Hong-Wei Zhang

Professor
Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics
Harbin Institute of Technology

Office: Mingde Building 205B
Harbin Institute of Technology
No.92 West Da Zhi Street
150001, Harbin, China

Emails: zhanghw@hit.edu.cn (HIT) zhw.dimn@gmail.com (Gmail)

(My university email addresses at Paderborn, Ghent, and Orléans are no longer in use.)

Abstract line portrait of Hong-Wei Zhang giving a mathematics talk

Journey

Positions

Since 2026.05
Professor (tenure-track)Institute for Advanced Study in MathematicsHarbin Institute of Technology, China
2026.02—2026.04
Visiting scholarInstitute for Advanced Study in MathematicsHarbin Institute of Technology, China
2023.07—2026.01
Postdoctoral researcherPaderborn University, GermanyMentor: Tobias Weich ↗
2020.04—2023.06
Postdoctoral researcherGhent University, BelgiumMentor: Michael Ruzhansky ↗

Education

2017.10—2020.12
Ph.D. in MathematicsUniversity of Orléans, FranceSupervisors: Jean-Philippe Anker ↗ and Nicolas Burq ↗
2015.09—2017.09
M.S. in MathematicsUniversity of Paris-Saclay (Orsay), France
2013.09—2015.06
B.S. in MathematicsUniversity of Orléans, France

Research

Research interests

  • Harmonic analysis on symmetric and locally symmetric spaces
  • Partial differential equations on manifolds

Preprints

  1. Preprint

    Growth estimates for solutions to the wave equation on Damek-Ricci spaces

    Yunxiang Wang, Lixin Yan, and Hong-Wei Zhang

  2. Preprint

    Massless Dirac equation on spinor bundles over real hyperbolic spaces

    Long Meng, Hong-Wei Zhang, and Junyong Zhang

  3. Preprint

    Stein-Weiss inequality on non-compact symmetric spaces

    Vishvesh Kumar, Michael Ruzhansky, and Hong-Wei Zhang

  4. Preprint

    Smoothing properties of dispersive equations on non-compact symmetric spaces

    Vishvesh Kumar, Michael Ruzhansky, and Hong-Wei Zhang

Publications

  1. 2026

    Lacunary Spherical Maximal Operators on Hyperbolic Spaces

    Yunxiang Wang and Hong-Wei Zhang

    Math. Z. 313 (2026), no. 2, Paper No. 40.

  2. 2024

    L2-spectrum, growth indicator function and critical exponent on locally symmetric spaces

    Lasse L. Wolf and Hong-Wei Zhang

    Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 152 (2024), no. 12, 5445-5453.

  3. 2024

    Wave equation on general noncompact symmetric spaces

    Jean-Philippe Anker and Hong-Wei Zhang

    Amer. J. Math. 146 (2024), no. 4, 983-1031.

  4. 2024

    Space-time mixed norm estimates in Riemannian symmetric spaces of non-compact type

    Hong-Wei Zhang

    Research Perspectives Ghent Analysis and PDE Center, Trends Math., vol. 3.

    Birkhäuser/Springer, Cham, 2024, 229-234.

  5. 2023

    Asymptotic behavior of the heat semigroup on certain Riemannian manifolds

    Alexander Grigor'yan, Effie Papageorgiou, and Hong-Wei Zhang

    From Classical Analysis to Analysis on Fractals, Appl. Numer. Harmon. Anal.

    Birkhäuser/Springer, Cham, 2023, 165-179.

