Wei Li - Activities

Invited Talks

- 3/2025 AMS Sectional Meeting, Lawrence, Transport models for wave propagation in scattering media with nonlinear absorption
- 3/2025 AMS Sectional Meeting, Clemson, Transport models for wave propagation in scattering media with nonlinear absorption
- 5/2024 IPMS, Malta, Acousto-electric Inverse Source Problems,
- 4/2024 TAMU Mathematical Physics and Harmonic Analysis Seminar, Edge States on Sharply Joined Photonic Crystals,
- 4/2024 LSU Applied Analysis Seminar, Edge States on Sharply Joined Photonic Crystals,
- 12/2023 HKUST IAS Inverse Problems 7th Young Scholar Symposium, Acousto-electric Inverse Source Problem,
- 6/2023 The 13th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, North Carolina,
- 3/2022 Ergodic and Quantum Systems, Lorentz Resonance in the Homogenization of Plasmonic Crystals
- 10/2021 AMS Central Sectional Meeting, University of Kansas, An Acousto-electric Inverse Source Problem
- 7/2021 University of Bremen, Applied Analysis Seminar, Embedded eigenvalues for the Neumann-Poincar\'e operator
- 7/2021 SIAM Annual Meeting 2021, Lorentz Resonance in the Homogenization of Plasmonic Crystals
- 5/2021 AMS western sectional spring meeting, Lorentz Resonance in the Homogenization of Plasmonic Crystals
- 10/2020 SIAM Louisiana and Texas sectional meeting, College Station, Lorentz Resonance in the Homogenization of Plasmonic Crystals
- 10/2020 SIAM Louisiana and Texas sectional meeting, College Station, Infinitely Many Embedded eigenvalues for the Neumann-Poincar\'e operator
- 5/2020 Mathematical Physics and Harmonic Analysis Seminar, Texas A&M University, Embedded eigenvalues for the Neumann-Poincare operator
- 5/2020 Math Physics Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Embedded eigenvalues for the Neumann-Poincare operator
- 7/2019 IWOTA, Lisbon, Embedded eigenvalues for the Neumann-Poincare operator
- 7/2019 ICIAM, Valencia, Fluorescence ultrasound modulated optical tomography in the diffusive regime
- 7/2019 AIP, Grenoble, Irreducibility of the Fermi surface for planar periodic graph operators
- 10/2018 SIAM sectional meeting, LSU, Fluorescence ultrasound modulated optical tomography in the diffusive regime
- 7/2018 20th anniversary of the Fundamental Science Program, Tsinghua, Fluorescence ultrasound modulated optical tomography in the diffusive regime
- 7/2018 SIAM Annual Meeting, Portland, Embedded eigenvalues for the Neumann-Poincare operator
- 5/2018 Waves and Particles in Random Media Summer School, Colorado State University, Second-harmonic generation imaging in random media
- 5/2017 AIP, Hangzhou, Second-harmonic generation imaging in random media,

Seminar Talks

- 3/2022 DePaul Analysis and Modeling Seminar, Lorentz Resonance in the Homogenization of Plasmonic Crystals
- 9/2019 LSU Applied Analysis Seminar, Fluorescent ultrasound modulated optical tomography in the radiative transport regime with angularly averaged measurements
- 11/2018 LSU Applied Analysis Seminar, Embedded eigenvalues for the Neumann-Poincare operator
- 2/2018 LSU Applied Analysis Seminar, A hybrid inverse problem in the fluorescence ultrasound modulated optical tomography in the diffusive regime
- 10/2017 ICERM postdoc seminar, Brown University, A fast direct imaging method for the inverse obstacle scattering problem with nonlinear point scatterers
- 11/2016 IMA postdoc seminar, University of Minnesota, Second-harmonic generation imaging in random media
- 10/2014 AIM student seminar, University of Michigan, Scattering in nonlinear media and near-field scanning optical microscopy

Internal Grants

- CSH Summer Research Grant, 2023, 2025
- Undergraduate Research Assistantship Program (with Graham Gatewood), 2025

Awards

- Applied Inverse Problems Conference Travel Award, NSF, 2019
- Highlighted paper selected by Inverse Problems, 2017
- Barbour Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2015-2016
- Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2015
- Academic Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2010
- Baocheng Tao Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2009
- Academic Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2009

Services

- University commitees: University Honors Program Committee
- College committees: Alumni, Communications, and External Relations Committee
- Departmental committees: Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, Community Building and Alumni/Outreach Committee, Scholarship Committee, Hiring Committee (professional lecturer 2025), Master of Science Committee (Applied Math/Applied Statistics)
- Organized a minisymposium in the ICIAM in 8/2023, with Manabu Machida and Shunji Kotsuki.
- Organized a minisymposium in the AMS Central Sectional Meeting at the University of Kansas in 10/2021, with Yimin Zhong and Yang Yang.
- Referee for Inverse Problems, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Journal of Physics: Photonics, Mathematical Methods in Applied Sciences, and Applied Mathematics Letters, and SIAM Journal on Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, Studies in Applied Mathematics, DePaul Discoveries
- Secretary of SIAM student chapter, 2015-2016
- Organizer of the University of Michigan Applied Mathematics Student Conference, 2015

Workshops

- CBMS Mathematical Methods for Novel Metamaterials, Auburn University, 2024
- PIC Math - Preparation for Industrial Careers in Mathematical Sciences, 2021
- Waves and Particles in Random Media Summer School, Colorado State University, 2018
- Conference and Workshop on Scattering and Inverse Scattering in Multi-Dimensions, University of Kentucky, 2014
- Summer School on Inverse Problems, University of Washington, 2013

Outreach

- Worked at the Math Table, DePaul College of Science and Health Fest, 2024
- Talk at Google Explorer, UTRGV: Reduction of Wave Equations in Random Media and Periodic Media, 2021
- Reviewer for DePaul Undergraduate Research Showcase, 2021
- Talk at DePaul Math Club: Hybrid Inverse Problems - How Sound Helps Us See, 2020
- Presenter for the Math table on the Girl Scouts Day, 2019