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Ka-Wah Wong, Graduate Student

Email: kw6k@virginia.edu
Phone: (434) 924-7933
Fax: (434) 924-3104
Office: 224 Astronomy Building
Address:
   Department of Astronomy
   PO Box 3818
   Charlottesville, VA 22903

Where is my meat?In my third year, I grow some meat.

Welcome to my simple and boring homepage! You are probably too bored(see Note1), so that you entered here.
Since I think the layout of the department's homepage is very beautiful, I decided to keep using it.
I hope this homepage can become more and more interesting from time to tim ...e (or the other way round???)

Note1: Thanks Ricardo Schiavon for pointing out a grammatical mistake. Previously, I was writing "You are probably too boring...", and he told me that I should use "You are probably too bored ...".


Ka-Wah is a third-year graduate student.

What's new on this homepage?

2) A grammatical mistake is corrected (see the box above). (2005/08/04)

1) Probably you've heard about the disaster in South Asia. If you want to make a donation, here is a convenient web site. (2004/12/30)

Education:

2003-present, Astronomy, University of Virginia (Advisor: Prof. C. L. Sarazin)
2001-2003, MPhil, Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Advisor: Prof. M. -C. Chu)
1998-2001, BSc, Physics, (with Minor in Math.), The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research Interests:

X-ray astronomy
Cluster of Galaxies
Compact objects -- neutron stars, strange stars
Formation of Compact Stars
Tubulence Experiment in Rayleigh Benard Cell

Publications:

1) Signatures of QCD Phase Transition in a Newborn Compact Star, K. -W. Wong, M. -C. Chu, MNRAS 350 (2004) L42 (or astro-ph/0304515).
2) Cooling of a New Born Compact Star with QCD Phase Transition, K. -W. Wong, M. -C. Chu, Phys. Rev. D 70, 063004 (2004) (or astro-ph/0405601 ).
3) Master Thesis: Properties of Strange Stars, CUHK (2003), K. -W. Wong.
4) Class Project for radio class, Fall 2004 (unpublished): Monte Carlo Simulation of CHVC Distributions (Advisor: Prof. W. B. Burton).

Talks:

Cooling of a New Born Compact Star with QCD Phase Transition, UVa Research Symposium, Feb 4, 2005.

Hobbies:

Soccer, hiking, wild camping, star-grazing, archery, sleeping, reading, TV-(computer)-games (especially Sango series by KOEI), softball ...

Pictures: (coming sooo0o0n)

1) Friend's hedgehog.

Links: (I am buzy (lazy) now ...)


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