Brief CV of Tai-Peng Tsai

• 1987-1991 B.Sc., National Taiwan University
• 1991-1993 military service
• 1993-1998 Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, advisor: V. Sverak

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• Canadian Mathematical Society, 2010-present.

• 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.