Huanqing Chen, PhD
Personal Website: https://huanqingchen.github.io/
Contact
Assistant Professor, Augustana - Sciences
- huanqin1@ualberta.ca
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Reionization intergalactic medium galaxy formation quasars Program: Chemical and Physical Sciences Program: Computing Science and Mathematics Program: Elementary Education
Courses
AUPHY 120 - Waves, Thermodynamics, and Optics
Oscillatory motion, waves on a string, sound waves, interference of waves, temperature, heat, entropy, first and second laws of thermodynamics, geometric optics, interference of light. Prerequisites: Mathematics 30-1.
AUPHY 170 - Introduction to Astronomy
An exploration of the nature of our universe and the process and instruments by which we have come to our present understanding. Topics include: celestial motion; the solar system; electromagnetic radiation, telescopes, and detectors; stars; galaxies; formation and evolution.
AUPHY 260 - Modern Physics
Special relativity; photons and matter waves; Bohr atom model; Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle; Schrödinger equation; one-dimensional systems; hydrogen atom; spin; Pauli Exclusion Principle; many- electron atoms; molecules. Prerequisites: AUPHY 120 and AUMAT 116. AUMAT 216 is recommended. Note: Credit may be obtained for only one of AUPHY 260, AUCHE 277 (2026).
AUPHY 270 - Astrophysics
The physics of the Universe. Observational methods. Stars, planetary systems, black holes, galaxies. Big Bang cosmology. Prerequisite: AUPHY 120.
Featured Publications
Dominika Ďurovčíková, Anna-Christina Eilers, Huanqing Chen, Sindhu Satyavolu, Girish Kulkarni, Robert A. Simcoe, Laura C. Keating, Martin G. Haehnelt, Eduardo Bañados
The Astrophysical Journal. 2024 July; 10.3847/1538-4357/ad4888
B Greig, A Mesinger, E Bañados, G D Becker, S E I Bosman, H Chen, F B Davies, V D’Odorico, A -C Eilers, S Gallerani, M G Haehnelt, L Keating, S Lai, Y Qin, E Ryan-Weber, S Satyavolu, F Wang, J Yang, Y Zhu
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2024 April; 10.1093/mnras/stae1080
Yihao Zhou, Huanqing Chen, Tiziana Di Matteo, Yueying Ni, Rupert A C Croft, Simeon Bird
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2024 January; 10.1093/mnras/stae172
Huanqing Chen
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 2023 November; 10.1093/mnrasl/slad171
Huanqing Chen, Rupert A C Croft, Nickolay Y Gnedin
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2023 January; 10.1093/mnras/stad049
Huanqing Chen, Anna-Christina Eilers, Sarah E. I. Bosman, Nickolay Y. Gnedin, Xiaohui Fan, Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang, Valentina D’Odorico, George D. Becker, Manuela Bischetti, Chiara Mazzucchelli, Andrei Mesinger, Andrea Pallottini
The Astrophysical Journal. 2022 May; 10.3847/1538-4357/ac658d
Huanqing Chen, Nickolay Y. Gnedin
The Astrophysical Journal. 2021 August; 10.3847/1538-4357/ac0429
Huanqing Chen, Nickolay Y. Gnedin
The Astrophysical Journal. 2021 April; 10.3847/1538-4357/abe7e7
Huanqing Chen
The Astrophysical Journal. 2020 April; 10.3847/1538-4357/ab80c6
Huanqing Chen, Camille Avestruz, Andrey V Kravtsov, Erwin T Lau, Daisuke Nagai
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2019 December; 10.1093/mnras/stz2776
Huanqing Chen, Nickolay Y. Gnedin
The Astrophysical Journal. 2018 December; 10.3847/1538-4357/aae8e8
\apj. 2017 March; 10.3847/1538-4357/aa64de
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Research Students
Currently accepting undergraduate students for research project supervision.
Undergraduate students are encouraged to contact me about summer research opportunities.