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Department of Mathematics

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Computational and Applied Mathematics (CAM)

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Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP)

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

Yongcheng Zhou



Postdoctoral Research Fellow

 Computational and Applied Mathematics (Holst Group)
Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (McCammon Group)
 University of California, San Diego

Office: 4209 Urey Hall

Email: yozhou@math.ucsd.edu



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Ph.D., 2006, Applied Mathematics (Wei Group), Michigan State University

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 Research

  • Applied analysis, numerical analysis and scientific computing;

  • Mathematical modeling and computation for biophysical problems:  Continuum modeling of molecular electrostatic;  Electrostatic mediated molecular diffusion and its applications to molecular transportation, reaction and cell signaling; Continuum modeling of macromolecular conformational change;

  • Computational fluid dynamics; Biofluid modeling and simulation.

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 Publications

  1. Recent progress in numerical methods for the Poisson-Boltzmann equation in biophysical applications,  B. Lu, Y. C. Zhou, M. Holst and J. Andrew McCammon, Communications in Computational Physics, In press.

  2. Continuum Simulations of Acetylcholine Consumption by Acetylcholinesterase: A Poisson-Nernst-Planck Approach,  Y. C. Zhou, B. Lu, G. Huber, M. Holst and J. Andrew McCammon, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, (112), 270-275, 2008.

  3. Nonlinear elastic modeling of macromolecular conformational change induced by electrostatic forces, Y. C. Zhou, M. Holst and J. Andrew McCammon, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, (340), 135-164, 2008.

  4. Electrodiffusion: A continuum-modeling framework for biomolecular systems with realistic spatiotemporal resolution , B. Lu, Y. C. Zhou,  G. A. Huber, S. D. Bond, M. Holst and J. Andrew McCammon, Journal of Chemical Physics, (127), 135102, 2007.

  5. Highly accurate biomolecular electrostatics in continuum dielectric environments,  Y. C. Zhou, Michael Feig and G. W. Wei, Journal of Computational Chemistry, (29), 87-97, 2008.

  6. On the fictitious-domain and interpolation formulations of the matched interface and boundary (MIB) method,  Y. C. Zhou and G. W. Wei, Journal of Computational Physics, (219), 228-246, 2006.

  7. High order matched interface and boundary (MIB) method for elliptic equations with discontinuous coefficients and singular sources, Y. C. Zhou, Shan Zhao, Michael Feig and G. W. Wei, Journal of Computational Physics, (213), 1-30, 2006.

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