YanYan Li (also stylized as Yanyan Li, Yan-yan Li, and Yan Yan Li) is a Professor of mathematics at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

, specializing in

elliptic partial differential equation Second-order linear partial differential equations (PDEs) are classified as either elliptic, hyperbolic, or parabolic. Any second-order linear PDE in two variables can be written in the form :Au_ + 2Bu_ + Cu_ + Du_x + Eu_y + Fu +G= 0,\, wher ...

s. He received his Ph.D. at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

in 1988, under the direction of

Louis Nirenberg Louis Nirenberg (February 28, 1925 – January 26, 2020) was a Canadian-American mathematician, considered one of the most outstanding mathematicians of the 20th century. Nearly all of his work was in the field of partial differential equat ...

. He joined Rutgers University in 1990. Li was an invited lecturer at the

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in 2002, and is a Fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

. He has been an

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. He is a member of the editorial board of

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, among several other academic journals.Advances in Mathematics - Editorial Board.
Accessed October 8, 2020.

Major publications

* Yan Yan Li and Itai Shafrir. ''Blow-up analysis for solutions of ' in dimension two.'' Indiana Univ. Math. J. 43 (1994), no. 4, 1255–1270. * Yan Yan Li. ''Prescribing scalar curvature on and related problems. I.'' J. Differential Equations 120 (1995), no. 2, 319–410. * Yan Yan Li
''Prescribing scalar curvature on and related problems. II. Existence and compactness.''
Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 49 (1996), no. 6, 541–597.

References

External links

YanYan Li's home page at Rutgers

Mathematics Genealogy page

Google Scholar page
Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Rutgers University faculty 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians New York University alumni {{US-mathematician-stub