Tony F. Chan

Dean,
Division of Physical Science,
College of Letters and Science,
UCLA.

Professor,
Computational and Applied Mathematics Group,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA.

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Press articles about Math:
  • "Math Convention Problems Just Keep on Multiplying", LA Times August 12, 2000.
  • "For Mathematicians, `a Once in a Century Thing'", LA Times August 10, 2000.
  • "Math Whizzes Want Respect in Equation", LA Times July 14, 1998
  • Article in Sing Tao Daily, Los Angeles Edition, Oct 31, 1998.
  • "1999 Innovators in Mathematics", Ambassador Magazine, January, 1999.

    • Brief CV:
  • Dean of Physical Sciences, July 2001 - present.
  • Director, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics , July, 2000 - Aug 2001.
  • Chair, Math Dept, UCLA, 1997-2000.
  • Graduate Vice Chair, Math Dept, UCLA, 1996-1997.
  • Professor, Math Dept, UCLA, 1986-present.
  • Associate Professor, Computer Science Dept, Yale Univ., 1984-1986.
  • Assistant Professor, Computer Science Dept, Yale Univ., 1979-1984.
  • Research Fellow, Applied Math Dept, Caltech, 1978-1979.
  • Ph.D. (CS, 78, Stanford), MS (Aero, 73 Caltech), BS (Eng., 73 Caltech)
  • High Schools: Queen's College, Salesian School, Hong Kong.

    • Professional Services:
  • Principal Investigator and Board of Trustees, The Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) (NSF funded), UCLA. (1999 -)
  • Member, NSF Math and Physical Science Advisory Committee (99 - ).
  • Co-Chair, SIAM National Meeting, July 10-14, 2000, Puerto Rico.
  • Member, AMS Committee on Committees (99 - ).
  • Chair, Local Organizing Committee, AMS Conference on "Mathematical Challenges of the 21st Century", UCLA, Aug 6-12, 2000.
  • SIAM Committee on Science Policy (2000 -).
  • Editorial boards: SIAM J. Sci. Comp., Elec. Trans. Numer. Anal., Numer. Alg., Numer. Lin. Alg. Applic., J. Comp. Math (Beijing), Asian J. Math.

    • Research Interests:
  • PDE methods in image processing, computer vision and computer graphics.
  • Image Processing Group Homepage.
  • Computational methods for VLSI CAD.
  • Multigrid and domain decomposition algorithms.
  • Iterative methods, Krylov subspace methods.
  • Parallel algorithms.

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