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Professor of Physics in Arts & Sciences
Expertise: gravity waves, waveform templates, Einstein's theory of general relativity, black holes, electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic radiation, astronomy, Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, supercomputer, Parallel Supercomputing Center, computational physics, Bio: Wai-Mo Suen and his post-docs and students in the Washington University Gravity Group (WUGRAV) work on General Relativistic Astrophysics — astrophysics involving strong and dynamical gravitational fields. They study astrophysical processes involving black holes, neutron stars and gravitational waves, based on the General Theory of Relativity. This is a particularly exciting frontier of research due to two reasons: * The large amount of onservational data in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomies, and the great promise of gravitational wave astronomy with the gravitational wave observatories LIGO/VIRGO and LISA coming on line soon. * The stunning increase in computer power. Massively parallel supercomputers are now finally becoming capable of carrying out the full scale computation in applying the Einstein theory to realistic astrophysical systems. WUSTL Contact Information:
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Additional Background: From Wai-Mo Suen's Web page PRESENT POSITION: Professor, Department of Physics and McDonnel Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, 1998 - Honorary Senior Lecturer, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong July 1, 1996 - PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS: Assistant and Associate Professors, Washington University, St. Louis, 1988 - 1998 Visiting Senior Research Scientist, National Center for SuperComputing Applications, University of Illinois, Champaign, May 1, 1995 -February 1, 1996 Visiting Research Scientist, Washington University, St. Louis, 1987 - 1988 Lecturer, Physics Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1987 - 1988 Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Florida, 1985 - 1987 Visiting Scientist, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, September 1985 - November 1985 Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, June 1985 - August 1985 Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant, California Institute of Technology, 1980 - 1985 Teaching Assistant, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1978 - 1980 EDUCATION: Ph.D., Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1985 M.A., Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1981 M.Ph., Physics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1980 B.Sc., Physics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1978 Selected Publications: * Is Quantum Spacetime Foam Unstable? I. Redmount and W.-M. Suen Rapid Communication, Phys. Rev. D 47, 2163 (1993) * Minkowski Spacetime is Unstable in Semi-Classical Gravity W.-M. Suen Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 2217 (1989) * Dynamics of Apparent and Event Horizons P. Anninos, D. Bernstein, S. Brandt, J. Libson, J. Masso, E. Seidel, L.Smarr, W.-M. Suen and P. Walker Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 630 (1995) * Late Time Tail of Wave Propagation on Curved Spacetime E.S.C. Ching, P.T. Leung, W.-M. Suen and K. Young Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 2414 (1995) * The Collision of Two Black Holes P. Anninos, D. Hobill, E. Seidel, L. Smarr, and W.-M. Suen Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 2581 (1993) * Towards a Singularity-Proof Scheme in Numerical Relativity H. E. Seidel and W.-M. Suen Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1845 (1992) * The Wave Function of the Universe as A Leaking System W.-M. Suen and K. Young Phys. Rev. D 39, 2201 (1989) * Formation of Solitonic Stars Through Gravitational Cooling E. Seidel and W.-M. Suen Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 2516 (1994) * Quasi-Normal Modes of Dirty Black Holes P.T. Leung, Y. T. Liu, W.-M. Suen, C. Y. Tam and K. Young Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2894 (1997) * Three Chapters in the Book: "Black Holes: The Membrane Paradigm" with R. Crowley, D. Macdonald, R. Price, I. Redmount, K. Thorne, and X.-H. Zhang, edited by K. Thorne, R. Price, and D. Macdonald, (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1986). Chapter II: Non-Rotating and Slowly Rotating Holes Chapter III: Rapidly Rotating Holes Chapter VII: Model Problems for Gravitationally Perturbed Black Holes |
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