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Fuqiang Wang Professor of Physics
fqwang@physics.purdue.edu
Office: Physics 249
Telephone: (765) 494-5510
Fax: (765) 494-0706
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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

  • physics 152
  • physics 172
  • physics 272H
  • physics 410
  • physics 344
  • physics 342L
  • physics 556

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., July 2006)
    Thesis: Systematics of Identified Particle Production in pp, d-Au and Au-Au Collisions at RHIC Energies
  • Jason Ulery (Ph.D. December 2007)
    Thesis: Two- and Three-Particle Jet-Like Correlations
  • Aoqi Feng (Ph.D. May 2008, IOPP, Wuhan, China)
    Thesis: Jet-Like Azimuthal Correlations Relative to Reaction Plane at RHIC
  • Quan Wang
  • Joshua Konzer

Awards and Honors

  • University Faculty Scholar (2008-2013)
  • Outstanding Junior Investigator Award (2002-2007)
    Division of Nuclear Physics, U.S. Department of Energy
  • Feynman Scholarship (1994)
    California Institute of Technology

Professional Experience

  • 2009-present, Professor, Department of Physics, Purdue University
  • 2005-2009, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Purdue University
  • 2000-2005, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Purdue University
  • 1996-2000, 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).