Lei Wang

  • Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
  • AMCS Undergraduate Program Coordinator, Mathematical Sciences

Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, Argonne National Laboratory, Laboratory for Advanced Numerical Simulations
  • PhD, Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2010
  • MS, Computational Mathematics, Zhejiang University, 2004
  • BS, Computational Mathematics, Zhejiang University, 2001

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
MATH 213-004 Calculus with Life Sciences Applications TR 2:30pm-4:20pm
MATH 322-001 Introduction to Partial Differential Equations TR 10am-11:15am
MATH 322G-001 Introduction to Partial Differential Equations TR 10am-11:15am

Research Interests

  • Numerical methods for nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs)
  • Fast summation algorithms, mesh-free methods
  • Mathematical applications in materials science, geophysical science, fluid dynamics, statistics, and machine learning

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