Education:
1967 – 1972, California Institute of Technology, Ph.D in Physics and
Mathematics
1962 – 1966, National Taiwan University, BS in Physics
Affiliations:
2017/11 till now, Distinguished Scholar, Wuhan Institute of Physics
and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2006/04 till now, Honorary Chair Professor Emeritus, Science
College, National Tsing Hua University
2000/10 till now, Honorary Professor Emeritus, Department of
Physics, National Tsing Hua University
2017/05 till 2017/06 & 2015/04 till 2015/05, Visiting Professor
KITP, ITP, CAS, Beijing
2017/02 till 2017/03, Visiting Professor, INFN Pisa
2016/01 till 2016/12, Jinjiang Special-Invited Professor, School of
Optical-Electrical Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science
and Technology
2001/08 till 2015/01, PI of “Research on Fundamental Experiment and
Fundamental Phenomenologyin Physics” at National Tsing Hua
University from National Science Council (NSC)
2013/05 till 2013/06, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Kyoto University
2010/08 till 2010/10 & 2012/03 till 2012/05, Visiting Professor,
United Center for Astrophysics, Shanghai Normal Univ.
2002/12 till 2009/12, Researcher/Professor, Purple Mountain
Observatory, CAS, Nanjing
1995/08 till 2001/07, Special Invited PI at National Tsing Hua
University from NSC
1992/07 till 1994/06 & 1990/01 till 1991/08, Adviser, Center for
Measurement Standard, ITRI
1984/08 till 1988/05, Visiting Professor, University of Virginia
(Teaching GR and Q. Measurement)
1983/08 till 1984/08, JILA Visiting Fellow, Joint Institute for
Laboratory Astrophysics, Boulder
1979/01 till 1979/07, Visiting Professor, Department of Physics,
Princeton University
1978/08 till 1978/12, Visiting Scholar, Center of General
Relativity, University of Texas, Austin
1974/08 till 1978/07 Associate Prof. of Physics, & 1978/08 till
2000/09, Prof. of Physics, National Tsing Hua University
1977/07 till 1977/08 and 1976/07 till 1976/08, Visiting Professor,
Physics Department, Caltech
1972/09 till 1974/08, Research Associate, Department of Physics,
Montana State University
Publications:Over
200 papers, articles and book chapters; Over 100 SCI papers with
over 2000 SCI citations;H-indexof
SCI citations is 25; 7Physical
Review Letters(5 first author letters; 2 second
author letters).
For last 3 years, over 20 SCI papers including 2Astrophysical
J papersand3
Physics Letters A papers.
Recent papers:
K. Kuroda,W.-T.
Niand W.-P. Pan, "Gravitational waves:
classification, methods of detection, sensitivities, and sources,”Int.
J. Mod. Phys. D 24,1530031 (44 pages) (2015).
W.-T. Ni,
"Gravitational wave detection in space",Int.
J. Mod. Phys. D 25,1630001 (52 pages) (2016).
W.-T. Ni,
"Solar-system tests of the relativistic gravity",Int.
J. Mod. Phys. D 25,1630003 (36 pages) (2016).
W.-T. Ni,
S. Han, T. Jin, "Precision requirements and innovative manufacturing
for ultrahigh precision laser interferometry of GW astronomy",Proc.
SPIE 10023, 100230F (12 pages, November 24, 2016), arXiv:1610.03565.
C.-M. Chen, J. M. Nester,W.-T.
Ni, "A brief history of GW research",Chin.
J. Phys. 55,142–169 (2017),1610.08803.
A, D. V. Di Virgilio, J. Belfi,W.-T.
Ni, N. Beverini,G. Carelli, E. Maccioni and A. Porzio,
"GINGER: A feasibility study,"Eur.
Phys. J. Plus 132, 157 (12 pages) (2017).
Recent Book: W.-T. Ni(Editor)One
Hundred Years of General Relativity: From Genesis and Empirical
Foundations to Gravitational Waves, Cosmology and Quantum
Gravity,Vol. I & II (over 1300 pages), World Scientific, Singapore,
2017.
A brief summary of my current research interests and science topics
to which I would like to contribute:
Gravitational-Wave related activities: I am currently a KAGRA
Science Collaboration (KSC) member working on gravitational wave
(GW) sensitivities, GW sources, and GW detection schemes. My current
research interests are GW sensitivities, GW sources and using GW
observations to test general relativity and its alternatives over
all the spectral bands from below 1 aHz (beyond Hubble-frequency)
band to above 1 THz (ultra-high frequency) band. More specifically,
I am interested in astrophysical and primordial GW backgrounds and
their detectability; remnant Population III BH seeds background;
stellar and galactic confusion backgrounds. For testing general
relativity and its alternatives, I am interested in
constraining/measuring the GW propagation velocity and ‘graviton’
mass/interaction range; testing pseudoscalar gravity and inflation;
testing ‘Chern-Simons’ theories; testing massive gravity theories
and bigravitational theories; testing MOND-type theories; testing
higher-dimensional gravity theories, etc.
