Curriculum Vitae

Jun     ZOU

PERSONAL:
  • Address: Department of Mathematics, the Chinese University of Hong Kong,
                        Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong.
  • Email: zou@math.cuhk.edu.hk; Phone: (852) 2609-7985; Fax: (852) 2603-5154.
  • Born: May 1962, Jiangxi, P.R. China. Married, two children.

    • EDUCATION:
  • Ph. D.:       1986--1989, Computing Center, the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
                          Awarded the President Fellowship of Chinese Academy of Sciences
                          -- Excellent Prize.
  • Master:       1983--1986, Department of Mathematics, Wuhan University.
  • Bachelor:   1979--1983, Department of Mathematics, Jiangxi University.
                         Awarded the Outstanding Student Prize (twice).

    • EXPERIENCE:
  • Professor (A3, equiv to Chair Professor): Aug. 2012 - present,
                                    Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  • Professor: Jan. 2002 - July 2012,
                                    Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  • Associate Professor: Jan. 1997 - Dec. 2001,
                                    Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  • Lecturer/Assistant Professor: Aug. 1995 - Dec. 1996,
                                    Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  • CAM Assistant Professor: Aug. 1994--Aug. 1995,
                                    Department of Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles.
                                   CAM is for Computational and Applied Mathematics.
  • Post Doctoral Research Fellow: Nov. 1993--July 1994,
                                    Department of Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles.
  • Visiting Scholar: Aug. 1993--Oct 1993;
                                    Institute for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Technical Univ. of
                                    Munich.
  • Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow of Germany: Aug. 1992--July 1993.
                                    Host Institute: Institute for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, TUM.
  • Visiting Research Scholar: May 1992--July 1992,
                                    Institute for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Technical Univ. of
                                    Munich.
  • Visiting Research Scholar: Aug. 1991--April 1992,
                                    Institute of Mathematics, University of Augsburg, West Germany.
  • Assistant Professor: July 1989--July 1991,
                                    Computing Center, the Chinese Academy of Sciences.


    • Short-Term Visiting Scholar at Following Institutions:

    1. USA:
      Dept of Mathematics, Univ of California at Los Angeles:
      1 Nov 1993--15 Aug 1995
      Center for Research in Scientific Computation, North Carolina State Univ:
      23 July--22 Sep 1998
      Dept of Computer Science, Univ of Colorado at Boulder:
      9 July--22 July 1998
      Dept of Mathematics, Penn State Univ:
      Aug 16--Aug 22, 1994
    2. Canada:
      Dept of Math Sciences, Univ of Alberta, Canada:
      1 July--15 Aug 2004
    3. Germany & Switherland:
      ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich):
      Aug 1-- Aug 30, 2005
      Mathematisches Forschungsinstitute Oberwolfach:
      Feb 21--28, 2004
      Center of Advanced European Studies and Research, Bonn:
      22 July--28 Aug 2001
      Center for Techno-Mathematics, Univ of Bremen:
      22 Aug--4 Sep 1999
      Institute for Appl Math, Technical Univ of Munich:
      30 July--30 Aug 1996
    4. France:
      Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris:
      22 May--19 June 2002 ;   21 June--21 July 2001
      INRIA (A French national institute), Paris, France:
      15 July--29 July 1996
    5. UK:
      School of Computing and Math Sciences, Univ of Greenwich:
      Aug 25--Sept 1 2005 .
      School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Exeter:
      May--22 May 2002 ;   29 June--20 Aug 1999
      Dept of Computer Studies, Loughborough Univ:
      6 July--14 July 1996
    6. Austria:
      Institute for Industrial Math, Johannes Kepler University Linz:
      10 June--10 July 2000
      Institute for Mathematics, University of Graz, Austria:
      30 July--2 Sep 1997
    7. Sweden & Norway:
      Mittag-Leffler Institute of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
      (& Swedish Natural Science Research Council, NFR):
      13 Oct--19 Oct 1997
      Institute of Math, University of Bergen, Norway:
      14--31 July 2005
    8. Taiwan:
      National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Math. Division:
      June 20-30, 2002
    9. Beijing, China:
      Institute of Comput Math, The Chinese Academy of Sciences:
      21 Dec 2000--2 Jan 2001
      Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Math:
      10 Dec--18 Dec 1998
    10. Shanghai & Hangzhou, China:
      Dept of Mathematics, Shanghai Jiaotong Univ:
      March 24-28, 2004 ;   22 Dec 2001--2 Jan 2002
      Dept of Mathematics, Fudan Univ:
      July 31--Aug 11, 2003
    11. Wuhan, China:
      State Key Lab of Software Engineering, Wuhan Univ:
      23 Dec 2002--3 Jan 2003 ;   2 April--9 April 2000 ;   23 Dec--29 Dec 1999

