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About Zhouping Xin
- Zhouping Xin (Chinese: ???; born 13 July 1959) is a Chinese mathematician and the William M.W.
- Mong Professor of Mathematics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- He specializes in partial differential equations. Xin received his Ph.D.
- in mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1988, under the supervision of Joel Smoller.
- Before joining the faculty of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he was a professor at the Courant Institute at New York University.
- He was a Sloan Research Fellow from 1991 to 1993 and an invited speaker at the 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians.
- He has also been affiliated with the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton.In 2004, Xin was awarded the Morningside Gold Medal of Mathematics for his work in nonlinear PDEs.
- Specifically, the award citation cites his proof of "the global existence of solutions of the Prandtl equations" and his "new mathematical framework for the study of transonic shockwave flow in a nozzle."
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