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'''Xu-Jia Wang''' ({{zh|c=汪徐家}}; born September 1963) is a Chinese-Australian [[Biography:Mathematician|mathematician]]. He is a [[Social:Professor|professor]] of mathematics at the Australian National University and a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

==Biography==
Wang was born in Chun'an County, Zhejiang province, China. Wang obtained his B.S. in 1983 and his Ph.D. in 1990 from the Department of Mathematics of Zhejiang University (ZJU) in Hangzhou.<ref>[http://www.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/20082268046344202105.html Introduction to mathematician Xu-Jia Wang]</ref>

After completing his PhD, Wang served as [[Social:Lecturer|lecturer]] and [[Social:Associate professor|associate professor]], at ZJU before departing for ANU In 1995. Wang is a Professor in the Centre for Mathematics and its Applications and Mathematical Sciences Institute of Australian National University.

Wang is well known for his work on differential equations, especially non-linear partial differential equations and their [[Geometry|geometrical]] and transportational applications.

==Honors and awards==
* Australian Mathematical Society Medal (2002)<ref>[http://www.austms.org.au/The+Australian+Mathematical+Society+Medal The Australian Mathematical Society Medal winner list]</ref>
* invited speaker, 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians
* Morningside Gold Medal of Mathematics, 2007
* Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (2009).<ref>[http://www.science.org.au/media/newfel2009.htm Australian Academy of Science: SCIENCE ACADEMY ELECTS NEW FELLOWS (25 Mar 2009)]</ref>

== Publications (selected) ==

* “Convex solutions to the mean curvature flow”, [[Annals of Mathematics|Ann. of Math.]] 173 (2011), 1185-1239.
* (with Aram Karakhanyan) “On the reflector shape design”, [[Journal of Differential Geometry|J. Differential Geom.]] 84 (2010), no. 3, 561-610.
* (with Guji Tian) “Moser-Trudinger type inequalities for the Hessian equation”, J. Funct. Analysis 259 (2010), no. 8, 1974-2002.
* (with Kai-Seng Chou) “The Lp-Minkowski problem and the Minkowski problem in centroaffine geometry”, [[Advances in Mathematics|Adv. Math.]] 205 (2006), 33-83.
* “Schauder estimates for elliptic and parabolic equations”, Chin. Ann. Math. Ser. B 27(2006), no. 6, 637-642.
* (with Neil Trudinger) “The affine Plateau problem”, [[Organization:Journal of the American Mathematical Society|J. Amer. Math. Soc.]] 18 (2005), no. 2, 253-289.
* (with Neil Trudinger, Xi-Nan Ma) 2005, “Regularity of Potential Functions of the Optimal Transportation Problem”, [[Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis|Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal.]] 177 (2005), 151-183.
* (with Xiaohua Zhu) “Kähler-Ricci solitons on toric manifolds with positive first Chern class”, [[Advances in Mathematics|Adv. Math.]] 188 (2004), 87-103.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/~wang/ Xu-Jia Wang's homepage at ANU]
* [http://www.austms.org.au/The+Australian+Mathematical+Society+Medal The Australian Mathematical Society Medal]
* [http://www.zju.edu.cn/zdxw/jd/read.php?recid=25993 浙大数学博士汪徐家当选为澳大利亚科学院院士] (in Chinese)
* [http://www.science.org.au/aashome.htm The Australian Academy of Science]


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