Journal of Medical Systems

Sauro Succi
Instituto Applicazioni del Calcolo, Rome, Italy
Computational kinetic theory; fluid dynamics

Denis Talay
INRIA, France
Stochastic analysis; stochastic numerical analysis; stochastic modelling; financial mathematics

Tao Tang
The Hong Kong Baptist University
Adaptive grid methods; finite difference methods and spectral methods for PDEs

Roger Temam
Indiana University, IN
Classical and geophysical fluid dynamics

Vladimir A. Titarev
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russsia
high order methods, computational fluid dynamics

Jaap van der Vegt
University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
Numerical methods for PDE; computational fluid dynamics; Maxwell equations

Yan Xu
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei,China
numerical methods for partial differential equations, finite element methods

Wotao Yin
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
optimization

Lexing Ying
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
scientific computing, numerical analysis

Ya-xiang Yuan
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Optimization

Yong-Tao Zhang
University of Notre Dame, IN
Numerical partial differential equations; computational biology

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