Pitt Professor Presents Paper

Dr. Yong-Zhuo Chen, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford professor of mathematics, presented a paper at the World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts last week in Orlando, Fla. “A Presic Type Contractive Condition and Its Applications,” was a theoretical paper dealing with discrete dynamics, the study of quantities that change at discrete points in time. The congress is held every four years to bring together scholars from around the world in the various disciplines that attempt to understand nonlinear phenomena.

Chen was born in China. He obtained his master of science degree in mathematics from Shanghai Normal University and taught there as an instructor for a couple of years. He came to the United States at the end of 1983 to attend the University of Pittsburgh, where he received his doctorate in mathematics in 1988.

Chen’s Ph.D. work was in the field of harmonic analysis and he, together with his advisor, initiated the study of several new classes of Hardy spaces, which have been developed considerably by other mathematicians since then.

After working as a visiting assistant professor at Bowling Green State University for one year, he began his career at Pitt-Bradford in 1989.

Since coming to Pitt-Bradford, his research interest has shifted to the field of nonlinear operators. He has published about 30 refereed papers, which include several co-authored articles with students, in college-level mathematics journals.

He is also chairman of the division of physical and computational sciences. He lives in Bradford.