Research Interests for Jianfeng Lu

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

Recent Publications

1. Lu, J; Vanden-Eijnden, E, Methodological and Computational Aspects of Parallel Tempering Methods in the Infinite Swapping Limit, Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 174 no. 3 (February, 2019), pp. 715-733 [doi] [abs]
2. Li, Y; Lu, J, Bold diagrammatic Monte Carlo in the lens of stochastic iterative methods, Transactions of Mathematics and Its Applications, vol. 3 no. 1 (February, 2019), pp. 1-17, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]
3. Martinsson, A; Lu, J; Leimkuhler, B; Vanden-Eijnden, E, The simulated tempering method in the infinite switch limit with adaptive weight learning, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, vol. 2019 no. 1 (January, 2019), pp. 013207-013207, IOP Publishing [doi] [abs]
4. Liu, JG; Lu, J; Margetis, D; Marzuola, JL, Asymmetry in crystal facet dynamics of homoepitaxy by a continuum model, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena (January, 2019) [doi] [abs]
5. Huang, H; Liu, JG; Lu, J, Learning interacting particle systems: Diffusion parameter estimation for aggregation equations, Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, vol. 29 no. 1 (January, 2019), pp. 1-29 [doi] [abs]