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Contact: wu_at_astro.utoronto.ca
I am a professor of Astronomy at the University of Toronto. My current research centre on planets in our Solar system and beyond. I study their internal structure, their dynamics, and their formation site -- the proto-planetary discs. After staring at the planets discovered by the Kepler Space mission for a number of years, I am now increasingly intrigued by the ALMA images of proto-planetary disks.
Research NEWS
Research NEWS
May 2024: Elected as an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (blib1, blib2, blib3)
June 2023: CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (blib)
Proto-planetary disks may be destabilized by star lights
Another kind of planets (sub-Earths).
Kepler planets are indep. of stellar metallicities.
Tidal disruption making debris disks?
tidal dissipation in stars and planets
Teaching:
Teaching:
Academic Year 2024
fall -- stars and planets (AST221)
fall/winter -- intro to Research (AST425)
previous courses:
. 1st year: year-long inter-disciplinary course‘Energy, from Fire to Future’ (BIG101)
. 1st year: Astronomy @ the Frontiers (SCI199Y)
. 1st year: Origin and Evolution of the Universe (AST121)
. 2nd year: Stars and Solar system (AST221)
. 3rd year: Introduction to Astrophysics (AST320)
. 4th year: Introduction to Research (AST424/425)
. graduate course: Radiative Processes (AST1440)
. graduate course: Stellar structure and Evolution (AST1410)
. graduate course: Galactic Dynamics (AST1420)
. graduate course: Introduction to Research (AST1501Y)
. graduate mini-course: planetary dynamics (AST3100)
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