Curriculum Vitæ for Richard Edgar

Personal Details

Full Name	Richard Gordon Edgar
Date of Birth	5^th November, 1978
Nationality	British Citizen, US permanent resident

Research Experience

September 2005 - Present	Research associate at the University of Rochester. Working with Professors Alice Quillen, Adam Frank and Eric Blackman on planet formation
September 2003 - August 2005	Postdoctoral researcher at Stockholm Observatory. Working with Dr. Pawel Artymowicz as part of EU-RTN "Planets"
October 2000 - June 2003	PhD student at the Institute of Astronomy under the supervision of Dr. Cathie Clarke
Summer 1999	Summer student at Leicester University, working on CV discs with Drs. Graham Wynn and James Murray

Education

PhD	Robinson College, University of Cambridge Radiative Feedback & Massive Star Formation December 2003
MSci	University of Cambridge First Class Honours July 2000
BA	University of Cambridge First Class Honours July 2000
BP Prize in Advanced Physics	June 1998
Data Connection Prize	June 1997

Computing Experience

Fortran 77/90/95	Extensive experience in the development and testing of scientific codes. In particular, I have developed my own extensions to the `Flash` code
OpenMP	Experience parallelising scientific codes, notably Zeus
MPI	Experience using MPI to extend the `Flash` code
IDL	Extensive experience using IDL to analyse computational output
Perl	Experience in automated job and result processing
C/C++	Experience writing small programs, and modifying larger ones
CUDA	Have written a simple nbody solver, which can run on an NVIDIA GPU. See my computing pages for further details

During the course of my work, I have used workstations, clusters, a Grid environment and shared memory machines. For the purposes of learning CUDA and GPU computing, I built (and maintain) my own workstation. I am currently designing and building a small cluster of GPU equipped machines.

Teaching Experience

During the summer of 2006, I mentored an undergraduate project on eccentric planets in discs. The following summer, I mentored another undergraduate in a project on GPU computing. This involved identifying and preparing a suitable project, and helping the students understand it. I then guided their work, encouraging them to investigate the issues which arose for themselves. I have supervised first year undergraduates from Robinson and Clare Colleges taking the physics course as part of the Natural Sciences tripos. This consisted of weekly meetings in small groups, to help them with the problem sets given out in lectures. At the end of the year, I gave assistance with their exam preparation. I have also given a talk about my research to members of my college MCR, comprised of students from many different subjects. In Rochester, I have given a guest lecture (to non-physics majors) on the ``Physics of Music,'' linking my enjoyment of music to my knowledge of physics.

Publications

In reverse-chronological order. Have a look at my research pages for more details.

Refereed Publications

The Formation of Crystalline Dust in AGB Winds from Binary Induced Spiral Shocks: Edgar, Nordhaus, Blackman & Frank; ApJL accepted
The Minimum Gap-opening Planet Mass in an Irradiated Circumstellar Accretion Disk: Edgar, Quillen & Park; 2007, MNRAS 381, 1280-1286
The Formation of an Eccentric Gap in a Gas Disk by a Planet in an Eccentric Orbit: Hosseinbor, Edgar, Quillen & LaPage; 2007, MNRAS 378, 966-972
Giant Planet Migration in Viscous Power-Law Discs: Edgar; 2007, ApJ 663, 1325-1334
A Comparative Study of Disc-Planet Interaction: de Val-Borro, Edgar et al.; 2006, MNRAS 370, 529-558
High Mach-number Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton flow around a small accretor: Edgar; 2005, A&A 434, 41-44
Pumping of a Planetesimal Disc by a Rapidly Migrating Planet: Edgar and Artymowicz; 2004, MNRAS 354, 769-772
A Review of Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton Accretion: Edgar; 2004, NewAR 48, 10:843-859
The Effect of Radiative Feedback on Bondi-Hoyle Flow around a Massive Star: Edgar and Clarke; 2004, MNRAS 349, 678-686
A New Algorithm for Radiative Feedback, and its Application to the Formation of Massive Stars: Edgar and Clarke; 2003, MNRAS 338, 962-972
The Outbursts of Dwarf Novae: Truss, Murray, Wynn and Edgar; 2000, MNRAS 319, 467-476

In Preparation

The Vertical Structure of Planet-induced Gaps in Proto-Planetary Discs: Edgar & Quillen; MNRAS submitted

Conferences

Vertical Gap Structure in Protoplanetary Discs: Edgar and Quillen; Poster given at the 2007 Gordon Research Conference Origins of Solar Systems
The Migration of Giant Planets: Talk given to the January 2007 meeting of the AAS
Self-Gravity Troubles with Adaptive Mesh Refinement: Edgar, Gawryszczak and Walch; Poster given at Protostars and Protoplanets V, 2005
Feedback Processes in Massive Star Formation: Clarke, Dale and Edgar; 2004, in Gravitational Collapse: From Massive Stars to Planets
Accretion and Migration: Talk given at KITP in March 2004
Radiative Feedback and the Formation of Massive Stars: Talk given to the January 2003 meeting of the AAS

Seminars

GPU Programming: Talk given to the Optics Department of the University of Rochester, September 2007
Giant Planet Migration: Talk given at Stonybrook, Princeton, Harvard & Northwestern Universities during autumn and winter of 2006
Hole Clearing in Protoplanetary Discs: Talk given at CITA, February 2006
Gravity and Planets: Talk given at the University of Rochester, November 2005

Grants & Awards

Spitzer Theory 40203: Simulating 3D disks with planets and central clearings: An award for $39,510, to support theoretical research into disc-planet interactions
AST070026: Planet-Disc Interactions Using Flash: An award of 1750,000 SU on the TeraGrid Cluster (technically a continuation of AST060025) for use in studying planet-disc interactions in three dimensions
AST070018: Shaping and Ejecting Stellar Winds with a binary companion: An award of 30,000 SU on the TeraGrid Cluster for use in studying planetary nebulae and common envelope evolution
AST060025: Instabilities of the Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton Flow: This is an award of 140,000 SU on the TeraGrid Cluster (and an additional 5,000 SU for visualisation purposes) in order to investigate how flow instabilities develop in Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton flow
AST060010: An award of 30,000 SU on the TeraGrid Cluster to modify the Flash code to perform high resolution studies of Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton flow

References

References may be obtained from the following people:

Other

If you want a printable version, please download my CV and list of referees in PDF.