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• Education
• Position
• Research Interests
• Recent Publications
• Recent Preprints
• Address/Telephone no./E-mail

Education

1. BSc, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997
2. MPhil, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999
3. PhD, Washington University in St. Louis, 2004

Position

1. 2008, Instructor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2. 2006-2007, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
3. 2004-2006, Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratoire de l'Univers et de ses Theories, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, France

Research Interests

1. Relativistic astrophysics
2. Gravitational-wave sources
3. Numerical relativity

Recent Publications

1. Lap-Ming Lin
   "Constraining crystalline color superconducting quark matter with gravitational-wave data", Physical Review D 76 (Rapid Communications), 081502(R) (2007).
   
   
2. Lap-Ming Lin and Jerome Novak
   "A new spectral apparent horizon finder for 3D numerical relativity", Classical and Quantum Gravity 24, 2665 (2007).
   
   
3. Lap-Ming Lin and Jerome Novak
   "Rotating star initial data for a constrained scheme in numerical relativity", Classical and Quantum Gravity 23, 4545 (2006).
   
   
4. L.-M. Lin, K. S. Cheng, M.-C. Chu, and W.-M. Suen
   "Gravitational waves from phase-transition induced collapse of neutron stars", Astrophysical Journal 639, 382 (2006).
   
   
5. Lap-Ming Lin and Wai-Mo Suen
   "Nonlinear r-modes in neutron stars: A hydrodynamical limitation on r-mode amplitudes", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 370, 1295 (2006).
   
   

Recent Preprints

1. Lap-Ming Lin, N. Andersson, and G. L. Comer
   "Oscillations of general relativistic multi-fluid/multi-layer compact stars" (submitted to Physical Review D).
   
   

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E-mail: lmlin@phy.cuhk.edu.hk