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Guowei
Professor of
Professor of
Affiliate member:
Contact information:
Department
Michigan State University
D301 Wells Hall
East Lansing,
Phone: 517 353 4689
Fax: 517 432 1562
Weiatmath.msu.edu
Research Interests:
- Mathematical molecular biosciences; Mathematical biophysics; Variational multiscale models; Ion channel transport; Proton transport; PDE modeling of biomolecular surfaces; Virus capsid modeling.
- Bioimaging; Geometric flow approaches to images and surfaces; PDE transform; Image edge analysis by coupled PDEs; Bioluminescence tomography.
- High order interface methods; Matched interface and boundary (MIB); Multidomain interface problems.
- Modeling and computation of nano-electronic devices; Nanofluidic systems; Nano-bio sensors.
- Quantum kinetic theory; Transport theory; Quantum Boltzmann equation.
- Wavelet and local spectral methods for PDEs; Computational electromagnetics; Computational fluid dynamics; Richtmyer-Meshkov instability; Structural analysis.
- Dynamical systems; Controlling chaos ; Controlling turbulence; Controlling pattern formation.
Publication (h-index 32 and over 3000 citations):
- Mathematical molecular biosciences
- Analysis of signals, images, surfaces and data
- Matched interface and boundary (MIB)
- Controlling chaos, turbulence and
pattern formation
- Scientific and engineering
computations
- Quantum kinetic theory & quantum scattering theory
- Nano and material sciences
- COMPLETE LIST
Invited lectures:
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University of Oxford, September 6, 2011 (Variational multiscale models
for ion channel transport)
Software packages:
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MIBPB
(Software package for the estimation of
electrostatic properties of biomolecules)
o MIBPNP (Software package for charge transport in nano-bio systems, in progress)
o DGS (Differential geometry based solvation analysis, in progress)
o QDC (Quantum dynamics in continuum models for proton transport, in progress)
Founding Editor:
Honorary editor/Associate editor/Editorial board:
- International Journal of Biomedical Imaging (Since 2005)
- Advances in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Since 2007)
- Communications for Numerical Methods in Engineering (2008-2010)
- International Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Since 2009)
- International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering (Since 2010)
- International Journal of
Modern Nonlinear Theory and Application (Since 2012)
Research grants:
- NSF (DMS, CCF (FODAVA), IIS)
- NIH (R01GM, R21CA)
- MSU (CDFP, IRGP)
Teaching:
- Fall 2011: MTH994-1: Mathematical modeling of human sensory systems I: Fundamentals of human sensory systems (TuTh, 10:00-12:00noon A517WH)
- Spring 2012: MTH994-2: Mathematical modeling of human sensory systems II: Mathematical models of human sensory systems (TuTh, 10:00-12:00noon A517WH)
Students and
- 7 PhD candidates, including 2 visiting students, are currently in my group
- Graduated 11 PhD students
- Graduated 7 master students
- Supported 14 postdoctoral associates
Some recent
- Congratulations to Siyang
Yang for getting a tenure-track Assistant Professor job
at the City University of Hong Kong!
- Zhan Chen, Postdoc, University of Minnesota (PhD 2011)
- Duan Chen, Postdoc, MBI, Ohio State University (PhD 2010)
- Weihua Geng, Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of Alabama (PhD 2008)
- Yuhui Sun, Analyst (first job), Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, IN (Ph.D. 2007)
- Sining Yu, Structured transaction analyst (first job), International Power America (PhD 2007)
- Yongcheng Zhou, Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Colorado State University (PhD 2006)
- Yibao Zhao, Lecturer,
- Shan
Zhao, Associate Professor,
- Zujun Hou, Research Scientist, Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (Ph.D. 2003)
- Shuguang Guan, Professor, East China Normal University (Ph.D. 2002).
- Meng Zhan, One-hundred-talent-plan Professor, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Postdoc, 2001-2002)
- Zhenhai Shao, Project leader, Cubic Micro Design, Singapore (Postdoc, 2000-2001)
- Baofeng Feng, Associate
Professor,
- Prasad
Patnaik, Associate Professor, Indian Institute
of Technology,
- Decheng Wan, Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (Postdoc, 1999-2001)
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Positions available:
- Graduate Studentship (Join us if you want to become a professor in a US major research university.)
