Min-Kai Lin

Theoretical Astrophysicist


2014


From the complex plane to planet formation

    @ Seminar, July, University of Arizona, AZ, USA, talk pdf

Dust-trapping in protoplanetary disk vortices

    @
G2000 talk, March, Universty of Toronto, ON, Canada, talk pdf

Large-scale hydrodynamic instabilities and structures in protoplanetary disks

    @ Centre for Star and Planet Formation/Niels Bohr Institute, January, Copenhagen, Denmark, talk pdf
   
2013
Gravitational instability of planetary gaps and its effect on orbital migration

    @ G2000 talk, May, Universty of Toronto, ON, Canada, talk pdf, talk video
    @ IAUS 299: Exploring the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems, June, Victoria, BC, Canada, poster pdf

Large-scale hydrodynamic instabilities in protoplanetary disks
Slides with audio commentary available on YouTube

    @ MIT Astrophysics Brown Bag Lunch, April, Cambridge, MA, USA, talk pdf

    @ Harvard-Smithsonian CfA ITC Seminar, April, Cambridge, MA, USA, talk pdf

Large-scale vortex formation in protoplanetary disks
Slides with audio commentary available on YouTube or download

    @ Cornell University Astronomy Colloquia, February, New York, USA, talk pdf

    @ Princeton University Wunch Talk, February, New Jersey, USA, talk pdf

2012
Vortices and spirals at gap edges in 3D self-gravitating disk-planet simulations

    @ American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December, San Francisco, USA, poster pdf

    @ Instabilities and Structures in Proto-planetary Disks, September, Marseille, France, talk pdf

2011
Planet migration with gravitationally unstable gaps

    @ DAMTP seminar, October, Cambridge, UK, talk pdf

Vortex instabilities in self-gravitating disc-planet interactions

    @ Baroclinic Instability and Protoplanet Accretion Disks, June, Ringberg, Germany, talk pdf

2010
The stability of self-gravitating gaps

    @ DAMTP and ASIAA seminar, November, Cambridge/Taipei, UK/Taiwan, talk pdf

Spin down of protostars through gravitational disk torques

    @ 4th East Asian Numerical Astrophysics Meeting, November, Taipei, Taiwan, poster pdf
    @ International Summer Institute for Modelling in Astrophysics, August, Santa Cruz, USA,
talk pdf

Edge instabilities in disc-planet interactions

    @ DAMTP short talk, May, Cambridge, UK, talk pdf

Type III migration in a low viscosity disc

    @ American Museum of Natural History, January, New York City, USA, talk pdf

2009
Type III migration in a low viscosity disc

    @ Winter Workshop on Planetary Astrophysics, December, Beijing, China, talk pdf

Vortices in planetary migration

    @ DAMTP seminar, October, Cambridge, UK, talk pdf
    @ The Dynamics of Discs and Planets, August, Cambridge, UK,
poster pdf

Three-layer magnetoconvection

    @ UK MHD Meeting, June, Coventry, UK, poster pdf