My recent activities: working on Zhao-Shan underground GW experiment
and study AMIGO (Astrodynamical Middle-frequency Interferometric
Gravitational wave Observatory).
Name: Wei-Tou Ni
Education: 1967 – 1972, California Institute of Technology, Ph.D in Physics and Mathematics
1962 – 1966, National Taiwan University, BS in Physics
Affiliations:
2017/11 till now, Distinguished Scholar, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2006/04 till now, Honorary Chair Professor Emeritus, Science College, National Tsing Hua University
2000/10 till now, Honorary Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University
2017/05 till 2017/06 & 2015/04 till 2015/05, Visiting Professor KITP, ITP, CAS, Beijing
2017/02 till 2017/03, Visiting Professor, INFN Pisa
2016/01 till 2016/12, Jinjiang Special-Invited Professor, School of Optical-Electrical Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
2001/08 till 2015/01, PI of “Research on Fundamental Experiment and Fundamental Phenomenologyin Physics” at National Tsing Hua University from National Science Council (NSC)
2013/05 till 2013/06, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
2010/08 till 2010/10 & 2012/03 till 2012/05, Visiting Professor, United Center for Astrophysics, Shanghai Normal Univ.
2002/12 till 2009/12, Researcher/Professor, Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS, Nanjing
1995/08 till 2001/07, Special Invited PI at National Tsing Hua University from NSC
1992/07 till 1994/06 & 1990/01 till 1991/08, Adviser, Center for Measurement Standard, ITRI
1984/08 till 1988/05, Visiting Professor, University of Virginia (Teaching GR and Q. Measurement)
1983/08 till 1984/08, JILA Visiting Fellow, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, Boulder
1979/01 till 1979/07, Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, Princeton University
1978/08 till 1978/12, Visiting Scholar, Center of General Relativity, University of Texas, Austin
1974/08 till 1978/07 Associate Prof. of Physics, & 1978/08 till 2000/09, Prof. of Physics, National Tsing Hua University
1977/07 till 1977/08 and 1976/07 till 1976/08, Visiting Professor, Physics Department, Caltech
1972/09 till 1974/08, Research Associate, Department of Physics, Montana State University
Publications: Over 200 papers, articles and book chapters; Over 100 SCI papers with over 2000 SCI citations; H-index of SCI citations is 25; 7 Physical Review Letters (5 first author letters; 2 second author letters).
For last 3 years, over 20 SCI papers including 2 Astrophysical J papers and 3 Physics Letters A papers.
Recent papers: K. Kuroda, W.-T. Ni and W.-P. Pan, "Gravitational waves: classification, methods of detection, sensitivities, and sources,” Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 24, 1530031 (44 pages) (2015).
W.-T. Ni, "Gravitational wave detection in space", Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 25, 1630001 (52 pages) (2016).
W.-T. Ni, "Solar-system tests of the relativistic gravity", Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 25, 1630003 (36 pages) (2016).
W.-T. Ni, S. Han, T. Jin, "Precision requirements and innovative manufacturing for ultrahigh precision laser interferometry of GW astronomy", Proc. SPIE 10023, 100230F (12 pages, November 24, 2016), arXiv:1610.03565.
C.-M. Chen, J. M. Nester, W.-T. Ni, "A brief history of GW research", Chin. J. Phys. 55, 142–169 (2017), 1610.08803.
A, D. V. Di Virgilio, J. Belfi, W.-T. Ni, N. Beverini,G. Carelli, E. Maccioni and A. Porzio, "GINGER: A feasibility study," Eur. Phys. J. Plus 132, 157 (12 pages) (2017).
Recent Book: W.-T. Ni (Editor)One Hundred Years of General Relativity: From Genesis and Empirical Foundations to Gravitational Waves, Cosmology and Quantum Gravity,Vol. I & II (over 1300 pages), World Scientific, Singapore, 2017.
A brief summary of my current research interests and science topics to which I would like to contribute:
Gravitational-Wave related activities: I am currently a KAGRA Science Collaboration (KSC) member working on gravitational wave (GW) sensitivities, GW sources, and GW detection schemes. My current research interests are GW sensitivities, GW sources and using GW observations to test general relativity and its alternatives over all the spectral bands from below 1 aHz (beyond Hubble-frequency) band to above 1 THz (ultra-high frequency) band. More specifically, I am interested in astrophysical and primordial GW backgrounds and their detectability; remnant Population III BH seeds background; stellar and galactic confusion backgrounds. For testing general relativity and its alternatives, I am interested in constraining/measuring the GW propagation velocity and ‘graviton’ mass/interaction range; testing pseudoscalar gravity and inflation; testing ‘Chern-Simons’ theories; testing massive gravity theories and bigravitational theories; testing MOND-type theories; testing higher-dimensional gravity theories, etc.
My recent activities: working on Zhao-Shan underground GW experiment and study AMIGO (Astrodynamical Middle-frequency Interferometric Gravitational wave Observatory).