Chinese-Australian mathematician
Xu-Jia Wang (Chinese : 汪徐家 ; pinyin : Wāng Xújiā ; born September 1963) is a Chinese-Australian mathematician . He is a professor of mathematics at the Australian National University and a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science . He joined Westlake University in Hangzhou , China in September 2024 as full-time Chair Professor of Mathematics.
Biography
Wang was born in Chun'an County , Zhejiang province, China. Wang obtained his B.S. in 1983 and his Ph.D. in 1990 from the Department of Mathematics of Zhejiang University (ZJU) in Hangzhou .[ 1]
After completing his PhD, Wang served as lecturer and associate professor , at ZJU before departing for ANU In 1995. Wang is a Professor in the Centre for Mathematics and its Applications and Mathematical Sciences Institute of Australian National University.
Wang is well known for his work on differential equations, especially non-linear partial differential equations and their geometrical and transportational applications.
Honors and awards
Publications (selected)
Wang, Xu-Jia (2011). "Convex solutions to the mean curvature flow" . Annals of Mathematics . 173 (3): 1185– 1239. arXiv :math/0404326 . doi :10.4007/annals.2011.173.3.1 .
(with Aram Karakhanyan) Karakhanyan, Aram; Wang, Xu-Jia (2010). "On the reflector shape design" . Journal of Differential Geometry . 84 (3): 561– 610. doi :10.4310/jdg/1279114301 .
(with Guji Tian) Tian, Gu-Ji; Wang, Xu-Jia (2010). "Moser-Trudinger type inequalities for the Hessian equation" . Journal of Functional Analysis . 259 (8): 1974– 2002. doi :10.1016/j.jfa.2010.06.009 .
(with Kai-Seng Chou) Chou, Kai-Seng; Wang, Xu-Jia (2006). "The Lp-Minkowski problem and the Minkowski problem in centroaffine geometry" . Advances in Mathematics . 205 (1): 33– 83. doi :10.1016/j.aim.2005.07.004 . hdl :1885/28586 .
Wang, Xu-Jia (2006). "Schauder estimates for elliptic and parabolic equations" . Chinese Annals of Mathematics, Series B . 27 (6): 637– 642. doi :10.1007/s11401-006-0142-3 . hdl :1885/28861 .
(with Neil Trudinger) Trudinger, Neil; Wang, Xu-Jia (2005). "The affine Plateau problem". Journal of the American Mathematical Society . 18 (2): 253– 289. doi :10.1090/S0894-0347-05-00475-3 .
(with Neil Trudinger and Xi-Nan Ma) Ma, Xi-Nan; Trudinger, Neil S.; Wang, Xu-Jia (2005). "Regularity of Potential Functions of the Optimal Transportation Problem". Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis . 177 (2): 151– 183. Bibcode :2005ArRMA.177..151M . doi :10.1007/s00205-005-0362-9 .
(with Xiaohua Zhu) Wang, Xu-Jia; Zhu, Xiaohua (2004). "Kähler-Ricci solitons on toric manifolds with positive first Chern class" . Advances in Mathematics . 188 (1): 87– 103. doi :10.1016/j.aim.2003.09.009 .
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External links
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