Wenxian Shen
Chinese-American mathematician
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Wenxian Shen is a Chinese-American mathematician known for her work in topological dynamics, almost-periodicity, waves and other spatial patterns in dynamical systems. She is Don Logan Chair of Mathematics at Auburn University.[1]
Beijing University (MS, 1987)
Wenxian Shen | |
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| Education | Georgia Institute of Technology (PhD, 1992) Beijing University (MS, 1987) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Auburn University |
| Thesis | Stability and Bifurcation of Traveling Wave Solutions (1992) |
Academic advisors | Shui-Nee Chow |
| Website | https://webhome.auburn.edu/~wenxish/ |
Education
Shen graduated from Zhejiang Normal University in 1982, and earned a master's degree at Peking University in 1987.[2] She completed a Ph.D. in mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1992, with the dissertation Stability and Bifurcation of Traveling Wave Solutions supervised by Shui-Nee Chow.[3]
Books
Shen is the coauthor of two monographs, Almost Automorphic and Almost Periodic Dynamics in Skew-Product Semiflows (with Yingfei Yi, American Mathematical Society, 1998),[4] and Spectral Theory for Random and Nonautonomous Parabolic Equations and Applications (with Janusz Mierczyński, CRC Press, 2008).[5]