Fan Chung

Fan Rong K Chung Graham, as a mathematician known as Fan Chung, (born 9 October 1949 in Kaohsiung ) is an American mathematician who is engaged in graph theory.

Chung grew up as the daughter of an engineer in Taiwan. She studied at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received her doctorate in 1974 with Herbert Wilf ( Ramsey Numbers in Multi -Colors). After that, she worked for twenty years at Bell Laboratories. In 1994 she was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania and in 1998 professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of California, San Diego.

It deals with graph theory (especially the spectrum of graphs ), discrete geometry, mathematics of communication networks and algorithms.

In 1990, she received the Allendoerfer Award for her article with Ronald Graham and Martin Gardner Steiner Trees on a Checkerboard. In 1994 she was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians ( Eigenvalues ​​of Graphs ). In 2009 she was Noether Lecturer. She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

She was married twice and has two children. Since 1983 she is married to the mathematician Ronald Graham. Like her husband, she also published with Paul Erdös and was with him the author of a book on the mathematics of Erdos.

Writings

• With Ronald Graham: Erdős on Graphs: His Legacy of Unsolved problem, AK Peters, 1998, ISBN 1-56881-079-2
• Spectral Graph Theory, CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics, No. 92, American Mathematical Society, 1997, ISBN 0-8218-0315-8