    Honors:

    1. July 1999--Aug 1999: Royal Society Visiting Scholarship of UK
    2. Aug 1992--July 1993:   Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow of Germany
    3. 1991:   The Second Prize of Youth Science Award,
                  Computing Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
    4. 1989: President Fellowship of Chinese Academy of Sciences--Excellent Prize
    5. Listed in
      Marquis Who'sWho in Science and Engineering (6th Edition, 2002/2003);
      Marquis Who'sWho in the World (19th Edition, 2002)
    6. Nov 2003 -- present : Guest Professor,
                                        Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    7. June 2004 -- present : Guest Professor,
                                        Supercomputing Center, The Chinese Academy of Sciences


    Research Grants as Principal Investigators:

    1. RGC Direct Grants for Research 1995-1996 (CUHK2060082): HK$80,000.
    2. Incentive Fund for Research 1995/96 (Faculty of Science CUHK): HK$45,000.
    3. Hong Kong RGC Earmarked Grant (CUHK338/96E): HK$416,000.
    4. Research Fellow Grant (CUHK) 1997: HK$95,000.
    5. IMS Research Fund (CUHK) 1997/98: HK$ 265,000.
    6. Hong Kong RGC Earmarked Grant (CUHK4004/98E): HK$485,000.
    7. RGC Direct Grants for Research 1998-1999 (CUHK2060154): HK$68,000.
    8. Germany/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme Grant 1998-1999 (GHK99/05).
    9. Hong Kong RGC Earmarked Grant (CUHK4132/99H): HK$605,000 (as Co-I).
    10. IMS Research Fund (CUHK) 2000-2001: HK$ 200,000.
    11. Hong Kong RGC Earmarked Grant (CUHK4292/00P): HK$288,000.
    12. France/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme Grant 2000-2001 (F-HKB03/00).
    13. Hong Kong RGC Earmarked Grant (CUHK4244/01P): HK$295,000.
    14. France/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme Grant 2001-2002 (F-HKB03/01).
    15. RGC Direct Grants for Research 2001-2002 (CUHK2060226): HK$80,000.
    16. Hong Kong RGC Earmarked Grant (CUHK4048/02P): HK$500,000.
    17. Hong Kong RGC Earmarked Grant (CUHK4356/02E): HK$413,000 (as Co-I).
    18. Hong Kong RGC Earmarked Grant (project 403403): HK$411,000.
    19. RGC Direct Grants for Research 2005-2006 (CUHK2060276): HK$100,000.
    20. Hong Kong RGC Earmarked Grant (project 404105): HK$308,000.
    21. Hong Kong RGC Earmarked Grant (project 404606): HK$557,690.
    22. Hong Kong RGC Earmarked Grant (project 404407): HK$570,000.
    23. Hong Kong RGC Earmarked Grant (project 405110): HK$899,300.
    24. Hong Kong RGC Earmarked Grant (project 404611): HK$669,415.


