Jianfeng Lu, Professor of Mathematics  

Jianfeng Lu

Office Location: 242 Physics Bldg, 120 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address: jianfeng@math.duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.math.duke.edu/~jianfeng/

Specialties:
Applied Math

Education:
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2009
BS, Peking University, 2005

Research Description: Mathematical analysis and algorithm development for problems from
computational physics, theoretical chemistry, materials science and others.

More specifically:
Electronic structure and many body problems;
Multiscale modeling and analysis; and
Rare events and sampling techniques.

Areas of Interest:
Applied Mathematics
Partial Differential Equations
Probability
Numerical Analysis
Scientific Computing

Teaching (Spring 2024):

  • Physics 590.01, Topics in theoretical physics Synopsis
    Gross hall 324, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Chen, Z; Lu, J; Lu, Y; Zhang, X, On the Convergence of Sobolev Gradient Flow for the Gross–Pitaevskii Eigenvalue Problem, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, vol. 62 no. 2 (April, 2024), pp. 667-691, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) [doi] .
  2. Li, X; Pura, J; Allen, A; Owzar, K; Lu, J; Harms, M; Xie, J, DYNATE: Localizing rare-variant association regions via multiple testing embedded in an aggregation tree., Genet Epidemiol, vol. 48 no. 1 (February, 2024), pp. 42-55 [doi]  [abs].
  3. Jing, Y; Chen, J; Li, L; Lu, J, A Machine Learning Framework for Geodesics Under Spherical Wasserstein–Fisher–Rao Metric and Its Application for Weighted Sample Generation, Journal of Scientific Computing, vol. 98 no. 1 (January, 2024) [doi]  [abs].
  4. Wang, Z; Zhang, Z; Lu, J; Li, Y, Coordinate Descent Full Configuration Interaction for Excited States., Journal of chemical theory and computation, vol. 19 no. 21 (November, 2023), pp. 7731-7739 [doi]  [abs].
  5. Cao, Y; Lu, J; Wang, L, On Explicit L2 -Convergence Rate Estimate for Underdamped Langevin Dynamics, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, vol. 247 no. 5 (October, 2023) [doi]  [abs].

Curriculum Vitae

Highlight:
Jianfeng Lu is an applied mathematician interested in mathematical analysis and algorithm development for problems from computational physics, theoretical chemistry, materials science and other related fields.

More specifically, his current research focuses include:
Electronic structure and many body problems; quantum molecular dynamics; multiscale modeling and analysis; rare events and sampling techniques.

Current Ph.D. Students  

  • Kyle Thicke  
  • Chao Xu  
Postdocs Mentored

  • Haizhao Yang (July, 2015 - present)  
  • Zhennan Zhou (August, 2014 - present)