David Gao

Qualifications

Ph.D., Tsinghua Univeristy

Teaching Areas

Applied mathematics
Engineering mechanics
Optimization and control
Numerical analysis and simulation
Computational methods
Nonsmooth and nonconvex analysis and mechanics
Modeling
Simulation
Analysis of complex systems
Global optimization and canonical duality theory
Advanced primal-dual algorithms
Numerical methods

Research Interests

Modeling, methods and theories of duality and triality
Complementarity, polarity, symmetry and symmetry breaking
Nonconvex/nonsmooth/discrete and nonconservative problems
Database analysis
Decision science
Nonlinear analysis
Finite deformation field theory
Engineering mechanics
Global optimization and control
Differential equations and geometry
Network flows and communications
Energy systems
Social systems
Large-scale and multi-scale scientific computations

David Gao 

Alexander Rubinov Professor of Mathematics


Room T137
Phone +61 3 5327 9791
Fax +61 3 5327 9077
Email d.gao@ballarat.edu.au
Web http://uob-community.ballarat.edu.au/~dgao