  6. 2023

    Schrödinger equation on noncompact symmetric spaces

    Jean-Philippe Anker, Stefano Meda, Vittoria Pierfelice, Maria Vallarino, and Hong-Wei Zhang

    J. Differential Equations 356 (2023), 163-187.

  7. 2023

    Asymptotic behavior of solutions to the heat equation on noncompact symmetric spaces

    Jean-Philippe Anker, Effie Papageorgiou, and Hong-Wei Zhang

    J. Funct. Anal. 284 (2023), no. 6, Paper No. 109828, 43 pp.

  8. 2022

    Bottom of the L2 spectrum of the Laplacian on locally symmetric spaces

    Jean-Philippe Anker and Hong-Wei Zhang

    Geom. Dedicata 216 (2022), no. 1, Paper No. 3, 12 pp.

  9. 2021

    Wave equation on certain noncompact symmetric spaces

    Hong-Wei Zhang

    Pure Appl. Anal. 3 (2021), no. 2, 363-386.

  10. 2020

    Wave and Klein-Gordon equations on certain locally symmetric spaces

    Hong-Wei Zhang

    J. Geom. Anal. 30 (2020), no. 4, 4386-4406.

Other writings

  1. 2020

    Équation des ondes sur les espaces symétriques et localement symétriques de type non compact

    Hong-Wei Zhang

    Ph.D. thesis, University of Orléans, 2020.

Travel

◆ host† online* attended without a talk

2026

Jan
Feb

ZJU Hangzhou (Conf.*)

Mar

LZU Lanzhou (Conf.*)

Apr

Westlake Hangzhou (Conf.*)
LYU Linyi (Conf.)

May

BIT Beijing (Seminar)
BNU Beijing (Seminar)
ZUST Hangzhou (Seminar)
ZJST Hangzhou (Conf.*)

Jun

CSU Changsha (Visit)
CNU Chongqing (Conf.)
SYSU Guangzhou (Visit)
ZJNU Jinhua (Conf.)

Jul

Patras (Visit)
Athens (Conf.*)
USTC Hefei (Visit)
YNNU Kunming (Sum. Sch.)

Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Earlier Years

2025

Jan

SYSU Guangzhou (Visit)
ShanghaiTech (Visit)

Feb
Mar

LZU Lanzhou (Seminar)
HIT Harbin (Visit)

Apr

Orléans (Visit)

May
Jun
Jul

YNNU Kunming (Sum. Sch.)

Aug

IISc Bangalore (Seminar)

Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

2024

Jan

Bielefeld (Seminar)
Genova (Conf.)

Feb
Mar

BNU Beijing (Seminar)
CNU Beijing (Seminar)
ShanghaiTech (Visit)

Apr

SYSU Guangzhou (Visit)
HIT Harbin (Visit)
TJU Tianjin (Seminar)

May

Orsay (Conf.*)

Jun
Jul

YNNU Kunming (Sum. Sch.)

Aug
Sep

Paderborn (Conf.*)

Oct
Nov
Dec

Bielefeld (Seminar)
HIT Harbin (Conf.)

2023

Jan
Feb

Besançon (Seminar)

Mar
Apr

Delft (Seminar)
Paderborn (Seminar)
Reims (Conf.)

May
Jun

Angers (Conf.*)
Créteil (Seminar)

Jul

HIT Harbin (Visit)
Paris (Conf.*)

Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Besançon (Visit)

2022

Jan
Feb

Paderborn (Conf.)

Mar
Apr
May
Jun

Orsay (Conf.*)

Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov

Oberwolfach (Conf.*)

Dec

2021

Jan
Feb

Ghent (Seminar)

Mar

Orsay (Seminar)
Providence (Conf.)

Apr
May

Orléans (Seminar)

Jun

Orsay (Conf.*)

Jul

Évry (Conf.)

Aug
Sep

Porquerolles (Conf.*)

Oct

CIRM Marseille (Conf.)

Nov
Dec

Yaoundé (Conf.)

2018–2020

2018 · Nov

Orléans (Seminar)
Paris (Conf.*)

2018 · Dec

TSIMF Sanya (Conf.)

2019 · Mar

Paris (Conf.*)

2020 · Jan

TSIMF Sanya (Conf.)

2020 · Sep

Ghent (Conf.*†)