University Research Professor PhD Academia Sinica B.Sc., M.Sc. Northwest Office: HH-2009 Phone: (709) 864-8098 Fax: (709) 864-3010 Personal website

Research Interests

Applied Dynamical Systems(discrete and continuous time); Nonlinear Differential Equations(ODE, DDE and PDE); Mathematical Biology(population dynamics and epidemics).

Selected Recent Publications

• X. Liang and X.-Q. Zhao, Asymptotic speeds of spread and traveling waves for monotone semiflows with applications, Communications on Pure and Appl. Math., 60 (2007), 1-40.
• W. Wang and X.-Q. Zhao, An epidemic model with population dispersal and infection period, SIAM J. Appl. Math., 66 (2006), 1454-1472.
• J. Jiang and X.-Q. Zhao, Convergence in monotone and uniformly stable skew-product semiflows with applications, J. Reine Angew. Math., 589 (2005), 21-55.
• P. Magal and X.-Q. Zhao, Global attractors and steady states for uniformly persistent dynamical systems, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 37 (2005), 251-275.
• X.-Q. Zhao, Dynamical Systems in Population Biology, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003.