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Xiaoyu Zheng

Department of Mathematical Sciences
Undergraduate Coordinator; All programs Advisor
Office Location:
320 MSB
Contact Information
Email:
xzheng3@kent.edu
Phone:
330-672-9089
Personal Website: http://www.math.kent.edu/~zheng/

Biography

 I joined the math department as an assistant professor in 2006. I got my Ph.D. from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill also in 2006. My research interests are applied mathematics and computer simulations.

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
  1. A. Haji-Akbari, M. Engel, A. S. Keys, X. Zheng, R. G. Petschek, P. Palffy-Muhoray, S. C. Glotzer, Disordered, quasicrystalline and crystalline phases of densely packed tetrahedra, Nature, 462, 773-777 (2009)
  2. X. Zheng, W. Iglesias, P. Palffy-Muhoray, Distance of closest approach of two arbitrary hard ellipsoid, Phys. Rev. E, 79, 057702 (2009)
  3. X. Zheng, P. Palffy-Muhoray, Distance of closest approach of two arbitrary hard ellipses in 2D, Phys. Rev. E, 75, 061709 (2007)
  4. X. Zheng, M. G. Forest, R. A. Vaia, M. Arlen, R. Zhou, A strategy for dimensional percolation in sheared nanorod dispersions, Advanced Mater., 19(22), 4038-4043(2007)
  5. X. Zheng, M. G. Forest, R. Lipton, R. Zhou, Nematic polymer mechanics: flow-induced anisotropy, Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, 18, 377-394 (2007)

Education

Ph.D. - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006
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