Welcome to Richard Edgar's Homepage

Greetings, gentle surfer. You appear to have stumbled across my homepage, so I'd better satisfy your curiosity.

I'm a postdoctoral researcher at Rochester University, working on planet formation with Alice Quillen, Eric Blackman and Adam Frank. We're particularly interested in comparing numerical experiments with Spitzer observations of discs around young stars. Some (such as CoKuTau 4) have gaps which we believe are caused by planets. I'm also keeping my hand in star formation issues, as well as Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton accretion.

Prior to my journey into the West, I was a student at Robinson College , one of the constituent colleges of Cambridge University . I was at Cambridge as both an undergraduate and a postgraduate. My undergraduate studies were at the Cavendish Laboratory , where I studied Experimental and Theoretical Physics . Well, to be precise, since I could never get experiments working nicely, I did the theoretical options. Having completed this course in June 2000, I chose to stay on and do a PhD at the Institute of Astronomy . My supervisor was Cathie Clarke, and I studied the effect of radiative feedback on the formation of massive stars. I passed my viva in September 2003, and then spent some time as a postdoc as part of the EU-RTN The Origin of Planetary Systems.

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As is the nature of the web, this site is more or less permanently "Under Construction." I add little bits whenever I have both the time and inclination.