Yun Wang

Yun Wang

Yun Wang (born 1964) is a poet and professor of astrophysics specializing in cosmology. She is originally from Gaoping, a small town near Zunyi, in Guizhou Province, China. Her poetry books include "The Carp" from Bull Thistle Press, and [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1586540238/ "The Book of Jade"] (ISBN 1-58654-023-8) from Story Line Press.

Professional work in astrophysics

Yun Wang received a bachelor's degree in physics from Tsinghua University in Beijing, after which she came to the United States and obtained her master's and doctorate (also in physics) Carnegie Mellon University. Currently Associate Professor in the University of Oklahoma's Department of Physics and Astronomy, she has published sixty-seven refereed papers, most recently specializing on probing the dark energy in the universe, with particular attention to the use of supernovae and galaxy redshift surveys as cosmological probes, studies of the Cosmic microwave background anisotropy, and the measurement of cosmological parameters.

She is notably active as the Principal Investigator of the JEDI Collaboration (the [http://jedi.nhn.ou.edu/ Joint Efficient Dark-energy Investigation] ), a candidate implementation of the NASA-DOE Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM).

Her four most-cited recent papers are the following (with citations from SPIRES):
*cite journal |last=Wang |first= Yun |coauthors= Tegmark, M|year= 2004|month= June|title= New dark energy constraints from supernovae, microwave background, and galaxy clustering |journal= Physical Review Letters|volume= 92 |issue= 24 |pages= 241302|doi= 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.241302 (Times Cited: 172)
* (Times Cited: 124)
* (Times Cited: 114)
*cite journal |last=Wang |first= Yun |coauthors=Tegmark, M |year= 2005|month= May|title=Uncorrelated Measurements of the Cosmic Expansion History and Dark Energy from Supernovae |journal= Physical Review|volume= D71 |issue= 10 |pages= 103513 (Times Cited: 85)

References

* [http://nhn.ou.edu/~wang/measuring_dark_energy_2-Sep-05.pdf The Quest for Dark Energy:High Road or Low?] Science (magazine), VOL 309 2 September 2005 p. 1483
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/21/science/21DARK.html New Data on 2 Doomsday Ideas, Big Rip vs. Big Crunch] by James Glantz, New York Times, February 21, 2004
* [http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041101/full/041101-15.html Cosmic Doomsday Delayed] by Mark Peplow Nature, no. 41101, 2004 (subscription required)
* [http://esi-topics.com/cosmic/interviews/Wang_Tegmark.html ESI Special Topic: Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation] Interview with Prof. Yun Wang and Prof. Max Tegmark (April 2007)

External links

* [http://nhn.ou.edu/~wang/ Yun Wang's home page] at the University of Oklahoma


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