In 2022, the Zu Chongzhi Center for Mathematics and Computational Sciences called for proposals for Mathematics and Computation-related research activities for the AY 2022 – 2023. Now we are pleased to announce that the Zu Chongzhi Center will fund four proposals submitted by Prof. Dang Xing Chen, Prof. Pengzhan Guo, Prof. Marcus Werner, and Prof. Shixin Xu.
Prof. Dang Xing Chen’s project concerns the development of computational skills. Undergraduate teaching assistants will be hired to lead coding recitations to assist students who do not have prior coding experience. Exercises will include both artificial and real-world problems with a focus on quantitative finance, stochastic processes, and numerical analysis problems.
Prof. Pengzhan Guo’s grant will support his research on long-term customizable career path recommendation (CPR). He aims at building an objective function that is capable of delivering personalized long-term career plans and developing efficient and effective searching algorithms to achieve the optimal solution of CPR based on simulated annealing and machine learning techniques.
Prof. Marcus Werner’s grant will be used to organize a Focus Day on Gravitational Waves (GW), to introduce and attract students to the interdisciplinary science of GW. The Focus Day will consist of lectures to introduce GW science and the differential geometry underlying it, and research talks by external experts on a variety of GW-related topics both from China and abroad.
Finally, Prof. Shixin Xu’s grant will support his research project on Simulation of Moving Contact Lines and Mass Transportation in Three Dimensions. He aims at simulating the contact line dynamics in three dimensions and developing a phase field model for mass transport with semi-permeable interfaces in three dimensions. A DKU undergraduate student will be involved in this project.
Launched in 2019, the Zu Chongzhi Center for Mathematics and Computational Sciences is committed to become a world-renowned focal point of disciplinary and interdisciplinary research in Mathematics and Computational Sciences with an emphasis on the intersection of applied mathematics and computational methods. The Center strengthens and cultivates innovation in teaching key courses on mathematics and computational sciences at DKU, and provides research opportunities and mentoring to both undergraduate and graduate students.
