Abel YANG Jiahui

PhD, University of Virginia, USA (2012)

Senior Lecturer

Email: phyyja@nus.edu.sg
Office: S12-02-03
Tel: +65 6516 1246

Current Research

• Galaxy Clustering, Large Scale Structure of the Universe, Astroinformatics and Astronomy Education

Selected Publications

• Yang, A. & Saslaw, W.C., 2012, Shapes and Probabilities of Galaxy Clusters”, Astrophysical Journal Vol. 745, 87
• Yang, A. & Saslaw, W.C., 2011, The galaxy counts-in-cells distribution from the SDSS”, Astrophysical Journal Vol. 729, 123
• Yang, A., Saslaw, W.C., Chan, A. & Leong, B., 2011, The Robustness of the galaxy distribution function to effects of merging and evolution”, in Proceedings of the Conference in Honour of Murray Gell-Mann’s 80th Birthday, eds. H. Fritzsch, K. K. Phua, pp. 597- 604, World Scienti_c, Singapore (http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.0176)
• Saslaw, W.C. & Yang, A., 2010, Statistical Mechanics of the cosmological many-body problem and its relation to galaxy clustering”, in Long-Range Interacting Systems, eds. Dauxois, Ru_o & Cugliandolo, pp. 377-398, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K.
• Privon, G., Beaton, R., Whelan, D., Yang, A., Johnson, K. & Condon, J., 2009, The Importance of Hands-on Experience with Telescopes for Students”, State of the Pro- fession” white paper for the 2010 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, no. 45 (http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3447)