Dr Quoc Thong Le Gia

ABOUT ME

Biography

Dr Quoc Thong Le Gia is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW. His research interests include Numerical Analysis, Approximation Theory; Partial Differential Equations; and Stochastic Processes.

Education

• PhD in Mathematics, (Texas A&M University, 2003)
• MS in Mathematics, (Texas A&M University, 2000)
• BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science, UNSW, 1998

RESEARCH

Research Interests

• Approximation of functions on the unit sphere
• Numerical methods for partial differential equations on spheres and surfaces
• Numerical methods for stochastic partial differential equations
• Partial differential equations with random coefficients

Recent Grants

• ARC Discovery Project (together with Prof Ian Sloan, UNSW and Prof Zdzislaw Brzezniak, York) "Uncertainty on spheres and shells: mathematics and methods for applications" (2018-2020).

Current Student Projects (PhD and Honours)

• Multiscale methods for PDEs on spheres and bounded domains
• Approximation of random fields on the unit sphere

Advice for prospective students

Please e-mail me if you are interested in working with me

TEACHING & OUTREACH

Courses I teach

MATH2301: Mathematical Computing

MATH3121: Mathematical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

L. F. Guseman Prize in Mathematics, Texas A\&M University, April, 2003.