Gang Bao
Professor of Mathematics

Contact Information

• Office: D214 Wells Hall
  
• Phone: 517-432-7743
  
• Fax: 517-432-1562
• Mailing address:
  Department of Mathematics
  Michigan State University
  East Lansing, MI 48824-1027
• Email: bao@math.msu.edu

Upcoming Conferences

• International Conference on Numerical and Applied PDEs, Changchun, China, June 23-28, 2004
• SIAM Great Lakes Section 2005 Spring Meeting, East Lansing, MI, Apri 16, 2005
• Recent Mathematical and Computational Developments of Maxwell's Equations: Challenges and Frontiers, Weihai, China, July 23-28, 2006
• International Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Nano-Optics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, January 5-9, 2007
• MCIAM Workshop on Multiscale Modeling, Analysis, and Simulations, Michigan Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Michigan State University, March 27-28, 2008
• Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Challenges in PDE Eigenvalue Problems, Beijing, China, May 26-28, 2008
• International Conference on Applied Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 1-5, 2008

Research Interests

• Inverse and design problems in partial differential equations
• Diffractive, nonlinear, near-field, and nano optics
• Electromagnetic and acoustic wave propagation
• Applied and numerical analysis
• Applications

Professional Experience

• Director
  Michigan Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (MCIAM), Michigan State University
  (March 2006-present)
• Professor
  Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University
  (August 1999-present)
• Visiting Professor
  Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong
  (May 2002-November 2002)
• Member
  Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), Berkeley
  (October, November 2001)
• Associate Professor
  Department of Mathematics, University of Florida
  (August 1997-August 1999)
• Visiting Professor
  CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique, France
  (April, May 1998)
• Assistant Professor
  Department of Mathematics, University of Florida
  (August 1994-August 1997)
• Research Associate
  Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota
  (September 1992-August 1994)
• Research Associate
  Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University
  (January 1991-August 1992)

Education

• Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Rice University, May 1991
• M.A., Mathematical Sciences, Rice University, May 1990
• B.S., Computational Mathematics, Jilin University, China, July 1985

Awards and Honors:

• Research and Development Award, University of Florida, 1995
• Faculty Bonus Pay Award, University of Florida, 1997.
• Guest Professor, Jilin University, 1998 --; Fudan University, 2002 --.
• Meritorious Performance Award, University of Florida, 1998.
• Cheung Kong Scholar, Li Ka Shing Foundation, Hong Kong, 2001.
• The Feng Kang Prize of Scientific Computing, 2003
• Distinguished Overseas Young Researcher Award, National Science Foundation of China, 2004.
• University Distinguished Faculty Award, Michigan State University, 2007.
• College of Natural Science Distinguished Faculty Award, Michigan State University, 2007.

Selected Research Grants:

• NSF Applied Mathematics Programs (1995-2009)
• NSF Theoretical Foundations Programs (2005-2008)
• NSF US-China Collaboration in Mathematical Research (CMR) Programs (2007-2009)
• NSF Collaboration in Mathematical Geosciences (CMG) Programs (2007-2010)
• NSF University-Industry Cooperative Research Programs (1997-2001)
• NSF US-France Cooperative Research Programs (1999-2002)
• Office of Naval Research (1999-2008)
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2006-2009)
• Intramural Research Grant Program, MSU (2000-2002)
• KLA-Tencor Foundation (2004)
• STTR, Air Force Office on Scientific Research (AFOSR) (2002-2003)

Editorial Boards:

• Multiscale Modeling and Simulation: A SIAM Interdisciplinary Journal (2001 -- 2005)
• International Journal on Numerical Analysis and Modeling (2004 --)
• Selected Publications of Chinese Universities: Mathematics (2004 -- )
• Journal on Information and Computational Science (2004 --)
• Communications in Computational Physics (2005 --)
• Journal of Computational Mathematics (2006 --)

Former PhD Students:

• Tri Van, University of Florida, completed in 1999.
• John Fleming, 2001.
• Kai Huang, 2002.
• Peijun Li, 2005.
• Weiwei Zhang, 2006.
• Ying Li, 2007.

Publication

• Reprints
• Preprints

• Applied Mathematics Seminar:
  • Fall 1999
  • Spring 2000
  • Fall 2000
  • Spring 2001
  • Current

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