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. Wang, Z; Li, Y; Lu, J, Coordinate Descent Full Configuration Interaction., Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, vol. 15 no. 6 (June, 2019), pp. 3558-3569 [doi] [abs]
2. Liu, JG; Lu, J; Margetis, D; Marzuola, JL, Asymmetry in crystal facet dynamics of homoepitaxy by a continuum model, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, vol. 393 (June, 2019), pp. 54-67 [doi] [abs]
3. Cao, Y; Lu, J; Lu, Y, Gradient flow structure and exponential decay of the sandwiched Rényi divergence for primitive Lindblad equations with GNS-detailed balance, Journal of Mathematical Physics, vol. 60 no. 5 (May, 2019), pp. 052202-052202, AIP Publishing [doi] [abs]
4. 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]
5. 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]