YanYan Li

YanYan Li (also stylized as Yanyan Li, Yan-yan Li, and Yan Yan Li) is a distinguished professor of mathematics at Rutgers University, specializing in elliptic partial differential equations.^[1] He received his Ph.D. at New York University in 1988, under the direction of Louis Nirenberg.^[2] He joined Rutgers University in 1990.

Li was a Sloan Research Fellow from 1993 to 1995, an invited lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002,^[3] and is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[4]

Major publications

• Yan Yan Li and Itai Shafrir. Blow-up analysis for solutions of −Δu = Ve^u in dimension two. Indiana Univ. Math. J. 43 (1994), no. 4, 1255–1270. doi:10.1512/iumj.1994.43.43054
• Yan Yan Li. Prescribing scalar curvature on Sⁿ and related problems. I. J. Differential Equations 120 (1995), no. 2, 319–410. doi:10.1006/jdeq.1995.1115
• Yan Yan Li. Prescribing scalar curvature on Sⁿ and related problems. II. Existence and compactness. Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 49 (1996), no. 6, 541–597. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0312(199606)49:6<541::AID-CPA1>3.0.CO;2-A