Faculty Profile

Fang-Hua Lin

Silver Professor of Mathematics

linf@cims.nyu.edu

Warren Weaver Hall, Office 717

http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/linf

Education

Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Minnesota, USA, 1985.

B.S., Mathematics, Zhejiang University, China, 1981.

Research Interests

My research interests are in nonlinear partial differential equations, geometric measure theory and geometric & applied analysis. Recent research is concentrated mainly on geometric variational problems, theories of liquid crystal and homogenization.

Selected Publications

Lin, Fanghua; Shen, Zhongwei, "Uniform boundary controllability and homogenization of wave equations.", J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 24 (2022), no. 9, 3031–3053.

Fei, Mingwen; Lin, Fanghua; Wang, Wei; Zhang, Zhifei, "Matrix-valued Allen-Cahn equation and the Keller-Rubinstein-Sternberg problem.", Invent. Math. 233 (2023), no. 1, 1-80.

Lin, Fanghua; Wang, Changyou, "Isotropic-nematic phase transition and liquid crystal droplets.", Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 76 (2023), no. 9, 1728-1792.

Lin, Fanghua; Shen, Zhongwei, "Critical sets of solutions of elliptic equations in periodic homogenization.", Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 77 (2024), no. 7, 3143-3183.