    Book Editors:

    1. (with Tsz Shun Chung, Masahiro Yamamoto and Gunther Uhlmann), Methods and Applications of Analysis, Vol. 18, No. 1, International Press, USA, 2011.
    2. (with Tsz Shun Chung, Masahiro Yamamoto and Gunther Uhlmann), Methods and Applications of Analysis, Vol. 17, No. 4, International Press, USA, 2010.
    3. (with Zhong-Ci Shi, Mo Mu and Weimin Xue) Advances in Scientific Computing, Science Press, Beijing/New York, 2001, 243 pages.
    4. (with Xuebin Chi), Proceedings of International Conference on Parallel Algorithms and Computing Environments, Beijing, 2003.


    On Editorial Boards of Mathematical Journals:

    1. January 2013 -- present :
      ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis (M2AN).
      French Society for Applied and Industrial Mathematics & Cambridge University Press.
    2. November 2012 -- present :
      Inverse Problems and Imaging.
      American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, USA.
    3. January 2012 -- present :
      Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics.
      Columbia International Publishing, USA.
    4. June 2011 -- present: :
      Applicable Analysis.
      Taylor & Francis, UK.
    5. January 2007 -- present :
      Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications.
      Global Science Press, Hong Kong.
    6. March 2006 -- present :
      Journal of Numerical Mathematics.
      Brill Academic Publishers, The Netherlands.
    7. January 2005 -- present :
      Journal of Inverse and Ill-posed Problems.
      VSP, The Netherlands.
    8. January 2004 -- present :
      International Journal of Numerical Analysis & Modeling.
      IJNAM Publisher, Canada.
    9. March 2000 -- present :
      International Journal of Computer Mathematics.
      Taylor & Francis Ltd, UK.

    1. June 2003 -- December 2012 :
      Far East Journal of Applied Mathematics.
      Pushpa Publishing House, India.
    2. March 1999 -- Dec 2010 :
      International Journal of Applied Mathematics.
      Academic Publications, Bulgaria.
    3. Dec 1999 -- Dec 2006 :
      International Journal of Differential Equations and Applications.
      Academic Publications, Bulgaria.

    Invited Talks in Conferences/Workshops:

