Wei-Ming Ni (; born 23 December 1950) is a Taiwanese mathematician at the

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and the

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, and the former director of the Center for PDE at the

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. He works in the field of elliptic and parabolic

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. He did undergraduate work at

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and obtained his Ph.D. at

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, in 1979, under the supervision of

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. He is an editor-in-chief of the ''Journal of Differential Equations'', and was an

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in 2002.Chen, Chiun-Chuan; Lou, Yuan; Ninomiya, Hirokazu; Polacik, Peter; Wang, Xuefeng. ''Preface: DCDS-a special issue to honor Wei-Ming Ni’s 70th birthday.'' Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 40 (2020), no. 6, i-ii. As said by the journal ''Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems'':

Major publications

* Gidas, B.; Ni, Wei Ming; Nirenberg, L.
Symmetry and related properties via the maximum principle
'' Comm. Math. Phys. 68 (1979), no. 3, 209–243. * Gidas, B.; Ni, Wei Ming; Nirenberg, L. ''Symmetry of positive solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations in .'' Mathematical analysis and applications, Part A, pp. 369–402, Adv. in Math. Suppl. Stud., 7a, Academic Press, New York-London, 1981. * Lin, C.-S.; Ni, W.-M.; Takagi, I.
Large amplitude stationary solutions to a chemotaxis system
'' J. Differential Equations 72 (1988), no. 1, 1–27. * Ni, Wei-Ming; Takagi, Izumi. ''On the shape of least-energy solutions to a semilinear Neumann problem.'' Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 44 (1991), no. 7, 819–851. * Lou, Yuan; Ni, Wei-Ming.
Diffusion, self-diffusion and cross-diffusion
'' J. Differential Equations 131 (1996), no. 1, 79–131. * Ni, Wei-Ming.
Diffusion, cross-diffusion, and their spike-layer steady states
'' Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (1998), no. 1, 9–18.

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