Brief CV of Tai-Peng Tsai
Education
- 1987-1991 B.Sc.,
National Taiwan University
- 1991-1993 military service
- 1993-1998 Ph.D., University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis,
advisor: V. Sverak
Employment
- 1998-2001 Courant Instructor, New York University
- 2001-2002 Member, Institute for Advanced Study
- 2002-2005 Assistant Professor, University of British
Columbia
- 2005-2010 Associate Professor, University of British
Columbia
- 2010-present, Professor, University of British
Columbia
Short Term Visits
- May-August 1999, July 2000, December 2001, June-August
2002,
December 2003, June-July 2004, Center for Theoretical Sciences,
Hsinchu.
- May-July 2001, Universite de Cergy-Pontoise, Paris.
- July-August 2001, Academia Sinica, Taipei.
-
June-August 2006, October 2008- July 2009, June-July 2010,
Center for Theoretical
Sciences, Taipei.
- October-December 2006, Harvard University, Cambridge.
- May-June 2007, CEREMADE, Universite de Paris - Dauphine,
Paris.
Program
Organization
- One of the four organizers (Gustafson, Nakanishi,
Tsai and Zeng) of
the BIRS workshop: 08w5058 Asymptotics and Singularities in
Nonlinear and Geometric Dispersive Equations, August 24 - 29, 2008.
- One of the two organizers (Sverak and Tsai) of Workshop on Regularity
Problems in Hydrodynamics, Vancouver, August 3 - 7, 2009. It is part of the PIMS/Accelerate Canada Thematic Program on Partial
Differential Equations.
- Chief Convener of the December 1989 Grand Math Cup,
an annual athlete event of all college students and faculty of
departments of math, applied math, and math education in Taiwan.
Membership
- Canadian Mathematical Society, 2010-present.
Honor
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship,
1997.
- Andre-Aisenstadt
Prize, the Centre
de Recherches Mathematiques, 2006.
- Invited lectures (selection):
- The Second International Congress of
Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM II), Taipei, December 2001.
- PDE session, The First Joint Canada-France
Meeting of
the Mathematical Sciences, Toulouse, July 2004.
- MSJ-IRI 2005 (Mathematical Society of Japan,
14th International Research Institute), ``Asymptotic Analysis and
Singularity'', Sendai, July 2005.
- International congress in theoretical and
numerical fluid mechanics III, Vancouver, August 2007.
- ``Variational and Numerical Methods in
Geometry, Physics and Chemistry'' session, Second Canada-France
Congress on Mathematical Sciences, Montreal, June 2008.
- ``Nonlinear waves and dispersion'' workshop,
Institute Henri Poincare, Paris, April 2009.
- ``Analysis and Computation of Incompressible
Fluid Flow" workshop, Institute for Mathematics and its
Applications, Minneapolis, February 2010.
- Fifth International Congress of
Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM V), Beijing, December 2010.
- Colloquium, McMaster University, Hamilton, February 2011.
- JAMI 2011 (Japan-U.S. Mathematics Institute), Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, March 2011.
- A Conference in Honor of the 70th Birthday of S. R. Srinivasa
Varadhan, National Taiwan University, Taipei, July 2011.
Last modified: June 2011.