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LIN Lap Ming
Instructor

Education:

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

Position:

• Instructor (2008-now), Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Postdoctoral Fellow (2007), Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Postdoctoral Fellow (2004-2006), Laboratoire de l'Univers et de ses Theories, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, France

Research Interests:

• Relativistic astrophysics
• Gravitational-wave sources
• Numerical relativity

Selected Recent Publications:

• S.-C. Leung, M.-C. Chu and L.-M. Lin, "Dark-matter admixed neutron stars", Physical Review D 84, 107301 (2011).
• K.-W. Lo and L.-M. Lin, "The spin parameter of uniformly rotating compact stars", Astrophysical Journal 728, 12 (2011).
• H.K. Lau, P.T. Leung and L.M. Lin, "Inferring physical parameters of compact stars from their f-mode gravitational wave signals", Astrophysical Journal 714, 1234 (2010).
• K.S. Cheng, T. Harko, Y.F. Huang, L.M. Lin, W.M. Suen and X.L. Tian, "Relativistic mass ejecta from phase-transition-induced collapse of neutron stars", Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 09, 007 (2009).
• K.S. Wong, L.M. Lin, and P.T. Leung, "Universality in oscillation modes of superfluid neutron stars?", Astrophysical Journal 699, 1809 (2009).
• T.C. Chan, K.S. Cheng, T. Harko, H.K. Lau, L.M. Lin, W.M. Suen and X. L. Tian, "Could the compact remnant of SN 1987A be a quark star?", Astrophysical Journal 695, 732 (2009).
• L.M. Lin, N. Andersson and G.L. Comer, "Oscillations of general relativistic multifluid/multilayer compact stars", Physical Review D 78, 083008 (2008).
• L.M. Lin, "Constraining crystalline color superconducting quark matter with gravitational-wave data", Physical Review D 76 (Rapid Communications), 081502(R) (2007).
• L.M. Lin and J. Novak, "A new spectral apparent horizon finder for 3D numerical relativity", Classical and Quantum Gravity 24, 2665 (2007).
• L.M. Lin and J. Novak, "Rotating star initial data for a constrained scheme in numerical relativity", Classical and Quantum Gravity 23, 4545 (2006).
• 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).
• L.M. Lin and W.M. Suen, "Nonlinear r-modes in neutron stars: A hydrodynamical limitation on r-mode amplitudes", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 370, 1295 (2006).