Jianfeng Lu, Professor of Mathematics

Contact Info:

Office Location:	242 Physics
Office Phone:	(919) 660-2875
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.math.duke.edu/~jianfeng/

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• PHYSICS 590.01, TOPICS IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS Synopsis

  Gross Hall 324, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

  (also cross-listed as MATH 690-70.02)

• MATH 375.01, LINEAR PROGRAMMING Synopsis

  Gross Hall 324, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• MATH 757.01, LINEAR PROGRAMMING Synopsis

  Gross Hall 324, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

Office Hours:

Tuesday 12:30-1:20pm and 2:45pm to 4:30pm or 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 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. Chen, Z; Lu, J; Lu, Y; Zhang, X, On the Convergence of Sobolev Gradient Flow for the Gross–Pitaevskii Eigenvalue Problem, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, vol. 62 no. 2 (April, 2024), pp. 667-691, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) [doi]
2. Li, X; Pura, J; Allen, A; Owzar, K; Lu, J; Harms, M; Xie, J, DYNATE: Localizing rare-variant association regions via multiple testing embedded in an aggregation tree., Genet Epidemiol, vol. 48 no. 1 (February, 2024), pp. 42-55 [doi]  [abs]
3. Jing, Y; Chen, J; Li, L; Lu, J, A Machine Learning Framework for Geodesics Under Spherical Wasserstein–Fisher–Rao Metric and Its Application for Weighted Sample Generation, Journal of Scientific Computing, vol. 98 no. 1 (January, 2024) [doi]  [abs]
4. Wang, Z; Zhang, Z; Lu, J; Li, Y, Coordinate Descent Full Configuration Interaction for Excited States., Journal of chemical theory and computation, vol. 19 no. 21 (November, 2023), pp. 7731-7739 [doi]  [abs]
5. Cao, Y; Lu, J; Wang, L, On Explicit L² -Convergence Rate Estimate for Underdamped Langevin Dynamics, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, vol. 247 no. 5 (October, 2023) [doi]  [abs]