Yun Wang 1588077 223352760 2008-07-03T18:30:44Z 129.15.31.60 /* Professional work in astrophysics */ '''Yun Wang''' (born 1964) is a poet and professor of [[astrophysics]] specializing in [[physical cosmology|cosmology]]. She is originally from [[Gaoping, Guizhou|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= [[Max Tegmark|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: 171) * {{cite journal |last=Wang |first= Yun |coauthors= Mukherjee, P|year= 2004|month= May|title= Model-independent constraints on dark energy density from flux-averaging analysis of type Ia supernova data |journal= [[Astrophysical Journal]]|volume= 606 |issue= 2 |pages= 654–63|doi= 10.1086/383196}} (Times Cited: 122) * {{cite journal |last=Wang |first= Yun |coauthors= Mukherjee, P|year= 2006|month= Oct|title=Robust Dark Energy Constraints from Supernovae, Galaxy Clustering, and Three-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Observations |journal= [[Astrophysical Journal]]|volume= 650 |issue= 1 |pages= 1–6|doi=10.1086/507091}} (Times Cited: 111) *{{cite journal |last=Wang |first= Yun |coauthors=[[Max Tegmark|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: 83) ==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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Yun}} [[Category:Chinese poets]] [[Category:Cosmologists]] [[Category:Chinese women writers]] [[Category:Women poets]] [[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:University of Oklahoma faculty]] {{China-writer-stub}}