Yun Wang

Yun Wang is a poet and professor of astrophysics specializing in . She is originally from , a small town near Zunyi, in Guizhou Province, China. Her poetry books include ''The Carp'' from Bull Thistle Press, and from Story Line Press.

Professional work in astrophysics

Yun Wang received a bachelor's degree in physics from Tsinghua University in Beijing, after which she came to the United States and obtained her master's and doctorate Carnegie Mellon University. Currently Associate Professor in the University of Oklahoma's Department of Physics and Astronomy, she has published sixty-seven refereed papers, most recently specializing on probing the dark energy in the universe, with particular attention to the use of supernovae and galaxy redshift surveys as cosmological probes, studies of the Cosmic microwave background anisotropy, and the measurement of cosmological parameters.

She is notably active as the Principal Investigator of the JEDI Collaboration , a candidate implementation of the NASA-DOE Joint Dark Energy Mission .

Her four most-cited recent papers are the following :
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