Curriculum Vitae
Yong ZHANG
Wolfgang Pauli Institute
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, Room No. 08.123
1090,Vienna,Austria
Phone : +431 4277 50490
E-mail: sunny5zhang@gmail.com or yong.zhang@univie.ac.at
Personal Information
Born on Aug. 1984 in Hebei Province, P.R. China.
Education Background
• Ph.D. in Mathematics, Tsinghua University, Jul. 2012
- Supervisor: Prof. Weizhu Bao and Prof. Huaiyu Jian
- Thesis Title:
Numerical Methods and Analysis for the Schrödinger-Poisson equation and
Their Applications
• B.S. in Mathematics, Tianjin University, Jul. 2007
Research Interests
• Fast algorithms and their applications
• Computational electromagnetic
• Numerical methods and analysis of differential equations
• Highly oscillatory system
• Bose-Einstein Condensate
Specialties
• Finite difference, finite element, boundary element and spectral method
• Partial differential equation, Fourier analysis
• Matlab, Mathematica, Fortran and C Programming
Visiting Positions
• Visiting student, Mathematics Department, National University of Singapore,
Sep. 2009 – Aug. 2010.
• Visiting student, Wolfgang Pauli Institute, University of Vienna, Austria, Jun.
2010 – Aug. 2010.
• Visiting scholar, Université de Rennes 1 and INRIA-Rennes, Campus de Beaulieu,
April. 2013 – June. 2013, Oct. 2013 – Jan. 2014 .
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• Visiting scholar, New Jersey Institute of Technology, department of Mathematics, 20th Aug. 2013 – 24th Aug. 2013.
• Visiting scholar, Mathematics Department, National University of Singapore,
Mar. 2014 – May. 2014.
• Visiting scholar, Beijing Computational Science Research Center, May. 2014 –
July. 2014.
Working Experiences
• Teaching Assistant in Tsinghua University for :
Calculus (I,II,III), Linear Algebra and Partial Differential Equation (I,II)
• Develop a “Discharge Simulation” application system for the Department of
Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University.
Awards
• The Top National Scholarship, 2004.
• Baosteel Education Foundation Award for outstanding student, 2005.
• Merit Student Honor, 2004 and 2005.
• Tianjin University-Hong Kong friends concerned about the motherland Education Foundation Scholarship, 2006.
• High-Level Graduate Student Scholarship, China Scholarship Council. (Supported to study in National University of Singapore, Sep. 2009-Aug. 2010)
• “Luogeng Hua” Graduate Student Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2011.
Academic Activities
• 1st,Jul. 2009 - 31th,Aug. 2009. A Two-month Program on Mathematical Theory
and Numerical Methods for Computational Materials Simulation and Design, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
• 27th,Mar. 2011, Doctoral Forum of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
(contributed talk and poster)
• 19th, Sep. 2011 - 22th,Sep. 2011, The ninth Annual meeting of Chinese Society
for Computation, Zhengzhou, China. (contributed talk)
• 1st,Nov. 2011 - 20th,Jan. 2012, A three-month program on Multiscale Modeling, Simulation, Analysis and Applications, Institute for Mathematical Sciences,
National University of Singapore.
• 5th,Jan. 2012, 1st SIAM Student Chapter, NUS Symposium on Applied and
Computational Math,Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University
of Singapore. (contributed talk)
• 7th,Jan. 2013, The 8th International Conference on Computational Physics
(ICCP8), Hong Kong Baptist University, HongKong. (contributed talk)
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• 5th,Feb. 2013, Workshop on ”Confined Quantum Systems: Modeling, Analysis and Computation”, Wolfgang Pauli Institute (WPI) Vienna, University of
Vienna. (contributed talk)
• 16th,Aug. – 20th,Aug. 2013, Summer School on Mathematical and Computational Methods in Quantum Dynamics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
• 9th, Apr. 2014, Seminar of Applied and Computational Mathematics, National
University of Singapore, Singapore.
• 22th, May. –24th, May,Workshop on Mathematical and Numerical Methods for
Quantum, Kinetic and Nonlocal Problems, Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing. (contributed talk)
Publications
Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation (NLS)
[1] Y. Zhang and X.C. Dong, On the computation of ground state and dynamics of
Schrödinger-Poisson-Slater system, J. Comput. Phys., 230 (2011), pp. 26602676.
[2] Y. Zhang, Optimal error estimates of compact finite difference discretizations
for the Schrödinger-Poisson system, Commun. Comput. Phys.,13 (2013), pp.
1357-1388.
[3] W.Z. Bao, H.Y. Jian, N.J. Mauser and Y. Zhang, Dimension reduction of the
Schrödinger equation with Coulomb and anisotropic confining potentials, SIAM
J. Appl. Math., 73(6) (2013), pp. 2100-2123.
[4] N.J. Norbert and Y. Zhang, Exact artificial boundary condition for the Poisson equation in the simulation of the 2D Schrödinger-Poisson system, Commun.
Comput. Phys., accepted.
[5] H.P. Stimming and Y. Zhang, Efficient and accurate computation of the DaveyStewartson equation via nonuniform FFT, submitted.
[6] W.Z. Bao, N.J. Mauser, S.D Jiang, Q.L. Tang and Y. Zhang, Efficient and accurate computation of the Schrödinger equation with nonlocal potential in 2D via
NonUniform FFT, in preparation.
[7] W.Z. Bao, S.D Jiang, P.A. Markowich, Q.L. Tang and Y. Zhang, Robust and
efficient numerical methods for computing ground state and dynamics of dipolar
Bose-Einstein condensation, in preparation.
Highly-oscillatory system
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[8] P. Chartier, N. J. Mauser, F. Méhats and Y. Zhang, Solving highly-oscillatory
NLS with SAM: numerical efficiency and geometric properties , submitted.
[9] P. Chartier, F. Méhats, M. Thalhammer and Y. Zhang, Super-convergence of
Strang splitting for NLS in T d , submitted.
Electromagnetic Computation
[10] Li Zhizhao, Wang Zhiyong, Zeng Rong, Zhang Yong, Yu Zhanqing, Research
on Characteristics of Conductor Surface Electric Field Considering Downward
Lightning Leader , 2010 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, April 12-16, 2010, Beijing, China.
[11] Qian Li, Zhanqing Yu, Rong Zeng, Yong Zhang, Zhizhao Li, Chijie Zhuang and
Yongli Liao, Research on Characteristics of Surface Electric Field on Transmission Lines under Lightning Stroke, 7th Asia-Pacific International Conference on
Lightning, November 1-4, 2011, Chengdu, China.
[12] Zhanqing Yu, Qian Li, Rong Zeng, Jinliang He, Yong Zhang, Zhizhao Li, Chijie Zhuang, Yongli Liao, Calculation of surface electric field on UHV transmission lines under lightning stroke, Electric Power Systems Research, (2012),
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2012.05.015 .
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