Research Projects of Wai-Mo Suen
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:
1. 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.
2. 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.
To learn more about the Computational General Relativistic Astrophysics
Program of the group, click on these links: