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Overview

Weidong Li was affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research contributions spanned multiple disciplines within physics and engineering, focusing particularly on areas intersecting physics and astronomy as well as engineering.

The scientist mainly studied fields such as:

  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Engineering

Key subfields of their research included:

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

They addressed a variety of subjects within these domains, including:

  • Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
  • Electromagnetic Simulation and Numerical Methods
  • Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis
  • Antenna Design and Analysis
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Microwave Engineering and Waveguides
  • Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques

Weidong Li collaborated frequently with a number of researchers, the most recurring coauthors being:

  • Wei Hong
  • T. Lin
  • J. H. Zou
  • A. V. Filippenko
  • Yunming Wang

Their publications were spread across several types of venues, including journals and conference proceedings. The most common publication venues were:

  • IET conference proceedings
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Radiation Detection Technology and Methods
  • Chinese Physics B
  • IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Among their recent papers were:

  • "Direct immune-SCIR public-opinion propagation model based on real-time online users," 2020, Chinese Physics B
  • "An Integral Equation-Based Overlapping Domain Decomposition Method Enhanced With Anderson Acceleration," 2022, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
  • "A Modified Frequency Nonlinear Chirp Scaling Algorithm for High-Speed High-Squint Synthetic Aperture Radar with Curved Trajectory," 2024, Remote Sensing
  • "Production simulation and configuration optimization based on discrete event simulation: A case study of an aerospace assembly workshop," 2025, Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
  • "Muon/pion identification at BESIII based on variational quantum classifier," 2024, The European Physical Journal Plus

Best Publications

  • Type Ia Supernova Discoveries at z>1 From the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for Past Deceleration and Constraints on Dark Energy Evolution

    Adam G. Riess;Louis-Gregory Strolger;John Tonry;Stefano Casertano

  • Type Ia supernova discoveries at z > 1 from the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for past deceleration and constraints on dark energy evolution

    Adam G. Riess;Louis-Gregory Strolger;John Tonry;Stefano Casertano

  • CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey - The Hubble Space Telescope Observations, Imaging Data Products and Mosaics

    Anton M. Koekemoer;S. M. Faber;Henry C. Ferguson;Norman A. Grogin

  • Cosmological Results from High-z Supernovae* **

    John L. Tonry;Brian P. Schmidt;Brian Barris;Pablo Candia

  • CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey

    Norman A. Grogin;Dale D. Kocevski;S. M. Faber;Henry C. Ferguson

  • A 3% Solution: Determination of the Hubble Constant with the Hubble Space Telescope and Wide Field Camera 3

    Adam G. Riess;Adam G. Riess;Lucas Macri;Stefano Casertano;Hubert Lampeitl

  • Candels: The cosmic assembly near-infrared deep extragalactic legacy survey - The hubble space telescope observations, imaging data products, and mosaics

    Anton M. Koekemoer;S. M. Faber;Henry C. Ferguson;Norman A. Grogin

  • Observational Constraints on the Nature of Dark Energy: First Cosmological Results from the ESSENCE Supernova Survey

    W. M. Wood-Vasey;G. Miknaitis;C. W. Stubbs;Saurabh Jha;Saurabh Jha

  • The Low-luminosity End of the Radius-Luminosity Relationship for Active Galactic Nuclei

    Misty C. Bentz;Kelly D. Denney;Catherine J. Grier;Aaron J. Barth

  • Nearby Supernova Rates from the Lick Observatory Supernova Search. II. The Observed Luminosity Functions and Fractions of Supernovae in a Complete Sample

    Weidong Li;Jesse Leaman;Jesse Leaman;Ryan Chornock;Ryan Chornock;Alexei V. Filippenko

  • Scrutinizing Exotic Cosmological Models Using ESSENCE Supernova Data Combined with Other Cosmological Probes

    Tamara Davis;Edvard Mörtsell;Jesper Sollerman;Jesper Sollerman;A. C. Becker

  • Observed Fractions of Core-Collapse Supernova Types and Initial Masses of their Single and Binary Progenitor Stars

    Nathan Smith;Nathan Smith;Weidong Li;Alexei V. Filippenko;Ryan Chornock

  • An optical supernova associated with the X-ray flash XRF 060218.

    E. Pian;E. Pian;P. A. Mazzali;N. Masetti;P. Ferrero

  • Sn 2006gy : Discovery of the most luminous supernova ever recorded, powered by the death of an extremely massive star like η carinae

    Nathan Smith;Weidong Li;Ryan J. Foley;J. Craig Wheeler

  • Nearby supernova rates from the Lick Observatory Supernova Search – III. The rate–size relation, and the rates as a function of galaxy Hubble type and colour

    Weidong Li;Ryan Chornock;Ryan Chornock;Jesse Leaman;Jesse Leaman;Alexei V. Filippenko

  • The Lick AGN Monitoring Project: Broad-Line Region Radii and Black Hole Masses from Reverberation Mapping of Hbeta

    Misty C. Bentz;Jonelle L. Walsh;Aaron J. Barth;Nairn Baliber;Nairn Baliber

  • 23 High Redshift Supernovae from the IfA Deep Survey: Doubling the SN Sample at z>0.7

    Brian J. Barris;John Tonry;Stephane Blondin;Peter Challis

  • Twenty-Three High-Redshift Supernovae from the Institute for Astronomy Deep Survey: Doubling the Supernova Sample at z > 0.7 * **

    Brian J. Barris;John L. Tonry;Stéphane Blondin;Peter Challis

  • The Carnegie Supernova Project: First Photometry Data Release of Low-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae

    Carlos Contreras;Mario Hamuy;M. M. Phillips;Gaston Folatelli

  • The lick agn monitoring project: Broad-line region radii and black hole masses from reverberation mapping of Hβ

    Misty C. Bentz;Jonelle L. Walsh;Aaron J. Barth;Nairn Baliber;Nairn Baliber

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexei V. Filippenko
Alexei V. Filippenko University of California, Berkeley
Ryan Chornock
Ryan Chornock Northwestern University
Saurabh Jha
Saurabh Jha Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Adam G. Riess
Adam G. Riess Johns Hopkins University
Robert P. Kirshner
Robert P. Kirshner Harvard University
Thomas Matheson
Thomas Matheson National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Lab
Ryan J. Foley
Ryan J. Foley University of California, Santa Cruz
Nathan Smith
Nathan Smith University of Arizona
Aaron J. Barth
Aaron J. Barth University of California, Irvine
Peter Nugent
Peter Nugent Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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