Mathematics Meeting to Celebrate the 35th Anniversary of the Atiyah-Bott Theorem, Woods Hole,  Massachusetts, October 1999.
 
 10. Annual AMS-MAA Meeting, Washington DC, January 2000 (Participated in the Special Session on Mathematics & Education Reform and the Special Session on Nonlinear Dispersive Waves).
 
11.  Annual AMS-MAA Meeting, New Orleans, January 2001  (Participated in the Special Session on Mathematics & Education Reform).
 
12. Annual AMS-MAA Meeting, San Diego, January 2002 (Participated in the Special Session on Mathematics & Education Reform and the Special Session on Nonlinear Differential Equations).
 
 13. Nonlinear Differential Equations, Mechanics and Bifurcation, Duke University, Durham, North  Carolina, May 2002. 
 
 14. American Mathematical Society Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Mathematical and  Computational Problems in Fluid Dynamics and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Indiana University,  Bloomington, Indiana,  April, 2003.
 
 15. First Joint International Meeting between the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Real Sociedad Matematica Espanola (RSME), Seville, Spain, June, 2003.
 
 16. The Fifth International Congress on Industrial & Applied Mathematics, Sydney, Australia, July 2003.
 
 17. Annual AMS-MAA Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, January 2004  (Participated in the Special Session on Mathematics & Education Reform).
 
18. Workshop on Integrable and Near-Integrable Hamiltonian PDE, Fields Institute for Research in Mathematics, University of Toronto, Canada, May 2004
 
 19. Workshop on Nonlinear Differential Equations, IMECC-UNICAMP, Brazil, June 2004.
 
 20. The 29th Sapporo Symposium on Partial Differential Equations, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, August 2004.
 
21. International Conference in Harmonic Analysis and PDE in honor of Carlos Kenig, Chicago, Illinois, October 2004. 
 
22. Annual AMS-MAA Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2005 (Participated in the Special Session on Mathematics & Education Reform).
 
 23. Annual AAAS meeting, St. Louis, February 2006 (Participating in the Special Session on Tsunami).
 
 24.  The Third Chicago Area PDE Workshop, Northwestern University, Evanston, February 2006.
 
25. Conference on Biology and Mechanics: Applications of Mathematics and Computations in honor of Fred Wan, University of  California, Irvine, CA, May 2006.
 

Appendix D

Additional Information on Support
 

1.The Focused Research Group project “Modelling Waves and Sediment Transport in Coastal Zones”,  supported by the National Science Foundation, was interdisciplinary. It involves applied mathematicians,  coastal engineers and Oceanographers. I was a junior member working for the entire year (2004-2005) without teaching duty.   
 
 2. G. Goldstein, J. Goldstein and H. Vogt and I received University Academic Enrichment Funds and organized a Differential Equations Weekend in September 2002.ganized a Differential Equations Weekend in September 2002. 
 

 3. G. Goldstein, J. Goldstein and T. Hagen and I have received University Academic Enrichment Funds and are organizing a similar Differential Equations Weekend (2005-2006).
 
4. I received NSF-AWM Travel Grant to present a talk in The 5th International Conference on Dynamical and Differential Equations, Special Session on Nonlinear Dispersive Waves, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, June 2004.
 
5. I was funded by the London Mathematical Society and the University of Reading as a member of a team to teach a summer course on “Nonlinear Dispersive Waves” for the graduate students from all of the Great Britain in summer in 2005. 
 
6. I received European Union Funds to give one of the principal lectures in “Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Phenomena, Current Trends in Mathematics:  Algebra, Geometry, Differential Equations, Numerical Analysis, Applications to Biology", Anogeia, Greece, July 2005.  
 
7. I was Professeur invité by Université de Bordeaux, France, funded by the CNRS (one French version of National Science Foundation), May-June 2013 (one month),
 

Appendix E

Additional Information on Outreach
 
I have been frequently referring mathematical research papers for following Journals:
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society,
Journal of Fluid Mechanics,
Prentice-Hall (a textbook entitled "Partial Di erential Equations"),
Nonlinear Analysis,
Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, Series A and B,
ANZIM Journal,
Advances in Differential Equations,
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin,
Mathematica Contemporanea,
Journal of Differential and Integral Equations,
Journal of Differential Equations,
Zeitschrift fuer Angewandte Mathematik und Physik,
Electronic Journal of Differential Equations,
Complex Variables and Elliptic Equations,
Journal of Wave Motion,
Mathematical Method in Applied Sciences,
Applicable Analysis.
 
Co-organizing The 12th AIMS International Conference on Dynamical Systems, Di erential Equations and Applications, Special Session on Nonlinear Dispersive Waves", Taipei, Taiwan, July 2018. (With J. Bona, M.Chen, S.-M. Sun and B.-Y. Zhang).
 
Co-organized The AMS Sectional Meeting, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, October 2015. (With T. Hagen, I. Lasiecka and R. Triggiani).
 
Organized Mini-symposium entitled Dynamical Problems in Applied Mathematics, the 39th SIAM Southeastern Atlantic Section Conference (SIAM-SEAS), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, March 2015.
 
Co-organized The 34th Southeastern-Atlantic Regional Conference on Di erential Equations (SEARCDE 2014), University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, October 2014. (With G. Goldstein, J. Goldstein, I. Lasiecka and R. Triggiani).
 
Co-organized The Differential Equations Weekend, University of Memphis, February, 2014. (With G. Goldstein, J. Goldstein, I. Lasiecka and R. Triggiani).
 
Co-organized Workshop on Water Wave Phenomena: Numerical Methods and Analysis, Archimedes Center for Modeling, Analysis, Computation, University of Crete, Crete, Greece, July 2013. (With O.A. Karakshian).
 
Co-Organized The 70th Midwest Partial Di erential Equations Seminar, University of Memphis, November 2012. (With G. Goldstein, J. Goldstein and J. Haddock).
 
Co-organized The Equations Weekend, University of Memphis, October 2012. (With G. Goldstein and J. Goldstein).
 
Co-organized The Differential Equations Weekend, University of Memphis, November 2010. (With G. Goldstein
and J. Goldstein).
 
Co-organized The Differential Equations Weekend, University of Memphis, November 2009. (With G. Goldstein and J. Goldstein).
 
Co-organized The 7th AIMS International Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Special Session on Boundary Value Problems and Control Theory", University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, May 2008. (With R. Fukuizumi and M. Colin).
 
 I have been co-organizing our weekly seminars in applied analysis since 2000.   
 

Co-organized the Differential Equations Weekend, University of Memphis in April 2006. (With G. Goldstein, J. Goldstein and T. Hagen). 

 

A member of a group that gave a serial lectures on Nonlinear Dispersive Waves in England, sponsored by London Mathematics Society, July 2005.
 

Co-organized the Differential Equations Weekend,  University of Memphis in September 2002. (With G. Goldstein, J. Goldstein and H. Vogt).
 
Co-organized International Conference on Modeling and Simulating of Complex System, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, June 2002. (With Yu He and his team).
 

At the request of Einstein Chair Dennis Sullivan, I gave an informal graduate course on Nonlinear Dispersive Waves at Graduate Center of City University of New York in October –November 1998.