Baisheng Yan
Professor of Mathematics

Contact Information

§  Mailing Address:

 

Department of Mathematics
Michigan State University

D308 Wells Hall

619 Red Cedar Road
East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

 

§  E-mail: yan@math.msu.edu

§  Office Phone: (517) 353-9692          

§  Department Fax: (517) 432-1562

Educational Background

v  1980 - 1986: Jilin University, Changchun, China
Degree: B.Sc. of Mathematics, July 1984

v  1986 - 1993: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Degree: Ph.D. of Mathematics, June 1993

Professional Experience

Ø  July 2008 – present: Professor
Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University

Ø  April – July 2012; July, August 2011: Tang Ao-Qing Visiting Professor

School of Mathematics, Jilin University, China

Ø  January 2006 – December 2008: Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University                                                                                                                                          

Ø  September 2004 - June 2005: New Direction Visiting Professor
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota

Ø  July 2002 – June 2008: Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University

Ø  August 1997 – June 2002: Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University

Ø  August 1995 – July 1997: Visiting Research Instructor
Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University

Ø  October 1994 – July 1995: Visiting Assistant Professor
School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

Ø  September 1993 – September 1994: Research Member
School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study

Ø  February 1987 – June 1993: Graduate Teaching Assistant
School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

Research Interests

• Partial Differential Equations
• Calculus of Variations
• Nonlinear Elasticity
• Applications in Continuum Mechanics and Materials Science

Publications/Lecture Notes

• Published Papers (including papers to appear, with PDF files available)
• Lecture Notes for Graduate Courses:
• Existence and Regularity Theory for Nonlinear Elliptic Systems and Multiple Integrals in the Calculus of Variations (a topics course at MSU)
• Introduction to Variational Methods for PDEs and Applications (a summer course at MSU)
• Partial Differential Equations I (MTH 847) – Lecture notes based on L.C.Evans’s textbook.
• Partial Differential Equations II  (MTH 849) – Lecture notes based on L.C. Evans’s textbook.

Send inquiries to yanb@msu.edu
Last Revised 8/22/2018