Navigation   Home   Brief CV A little personal history Publications via ADS Full Publication List Research   Research interests Research group Teaching News I am a Reader at the Institute for Astronomy, an institute within the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh and also part of the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance. My research interest is in theoretical and computational astrophysics and I focus primarily on the evolution of accretion discs and how this relates to the formation of stars and planets. I am particularly interested in accretion discs that are massive enough for self-gravity to play a role in their evolution. You can find more information about computational astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh by going to the homepage of the Edinburgh Centre for Computational Astrophysics. Recent papers Forgan D., Rice K., A self-gravitating disc around L1527 IRS?, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in press, 2013. Lucas W.E., Bonnell I.A., Davies M.B., Rice K., Misaligned streamers around a galactic centre black hole from a single cloud's infall, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in press, 2013. Forgan, D., Rice K., Towards a Population Synthesis Model of Objects formed by Self-Gravitating Disc Fragmentation and Tidal Downsizing, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in press, 2013. Forgan D., Rice K., The effect of irradiation on the Jeans Mass in fragmenting self-gravitating protostellar discs, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 430, 2082-2089, 2013. Rice K., Penny M.T., Horne K., How fast do Jupiters grow? Signatures of the snowline and growth rate in the distribution of gas giant planets, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 428, 756-762, 2013. Gibbons P.G., Rice W.K.M., Mamatsashvili G.R., Planetesimal formation in self-gravitating discs, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 426, 1444-1454, 2012. Rice W.K.M., Veljanoski J., Collier Cameron A., Tidal evolution of close-in giant planets : Evidence of Type II migration?, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 425, 2567-2575, 2012. Rice W.K.M., Forgan D.H., Armitage P.J., Convergence of SPH simulations of self-gravitating accretion discs: Sensitivity to the implementation of radiative cooling, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 420, 1640-1647, 2012. Forgan, D., Rice K., A lower angular momentum limit for self-gravitating disc fragmentation, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 420, 299-308, 2012. Rice W.K.M., Armitage P.J., Mamatsashvili G.R., Lodato G., Clarke C.J., Stability of self-gravitating discs under irradiation, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 417, 1928-1937, 2011. Forgan D., Rice K., The Jeans Mass as a Fundamental Measure of Self-Gravitating Disc Fragmentation and Initial Fragment Mass, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 417, 1928, 2011 Institute for Astronomy Royal Observatory Blackford Hill Edinburgh EH9 3HJ Phone: +44 (0)131 668 8384 (direct) Fax: +44 (0)131 668 8416 Email: wkmr at roe.ac.uk