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Eric T. Chung is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics in The Chinese University of Hong Kong [cuhk web]. He obtained PhD degree from University of California at Los Angeles [ucla web]. His Ph.D. thesis advisor is Prof. Bjorn Engquist [his info]. His research interests are travel time tomography, energy conserving numerical methods for wave propagation, discontinuous galerkin methods, numerical methods for PDE with highly oscillatory coefficients.

Education:
  • PhD (2005), University of California at Los Angeles, Advisor: Bjorn Engquist
  • MPhil (2000), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Advisor: Jun Zou
  • BSc (1998), The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Experience:
  • July 2008 - now: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • July 2006 - June 2008: von Karman Instructor, Applied and Computational Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
  • July 2005 - June 2006: Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, University of California at Irvine
  • July 2005 - August 2005: Faculty mentor, IPAM, UCLA

Teaching (2008/09 First Term):

Brief CV:

Research Interest:
  • Discontinuous galerkin methods and finite element methods
  • Finite volume methods
  • Travel time tomography and electrical impedance tomography
  • Numerical solution to wave propagation: acoustic, electromagnetic, elastic
  • Numerical solution to fluid flow problems
  • Numerical PDE with highly oscillatory coefficients

Submitted Paper:
  1. Eric T. Chung and Yalchin Efendiev. Some multiscale methods for elliptic equations in high-contrast heterogeneous media. Submitted.
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Publication:
  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.
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  2. Eric T. Chung and Bjorn Engquist. Optimal discontinuous galerkin methods for wave propagation. SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 44 (2006), pp. 2131-2158.
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  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
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  4. Eric T. Chung and Bjorn Engquist. Convergence analysis of fully discrete finite volume methods for Maxwell's equations in nonhomogeneous media. SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 43 (2005), pp. 303-317.
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  5. Eric T. Chung, Qiang Du and Jun Zou. Convergence analysis on a finite volume method for Maxwell's equations in non-homogeneous media. SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 41 (2003), pp. 37-63.
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  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.
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  7. T. S. Chung and J. Zou. A finite volume method for Maxwell's equations with discontinuous physical coefficients. Int. J. Appl. Math., 7 (2001), pp. 201-224.
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Conference Proceeding:
  1. Eric Chung, Gunther Uhlmann, Jianliang Qian and Hongkai Zhao. A phase-space formulation for elastic-wave traveltime tomography. 2008 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 124 012018
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  2. Eric T. Chung and Bjorn Engquist. A new discontinuous galerkin method for Maxwell's equations. The 8th US national congress on computational mechanics, University of Texas at Austin, 2005
  3. Eric T. Chung and Bjorn Engquist. Staggered grid discontinuous galerkin methods for Maxwell's equations. The 7th international conference on mathematical and numerical aspects of waves, Brown University, 2005

Award:
  • 2006: AMS-NSF travel grant for ICM 2006
  • 2001-2005: Teaching/Research Assistantship, University of California at Los Angeles

Address:
Eric T. Chung
Department of Mathematics
Room 220, Lady Shaw Building
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
email: tschung@math.cuhk.edu.hk