Welcome to Changyou Wang's homepage
Position
Education
Contact Informations
Department of Mathematics
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0027
Phone: (859) 257-4734
Fax: (859) 257-4078
Email: cywang@ms.uky.edu
Office: 771 POT.
Research Interests
- Partial Differential Equations
- Calculus of Variations
- Geometrical Analysis
- Application of Geometry Measure Theory
Honors and Awards
- Alfred P. Sloan Dissertation Fellowship, 1995-1996.
- American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowship, 1999-2000.
- IMA New Directions Research Professorship, 2009-2010.
- Simons Fellowship in Mathematics, 2012-2013.
Grant Supports
- NSF DMS 1265574, July 1, 2013-June 30, 2016.
- NSF DMS 1001115, August 1, 2010-July, 31, 2013.
- NSF DMS 0601162, July 1, 2006-June 30, 2010.
- NSF-NSFC CMR 0819742, July, 1 2008-June 30, 2011.
- NSF DMS 0400718, July 1, 2004-June 30 2007.
- NSF DMS 9972043, August 1, 1999-July 31, 2002 (Co-PI, R. Jensen and N. Barron=PI).
- NSF DMS 9970549, August 1, 1999-July 31, 2002.
- NSF DMS 9706855, August 1, 1997-July 31, 1999.
Publications
Professional Services
Some recent conferences
- 63th Midwest PDE seminar, November 7-8, 2009, Purdue University.
- Iowa PDE workshop, April 30-May 2, 2010, University of Iowa.
- International Conference on Geometric Nonlinear PDEs, June 14-18, 2010,
Beijing International Center for Mathematics Research, Beijing, China.
- Mini-workshop on Geometric Analysis, June 23-24, 2010, University of Warwick, England.
- Workshop on Geometric Analysis, July 5-9, 2010, East China Normal University, Shanghai, P.R. China.
- The Second Oklahoma PDE Workshop,
October 9-10, 2010, University of Oklahoma.
- International Conference on Partial Differential Equations in Fluid Mechanics and Material Sciences,
Jan. 8-10, 2011, South China Normal Univ., Guangzhou, P.R. China.
Previous and Incoming Conferences
Teaching Schedule
Spring 2012
Fall 2011
- MA 773, Selected Topics in Analysis
Spring 2011
- MA 114, Calculus II
- MA 633, Partial Differential Equations II
Fall 2010
- MA 113, Calculus I
- MA 533, Partial Differential Equation
Fall 2009-Spring 2010
- On scholarly leave: visit IMA from September 2009 to June 2010
Spring 2009
- MA214, Calculus IV
- MA 773, Introduction to Geometric Measure Theory
Spring 2007
- MA214, Calculus IV
- MA641G, Differential Geometry
Fall 2007
- MA213, Calculus III
- MA575, Principle of Mathematical Analysis
Spring 2008
- MA114, Calculus II
- MA 676, Analysis I
Fall 2008
- MA 213, Calculus III
- MA 677, Analysis II
Previous analysis/pde seminar
Previous Publications(Partially supported by NSF grants):
Recent Publications
(The research
reported in the following papers is supported by NSF grants
DMS 0400718, DMS 0601162, DMS 1001115)
- Stable stationary harmonic maps into spheres.
Acta Math. Sinica (Engl. Ser.) 22 (2006), no. 2, 319-330
(with FangHua Lin). pdf file.
- On Landau-Lifshitz equation in dimensions at most four.
Indiana Univ. Math. J. Vol. 55, no.6 (2006) 1615-1644.
dvi file.
- Generalized cone comparison principle for viscosity solutions of
the Aronsson equation and absolute minimizers. Comm. P.D.E. V. 31, No.
7 (2006) 1027-1046 (with R. Gariepy, Y. Yu). dvi file
.
- The Aronsson equation for absolute minimizers of $L^\infty$
functionals associated with vector fields satisfying H\"ormander's
conditions. Trans. AMS. 359 (2007), 91-113.
dvi file.
- Heat flow of biharmonic maps in dimension four and its
application. Pure and Applied Math. Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 2 (2007)
595-613 (Special issue: In honor of L. Simon, Part 1 of 2). pdf file.
- Finite time singularity of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation.
Int. Math. Reas. Notices, Vol. 2007 (with Shijin Ding). pdf file
- Asymptotic behavior of infinity harmonic functions near an
isolated singularity. Int. Math.
Reas. Notices, Vol. 2008, article ID rnm163, 23 pages (with O. Savin,
Y. Yu). pdf file .
- Heat flow of harmonic maps whose gradients belong to
$L^n_xL^\infty_t$. Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 188 (2008), 309-349.
pdf file
- Harmonic maps from manifolds of $L^\infty$-Riemannian metrics.
Calc. Var. & PDE (2008), Vol 32, 387-405 (with W. Ishizuka). pdf
file .
- $C^1$-regularity of the Aronsson equation in $\R^2$,
Annales I'Institut H. Poincar\'e- Analyse non lin\'eaire, 25 (2008) 659-678
(with Y. Yu). dvi file .
- Uniqueness and nonuniqueness of viscosity solutions to Aronsson's
equation. Arch. Ration Mech. Anal. (with
R. Jensen, Y. Yu), Vol. 190, no. 2 (2008) 347-370. pdf file .
- Derivation of the Aronsson equation for C-1 Hamiltonians.
