Publications:

1. Zhiwu Lin, Instability of periodic BGK waves, Mathematical Research Letters, 8, 521-534 (2001).

2. Zhiwu Lin, Stability and instability of traveling solitonic bubbles, Advances in Differential Equations, 7, no. 8, 897--918(2002).

3. Zhiwu Lin, Instability of some ideal plane flows, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 35, no. 2, 318--356 (2003).

4. Zhiwu Lin, Some stability and instability criteria for ideal plane flows, Comm. Math. Phys., 246, no.1, 87-112 (2004).

5. Zhiwu Lin, Nonlinear instability of periodic waves for Vlasov-Poisson system, Comm. Pure. Appl. Math., 58 (2005), no. 4, 505--528.

6. Zhiwu Lin, Nonlinear instability of ideal plane flows, Inter. Math. Res. Not., 41, 2147-2178 (2004).

7. Zhiwu Lin, Some recent results on instability of ideal plane flows,  Contemp. Math. 371, 217-229 (2005).

8. Zhiwu Lin and Walter Strauss, Linear stability and instability of relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell systems, Comm. Pure. Appl. Math., 60 (2007), no. 5, 724-787.

9. Zhiwu Lin and Walter Strauss, Nonlinear stability and instability of relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell systems,  Comm. Pure. Appl. Math., 60 (2007), no. 6, 789-837.

10. Yan Guo and Zhiwu Lin, Unstable and Stable Galaxy Models, Commun. Math. Phys., 279 (2008), 789--813.

11. Vera Mikyoung Hur and Zhiwu Lin, Unstable surface waves in running water, Comm. Math. Phys., 282 (2008), no. 3, 733-796.

12. Zhiwu Lin and Yue Liu, Stability of peakons for the Degasperis-Procesi equation, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 62 (2009), 125-146.

13. Zhiwu Lin and Walter Strauss, A sharp stability criterion for the Vlasov-Maxwell system, Invent. Math. 173 (2008), no. 3, 497-546.

14. Zhiwu Lin, Instability of nonlinear dispersive solitary waves, J. Funct. Anal., 255 (2008), 1191-1124.

15. Zhiwu Lin, On Linear Instability of large solitary water waves, Inter. Math. Res. Not., (2009), 1247-1303.

16. Charles Y. Li and Zhiwu Lin, A Resolution of the Sommerfeld Paradox, submitted, 2009.