Ma Chung-pei

Ma Chung-pei
馬中珮
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards	Member of the National Academy of Sciences Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow of the American Physical Society Fellow of the American Astronomical Society Sloan Research Fellowship Simons Foundation fellow Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award
Scientific career
Fields	Cosmology, astrophysics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley

Ma Chung-pei (Chinese: 馬中珮; pinyin: Mǎ Zhōngpèi) is an astrophysicist and cosmologist. She is the Judy Chandler Webb Professor of Astronomy and Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. She led the teams that discovered several of largest known black holes from 2011 to 2016.

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Biography

Ma was born in Taiwan to parents Huang Chao-heng and Ma Chi-shen.^[1] She started playing violin at the age of four. She attended Taipei Municipal First Girls' Senior High School and won the Taiwan National Violin Competition in 1983.^[2] She then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), receiving her bachelor of science degree in physics in 1987. She earned a PhD in physics from MIT in 1993. She studied theoretical cosmology and particle physics with Alan Guth and Edmund W. Bertschinger, her doctoral advisors. A violin prodigy as a teenager in Taiwan, winning a national violin competition in Taipei when she was 16, she also took violin classes during her college years at MIT at Boston's New England Conservatory of Music.^[3]

From 1993 to 1996 Ma had a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. From 1996 to 2001 she was an associate and assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. While there she won the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.^[4] She became a professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley's Department of Astronomy in 2001.

Ma's research interests are the large-scale structure of the universe, dark matter, and the cosmic microwave background.^[3] She led the team that discovered the largest known black holes in 2011.^[5]^[6]

Ma was the scientific editor in cosmology for The Astrophysical Journal.

Awards and honors

1987 – Phi Beta Kappa Society
1997 – Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy (American Astronomical Society)
1999 – Sloan Research Fellowship
2003 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award (American Physical Society)^[7]
2009 – American Physical Society Fellow
2012 – American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
2012 – Simons Foundation Fellow
2020 – American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member
2022 - American Astronomical Society Fellow
2022 - National Academy of Sciences Member

Selected publications

Ma, Chung-Pei; Bertschinger, Edmund (December 1995). "Cosmological Perturbation Theory in the Synchronous and Conformal Newtonian Gauges". The Astrophysical Journal. 455: 7–25. arXiv:astro-ph/9506072. Bibcode:1995ApJ...455....7M. doi:10.1086/176550. S2CID 14570491.
Ma, Chung-Pei; Fry, J. N. (10 November 2000). "Deriving the Nonlinear Cosmological Power Spectrum and Bispectrum from Analytic Dark Matter Halo Profiles and Mass Functions". The Astrophysical Journal. 543 (2): 503–513. arXiv:astro-ph/0003343. Bibcode:2000ApJ...543..503M. doi:10.1086/317146. S2CID 295034.
Boylan-Kolchin, M.; Ma, C.-P.; Quataert, E. (1 January 2008). "Dynamical friction and galaxy merging time-scales". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 383 (1): 93–101. arXiv:0707.2960. Bibcode:2008MNRAS.383...93B. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12530.x. S2CID 12502384.
McConnell, Nicholas J.; Ma, Chung-Pei (20 February 2013). "Revisiting the Scaling Relations of Black Hole Masses and Host Galaxy Properties". The Astrophysical Journal. 764 (2): 184. arXiv:1211.2816. Bibcode:2013ApJ...764..184M. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/764/2/184. S2CID 118411403.
Ma, Chung-Pei; Caldwell, R. R.; Bode, Paul; Wang, Limin (10 August 1999). "The Mass Power Spectrum in Quintessence Cosmological Models". The Astrophysical Journal. 521 (1): L1–L4. arXiv:astro-ph/9906174. Bibcode:1999ApJ...521L...1M. doi:10.1086/312183. S2CID 16817444.
Fakhouri, Onsi; Ma, Chung-Pei; Boylan-Kolchin, Michael (21 August 2010). "The merger rates and mass assembly histories of dark matter haloes in the two Millennium simulations". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 406 (4): 2267–2278. arXiv:1001.2304. Bibcode:2010MNRAS.406.2267F. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16859.x. S2CID 118485197.

References

^ Kao, Evelyn (27 April 2020). "Taiwanese-American astrophysicist elected to AAAS". Central News Agency. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
^ 石麗東 (January 17, 2014). "震動全球天文學界的馬中珮" (PDF). Atlanta Chinese News (in Chinese). No. 1212. p. 16.
^ ^a ^b "Leading physicist awarded US prize". Taipei Times. April 11, 2003.
^ "Current Faculty: Chung-Pei Ma". UC Berkeley Department of Astronomy. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
^ "Newly Discovered Black Holes Are Largest So Far". NPR. December 15, 2011.
^ "Newly Discovered Massive Black Holes Dwarf Previous Record Holders". PBS NewsHour. December 6, 2011.
^ "2003 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved 22 November 2015.

External links

Behemoth Black Hole Found in an Unlikely Place, accessed 8 April 2016.
Sarah Lewin, Surprise! Gigantic Black Hole Found in Cosmic Backwater, accessed 8 April 2016.
Dark Matter, the Other Universe, presentation by Ma, SETI Institute (video)

This page was last edited on 15 January 2024, at 11:39

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