Professor Bo Li Department of Mathematics, Faculty Quantitative Biology Ph.D. Program, Faculty The Halicioglu Data Science Institute, Faculty Affiliate University of California, San Diego E-mail: bli@math.ucsd.edu

A brief CV Research interests Scientific computing, numerical analysis, and applied analysis (PDEs and the calculus of variations, dynamical systems, and stochastic processes), with application in biophysics, comput. biology, materials science, and continuum mechanics. Research Summary (one page, bullet-style) for prospective students and postdocs, Feb. 2025 Current research topics and projects Biomolecular simul., variational solvation, free energy approx., kinetics, Monte Carlo, folding & binding. Spatiotemporal dyn. & complex patterns of growing bacterial colonies. Agent-based & continuum simul. Electrostatics of biomolecules & ionic solutions, corre. & steric effects, forces, PB theory, Monte Carlo. Modeling, analysis, and numerical methods for interfacial dynamics. Optimical transport: theory and alg., stat. mech. approach, application in biology & materials. Neural networks: approx. theory, stochastic alg., math & stat. mech. foundations, appl. in biophysics. Some past research projects Publications (full list of publications including preprints and a list of selected publications) Presentations Teaching page Current teaching Math 114/214: Introduction to Computational Stochastics. Spring 2025. Math 231C: PDEs (Part C) Recent past courses Math 217: Topics in Applied Mathematics. Optimal Transport. Spring 2022. Math 270B: Numerical Analysis (Part B). Winter 2024. Math 217: Topics in Applied Mathematics. Mathematics of Artificial Neural Networks. Spring 2024. Students, postdocs, and long-term visitors Seminars: Mathematics for Complex Biological Systems (Summer 2007-Spring 2024) qBio seminars

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