    1. (Plenary talk) The 20th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods , February 7-11, 2011, San Diego, USA.
    2. (Plenary talk) International Conference on Inverse Problems , December 13-17, 2010, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
    3. (45-min talk) International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians , December 17-22, 2010, Beijing, China.
    4. (40-min talk) International Workshop on Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications, August 25-28, 2010, Nanjing, China.
    5. (50-min talk) International Symposium on Maxwell Equations: Theoretical and Numerical Issues with Applications, July 26-29, 2010, Shanghai, China.
    6. (Plenary talk) The 7th National Workshop on Modern Scientific Computing , July 18-22, 2010, Lanzhou, China.
    7. (Plenary talk) The Second International Workshop on Computational Inverse Problems and Applications, July 12-15, 2010, Beijing, China.
    8. (Plenary talk) Discontinuous Galerkin Methods - Solvers and Applications, May 31-June 1, 2010, Linz, Austria.
    9. (Plenary talk) Workshop on Domain Decomposition Solvers for Heterogeneous Field Problems, June 2-6, 2010, Sollerhaus, Austria.
    10. (Plenary talk) Workshop on Modern Computational Methods and Large-scale Oil-Gas Seismic Explorations, June 18-19, 2010, Guangzhou, China.
    11. Oberwolfach Workshop on Computational Electromagnetics and Acoustics, February 14-20, 2010, Oberwolfach, Germany.
    12. (Plenary talk) International Workshop on Large-scale Scientific and Engineering Computing, January 8, 2010, Shenzhen, China.
    13. (40-min talk) International Workshop on Computational Methods for Ill-posed Problems, December 18-20, 2009, Guangzhou, China.
    14. (40-min talk) International Conference on Sparse Representation of Multiscale Data and Images: Theory and Applications, December 14-17, 2009, Singapore.
    15. (Invited minisymposium talk) The 19th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods, August 17-22, 2009, Zhangjiajie, China.
    16. (Invited minisymposium talk) Confernce on Applied Inverse Problems, July 20-24, 2009, Vienna, Austria.
    17. (45-min talk) International Conference on Mathematical Control Theory, May 15-17, 2009, Beijing, China.
    18. (Invited minisymposium talk) International Conference on Partial Differential Equations and Applications, December 5-8, 2008, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
    19. (Plenary talk) International Workshop on Numerical Methods and Software, October 30-31, 2008, Beijing, China.
    20. (45-min talk) Sino-French Joint Workshop on Partial Differential Equations, October 19-26, 2008, Tianjin, China.
    21. (Plenary talk) AMSS-PolyU Joint Research Institute Workshop on Computational Mathematics, September 24, 2008, Hong Kong.
    22. (30-min talk) International Workshop on Scientific Computing, June 7-8, 2008, Beijing, China.
    23. (Plenary talk) International Conference on Inverse Scattering Problems, May 8-10, 2008, Sestri Levante, Italy.
    24. (Plenary talk) The 7th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Computer & Applied Computational Science , April 6-8, 2008, Hangzhou, China.
    25. (45-min talk) The 4th International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, December 17-22, 2007, Hangzhou, China.
    26. (50-min talk) 2007 Annual Meeting of the Taiwan Mathematical Society , December 21-24, 2007, Taipei, Taiwan.
    27. (45-min talk) Workshop on Mathematics of Multi-Scale Problems , December 9-13, 2007, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong.
    28. (30-min talk) Symposium in Honor of Professor Karl-Heinz Hoffmann , October 11-12, 2007, Munich, Germany.
    29. (Plenary talk) The 6th International Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization , September 7-12, 2007, Xinjiang, China.
    30. (2 two-hour talks) National Summer School on Numerical Analysis, August 1-19, 2007, Hangzhou, China.
    31. (2 two-hour talks) The 12th National Summer School In Mathematics for Graduate Students, July 21-August 18, 2007, Wuhan, China.
    32. (45-min talk) Summer Workshop on Multilevel Adaptive Methods, June 30-July 9, 2007, Beijing, China.
    33. (2 two-hour talks) Summer School on Optimal Control Theory and Related Topics, June 11-July 20, 2007, Chengdu, China.
    34. (Plenary talk) First International Congress of The International Association for Inverse Problems & International Conference on Applied Inverse Problems 2007 , June 25-29, 2007, Vancouver, Canada.
    35. (40-min talk) Computational Electromagnetism and Acoustics , February 4-10, 2007, Oberwolfach, Germany.
    36. (30-min talk) The 15th Workshop on Differential Equations , December 22-24, 2006, Tainan, Taiwan.
    37. (45-min talk) The International Conference on Multilevel Iterative Methods, August 14-18, 2006, Beijing, China.
    38. (45-min talk) Inverse Problems in Applied Sciences -- towards breakthrough , July 3-7, 2006, Sapporo, Japan.
    39. (30-min talk) The Fifth International Conference on Scientific Computing and Applications, May 18-21, 2006, Banff, Canada.
    40. (plenary talk) The 2nd International Conference on Scientific Computing and Partial Differential Equations & The First East Asia SIAM Symposium, December 12-16, 2005, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.
    41. (plenary talk) International Conference on Distributed Algorithms for Science and Engineering, August 25-27, 2005, London, UK.
    42. (plenary talk) The 16th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods, January 11-15, 2005, New York, USA.
    43. (45-min talk) The Third International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Dec 17-22, 2004, Hong Kong.
    44. (45-min talk) The Second International Conference on Inverse Problems, June 16-21, 2004, Shanghai, China.
