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Name: Shengfan Zhou
Date of birth:
Title: Professor
Degree: Ph.D

Address: Shanghai University
99 Shangda Road
Shanghai 200436, P. R. China

Tel:
E-mail:
zhoushengfan@sohu.com

Education and Professional Experience

  • Student of Master, Department of Mathematics, Yunnan University, China (1987-1990)
  • Student of Ph.D, Department of Mathematics, Peking University, China (1990-1994)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Sichuan University, China (1994-1996)
  • Associated Professor, Department of Mathematics, Sichuan University, China(1996-1998)
  • Professor, Department of Mathematics, Sichuan University, China (1998-2002)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geography, Bar-Ilan University, Israel (1999-2000)
  • Professor, Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, China (2002-)

Research Interest

Dynamical systems, Differential equations, Infinite-dimensional dynamical systems, Dynamics of lattice systems and coupled maps.

Research Items

  • National Natural Science Foundation of China: Time-spatial Behavior of Lattice Systems and Wave Equations, 2005-2007.
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China: Attractors for Lattice Dynamical Systems and Nonlinear Wave Equations, 2002-2004.

Teaching Courses

Undergraduate Courses: Higher Mathematics, Partial Differential Equations, Methods in Mathematics

and Physics, Linear Algebra, Calculus, Engineering Mathematics,

Probability and Statistics, Linear Programme, Dynamical Systems and Its

Applications etc.

Master Courses: Matrix Theory, Abstract Algebra, Nonlinear Analysis, Geometrial Theory of

Differential Equations, Stochastic Differential Equations etc.

Ph.D Courses: Infinite-dimensional Dynamical Systems.

Postgraduate Students

Maste’s Students: Jia Qiuli, Li Hongyan, Ma Jianhua, Dong Xuhua, Wang Yihan, Shi Wei,

Chen Shuangquan.

Ph.D’s Students: Yin Fiqi, Ouyang Zigen.

Relevant Publication

  • Min Qian , Shengfan Zhou , Shu Zhu , One-dimensional global attractor for the damped and driven sine-Gordon equation , Science in China ( Ser. A ), 41(2), 113-122, 1998.
  • Shengfan Zhou, Dimension of the global attractor for damped nonlinear wave equations , Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. , 127(12), 3623-3631, 1999.
  • Zhu Shu & Zhou Shengfan, Dimension of the global attractor for the damped and driven

Sine-Gordon equation , Nonl. Anal. TMA., 37, 389-399, 1999.

  • Zhou Shengfan , On dimension of the global attractor for damped nonlinear wave equations, J. Math. Phys., 40(3), 1432-1438, 1999.
  • Shengfan Zhou, Dimension of the global attractor for strongly damped nonlinear wave equations, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 233(1), 102-115, 1999.
  • Shengfan Zhou, Attractor and dimension for discretization of a damped wave equation with periodic nonlinearity, Topo. Methods in Nonl. Anal., 15, 267-281, 2000.
  • Shengfan Zhou, Asymptotic Behavior For Second Order Lattice Dynamical Systems, Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 6, 137-143 , 2001.
  • Shengfan Zhou, Attractors For Lattice Systems Corresponding To Evolution Equations, Nonlinearity, 15(2002), 1079-1095.
  • Shengfan Zhou, Attractors for second order lattice dynamical systems with damping, J. Math. Phys., 43(1) , 2002, 452-465.
  • Michael Sonis, Shengfan Zhou, Stability and transverse manifolds of periodic points for coupled maps, Physica D, 105(2002), 12-25.
  • Shengfan Zhou and Xiaoming Fan, Kernel sections for nonautonomous strongly damped wave equations, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 275 (2002), 2:850-869.
  • Shengfan Zhou, Attractors For Second Order Lattice Dynamical Systems, J. Differential Equations, 179(2002), 605-624.
  • Shengfan Zhou, Kernel sections for damped non-autonomous wave equations with linear memory and critical exponent, Quart. of Appl. Math., 61 (4): 731- 757 , 2003.
  • Shengfan Zhou & Linshan Wang, Kernel Sections for Non-autonomous Damped Wave Equations with Critical Exponent, Disc. Contin. Dyna. Syst., 9(2003), 399-412.
  • Shengfan Zhou, Attractors for first order dissipative lattice dynamical systems, Physica D, 178(2003), 51-61 .
  • Shengfan Zhou, Attractors for strongly damped wave equations with critical exponent, Appl. Math. Lett., 16 (8): 1307-1314, 2003 .
  • Shengfan Zhou, Kernel sections for viscoelasticity and thermoviscoelasticity, Nonl. Anal.. , 55(2003), 4:351-380.
  • Qiuli Jia, Shengfan Zhou, Fuqi Yin, Kolmogorov Entropy Of Global Attractor For Dissipative Lattice Dynamical Systems, J. Math. Phys. , 44(2003) , 12:5804-5810.
  • Hongyan Li, Shengfan Zhou, Fuqi Yin, Global Periodic Attractor for Strongly Damped Wave Equations with Time-periodic Driving Force, J . Math. Phys., 45(9) , 2004, 3462-3467 .
  • Shengfan Zhou, Attrcators and approximations for lattice dynamical systems, J. Differential Equations, 200 (2): 342-368 , 2004