CURRICULUM VITAE Tsz Shun Eric Chung Applied and Computational Mathematics California Institute of Technology 1200 E. California Blvd., MC 217-50 Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Education 1. Ph. D. (2005), Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles. Thesis advisor: Prof. Björn Engquist Thesis title: Finite volume and discontinuous galerkin methods for the numerical approximation of wave equations 2. M.Phil.(2000), Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Thesis advisor: Prof. Jun Zou Thesis title: Finite volume approximation of the Maxwells equations in nonhomogeneous media 3. B.Sc. (1998), Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Honor: First Class Major: Mathematics Minor: Computer Science Research Interests 1. Discontinuous Galerkin methods, finite element and finite volume methods 2. Two phase flow in porous media 3. Numerical methods for wave propagation and Stokes equations 4. High frequency wave propagation 5. Electrical impedance and traveltime tomography 6. Numerical analysis, numerical solution to PDEs Journal Publications 1. Eric Chung, Jianliang Qian, Gunther Uhlmann and Hong-kai Zhao. A new phase space method for recovering index of refraction from travel times. Inverse Problems., 23 (2007), pp. 309-329. 2. Eric T. Chung and Bjorn Engquist. Optimal discontinuous Galerkin methods for wave propagation. SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 44 (2006), pp. 2131-2158. 1
3. Eric T. Chung, Tony F. Chan and Xue-Cheng Tai. Electrical impedance tomography using level set representation and total variational regularization. J. Comput. Phy., (205) 2005, pp. 357-372. 4. Eric T. Chung and Bjorn Engquist. Convergence analysis of fully discrete finite volume methods for Maxwells equations in non-homogeneous media. SIAM J. Numer. Anal., (43) 2005, pp. 303-317. 5. Eric T. Chung, Qiang Du and Jun Zou. Convergence analysis on a finite volume method for Maxwells equations in non-homogeneous media. SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 41 (2003), pp.37-63. 6. Eric T. Chung and Jun Zou. The eigenvalues and eigenspaces of some discrete div- and curl-related operators. SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 24 (2003), pp.1149-1160. 7. T. S. Chung and Jun Zou. A finite volume method for Maxwells equations with discontinuous physical coefficients. Int. J. Appl. Math., 7 (2001), pp.201-224. Conference Proceedings 1. Eric T. Chung and Bjorn Engquist. A new discontinuous Galerkin method for Maxwell s equations. The 8-th US national congress on computational mechanics, Austin, Texas, 2005. 2. Eric T. Chung and Bjorn Engquist. Staggered grid discontinuous Galerkin methods for Maxwell s equations. The 7-th international conference on mathematical and numerical aspects of waves, Brown University, Providence, 2005. Presentations 1. September 2007. Invited talk, Department of Mathematics, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2. June 2007. Invited talk, Conference on Applied Inverse Problems 2007. 3. September 2006. Invited talk, Department of Mathematics, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 4. August 2006. Contributed talk, International Congress of Mathematicians, ICM 2006. 2
5. July 2006. Invited talk, SIAM conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations. 6. June 2006. Invited talk, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine. 7. March 2006. Invited talk, Applied and Computational Mathematics, California Institute of Technology. 8. February 2006. Invited talk, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder. 9. July 2005. Contributed talk, the 8-th US national congress on computational mechanics. 10. June 2005. Contributed talk, the 7-th international conference on mathematical and numerical aspects of waves (WAVES 2005). 11. May 2005. Invited talk, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles. Experience 1. July 2006 - now. von Karman Instructor, Applied and Computational Mathematics, California Institute of Technology. 2. July 2005 - June 2006. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine. 3. June 2005 - August 2005. Faculty Mentor, RIPS 2005, IPAM. 4. October 2003 - June 2005. Teaching assistant, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles. 5. October 2001 - June 2003. Research assistant, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles. 3
Awards 1. 2006. AMS-NSF travel grant for ICM 2006. 2. 2001-2005. Teaching assistant-ship, University of California, Los Angeles. Journal reviewer 1. International Journal of Computer Mathematics 2. International Journal of Nnmerical Analysis and Modeling 3. Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering 4. Journal of Scientific Computing Conferences attended 1. June 25 - June 29, 2007 Conference on Applied Inverse Problems 2007. University of British Columbia, Canada. 2. December 9 - December 14, 2006. Numerical methods for degenerate elliptic equations and applications. Banff International Research Station, Canada. 3. August 22 - August 30, 2006. International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2006). Madrid, Spain. 4. July 10 - July 12, 2006. SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations. Boston, USA. 5. October 17 - October 21, 2005. Imaging from wave propagation. IMA, University of Minnesota. 6. September 19 - September 22, 2005. Workshop on high frequency wave propagation. CSCAMM, University of Maryland, College Park. 7. August 26 - August 27, 2005. Internationl forum on multiscale methods and partial differential equations (workshop in celebration of Bjorn Engquist s 60-th birthday). IPAM, UCLA. 4
8. July 24 - July 28, 2005. The 8-th US national congress on computational mechanics. Austin, Texas. 9. June 20 - June 24, 2005. The 7-th international conference on mathematical and numerical aspects of waves. Brown University, Providence. 10. February 12 - February 15, 2005. SIAM conference on computational science and engineering. Disney s Coronado springs resort, Orlando, Florida. 11. January 10 - January 14, 2005. Multiscale processes in fusion plasmas. 12. November 15 - November 19, 2004. MGA Workshop V: Math analysis and multiscale geometric analysis. 13. October 19 - October 23, 2004. MGA Workshop II: Multiscale geometry in scientific computing. 14. April 24, 2004. Fourth southern California applied mathematics symposium. Claremont colleges, USA. 15. May 3, 2003. Third southern California applied mathematics symposium. University of California at Irvine, USA. 16. June 3 - June 7, 2002. NSF-CBMS Regional conference, numerical methods in forward and inverse electromagnetic scattering. Colorado School of Mines, USA. 17. April 5 - April 7, 2002. International conference on scientific computing, partial differential equations and image processing (on the occasion of Stanley Oshers 60th birthday). University of California at Los Angeles, USA. 18. May 31 - June 5, 1999. IMS Conference on differential equations from mechanics. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 5