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Theodore B. Stowell University Professor of Applied Mathematics / Division of Applied Mathematics

E-mail: shu at dam.brown.edu


Academic background

Professor Shu received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, in 1982. In 1986 he received his Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the Mathematics Department of the University of California at Los Angeles with Professor Stanley Osher as his advisor. He then spent a year at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA) in University of Minnesota as a post doctoral fellow. Since 1987 he has been with the Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, as an Assistant Professor (1987-91), Associate Professor (1992-96), Professor (1996- ), Chairman (1999-2005), and Theodore B. Stowell University Professor (2008- ). In 1992 he received the NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award for the pioneering work in Computational Fluid Dynamics as part of the ICASE algorithm team. In 1995 he received the first Feng Kang Prize of Scientific Computing from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since 2004 he has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Mathematics by the ISI Web of Knowledge, Thomson Scientific Company. In 2007 he received the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering (SIAM/ ACM CSE Prize) "for the development of numerical methods that have had a great impact on scientific computing, including TVD temporal discretization, ENO and WENO finite difference schemes, discontinuous Galerkin methods, and spectral methods" (from the prize citation). See SIAM News Article. In 2009 he was selected as one of the first 183 Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Current Research Interests

Professional Affiliations

He is the Chief Editor of the Journal of Scientific Computing, the Co-Chief Editor of Methods and Applications of Analysis, and a member of the editorial boards of Mathematics of Computation, Journal of Computational Mathematics, Communications in Applied Analysis, Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica, Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal, Science in China, Series A, International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly, Communications in Computational Physics, Boletin de la Sociedad Espanola de Matematica Aplicada, Advances in Water Resources, and Journal of Mathematical Research and Exposition, the former Managing Editor of Mathematics of Computation (2002-2012), and a former editor of the SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Chinese Journal of Computational Physics, and Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations. Between 1989 and 2002 he was a consultant at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE), NASA Langley Research Center. He has also been an Overseas Assessor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (since 2001), a Guest Professor (since 1995) and a Changjiang Lectureship Professor (since 2000) of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Science and Technology of China, a Guest Professor of the School of Mathematics of Nankai University in China since 1996, a Guest Professor of Shanghai University in China since 1997, a Guest Professor of Yunnan Polytechnic University in China since 1999, a Guest Professor of the Southeast University in China since 2000, a Guest Professor of the Nanjing Aeronautic and Space University since 2001, and a Guest Professor of Nanjing University since 2005. 

Where to contact Prof. Chi-Wang Shu:


    Professor Chi-Wang Shu
    Division of Applied Mathematics
    Box F
    182 George Street
    Brown University
    Providence RI 02912
    Tel: (401) 863-2549 (work)
    FAX: (401) 863-1355

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