Ka-Kit Tung

Autumn, 2010:

AMATH 383 Introduction to Continuous Mathematical Modeling

Spring, 2011:

AMATH 353 Fourier Analysis and Partial Differential Equations

AMATH 569 Advanced Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Professor Tung received his baccalaureate and master's degrees at the California Institute of Technology, both in 1972, in the field of Aeronautical Engineering. He earned his doctorate degree in Applied Mathematics at Harvard University in 1977, where he also stayed on for two more years as a postdoc before moving on to MIT, first as an Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics and then as an Associate Professor.

His other affiliations are:

• Associate, Center for Earth and Planetary Physics, Harvard University (1979-1983)
• Associate, Center for Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, MIT (1983-1990)
• John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (1985-1986);
• Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Clarkson University (1986-1988)
• Visiting Professor, Center for Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, MIT (1987-1990)

Professor Tung joined the Department in late 1988 and became Department Chair in August 1993, a position he held until July 2007. He is currently the Boeing Endowed Professor. He is the Chief Editor of Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, and also serves as an Editor of Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. He is a current member of the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the Royal Meteorological Society of United Kingdom.