Edward Ng
Edward W Ng (Chinese: 伍煒國) (b. 1939 Hong Kong) is an American Applied mathematician who has had also assumed positions of scientist, engineer and manager in the U.S. Space Program. He is noted for his broad variety of mathematical applications in space science and engineering. He has also contributed conscientiously in the spin-off of technology from the space program, with applications in such diverse subjects as Bose-Einstein distribution in mathematical physics, symbolic and algebraic computation, computational physics and biomedical research.
Ng attended the Queen Elizabeth School, Hong Kong for secondary education, and the University of Minnesota for his bachelor's degree. He received his M.A. and PhD degrees from Columbia University. He was employed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the California Institute of Technology, aka Caltech under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He retired in 2006.
Dr. Edward Ng was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and is cited in the American Men and Women of Science.[1] He was the editor of "Symbolic and Algebraic Computation" [2],a Monograph published by Springer Verlag. He was also a co-editor of the Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute in applied mathematics. [3] He has published numerous technical papers of diverse mathematical applications in space sciences and engineering (selected list in external link below). His papers have appeared in Astrophysical Journal, Mathematics of Computation, Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy [4], Journal of Computational Physics, M.I.T. Journal of Mathematics and Physics [5], ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software and Proceedings of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Ng was noted for a very interesting quote cited in New York Times (1990) [6], "In science, one man's noise is another man's signal."
Awards
Ng has received a number of NASA Awards, including the special NASA Certificate of Apollo-Columbia Commemoration of the Space Transportation System–65 Flight in 1994. He also was the recipient of the American Astronomical Society Team Appreciation Award on the Deep Space Network.
Professional affiliations
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Footnotes
- ^ cf. Home page, AMWS
- ^ Lecture Notes in Computer Science #72
- ^ NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry
- ^ An International Journal in Space Dynamics
- ^ renamed as "Studies in Applied Mathematics"
- ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2DE1638F933A15750C0A966958260&sec=&spon=
External links
- External links for selected publications by Edward W Ng
- A number of these papers are accessible via the NASA ADS Astrophysics Data System
- Nobel Connection to Space Program,a paper in Space 2007, published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
- Why Do We Explore Space, a paper in Space 2006, published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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