- Postdoctoral Associate (Offer to candidates who are trained on mathematical molecular biosciences.)
Mathematical
- Fall 2010
- Spring 2010
Recent/upcoming conferences:
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NSF/DHS
annual FODAVA Review, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, December 8-9, 2011.
- Mathematical
Modelling of Ion Channels, University of
Oxford, UK, September 5-6, 2011.
- 2nd Midwest
Conference on Mathematical Methods for Images and Surfaces, Lansing,
August 27-28, 2011.
- 2011
Telluride Ion Channel Biophysics Workshop, Telluride Intermediate
School, Telluride, Colorado, August 8-12, 2011.
- 2011 International Conference on
Applied Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Research, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, June 13-15, 2011.
- Modeling
and computation of biomolecular structure and
dynamics, Mathematical Bioscience Institute, Columbus, April 25-29,
2011.
- Modeling and Numerical PDEs in Mathematical Biology and Applications, Oakland University, Michigan, April 16, 2011.
- Modeling electrostatics in molecular
biology: Computational methods for solving the Poisson-Boltzmann equation
and further development of DelPhi, Clemson University, Clemson,
SC, April 4-6, 2011.
- 2nd International Conference on Computational & Mathematical Biomedical Engineering George Mason University, Washington D.C., USA, March 30-April 1, 2011.
- Second Africa Conference on
Computational Mechanics, Cape
Town, South Africa, January
5-8, 2011.
- NSF/DHS annual FODAVA Review, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, December 9-10, 2010.
- Workshop on Nano-Bio Mathematics and Mechanics,
East Lansing, August 5, 2010.
- 2010 Annual Meeting of The Society of Mathematical
Biology, Rio de Janerio, Brazil, July 26 - July
29, 2010
- 2010 NIMS Summer School on Stochastic/Multiscale methods and their applications, Soongsil University, South Korea, June 17-25, 2010.
- Frontiers in Mathematical Biology: NSF-NIH PIs
Meeting 2010, University of Maryland, College Park, MD April 26-27, 2010
- 2010 SIAM conference, great
lake section, U of Michigan-Dearborn, April 17, 2010
- Southwest Conference on Integrated
Mathematical Methods in Medical Imaging, Arizona State University,
Tempe, February 6 - 7, 2010
- International
Conference on Advances in Scientific Computing, Brown
University, December 6-8,
2009
- NSF/DHS annual FODAVA Review, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, December 3-4, 2009
- Workshop on Nano-Bio Mathematics, East
Lansing, August 4, 2009.
- Annual Meeting of The Society for Mathematical Biology, Canada, July 27-30, 2009
- 1st International Conference
on Computational & Mathematical Biomedical Engineering, Swansea,
UK, June 29 -July 1, 2009
- Midwest Conference
on Mathematical Methods for Images and Surfaces, Lansing, April 18-19,
2009
- 1St African
Conference on Computational Mechanics, Sun City, South Africa, January
1-11, 2009
- IMA
Workshop: Solvation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, December 8--12, 2008
- Third National Conference
on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. Wuhan, China, Oct. 6-9, 2008
- 40th
Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, June 26-28, 2008
- IMA
Workshop: Protein Folding, Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 14--18,
2008
- Multiscale approaches in cell mechanics, Autrans (38), Vercors,
France, January 7-10, 2008
- MSU-UM Math-Biology Day, Dec. 1, 2007
- IMA Workshop: RNA in Biology, Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 10/29-11/2, 2007
- Second International Conference on Recent Advances in Applied Dynamical Systems, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China June 4-8, 2007
- Symposium on Physical Biology, Wuhan Center for Physical Biology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, May 27 – May 28, 2007.
- Symposium on the Spectroscopy and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Science, Wuhan, China, May 25 - May 27, 2007
- MSU-UM Math-Biology Day, Ann Arbor, Dec. 2, 2006
- Midwest
Quantitative Biology Conference, Mackinac Island,
Michigan, Sept 29-Oct. 1, 2006