HONG ZHOU'S CURRICULUM VITAE


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    Present Position:

    Visiting Assistant Professor
    Department of Mathematics
    University of California
    Santa Cruz, CA 95064

    Major Fields:
      Liquid Crystal Polymers; Optical glass fibers; Computational Fluid Dynamics
    Education:
      Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, May 1996;
      Thesis Advisor: Professor Alexandre J. Chorin
      Bachelor of Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China, 1990.

    Experience:
      July 1999 - present:
      Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, UC Santa Cruz

      July 1996 - June 1999:
      Research Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, UNC Chapel Hill
      Teach math 32 (Calculus), math 166 (numerical analysis), math 129 (advanced mathematical physics) and math 147 (matrix theory). Work on modeling fiber spinning process of thermotropic liquid crystals, unsteady optical glass fiber drawing process, and weakly compressible flows.

      January 1994-May 1996:
      Graduate Student Research Assistant, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
      Studied various numerical methods for thin vortex filaments with applicaitons on superfluid vortices. Ran the LBL Math. Dept. advanced seminar.

      February 1991 - December 1993:
      Graduate Student Instructor, Mathematics Department, UC Berkeley
      Assited in the teaching of calculus, numerical analysis, and linear algebra. Won the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award for 1993-1994 .

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