| Year |
Age |
|
| 1970 |
0 |
(Mar20) Born in Taichung, Taiwan.
|
| 1985 |
15 |
Studied
"Introduction to Calculus"
by Ming-Chang
Kang.
Knew how to prove the orbit a body followed under an
inverse square
force is an ellipse. Impressed by the beauty of
Newton's
dynamical system.
Tried to study Einstein's relativity.
|
| 1988 |
18 |
Studied in Department
of Mathematics,
National
Taiwan University.
|
| 1992 |
22 |
Studied in Graduate School of Mathematics, NTU. Majored
in differential
geometry.
|
| 1993 |
23 |
(Jul16) Joined the Army.
|
| 1995 |
25 |
(May31) Discharged from the Army.
(Aug05) Moved to New York
City.
Studied in Courant
Institute of
Mathematical Sciences, New York
University.
(Sep) Number one in Written
Examination. Got teaching assistantship.
|
| 1996 |
26 |
Worked with Michael
J. Shelley.
|
| 1997 |
27 |
Passed Oral
Examination.
Told Shelley the idea of a moving curveball... "That's
very interesting...
write down the equations."
Advised by Shelley to work on a falling slender body but
insisted
to work on the moving curveball first.
|
| 1998 |
28 |
Successfully rewrote the dynamics of a moving curveball
in 2D space
in free moving coordinates.
Worked on the dynamics of slender bodies in Stokes flow.
(Aug) Visited Sir
Isaac
Newton in Westminster
Abbey, London.
Achieved a curveball in
numerical simulations.
|
| 1999 |
29 |
(Sep) Ph.D. in Applied
Mathematics.
Dissertation: Theory and Numerical Simulations of Slender-Body Dynamics
in 3D Stokes Flow. Advisor: Michael J. Shelley.
Worked in Oak Ridge
National Laboratory,
Tennessee
as a Research Associate.
|
| 2000 |
30 |
(Jan06) Recommended by David
Cai, submitted the paper "Aerodynamics of a Curveball in 2D
Navier-Stokes
Flow" to Physical Review Letter.
(Feb
14) Reply from Referee A. (Mar 20) Rejected
by PRL.
(Apr17) Visited Taiwan and gave a talk in Academia
Sinica.
(May18) Gave a talk in "Y2k
International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential
Equations"
(Kennesaw State University, Georgia).
(May25) Gave a talk in "3rd
International
Conference on Advances in Fluid Mechanics" (Montréal,
Québec).
(Jul10) Gave a talk in "2000
SIAM Annual Meeting" (San Juan, Puerto Rico).
(Jul17) Appealed for the paper
"Aerodynamics
of a Curveball in 2D Navier-Stokes Flow".
(Aug08) Gave a talk in "Mathematical
Challenges of the 21st Century" with 8 Fields Medalists (Los
Angeles,
California).
(Aug15) Reject was maintained
for "Aerodynamics
of a Curveball in 2D Navier-Stokes Flow".
(Sep20) Submitted "Aerodynamics of a Curveball in 2D
Navier-Stokes
Flow" to Physics of Fluids.
(Oct) Worked on the Oscillations of
a Falling
Slender Body in Viscous Flow.
(Oct12) Visited NYU. Gave a talk in Applied
Math Lab Seminar.
|
| 2001 |
31 |
(Feb) The paper "Moving Coordinates Methods and
Applications to the
Oscillations of a Falling Slender Body" was accepted by "6th
International
Conference on Computational Modeling of Free and Moving Boundary
Problems" (Lemnos, Greece).
(Feb08) Submitted the paper "Dynamics of a Falling
Slender Body"
to Physical Review Letter.
(Feb27) Got the offer from SAC
Capital Management, LLC.
(Feb27) "Aerodynamics of a Curveball in 2D Navier-Stokes
Flow" was
rejected
by Phys. Fluid.
(Mar13) "Dynamics of a Falling Slender Body" was rejected
by PRL.
(Apr02) Emailed
the
Godfather of Applied Math on the last day as a professional
mathematician.
(Apr02) Quit Oak Ridge National
Laboratory.
(Apr09) Joined
SAC
Capital Management, LLC as a Senior Research Scientist.
(Apr20) Met Ms. Julie
Delpy, a talented actress/director who loves mathematics, in The
Avignon/New York Film Festivals.
(Jul11) Gave a talk in "2001
SIAM Annual Meeting" (San Diego, California).
|
| 2002 |
32 |
(Jan) Visiting
Member of Courant Institute, NYU.
|
| 2003 |
33 |
(Apr22) Gave a talk in Charles
Peskin's Mostly Biomathematics Lunchtime Seminar.
(Jun17) Gave a talk in "First
Joint Meeting of CAIMS & SIAM" (Montréal, Québec).
|
| 2006 |
36 |
(omitted) |
