Wai-Yee Keung

    Email Address: keung@uic.edu
    College: Liberal Arts and Sciences Department: Physics
    Title: Professor, Emeritus
    Office: SES 2252 Phone: 312 413 2778
    Webpage: http://keung.people.uic.edu
    Participating in the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Awards program: Yes

    Research Interest:
    High Energy Theoretical Physics,

    Collider Physics,

    Quantum Physics,

    Theoretical studies on Dark Matter and its interaction,

    Matter-anti-Matter asymmetry (CP violation),

    Minimum time commitment in hours per week: 5

    Qualifications of a Student:
    minimum gpa: 3.0
    prerequisite: Modern Physics Course work, B or better, advanced calculus, skills in numerical programing

    Brief Summary of what is expected from the student:
    Pedagogical illustration of the underlying principles of dynamics,
    Numerical Simulation on physics problem.

    Possible work:

    Study the mass of neutron star versus its size,
    Numerical and analytic solution of Schroedinger Equation.
    etc.

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