Lin Fanghua

Lin Fanghua , also sometimes written as "Fang-Hua Lin", 1959-, is a Chinese-born American mathematician. He's currently a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He continues the tradition of applying tough analysis to nonlinear systems and is a world leader in this domain .

Biography

Born in 1959 in Zhenhai County , Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, he graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Zhejiang University in 1981. Lin went to USA to pursue his further study in the Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, and obtained his PhD in 1985. From Sept. 1985 to Aug. 1988, he was an instructor at Courant Institute, New York University. Then he went to the University of Chicago, becoming a full-time professor there from Aug. 1988 till Aug.

In September 1989, he started his professorship at New York University. He was then awarded the Silver Professorship, Department of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.

Lin did important work in Ginzburg–Landau theory.

Awards and honors

1989–1991, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
1989–1994, Presidential Young Investigator
1999, Ordway Chair Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota
2002, B?cher Memorial Prize, by American Mathematical Society
2004,
2005, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences