Xin Zhou, Professor Emeritus

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.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	PO Box 90320, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.math.duke.edu/~zhou

Education:

Ph.D.	University of Rochester	1988
M.Sc.	Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)	1982

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. Rider, B; Zhou, X, Janossy densities for unitary ensembles at the spectral edge, International Mathematics Research Notices, vol. 2008 no. 1 (December, 2008), Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 1073-7928 [doi]  [abs]
2. McLaughlin, KTR; Vartanian, AH; Zhou, X, Rational functions with a general distribution of poles on the real line orthogonal with respect to varying exponential weights: I, Mathematical Physics Analysis and Geometry, vol. 11 no. 3-4 (November, 2008), pp. 187-364, Springer Nature, ISSN 1385-0172 [doi]  [abs]
3. with McLaughlin, KTR; Vartanian, AH; Zhou, X, Asymptotics of laurent polynomials of odd degree orthogonal with respect to varying exponential weights, Constructive Approximation, vol. 27 no. 2 (March, 2008), pp. 149-202, Springer Nature, ISSN 0176-4276 [doi]  [abs]
4. McLaughlin, KTR; Vartanian, AH; Zhou, X, Asymptotics of recurrence relation coefficients, hankel determinant ratios, and root products associated with laurent polynomials orthogonal with respect to varying exponential weights, Acta Applicandae Mathematicae, vol. 100 no. 1 (January, 2008), pp. 39-104, Springer Nature, ISSN 0167-8019 [doi]  [abs]
5. with McLaughlin, KT-R; Vartanian, AH, 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

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