Nan Li

University of Minnesota

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Mathematics at the University of Minnesota, advised by Arnd Scheel. I received my B.S. in Mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Selected publications

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Instability of an anchored spiral wave numerical simulation

Instability of anchored spirals in geometric flows

Anthony Cortez, Nan Li, Nathan Mihm, Alice Xu, Xiaoxing Yu, Arnd Scheel,

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena • 2025

Spiral wave simulation snapshot with core radius 50

Anchored spirals in the driven curvature flow approximation

Nan Li, Arnd Scheel,

London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series • 2024

Counting compatible indexing systems for C_p^n

Michael A. Hill, Jiayun Meng, Nan Li,

Orbita Mathematicae • 2022

Latest posts

Why Arclength Continuation?

Overcome fold points and optimize parameter sweeping using arclength continuation

Nan Li Dec 1, 2025 3 min read

dynamical-systems continuation numerical-methods
Center Manifold for PDE Dynamics: A Concrete Example

A concrete example of center manifold reduction for PDE

Nan Li Nov 30, 2025 4 min read

dynamical-systems center-manifold pde