Wai Mo Suen

Research Interests

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 supercomupters are now finally becoming capable of carrying out the full scale computation in applying the Einstein theory to realistic astrophysical systems.

Education

1985	Ph.D., Physics, California Institute of Technology
1981	M.A., Physics, California Institute of Technology
1980	M.Ph., Physics, Chinese University of Hong Kong
1978	B.Sc., Physics, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Professional History

• 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