Navigation   Home   Brief CV 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 Greaves, J.S., Rice, W.K.M., Have proto-planetary discs formed planets? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in press, 2010. Forgan, D., Rice, K., Native Synthetic Imaging of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics density fields using gridless Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in press, 2010. Mamatsashvili, G.R., Rice, W.K.M., Axisymmetric modes in vertically stratified self-gravitating discs , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in press, 2010. Forgan, D., Rice, K., Numerical Testing of The Rare Earth Hypothesis using Monte Carlo Realisation Techniques, International Journal of Astrobiology, 9, 73-80, 2010. Rice, W.K.M., Mayo, J.H., Armitage, P.J., The role of disc self-gravity in the formation of protostars and protostellars discs, MNRAS, 402, 1740-1749, 2010. Forgan, D., Rice, K., Stellar encounters in the context of outburst phenomena, MNRAS, 402, 1349-1356, 2010. Forgan, D., Rice, K., Stellar Encounters: A stimulus for Disc Fragmentation?, MNRAS, 400, 2022-2031, 2009. Rice, W.K.M., Armitage, P.J., Time-dependent models of the structure and evolution of self-gravitating protoplanetary discs, MNRAS, 396, 2228-2236, 2009. Mamatsashvili, G.R., W.K.M. Rice, Vortices in self-gravitating gaseous discs, MNRAS, 394, 2153-2163, 2009. Forgan, D., K. Rice, D. Stamatellos, and A. Whitworth, Introducing a Hybrid Method of Radiative Transfer for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, MNRAS, 394, 882-891, 2009. 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