Kenneth Young's Home Page

• Education
• Position
• Research Fields
• Research Grants
• Recent Representative Publications
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Education

1. BS, California Institute of Technology, USA, 1969
2. PhD, California Institute of Technology, USA, 1972

Position

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Vice-President) and Professor of Physics,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research Fields

1. Theoretical Physics

Research Grants

1. RGC Earmarked Grant: Wave Phenomena in Open Systems
2. RGC Earmarked Grant: The Inversion Problem for Quasinormal Modes

Recent Representative Publications

1. A. Maassen van den Brink, K. Young and M.H. Yung
   "Eigenvector expansion and Petermann factor for ohmically damped oscillators", Journal of Physics A, Vol. 39, pp.3725-3740 (2006).
   
   
2. T.S. Lo, S.S.M. Wong and K. Young
   "Determination of a finite-range potential from discrete phase-shift data by inverse scattering", Physical Review Letters, Vol. 37, pp.9501-9513 (2004).
   
   
3. E.S.C. Ching, P.T. Leung, A. Maassen van den Brink, W.M. Suen, S.S. Tong and K. Young
   "Quasinormal-mode expansion for waves in open systems", Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 70, pp.1545-1554 (1998).
   
   
4. P.T. Leung, Y.T. Liu, W.M. Suen, C.Y. Tam and K. Young
   "Quasinormal Modes of Dirty Black Holes", Physical Review Letters, Vol. 78, pp.2894-2897 (1997).
   
   
5. E.S.C. Ching, P.T. Leung, W.M. Suen and K. Young
   "Late-Time Tail of Wave Propagation on Curved Space Time", Physical Review Letters, Vol. 74, pp.2414-2417 (1995).
   
   

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