Four faculty members of Division of Science and Technology (DST) of UIC projects were funded by the foundation, they are Prof. Amy Zhang from CST, Dr. Alice Hui from STAT, Dr. Donald Chen from DS and Prof. Sun Weiwei from AM.

Prof Sun Weiwei’s project is about the efficient algorithms and analysis of Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert in micromagnetics. This project was awarded funding of 520,000RMB and the project relied on Beijing Normal University’s application.

Prof Sun is a well-known expert in computational mathematics. He is currently the Deputy Director of the Joint Mathematics Research Centre of Beijing Normal University and UIC, and the Chair Professor of Applied Mathematics Programme in Division of Science and Technology at UIC. He obtained a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Windsor in Canada.

The research on the numerical method of Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert has always attracted people's attention. Prof Sun's project studies the numerical calculation of Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert in micromagnetics and is committed to the development of high-efficiency linearization projection methods and the establishment of a new framework of theoretical analysis. At the same time, it will also study Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert in Coupling of Multi-Physics and related problems and stochastic models on manifolds, which provide basic help and technical support for the theoretical research and application of magnetic materials.

From MPRO
Editors: Samuel Burgess, Covee Wang, Zhang Fan