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Education

1. BSc, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1979
2. MS, The California Institute of Technology, 1981
3. PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1988

Position

1. Currently, Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research Fields

1. Quasinormal modes of open systems
2. Quantum optics
3. Sonoluminescence

Research Grants

1. RGC Earmarked Grant (95): Wave Phenomena in Open Systems
2. RGC Earmarked Grant (95): Laser Interaction with Micrometer-sized Droplets and Fibres
3. RGC Earmarked Grant (96): Theoretical and Computational Study of Sonoluminescence
4. RGC Earmarked Grant (97): General Relativistic Astrophysics: Coalescences of Neutron Star Binaries
5. RGr Earmarked Grant (01): Applications of Quasinormal-mode Expansion in Open Wave Systems
6. RGC Earmarked Grant (01): Dynamics of a Driven Bose-Einstein Condensate: Coherent Structures and Control
7. RGC Earmarked Grant (03): Quantum Entanglement in Nonclassical Light Sources
8. RGC Earmarked Grant (05): Gravitational Wave Spectra and Internal Structure of Compact Stars
9. Direct Grant (96): Mechanism of Photo-Emission in Rapidly-Oscillating Micrometer-Size Air Bubbles
10. Direct Grant (98): Docoherence Effects in Quantum Computers
11. Direct Grant (01): Mie's Scattering from Imperfect Spheres
12. Direct Grant (03): Gravitational Wave Spectra of Neutron Stars

Recent Representative Publications

1. L.K. Tsui and P.T. Leung
   "Probing the interior of nentron stars with gravitational waves", Physical Review Letters 95, 151101 (2005).
   
   
2. 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 70, pp.1545-1554 (1998).
   
   
3. P.T. Leung, Y.T. Liu, W.M. Suen, C.Y. Tam and K. Young
   "Quasinormal Modes of Dirty Black Holes", Physical Review Letters 78, pp.2894-2897 (1997).
   
   
4. E.S.C. Ching, P.T. Leung, W.M. Suen and K. Young
   "Quasinormal Mode Expansion for Linearized Waves in Gravitational Systems", Physical Review Letters 74, pp.4588-4592 (1995).
   
   
5. E.S.C. Ching, P.T. Leung, W.M.Suen and K. Young
   "Late Time Tail of Wave Propagation on Curved Spacetime", Physical Review Letters 74, pp.2414-2417 (1995).
   
   

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