Tai-Peng Tsai, brief CV

• Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, 1984 Mathematics Road, Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z2
• Phone: +604-822-2591,   Fax: +604-822-6074
• Email: ttsai@math.ubc.ca,   URL: https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~ttsai

• 1987-1991 B.Sc., National Taiwan University
• 1993-1998 Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, advisor: V. Sverak

• 1991-1993 military service
• 1998-2001 Courant Instructor, New York University
• 2001-2002 Member, Institute for Advanced Study
• 2002-2005 Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
• 2005-2010 Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
• 2010-present, Professor, University of British Columbia

• Summer School in Harmonic Analysis, University of Wisconsin - Madison, June 10 - July 5, 1996.
• May-August 1999, July 2000, December 2001, June-August 2002, December 2003, June-July 2004, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Hsinchu.
• May-July 2001, Universite de Cergy-Pontoise, Paris.
• July-August 2001, Academia Sinica, Taipei.
• June-August 2005, June-August 2006, October 2008-July 2009, June-July 2010, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taipei.
• October-December 2006, Harvard University, Cambridge.
• May-June 2007, CEREMADE, Universite de Paris - Dauphine, Paris.
• June-July 2011, Taida Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei.
• July 2013-July 2014, summer 2015, summer 2017, summer 2018, Center of Advanced Study in Theoretical Sciences (CASTS), National Taiwan University, Taipei.
• March 2016-May 2016, Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (CMSA), Harvard University, Cambridge.
• July 2016, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES), Paris.
• August 5 - September 8, 2018, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo.

• One of the four organizers (Mazzucato, Tsai, Yamazaki, Yao) of the BIRS workshop: Fluid equations, a paradigm for complexity: regularity vs blow-up, deterministic vs stochastic (23w5040), October 1 - 6, 2023.
• Contact Organizer of the BIRS workshop: From Many Body Problems to Random Matrices (19w5176), August 4 - 9, 2019. Co-organizers: Bourgade, Erdos, Quastel, Tsai.
• One of the local organizers for the conference: "Analysis and Partial Differential Equations: A Conference in Honour of the 60th Birthday of Nassif Ghoussoub", UBC, Vancouver, July 8-12, 2013.
• One of the co-organizers for the session "Mathematical Fluid Dynamics and Related Topics" in "The Second Pacific Rim Mathematical Association Congress" (PRIMA), Shanghai, June 24-28, 2013.
• One of the six organizers (Colliander, Gustafson, Ibrahim, Masmoudi, Nakanishi, and Tsai) of the BIRS workshop: Evolution equations of physics, fluids, and geometry: asymptotics and singularities (12w5137), September 9 - 14, 2012.
• One of the two organizers (Sverak and Tsai) of Workshop on Regularity Problems in Hydrodynamics, Vancouver, August 3 - 7, 2009. It is part of the PIMS/Accelerate Canada Thematic Program on Partial Differential Equations.
• One of the four organizers (Gustafson, Nakanishi, Tsai and Zeng) of the BIRS workshop: 08w5058 Asymptotics and Singularities in Nonlinear and Geometric Dispersive Equations, August 24 - 29, 2008.
• Chief Convener, the December 1989 "Grand Math Cup", an annual athlete event of all college students and faculty of departments of math, applied math, and math education in Taiwan.

• Canadian Mathematical Society, 2010-present.

• Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics, 2014-2020.

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1997.
• Andre-Aisenstadt Prize, the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, 2006.
• Morningside Silver Medal of Mathematics, ICCM 2013, 2013-07-14.
• Second Fu Ssu-Nien Mathematics Award (傅斯年數學獎), 2013-12-25, National Taiwan University.
• Invited lectures (selection):
  • The Second International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM II), Taipei, December 2001.
  • PDE session, The First Joint Canada-France Meeting of the Mathematical Sciences, Toulouse, July 2004.
  • MSJ-IRI 2005 (Mathematical Society of Japan, 14th International Research Institute), ``Asymptotic Analysis and Singularity'', Sendai, July 2005.
  • International congress in theoretical and numerical fluid mechanics III, Vancouver, August 2007.
  • ``Variational and Numerical Methods in Geometry, Physics and Chemistry'' session, Second Canada-France Congress on Mathematical Sciences, Montreal, June 2008.
  • ``Nonlinear waves and dispersion'' workshop, Institute Henri Poincare, Paris, April 2009.
  • ``Analysis and Computation of Incompressible Fluid Flow" workshop, Institute for Mathematics and  its Applications, Minneapolis, February 2010.
    
  • Fifth International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM V), Beijing, December 2010.
  • Colloquium, McMaster University, Hamilton, February 2011.
  • JAMI 2011 (Japan-U.S. Mathematics Institute), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, March 2011.
  • A Conference in Honor of the 70th Birthday of S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, National Taiwan University, Taipei, July 2011.
  • International Congress on Mathematical Physics (ICMP 2012), Aalborg, August 6-11, 2012.
  • Plenary speaker, The Six International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM 6), Taipei, July 2013.
  • Colloquium, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, 2014-04-22
  • Colloquium, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei, 2014-05-07
  • Conference on Nonlinear equations, CMSA, Harvard University, 2016-04-10
  • Nonlinear Waves 2016: Summer School, IHES, Paris, 2016-07-27
  • Minicourse, Yonsei University, Seoul, January 2017.
  • Conference on Analysis of Classical Incompressible Fluids, Fudan University, October 2017.
  • Conference on Frontiers of Theory and Applications of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, The Hong Kong University of Sciences and Technology, December 2017.
  • Conference "Mathematical Fluid Mechanics and Related Topics: In honor of Professor Hideo Kozono on his 60th birthday", Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2018-09-05.
  • Plenary speaker, The Eighth International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM 8), Beijing, June 2019.
  • Colloquium, Queen's University, Kingston, March 13, 2020.
  • Necas Lecture, Charles University, December 14, 2020, annual lecture on the birthday of J. Necas.
  • Colloquium, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, May 7, 2021.

Last modified: April 2022.