W.M. Suen's Home Page

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• Position
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Education

1. BSc, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1978
2. MPhil, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1980
3. MA, California Institute of Technology, 1981
4. PhD, California Institute of Technology, 1985

Position

1. 1985-1987, Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Florida, USA
2. 1987-1988, Lecturer, Physics Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
3. 1987-1988, Visiting Research Scientist, Washington University, USA
4. 1988-1994, Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Washington University, USA
5. 1994-1998, Associate Professor, Physics Department and McDonnel Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University, USA
6. 1996-1999, Honorary Associate Professor, Physics Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
7. 1998-now, Professor, Physics Department and McDonnel Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University, USA
8. 1999-now, Honorary Professor, Physics Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research Fields

1. Computational general relativistic astrophysics
2. Black holes and neutron stars
3. Cosmology

Representative Publications

1. I. Redmount and W.-M. Suen
   "Is Quantum Spacetime Foam Unstable?" Rapid Communication, Phys. Rev. D, 47, 2163 (1993).
   
   
2. W.-M. Suen
   "Minkowski Spacetime is Unstable in Semi-Classical Gravity", Phys. Rev. Lett., 62, 2217 (1989).
   
   
3. P. Anninos, D. Bernstein, S. Brandt, J. Libson, J. Masso, E. Seidel, L.Smarr, W.-M. Suen and P. Walker
   "Dynamics of Apparent and Event Horizons " Phys. Rev. Lett., 74, 630 (1995).
   
   
4. E.S.C. Ching, P.T. Leung, W.-M. Suen and K. Young
   "Late Time Tail of Wave Propagation on Curved Spacetime", Phys. Rev. Lett., 74, 2414 (1995)
   
   

5. P. Anninos, D. Hobill, E. Seidel, L. Smarr, and W.-M. Suen
   "The Collision of Two Black Holes" Phys. Rev. Lett., 71, 2581 (1993).
   
   

6. H. E. Seidel and W.-M. Suen
   "Towards a Singularity-Proof Scheme in Numerical Relativity" Phys. Rev. Lett., 69, 1845 (1992).
   
   

7. W.-M. Suen and K. Young
   "The Wave Function of the Universe as A Leaking System" Phys. Rev. D, 39, 2201 (1989).
   
   

8. H. E. Seidel and W.-M. Suen
   "Formation of Solitonic Stars Through Gravitational Cooling" Phys. Rev. Lett., 72, 2516 (1994).
   
   

9. P.T. Leung, Y. T. Liu, W.-M. Suen, C. Y. Tam and K. Young
   "Quasi-Normal Modes of Dirty Black Holes" Phys. Rev. Lett., 78, 2894 (1997).
   
10. E. S. C. Ching, P. T. Leung, W. M. Suen, and K. Young
    "Quasinormal Mode Expansion for Linearized Waves in Gravitational Syste" Phys. Rev. Lett., 74, 4588-4591 (1995).
    

11. R. Crowley, D. Macdonald, R. Price, I. Redmount, W.-M. Suen, K. Thorne, and X.-H. Zhang, edited by K. Thorne, R. Price, and D. Macdonald
    Three chapters in the book Black Holes: The Membrane Paradigm, 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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