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. He became a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in 1985.

Professor Tung joined the Department as Professor of Applied Mathematics in late 1988 and became Department Chair in August 1993, a position he held until July 2007. He is the Chief Editor of Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society.