Wencai Liu
| Wencai Liu | |
|---|---|
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| Born | China |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | China |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Nanjing University of Science and Technology (B.S., M.S.) Fudan University (Ph.D.) |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Quasi-periodic Schrödinger operators, Anderson localization, spectral theory |
| 🏅 Awards | AMS Centennial Research Fellowship (2026) IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize in Mathematical Physics (2024) Simons Fellowship in Mathematics (2024) Visiting Miller Professorship, UC Berkeley (2025) |
| 🌐 Website | sites |
Wencai Liu is a Chinese mathematician and the Arthur George and Mary Emolene Owen Professor of Mathematics at Texas A&M University.[1] His research is in mathematical physics and spectral theory, focusing on quasi-periodic Schrödinger operators, periodic graph operators, and Anderson localization.
Education
Liu received his B.S. and M.S. in mathematics from Nanjing University of Science and Technology between 2006 and 2012. He earned his Ph.D. from Fudan University in 2015, with a dissertation titled Spectral theory of one-dimensional quasi-periodic Schrödinger operators. He then held a postdoctoral position at the University of California, Irvine under the mentorship of Svetlana Jitomirskaya.[citation needed]
Academic career
Liu joined the Department of Mathematics at Texas A&M University as an assistant professor in 2019.[1] He was promoted to associate professor in 2023 and to full professor in 2025, at which point he was also appointed to the Arthur George and Mary Emolene Owen Professorship.[citation needed]
During the 2025–2026 academic year, Liu held a Visiting Miller Professorship at the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science at the University of California, Berkeley.[2]
Research
Liu's research concerns the spectral theory of quasi-periodic and periodic Schrödinger operators and periodic graph operators.[1] His work addresses questions in Anderson localization, Lyapunov exponents, and embedded eigenvalues, in both one-dimensional and higher-dimensional settings. He also investigates the long-time dynamics of linear and nonlinear Schrödinger equations.[citation needed]
Awards and honors
- 2023 – Frontier Science Award (with Svetlana Jitomirskaya), inaugural International Congress for Basic Science[citation needed]
- 2024 – Simons Fellowship in Mathematics, Simons Foundation[3]
- 2024 – Early Career Scientist Prize in Mathematical Physics, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)[4]
- 2025–2026 – Visiting Miller Professorship, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, University of California, Berkeley[2]
- 2026–2027 – Centennial Research Fellowship, American Mathematical Society[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Wencai Liu – Faculty Profile". Texas A&M University Department of Mathematics. Retrieved 2026-05-09.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Texas A&M Mathematics Professor Awarded Visiting Miller Professorship". Texas A&M University College of Arts and Sciences. February 2025. Retrieved 2026-05-09.
- ↑ "Texas A&M's Wencai Liu Selected as 2024 Simons Fellow in Mathematics". Texas A&M University College of Arts and Sciences. March 2024. Retrieved 2026-05-09.
- ↑ "Wencai Liu Earns 2024 IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize in Mathematical Physics". Texas A&M University College of Arts and Sciences. July 2024. Retrieved 2026-05-09.
- ↑ "Texas A&M Math Professor Awarded Centennial Research Fellowship". Texas A&M University College of Arts and Sciences. December 2025. Retrieved 2026-05-09.
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