Zhenfu Wang (王振富)

Curriculum Vitae

I am now a Tenure Track Assistant Professor at Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research (BICMR) , Peking University.

I was a Hans Rademacher Instructor of Mathematics at Department of Mathematics , University of Pennsylvania from July 2017 to June 2020.

From Sep. 2012 - May 2017, I completed a PhD in Mathematics at Department of Mathematics , University of Maryland, College Park, under the supervision of Prof. Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin.

Email: zwang@bicmr.pku.edu.cn

Mail: Beijing Internatinoal Center for Mathematical Research, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Road, Beijing 100871.

地址:100871北京市海淀区颐和园路5号北京大学北京国际数学中心

Office: 镜春园78号院77102 Office Phone Number: (010)-62744092.


Teaching at PKU

Current Teaching in Fall 2025 高等数学C 每周周二1-2节,每周周四3-4节,一教201. 

Past Teaching 过去教学  


Research Interests

Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, especially Mean Field limit for Many Particles Systems and the analysis of Kinetic equations. Distribution Sampling Algorithms based on Many Particle Systems.

My Google Scholar .

My Research Bilibili Channel . Summer Course on Mean Field Limit .

Publications and Preprints

  1. X. Feng and Z. Wang, Kac's program for the Landau equation. Preprint. [arXiv]
  2. L. Chen, J. Jung, P. Pickl and Z. Wang, On the mean-field limit of Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck equations. Preprint. [arXiv]
  3. S. Cai, X. Feng, Y. Gong and Z. Wang, Propagation of Chaos for 2D Log Gas on the Whole Space. Preprint. [arXiv]
  4. X. Feng and Z. Wang, Quantitative Propagation of Chaos for 2D Viscous Vortex Model with General Circulations on the Whole Space. Preprint. [arXiv]
  5. Y. Gong, Z. Wang and P. Xie, Uniform-in-time propagation of chaos for second order interacting particle systems. Preprint. [arXiv]
  6. J. Carrillo, X. Feng, S. Guo, P.-E. Jabin and Z. Wang, Relative Entropy Method for Particle Approximation of the Landau Equation for Maxwellian Molecules. Preprint. [arXiv]
  7. V. Ilin, J. Hu and Z. Wang, Transport based particle methods for the Fokker-Planck-Landau equation. Accepted by Communications in Mathematical Sciences. [arXiv]
  8. X. Feng and Z. Wang, Quantitative Propagation of Chaos for 2D Viscous Vortex Model on the Whole Space. Preprint. [arXiv]
  9. L. Lei, S. Ling and Z. Wang, Analysis and Computation for Interacting Particle Systems. China Basic Science, Issue 4, pages 59-64, 2023.
  10. Z. Shen and Z. Wang, Entropy-Dissipation Informed Neural Network for McKean-Vlasov type PDEs. NeurIPS 2023. [PDF]
  11. Z. Wang, X. Zhao and R. Zhu, Mean-field limit of Non-exchangeable interacting diffusions with singular kernels. Preprint. [arXiv]
  12. Z. Shen, Z. Wang, S. Kale, A. Ribeiro, A. Karbasi and H. Hassani, Self-Consistency of the Fokker-Planck Equation. COLT 2022. [arXiv] [Repo]
  13. Z. Wang, X. Zhao and R. Zhu, Gaussian fluctuations for interacting particle systems with singular kernels. Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 247, no. 5 (2023): 101. [arXiv]
  14. D. Bresch, P.E. Jabin and Z. Wang, Mean-Field Limit and Quantitative Estimates with Singular Attractive Kernels. Duke Mathematical Journal 172, no. 13 (2023): 2591-2641. [arXiv]
  15. Z. Shen, Z. Wang, A. Ribeiro and H. Hassani, Sinkhorn Natural Gradient for Generative Models. NeurIPS 2020. [arXiv]
  16. Z. Shen,Z. Wang, A. Ribeiro and H. Hassani, Sinkhorn Barycenter via Functional Gradient Descent. NeurIPS 2020. [arXiv]
  17. D. Bresch, P.E. Jabin and Z. Wang, Modulated Free Energy and Mean Field Limit. In Séminaire Laurent Schwartz — EDP et applications. (2019-2020), Talk no.2, 22 p. [arXiv]
  18. D. Bresch, P.E. Jabin and Z. Wang, On Mean Field Limit and Quantitative Estimates with a Large Class of Singular Kernels: Application to the Patlak-Keller-Segel Model. C.R. Acd. Sci. (2019). [Journal] or [arXiv]
  19. R. M. Strain and Z. Wang, Uniqueness of Bounded Solutions for the Homogeneous Relativistic Landau Equation with Coulomb Interactions. Quart. Appl. Math. (2019). [Journal] or [arXiv]
  20. P.E. Jabin and Z. Wang, Quantitative estimates of propagation of chaos for stochastic systems with $W^{-1,\infty}$ kernel. Invent. Math. (2018). [Journal] or [arXiv]
  21. (This paper has been presented by Prof. Laure Saint-Raymond in the Bourbaki Seminar. See [Article] and [YouTube]. )
  22. P.E. Jabin and Z. Wang, Mean Field Limit for Stochastic Particle Systems. In Active Particles, Volume 1: Theory, Models, Applications, Birkhauser-Springer (Boston), series Modelling and Simulation in Science Engineering and Technology. (2017) [Link] or [PDF]
  23. P.E. Jabin and Z. Wang, Mean Field Limit and Propagation of Chaos for Vlasov Systems with Bounded Forces. J. Funct. Anal. 271 (2016) 3588-3627. [Journal] or [arXiv]

My Dissertation [PDF]


Research Events in PDEs, Probability and Applied Math

  • Seminars and Colloqium at BICMR and School of Mathematical Science , Peking University.
  • I organize an informal (working style) seminar: Analysis Research Interaction Team ARIT@BiCMR .
  • Analysis and PDEs seminar at BiCMR APDE@BiCMR organized by the analysis group at BiCMR.
  • Reading Seminar on Stochastic Many-body Systems PKU-SJTU-NYU organized by Lei Li (SJTU), Shuyang Ling(NYU-SH) and myself.

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    We have not succeeded in answering all our problems. The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things.
    Last Updated at Sept., 2025.