CURRICULUM VITAE: WAI-MO SUEN

PRESENT POSITION:

        Professor, Department of Physics and McDonnel Center for the Space
                 Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, 1998 -
        Honorary Senior Lecturer, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
                July 1, 1996 -

PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

        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

EDUCATION:

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

Selected Publications (for a more complete list, click here ):

• Is Quantum Spacetime Foam Unstable?
  I. Redmount and W.-M. Suen
  Rapid Communication, Phys. Rev. D 47, 2163 (1993)
• Minkowski Spacetime is Unstable in Semi-Classical Gravity
  W.-M. Suen
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 2217 (1989)
• Dynamics of Apparent and Event Horizons
  P. Anninos, D. Bernstein, S. Brandt, J. Libson, J. Masso, E. Seidel, L.Smarr, W.-M. Suen and P. Walker
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 630 (1995)
• Late Time Tail of Wave Propagation on Curved Spacetime
  E.S.C. Ching, P.T. Leung, W.-M. Suen and K. Young
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 2414 (1995)
• The Collision of Two Black Holes
  P. Anninos, D. Hobill, E. Seidel, L. Smarr, and W.-M. Suen
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 2581 (1993)
• Towards a Singularity-Proof Scheme in Numerical Relativity
  H. E. Seidel and W.-M. Suen
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1845 (1992)
• The Wave Function of the Universe as A Leaking System
  W.-M. Suen and K. Young
  Phys. Rev. D 39, 2201 (1989)
• Formation of Solitonic Stars Through Gravitational Cooling
  E. Seidel and W.-M. Suen
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 2516 (1994)
• Quasi-Normal Modes of Dirty Black Holes
  P.T. Leung, Y. T. Liu, W.-M. Suen, C. Y. Tam and K. Young
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2894 (1997)
• Three Chapters in the Book:
  "Black Holes: The Membrane Paradigm"
  with R. Crowley, D. Macdonald, R. Price, I. Redmount, K. Thorne, and X.-H. Zhang, edited by K. Thorne, R. Price, and D. Macdonald, (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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