Qinglan
Xia
Personal
- Citizenship:
China, U.S. permanent resident
- Address:
Department of Mathematics,University of California at Davis,
Davis, CA, 95616
- Phone:
1-530-752-1084, Fax: 1-530-752-6635
- E-mail:
qlxia@math.ucdavis.edu
- Webpage:
http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~qlxia
Research Interests
- Geometric
measure theory and its application.
- Optimal
mass transport problems
- Mathematical
Biology
- Geometric
variational problems in singular spaces.
Employment
- Tenure-track
Assistant Professor at University of California at Davis, Department of
Mathematics. July 2005~present.
- Visiting Assistant Professor at Rice University, Department of Mathematics, January 2010~March 2010.
- Instructor
at University of Texas at Austin, Department
of Mathematics, 2002~2005.
Education
- Rice University, Houston, Texas,
1997-2002.
- Ph.D. in
Mathematics, May 2002
- Thesis Title: Variational
Problems in Intersection Homology Theory and Optimal Transport
- Thesis Advisor: Professor Robert Hardt
- University
of
Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, 1994-1997
- Master of Science in Mathematics, July
1997
- Anhui Normal
University, Wuhu, Anhui, China,
1990-1994
- Bachelor of
Science in Mathematics Education, July 1994
Awards and Grants
- National
Science Foundation Grant: DMS-0710714, 2007-2011.
- National
Science Foundation Grant: DMS-0607107, 2006-2007.
- National
Science Foundation Grant: DMS-0306686,
2003~2005.
- Graduate
fellowships, Rice University, 1997-2002
- Graduate
fellowships, USTC, 1994-1997
- Guanghua
Scholarship, USTC, 1996
- Several
undergraduate scholarships, Anhui Normal University,1990-1994
Refereeing
- Journals:
- Duke Mathematical
Journal
- Journal of the European Mathematical Society
- SIAM
Journal on Optimization
- SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
- Rendiconti del
Seminario di Padova
- Communications in Math Sciences.
- Foundations of Computational Mathematics
- Interfaces and Free Boundaries
Event Organized:
- AMS
special session in San Francisco, CA, April 29~30,
2006. (with Steve Schkoller).
Students
- Master degree (completed): Shaofeng Xu; 2009.
- REU students: Rajanpreet Kaur; Yunrui Cai; Douglas Unger. Summer
2007-2008.
- Teaching mentor for first-time Associate Instructors: Eunghyun Lee; Jing Xia; Mohamed Omar; Qiang Wang.
University Service
- 2009-2010
- Summer and Fall 2009, AI Mentor Committee
- Fall 2009, Memeber - Computer Committee
- Reviewer
for the department
- Evaluating new graduate student applications from China
- Ph.D Qualify Exam Committee: Jia-Ming (Frank) Liou, Mihaela Ifrim and Dustin Mayeda from Math. Enyang Xu from ECE.
- 2008-2009
- Fall
2008, Organizer - Applied Math and PDE Seminar
- Reviewer
for the department
- Evaluating new graduate student applications from China
- Oral
Qualify Exam Committee: Jia Ye from ECE.
- 2007-2008
- Fall
2007 and Winter 2008, Organizer - PDE Seminar
- Review Travel Award
applications - Graduate Council Support and Welfare Committee
- Reviewer
for the campus -
the 2008-09 Graduate Student Internal Fellowship Competition
- Reviewer
for the department
- Evaluating new graduate student applications from China
- Oral
Qualify Exam Committee: He Huang from ECE.
- 2006-2007
- Committee
on "Undergraduate
Mathematics Competition".
- 2005-2006
- Spring
2006, Organizer - PDE
Seminar