Prof. Chen Zhiming.
Prof. Chen Zhiming, a mathematician of the CAS Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science (AMSS), has been invited to make a 45-minute lecture on his work in the field of numerical analysis and scientific computing at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Madrid, in August 2006.
Held every four years, the ICM brings together mathematicians from all over the world to discuss the latest developments in all areas of mathematics. The Fields Medals, which many consider the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in mathematics, are presented at the ICM meetings. An ICM invitation is one of the most significant recognitions of a mathematician's work.
In recent years, Prof. Chen has bee focused on systematic and in-depth studies on adaptive finite element methods for nonlinear partial differential equations and multi-scale computation of flow transport in heterogeneous porous media. Some of his significant achievements in the fields are a posteriori error analysis of elliptic variational inequalities, adaptive finite element methods for nonlinear convection-dominated diffusion equation, adaptive PML technique for electromagnetic scattering problems, and the upscaling of well singularities in the flow transport through heterogeneous porous media.
After receiving his PhD from the Institute of Mathematics, University of Augsburg in Germany in 1992, Prof. Chen joined CAS in 1994. Now he is the principal investigator of a National Basic Research Project on high performance scientific computing, and serves as executive vice director of the AMSS Institute of Computation Mathematics. Some of the awards and honors Prof. Chen received recently include the CAS
Bairen Award (a prestigious prize of CAS to recruit outstanding research professionals ) in 1999, the Outstanding Young Scientist Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2000, and Feng Kang Scientific Computing Prize in 2001.