    45. (45-min talk) International Conference on Numerical and Applied PDEs, June 23-28, 2004, Changchun, China.
    46. (plenary talk) International Conference `` Inverse Problems: Modeling and Simulation", June 7-12, 2004, Fethiye, Turkey.
    47. (45-min talk) International Conference on Computational Electromagnetism, Feb 22-28, 2004, Oberwolfach, Germany.
    48. (plenary talk) International Workshop on Parallel Algorithms and Evolutionary Computation, Dec 27-Dec 29, 2002, Wuhan, China.
    49. (plenary talk) The 5th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing - ICA3PP2002, Oct 22-25, 2002, Beijing, China.
    50. (30-min talk) International Conference on Nonlinear Differential Equations, Aug 29-Sept 2, 2002, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
    51. (plenary talk) 2002 NCTS Workshop on Multiscale Analysis and Computation, June 24-28, 2002, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
    52. (30-min talk) International Conference on Inverse Problems, Jan 9-12, 2002, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
    53. (plenary talk) International Conference in Applied Partial Differential Equations and Applications, May 23-25, 2002, Washington, USA.
    54. (plenary talk) The 2001 Workshop for Parallel Algorithms on Large-Scale Parallel Computers, Beijing International Center for Computational Physics, Nov 5-9, 2001, Beijing, China.
    55. (30-min talk) The 3rd Intern'l ISAAC Congress, August 20--25, 2001, Berlin, Germany.
    56. (20-min talk) The 7th Intern'l Workshop on Electromagnetic Nondestructive Evaluation, May 17-19, 2001, Kobe, Japan.
    57. (30-min talk) Intern'l Conference on Scientific & Engineering Computing, March 19-23, 2001, Beijing, P.R. China.
    58. (plenary talk) Finite volume methods for solving electromagnetic systems, The 9th National Universities Academic Exchange Conference on Computational Mathematics, October 17-20, 2000, Wuhan, P.R. China.
    59. (plenary talk) The Sixth National Conference on Parallel Computing, October 11-17, 2000, Changsha, China.
    60. (plenary talk) Finite volume/element methods for electromagnetic problems in nonhomogeneous media, Workshop on Electromagnetic and Wave Propagation 2000, July 28 -- August 4, 2000, Beijing, P.R. China.
    61. (plenary talk) Simultaneous reconstruction of the heat radiative coefficient and initial temperature, International Conference on Inverse Problem, June 26-30, 2000, Strobl, Austria.
    62. (plenary talk) Edge and nodal FEM's and their convergence theories for electromagnetic problems in discontinuous media, 2nd International Workshop on Scientific Computing and Applications, May 28 -- June 1, 2000, Kananaskis, Canada.
    63. (plenary talk) Numerical methods for solving some ill-posed problems, International Workshop on Evolutionary Computation, April 3-8, 2000, Wuhan, China.
    64. (plenary talk) Nodal and edge FE methods and their convergence theory for Maxwell equations with continuous/discontinuous coefficients, The Second Sweden-China Workshop on Numerical Partial Differential Equations, January 9-13, 2000, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong.
    65. (plenary talk) On some regularized numerical identification methods, Conference on Mathematical Theory and Numerical Analysis for Inverse Problems, January 18-22, 1999, Kiryu, Japan.
    66. (40-min talk) Some numerical methods and their convergence theory for electromagnetic problems, IMS Workshop on Reaction-Diffusion Systems, Dec 6--10, 1999, Shatin, Hong Kong.
    67. (30-min talk) Simultaneous reconstruction of the heat radiation coefficient and initial data, International Conference on Differential Equations from Mechnics, May 31--June 5, 1999, Shatin, Hong Kong.
    68. (30-min talk) On some nonlinear inverse problem solvers, Workshop on Numerical Partial Differential Equations, January 13, 1999, Hong Kong Univ of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.
    69. (30-min talk) Regularity and approximation of systems arising in electromagnetic interrogation of dielectric materials, Workshop on Scientific Computing and its Applications, Dec. 7--10, 1998, City Univ of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
    70. (plenary talk) Numerical methods for determination of physical parameters and potentials, International Conference on Inverse Problems, September 28 - October 2, 1998, Vietri sul mare (Salerno), Italy.
    71. (plenary talk) Non-overlapping domain decomposition methods, The Seventh International Colloquium on Numerical Analysis and Computer Science with Applications, August 13-17, 1998, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
    72. (plenary talk) Elliptic and parabolic inverse problems: algorithms and analysis, The Ninth International Colloquium on Differential Equations,
      August 18-23, 1998, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
    73. (40-min talk) Efficient linear solvers for some nonlinear inverse problems, Workshop on Numerical PDEs, April 28, 1998, Hong Kong.
    74. (plenary talk) Numerical methods for inverse problems and their convergence analyses, The Joint Chinese-Swedish Conference in Numerical Analysis,
      October 13-18, 1997, Stockholm, Sweden.
    75. (plenary talk) Finite element methods for solving Maxwell's equations, China National Conference on Numerical Mathematics,
      January 6-9, 1997, Xiangtan, China.
    76. (30-min talk) Numerical solutions of elliptic and parabolic inverse problems, Hong Kong Mathematical Society Annual Meeting,
      April 26, 1997, Hong Kong.
    77. (30-min tAlk) Numerical algorithms and convergence analysis on parabolic inverse problems, The First Pan-China Conference on Differential equations,
      May 31-June 3, 1997, Kuming, China.


