Wei-Ming Ni

Wei-Ming Ni
倪維明
Born	倪維明 (1950-12-23) December 23, 1950 Taiwan
Citizenship	Taiwan
Scientific career
Institutions	The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Thesis	Some Minimax Principles with Applications in Nonlinear Elliptic Boundary Value Problems and Global Vortex Flow  (1979)
Doctoral advisor	Louis Nirenberg

Wei-Ming Ni (Chinese: 倪維明(倪维明); born 23 December 1950) is a Taiwanese mathematician. He is a Presidential Chair Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen and a professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota. He was previously the director of the Center for PDE at the East China Normal University.

Education and career

Ni works in the field of elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations. He graduated from National Taiwan University with a B.S. in mathematics in 1972 and earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from New York University in 1979 under Louis Nirenberg.

Ni is an editor-in-chief of the Journal of Differential Equations, and was an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in 2002. As said by the journal Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems:

[Ni] first became a household name in the PDE community when he published with Gidas and Nirenberg the seminal paper in 1979, “On the symmetry of positive solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations” [...] The research and expository work of Professor Ni has influenced the research directions and activities of a large number of mathematicians, many of whom are playing important roles in the field of partial differential equations today.

Major publications

• Gidas, B.; Ni, Wei Ming; Nirenberg, L. Symmetry and related properties via the maximum principle. Comm. Math. Phys. 68 (1979), no. 3, 209–243.
• Gidas, B.; Ni, Wei Ming; Nirenberg, L. Symmetry of positive solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations in ℝⁿ. Mathematical analysis and applications, Part A, pp. 369–402, Adv. in Math. Suppl. Stud., 7a, Academic Press, New York-London, 1981.
• Lin, C.-S.; Ni, W.-M.; Takagi, I. Large amplitude stationary solutions to a chemotaxis system. J. Differential Equations 72 (1988), no. 1, 1–27.
• Ni, Wei-Ming; Takagi, Izumi. On the shape of least-energy solutions to a semilinear Neumann problem. Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 44 (1991), no. 7, 819–851.
• Lou, Yuan; Ni, Wei-Ming. Diffusion, self-diffusion and cross-diffusion. J. Differential Equations 131 (1996), no. 1, 79–131.
• Ni, Wei-Ming. Diffusion, cross-diffusion, and their spike-layer steady states. Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (1998), no. 1, 9–18.

External links

• Wei-Ming Ni publications indexed by Google Scholar