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Cheng-Yu Kuo, Graduate Student

Email: ck2v@virginia.edu
Phone: (434) 924-7491
Fax: (434) 924-3104
Office: 109 Astronomy Building
Address:
   Department of Astronomy
   PO Box 400325
   Charlottesville, VA 22904-4325







Where is my meat?
Welcome to my homepage! I am a second year graduate student in the astronomy department of University of Virginia. I am from Taiwan. Currently I am involved in two research projects. The primary project is called the H0 project, in which our goal is to measure the Hubble constant H0 more accuarate than 3% in order to constrain different dark energy models (cosmological constant and quintessence). In this project, I work with Dr. Jim Braatz in the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). The secondary project is to undertand what mechanism terminate the gas infall onto a protostar in the starformation process and hence determine the final mass of a star. I work with two other graduate students here, George Trammel and Paul Ries, on this project.


Education:

2005-present, Astronomy, University of Virginia
2002-2005, Research Asistent, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academica Sinica, Taiwan
1996-2000, BS, Physics, National Taiwan University