Jianfeng Lu

Professor of Mathematics

Jianfeng Lu is an applied mathematician interested in mathematical analysis and algorithm development for problems from computational physics, theoretical chemistry, materials science and other related fields.

More specifically, his current research focuses include:
Electronic structure and many body problems; quantum molecular dynamics; multiscale modeling and analysis; rare events and sampling techniques.

Appointments and Affiliations

• Professor of Mathematics

Contact Information

• Office Location: 242 Physics Bldg, 120 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708
• Office Phone: (919) 660-2875
• Email Address: jianfeng@math.duke.edu
• Websites:
  • Personal website

Education

• Ph.D. Princeton University, 2009

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• IMA Prize in Mathematics and its Applications. Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. 2017
• CAREER Award. National Science Foundation. 2015
• Sloan Research Fellowship. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 2013
• Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship. Princeton University. 2008

Courses Taught

• MATH 391: Independent Study
• MATH 393: Research Independent Study
• MATH 394: Research Independent Study
• MATH 493: Research Independent Study
• MATH 631: Measure and Integration
• MATH 660: Numerical Partial Differential Equations
• MATH 690-60: Topics in Numerical Methods

In the News

• Pratt Researchers to Harness Computational Power to Solve Time-Intensive Calculations (Jul 10, 2015)
• Sloan Foundation Names Charbonneau, Lu as 2013 Research Fellows (Feb 15, 2013)

Representative Publications

• Chen, Z; Lu, J; Lu, Y; Zhang, X, On the convergence of Sobolev gradient flow for the Gross-Pitaevskii
  eigenvalue problem (2023) [abs].
• Holst, M; Hu, H; Lu, J; Marzuola, JL; Song, D; Weare, J, Symmetry Breaking and the Generation of Spin Ordered Magnetic States in Density Functional Theory Due to Dirac Exchange for a Hydrogen Molecule, Journal of Nonlinear Science, vol 32 no. 6 (2022) [10.1007/s00332-022-09845-2] [abs].
• Chen, C; Chen, Z; Lu, J, Representation Theorem for Multivariable Totally Symmetric Functions (2022) [abs].
• Cai, Z; Lu, J; Yang, S, Numerical analysis for inchworm Monte Carlo method: Sign problem and error growth, Mathematics of Computation (2022) [10.1090/mcom/3785] [abs].
• He, Y; Balasubramanian, K; Sriperumbudur, BK; Lu, J, Regularized Stein Variational Gradient Flow (2022) [abs].