Trans. AMS 361 (2009) 103-124(with M. Crandall, Y. Yu). pdf file .
- Aronsson's equation on Carnot-Carath\'eodory spaces.
Illinois Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 52, No. 3, Fall 2008, 757-772 (with Y. Yu). pdf
file .
- Boundary regularity for polyharmonic maps in the critical dimension.
Advances in Calculus of Variations 2, 2009, No. 1, 1-16(with T. Lamm).
pdf file .
- Regularity of Dirac-harmonic maps.
Int. Math. Reas. Notices, 2009, no. 20, 3759-3792 (with D. L. Xu).
pdf file .
- Landau-Lifshitz-Maxwell equation in dimension three.
Pacific J. Math., Vol. 243, No. 2, 2009, 243-276(with S.J. Ding, X.G. Liu).
pdf file .
- Liquid crystall flows in two dimensions.
Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 197 (2010) 297-336 (with F. H. Lin, J. Y. Lin)
pdf file .
- Notes on the regularity of harmonic map systems.
Proceedings of American Mathematical Society, 138 (2010) no. 6, 2015-2023 (with T. Huang)
pdf file .
- A Remark on Nonlinear Dirac Equations.
Proceedings of American Mathematical Society, 138 (2010), 3753-3758.
pdf file .
- Weak solution to compressible hydrodynamic flow of liquid crystals in 1D.
DCDS-B,15 (2011), no. 2, 357–371(with S. J. Ding, Y. H. Wen).
pdf file .
- Well-posedness for the heat flow of harmonic maps and the liquid crystal flow with rough initial data.
Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 200 (2011), no. 1, 1–19. pdf file .
- On the uniqueness of heat flow of harmonic maps and hydrodynamic flow of nematic liquid crystals.
Chinese Annals of Mathematics, Ser. B 31 (2010), no. 6, 921–938(with F. H. Lin). pdf file .
- Well-posedness for the heat flow of polyharmonic maps with rough initial data.
Advances in Calculus of Variations, 4 (2011), no. 2, 175–193. (with T. Huang).
pdf file .
- On the heat flow of equation of surfaces of constant mean curvature.
Manuscripta Math., 134 (2011), no. 1-2, 259–271 (with T. Huang, Z. Tan). pdf file .
- Well-posedness for the heat flow of biharmonic maps with rough initial data.
J. Geom. Anal., 22 (2012), no. 1, 223–243. pdf file .
- Compressible hydrodynamic flow of liquid crystals in 1D.
DCDS-A, 32 (2012), no. 2, 539–563(with S. J. Ding, J. Y. Lin, Y. H. Wen). pdf file .
- Phase transitions for potentials of high dimensional wells.
CPAM, 65 (2012), no. 6, 833–888 (with F. Lin, and X. Pan). pdf file .
- Strong solutions of the compressible nematic liquid crystal flow.
JDE, 252 (2012), no. 3, 2222–2265 (with T. Huang, H. Y. Wen). pdf file .
- Boundary regularity of stationary biharmonic maps. CVPDE, 45 (2012), no. 1-2, 165–191
(with Huajun Gong, Tobias Lamm). pdf file .
- Blow up criterion for compressible nematic liquid crystal flows in dimension three.
ARMA, 204 (2012), no. 1, 285–311(with T. Huang, H. Y. Wen). pdf file .
- Blow up criterion for nematic liquid crystal flows,
CPDE, 37 (2012), no. 5, 875–884 (with T. Huang). pdf file .
- Energy identity for a class of approximate biharmonic maps into sphere in dimension four, DCDS-A, 33 (2013), no. 2, 861–878
(with Shenzhou Zheng).arXiv:1110.6536 pdf file .
- Energy identity for approximate biharmonic maps to Riemannian manifolds and its application, Journal of Functional Analysis, 263 (2012), no. 4, 960–987
(with Shenzhou Zheng). arXiv:1112.6362 pdf file .
- $C^1$-boundary regularity of planar infinity harmonic functions, Math. Res. Lett., 19 (2012), no. 4, 823–835(with Yifeng Yu).
pdf file .
- Well-posedness of nematic liquid crystal flow in
$L^3_uloc(R^3)$, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal, to appear (with J. Hineman) pdf file .
- Harmonic maps on domains with piecewise Lipschitz continuous metrics. Pacific J. Math., to appear
(with Haigang Li). pdf file .
Preprints
- On uniqueness of heat flow of harmonic maps (with T. Huang).
pdf file .
- Regularity and uniqueness of the heat flow of biharmonic maps (with J. Hineman, T. Huang). pdf file .
- Partial regularity of suitable weak solutions to the liquid crystal flow in three dimensions.
In preparation (with F. H. Lin).
- Boundary regularity for a new class of minimizing harmonic maps. In preparation (with F. H. Lin).
Monography
- The Analysis of Harmonic Maps and Their Heat Flows, 267 pages
(with F. H. Lin), by World Scientific Publisher Inc, ISBN-109812779523.
- An Introduction of Infinity Harmonic Functions.
Preprint, 2008. pdf file .
- An open question on regularity of Aronsson's equation.
Communications in Mathematical Analysis, Proceeding of the 2006 Midwest Geometry
Conference, pp. 80-83 (2008), edited by E. B. Lin, W. Wei.
pdf file