Chi-Wang Shu

Chi-Wang Shu
Born	January 1, 1957 (1957-01-01) (age 54)
Nationality	American
Fields	Applied Mathematics
Institutions	Brown University
Alma mater	University of Science and Technology of China (B.S., 1982) University of California at Los Angeles (Ph.D., 1986)
Doctoral advisor	Stanley Osher
Known for	TVD temporal discretization ENO and WENO schemes Discontinuous Galerkin method
Notable awards	Feng Kang Prize of Scientific Computing (1995)

Chi-Wang Shu (Chinese: 舒其望, born 1 January 1957) is the Theodore B. Stowell University Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Brown University.^[1] He is known for his research work in the fields of computational fluid dynamics, Numerical solutions of conservation laws and Hamilton–Jacobi type equations. Shu has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Mathematics by the ISI Web of Knowledge, Thomson Scientific Company.^[2]

Career

Shu received B.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, in 1982 and Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1986. His Ph.D. thesis advisor was Stanley Osher.

Shu started his academic career in 1987 as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. He has been an Associate Professor during 1992-96 and became Full Professor in 1996. He is currently the Theodore B. Stowell University Professor. In 2009 he was selected as one of the first 183 Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Honors and awards

• SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering (SIAM/ACM CSE Prize), 2007. He received the prize "for the development of numerical methods that have had a great impact on scientific computing, including TVD temporal discretizations, ENO and WENO finite difference schemes, discontinuous Galerkin methods, and spectral methods."^[3]
• Feng Kang Prize of Scientific Computing by Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1995
• NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award for Pioneering Work in Computational Fluid Dynamics by NASA Langley Research Center, 1992

References

1. ^ Chi-Wang Shu at Brown University
2. ^ ISI Highly Cited Author - C.-W. Shu
3. ^ "Chi-Wang Shu Wins Prestigious CS&E Prize". SIAM. 2007-03-01. http://www.siam.org/publicawareness/panews.php?id=1071. Retrieved 2009-11-02. 

External links

• Chi-Wang Shu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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