Xiaolin Li Associate Professor Address Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics Math Tower 1-119 Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-3600 Phone: (631) 632-8353 Fax: (631) 632-8490 Email: linli@ams.stonybrook.edu Education Ph. D. in Scientific Computing, Columbia University, NY 1987 M.S. in Applied Physics, Columbia University, NY 1985 B. S. in Physics, Wuhan University, China, 1982 Previous Appointments Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis Department of Computer Science, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis Mathematics Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University Past and Present Research Interests Plasma and Fluid Physics Hyperbolic PDE and Conservation Law Numerical Analysis Linear and Nonlinear Waves Front Tracking and Level Set Methods Computational Geometry Courses Taught AMS 151/261/361: Calculus I-III AMS 210: Linear Algebra AMS 315: Database Management System AMS 361: Boundary Value Problem AMS 520: Differential Equations AMS 526/527/528: Numerical Analysis I-III AMS 540: Linear Programming AMS 547: Discrete Mathematics  AMS 565: Linear and Nonlinear Waves AMS 595: Computer Network Publications/Patents 20 Articles in Journals 8 Articles in Book Chapters 10 Articles in Conference Proceedings 2 Scientific Software 1 Industrial Software