Mimi Dai

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Mimi Dai
Alma materUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Doctoral advisor Maria Elena Schonbek

Mimi Dai is a mathematician who specializes in partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, and complex fluids. She is a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago. [1]

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Education and career

Dai received her PhD in applied mathematics from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2012. Her dissertation, Nematic liquid crystal systems and magneto-hydrodynamics system: The properties of their solutions, was supervised by her advisor, Maria E. Schonbek. [2] She is currently an associate professor for the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago. [3] She specializes in partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, complex fluids.

Awards and honors

Dai became an American Mathematical Society (AMS) Centennial Fellow in 2022. [4] In 2021 Dai also became an Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) von Neuman Fellow in 2021. [5] Dai has been an IAS Scholar since 2022. [6] In 2018 Dai was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for Mathematical Studies of Magnetohydrodynamic Flows with Hall Effect, [7] and another grant from the NSF for Mathematical Analysis of Magnetohydrodynamic Flows with Hall Effect in 2020. [8]

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References

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  2. Mimi Dai at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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  5. "von Neumann Fellow | Institute for Advanced Study". www.ias.edu. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
  6. "Mimi Dai - Scholars | Institute for Advanced Study". www.ias.edu. 2021-01-27. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
  7. "NSF Award Search: Award # 1815069 - Mathematical Studies of Magnetohydrodynamics with Hall Effect". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
  8. "NSF Award Search: Award # 2009422 - Mathematical Analysis of Magnetohydrodynamic Flows with Hall Effect". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2023-04-10.