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Xin Zhou, Professor

Contact Info:
Office Location:  109 Physics
Office Phone:  (919) 660-2842
Email Address: send me a message
Web Page:  http://www.math.duke.edu/~zhou

Teaching (Fall 2009):

  • MATH 103.03, INTERMEDIATE CALCULUS Synopsis
    Physics 047, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
  • MATH 131.01, ELEM DIFFERENTIAL EQUAT
    Physics 235, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
Teaching (Spring 2010):

  • MATH 133.01, INTRO PARTIAL DIFF EQUA
    Physics 227, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
  • MATH 388.02, RESEARCH IN DIFF EQUATIONS
    Physics 119, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
Education:

Ph.D.in Mathematics, 1988, University of Rochester
M.S.in Physics, 1982, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Physics)
Research Interests: Partial Differential Equations and Integrable Systems

Professor Zhou studies the 1-D, 2-D inverse scattering theory, using the method of Riemann-Hilbert problems. His current research is concentrated in a nonlinear type of microlocal analysis on Riemann-Hilbert problems. Subjects of main interest are integrable and near intergrable PDE, integrable statistical models, orthogonal polynomials and random matrices, monodromy groups and Painleve equations with applications in physics and algebraic geometry. A number of classical and new problems in analysis, numerical analysis, and physics have been solved by zhou or jointly by zhou and his collaborators.

Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. K. T.-R. McLaughlin, A. H. Vartanian, and X. Zhou,, Asymptotics of Orthogonal Laurent Polynomials of even Degree with Respect to Varying Exponential Weights (Preprint, 2008)
  2. with K. T.-R. McLaughlin, A. H. Vartanian, Asymptotics of Coefficients of Recurrence Relations, Hankel Determinants Ratios, and Root Products Associated with Orthogonal Laurent Polynomials with Respect to Varying Exponential Weights, journal Acta Applicandae Mathematicae, vol. 100 (2008), pp. 39-104
  3. with K. McLaughlin , A.H. Vartanian, Asymptotics of Orthogonal Laurent Polynomials of Odd Degree with Respect to Varying Exponential Weights, Constructive Approximation, vol. 27 (2008), pp. 149-202
  4. B. Rider and X. Zhou, Janossy densities for unitary ensembles at the spectral edge, IMRN (Accepted, 2008)
  5. K. T.-R. McLaughlin, A. H. Vartanian, and X. Zhou, Rational functions with a general distribution of poles on the real line orthogonal with respect to varying exponential weights, Math. Phys. Anal. Geom. (Accepted, 2008)
Recent Grant Support

  • Riemann-Hilbert Problem & Integrable Systems, National Science Foundation, DMS-0602344, 2006/07-2009/06.      
Conferences Organized

  • Special session on Random Matrices, XXIII International Conference of Differential Geometric Methods in Theoretical Physics, August, 2005  
  • SIAC-SIAM mini-symposium 10/1/2004, ORGANIZER, December 2004  
  • NSF- AMS Summer Conference Snowbird UT, organizer, June 2003  

 

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