Jianfeng Lu, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Chemistry and Physics

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.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	242 Physics Bldg, 120 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 660-2875
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.math.duke.edu/~jianfeng/

Teaching (Fall 2018):

• MATH 690-70.01, TOPICS IN APPLIED MATH Synopsis

  Physics 235, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• MATH 790-90.05, MINICOURSE IN ADVANCED TOPICS Synopsis

  Gross Hall 318, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

Office Hours:

By email appointments

Education:

Ph.D.	Princeton University	2009
BS	Peking University	2005

Specialties:

Applied Math

Research Interests:

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

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Kyle S. Thicke  
• Chao Xu  

Postdocs Mentored

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

Undergraduate Research Supervised

• Jeremy Tay (September, 2015 - December, 2015)  
• Fuchsia Chen (January, 2015 - September, 2015)  
• Leslie Lei (May, 2013 - May, 2014)  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Cao, Y; Lu, J, Stochastic dynamical low-rank approximation method, Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 372 (November, 2018), pp. 564-586 [doi]  [abs]
2. Li, X; Liu, J; Lu, J; Zhou, X, Moderate deviation for random elliptic PDE with small noise, The Annals of Applied Probability, vol. 28 no. 5 (October, 2018), pp. 2781-2813 [doi]  [abs]
3. Barthel, T; Lu, J, Fundamental Limitations for Measurements in Quantum Many-Body Systems., Physical Review Letters, vol. 121 no. 8 (August, 2018), pp. 080406 [doi]  [abs]
4. Huang, Y; Lu, J; Ming, P, A Concurrent Global–Local Numerical Method for Multiscale PDEs, Journal of Scientific Computing, vol. 76 no. 2 (August, 2018), pp. 1188-1215 [doi]  [abs]
5. You, Z; Li, L; Lu, J; Ge, H, Integrated tempering enhanced sampling method as the infinite switching limit of simulated tempering., The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 149 no. 8 (August, 2018), pp. 084114 [doi]  [abs]

Recent Grant Support

• CAREER: Research and training in advanced computational methods for quantum and statistical mechanics, National Science Foundation, DMS-1454939, 2015/09-2020/08.