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Xu-Jia Wang (Chinese: 汪徐家; born September 1963) is a Chinese-Australian mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Australian National University and a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
Biography
Wang was born in Chun'an County, Zhejiang province, China. Wang obtained his B.S. in 1983 and his Ph.D. in 1990 from the Department of Mathematics of Zhejiang University (ZJU) in Hangzhou.
After completing his PhD, Wang served as lecturer and associate professor, at ZJU before departing for ANU In 1995. Wang is a Professor in the Centre for Mathematics and its Applications and Mathematical Sciences Institute of Australian National University.
Wang is well known for his work on differential equations, especially non-linear partial differential equations and their geometrical and transportational applications.
Honors and awards
- Australian Mathematical Society Medal (2002)
- invited speaker, 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians
- Morningside Gold Medal of Mathematics, 2007
- Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (2009).
- Australian Laureate Fellowship (2013)
Publications (selected)
- “Convex solutions to the mean curvature flow”, Ann. of Math. 173 (2011), 1185-1239.
- (with Aram Karakhanyan) “On the reflector shape design”, J. Differential Geom. 84 (2010), no. 3, 561-610.
- (with Guji Tian) “Moser-Trudinger type inequalities for the Hessian equation”, J. Funct. Analysis 259 (2010), no. 8, 1974-2002.
- (with Kai-Seng Chou) “The Lp-Minkowski problem and the Minkowski problem in centroaffine geometry”, Adv. Math. 205 (2006), 33-83.
- “Schauder estimates for elliptic and parabolic equations”, Chin. Ann. Math. Ser. B 27(2006), no. 6, 637-642.
- (with Neil Trudinger) “The affine Plateau problem”, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 18 (2005), no. 2, 253-289.
- (with Neil Trudinger, Xi-Nan Ma) 2005, “Regularity of Potential Functions of the Optimal Transportation Problem”, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 177 (2005), 151-183.
- (with Xiaohua Zhu) “Kähler-Ricci solitons on toric manifolds with positive first Chern class”, Adv. Math. 188 (2004), 87-103.