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Fuqiang Wang

Associate Professor of Physics contact me Office: Physics 245 Telephone: (765) 494-5510 Fax: (765) 494-0706 Personal Homepage

B.S., Physics 1988 University of Science and Technology of China
M.S., Physics 1990 Columbia University
Ph.D., Physics 1996 Columbia University

Research Interests

High energy nuclear physics: http://www.physics.purdue.edu/henp/
STAR at BNL/RHIC: http://www.star.bnl.gov/
NA49 at CERN/SPS: http://na49info.cern.ch/na49/
E802/859/866 at BNL/AGS

Teaching Interests

· physics 152
· physics 410
· physics 344
· physics 342L

Graduate Students

• Alex Cardenas: Ph.D., August 2002
  Thesis title: "Charged Kaon Production at Mid-Rapidity in Gold-Gold Collisions at 130 GeV"

• Tim Herston: M.S., August 2003
  Thesis title: "A Study of f Meson Yield in 200 GeV/A Au+Au Collisions at RHIC"

• Levente Molnar: Ph.D. expected May 2005

• Jason Ulery: Ph.D. expected May 2006

Awards and Honors

• Outstanding Junior Investigator Award
  Division of Nuclear Physics, U.S. Department of Energy
  "Systematic studies of Heavy Ion Collisions to Search for the Quark-Gluon Plasma",
  July, 2002

• Feynman Scholarship
  California Institute of Technology
  Honorable Mention for Studies of Kaon and Pion Production in Heavy Ion Collision, and for Exceptional Future Promise in the Field of High Energy Physics
  Presented at the dedication of the Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall, Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture
  Erice, Sicily, Italy
  July 31, 1994

Professional Experience

· 6/00-present, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Purdue University
· 10/96-06/00, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Professional and Scholarly Activities

· American Physical Society
· Division of Nuclear Physics
· E802/859/866 Collaboration, Alternate Gradient Synclotron, BNL (1990-1996)
· PHENIX Collaboration, Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, BNL (1991-1996)
· NA49 Collaboration, Super Proton Synclotron, CERN (1996-2000)
· STAR Collaboration, Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, BNL (1996-present)

Selected Publications

1. Measurement of jet modification at RHIC
   Fuqiang Wang (STAR Collaboration), J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 30 (2004) S1299
2. Identified particle distributions in PP and AU+AU collisions at SQRT(S_NN ) = 200 GeV
   J. Adams, et al. (STAR Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 112301-1-6 (2004)
3. Measurement of inclusive antiprotons from AU+AU collisions at SQRT(S_NN ) = 130 GEV
   C. Adler, et al. (STAR Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 262302-1-6 (2001)
4. Two-proton correlation function in central PB+PB collisions at 158 A GEV
   H. Appelshauser, et al. (NA49 Collaboration), Phys. Lett. B467 (1999) 21-28.
5. Lambda-proton correlations in relativistic heavy ion collisions
   Fuqiang Wang and Scott Pratt, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3138-3141 (1999).
6. Centrality dependence of kaon yields in SI+A and AU+AU collisions at relativistic energies
   L. Ahle, et al. (E802/E866 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. C60, 044904 (1999).