Yunkai Zhou's education

Education

Ph.D. (2002) CAAM Department , Rice University
M.S. (1997) Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
B.S. (1994) Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Post-doc experience

(7/2002--1/2004), Mathematics and Computer Science Division and Chemistry Division , Argonne National Laboratory
(2/2004--7/2006), Computer Science Dept. , University of Minnesota

People I worked with

Univ. of Minnesota and Univ. of Texas at Austin
- Prof. Yousef Saad
- Prof. James R. Chelikowsky

Rice University
- Prof. Danny C. Sorensen Dissertation Advisor.
- Prof. Athanasios C. Antoulas
- Prof. Yin Zhang
- Prof. Matthias Heinkenschloss
- Prof. Richard Tapia
- Prof. Steven J. Cox
- Prof. Zhijun Wu

Argonne National Laboratory
- Ron Shepard and Mike Minkoff
- Barry Smith , Satish Balay , Matt Knepley , Hong Zhang

Univ. of Houston
- Prof. Roland Glowinski
- Prof. Jiwen He

In China
- Prof. Kaitai Li, Prof. Aixiang Huang, and Prof. Zhiping Chen

My academic genealogy tree

G. E. Forsythe -> B. N. Parlett -> J. Bunch -> D. C. Sorensen -> Y. Zhou

Backward tracing the tree, one notices two branches leading to Forsythe : ... (1) Chebyshev -> Markov -> Tamarkin -> Forsythe ; and (2) ... Leibniz -> Bernoulli -> Bernoulli -> Euler -> Lagrange -> Fourier -> Dirichlet -> Lipschitz -> Klein -> Lindemann -> Hilbert -> Courant -> Feller -> Forsythe . Hard not to feel enormously humbled before history.

Aug. 2007