Research Areas:
Mathematical theory of materials at the electronic, atomic and macroscopic scales, analysis and algorithms for multiscale problems, analysis and modeling of stochastic problems

Prof. E Weinan received his PhD in Mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1989. He was Visiting Member at New York University (NYU) from 1989 to 1991, and Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 1991 to 1994. He returned to NYU in 1994 and became Professor in 1997. Since 1999, he has been holding a professorship in the Department of Mathematics and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. He is also Professor of the Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research and School of Mathematical Sciences and Changjiang Professor at Peking University.

Prof. E’s current research interests are density functional theory and approximate models for the quantum many-body problem, instabilities driven by noise and the mathematics and physics of ideal crystals.

Prof E is a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He received numerous awards including Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering, Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing, ICIAM Collatz Prize awarded at the 5th International Congress of Industrial & Applied Math and the Ralph E. Kleinman Prize. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002, and the Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society in 2003. In 2012 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.