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 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 Mamatsashvili G.R., Rice W.K.M., Excitation of spiral density waves by convection in accretion discs, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 417, 634-648, 2011. Greaves, J.S., Rice, W.K.M., Do all Sun-like stars have planets? Inferences from the disc mass reservoirs of Class 0 protostars, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 412, L88-L92, 2011. Forgan, D., Rice, K., Cossins, P., Lodato, G., The nature of angular momentum transport in radiative self-gravitating protostellar discs, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 410, 994-1006, 2011. Greaves, J.S., Rice, W.K.M., Have proto-planetary discs formed planets? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 407, 1981-1988, 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, 406, 2549-2558, 2010. Mamatsashvili, G.R., Rice, W.K.M., Axisymmetric modes in vertically stratified self-gravitating discs , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 406, 2050-2064, 2010. 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