    CO-ORGANIZER OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES:

    1. International Conference on Hot Topics in Current Applied and Industrial Mathematics, July 13-16, 2005, Guizhou, China.
    2. International Conference on Parallel Algorithms and Computing Environments, Oct 8-11, 2003, Hong Kong. (Chair of the Organizing Committee).
    3. ICM2002 Satellite Conference on Scientific Computing, August 15--18, 2002, Xi'an, China.
    4. The Second Sweden-China Workshop on Numerical Partial Differential Equations, January 10-12, 2000, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong.
    5. International Conference on Differential Equations from Mechanics, May 31--June 5, 1999, Hong Kong.
    6. Second Intern'l Conference on Bifurcation Theory and Its Numerical Analysis, June 29-July 3, 1998, Xi'an, China.
    7. Workshop on Numerical Partial Differential Equations. July 1--7, 1996, Beijing.
    8. Sixth International Conf. on Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, Applications. June 15--19, 1996, Hong Kong.
    9. Winter School on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computing and Their Applications. Dec. 14--20, 1995, Hong Kong.


    IN SCIENTIFIC/PROGRAM COMMITTEES OF INTERN'L CONFERENCES:

    1. The 7th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, June 11-14, 2007, Hangzhou, China.
    2. European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, September 5-8, 2006, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.
    3. The 6th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures (ICA3PP-2005), October 2-5, 2005, Melbourne, Australia.
    4. International Conference on Sensing Technoloy, Nov 21-23, 2005, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
    5. International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Applications to Business, Engineering and Sciences, Aug 25-27, 2005, Greenwich, UK.
    6. International Conference on Scientific Computing, June 4-8, 2005, Nanjing, China.
    7. International Conference on Inverse Problems: modeling and simulation, June 7-12, 2004, Fethiye, Turkey.
    8. The 8th National Academic Exchange Meeting on Parallel Computings, July 2004, Dalian, China.
    9. The 7th National Academic Exchange Meeting on Parallel Computings, July 30 - August 3, 2003, Chengdu, China.
    10. The 5th International Conference on Algorithms & Architectures for Parallel Processing, October 23-25, 2002, Beijing.
    11. International Conference on Inverse Problems, January 9-12, 2002, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
    12. International Conference on Scientific Computing, August 28-30, 2000, Beijing.
    13. Tenth International Colloquium on Differential Equations, August 18--23, 1999, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
    14. Second Conference on Scientific and Engneering Computing for Young Chinese Scientists, July 1-4, 1999, Beijing.
    15. International Conference on Differential Equations from Mechanics, May 31--June 5, 1999, Shatin, Hong Kong.

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