Robert Link -- Curriculum Vitae

Current Address

Education

PhD in Astrophysics

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1999
Dissertation: ``Measuring Cosmological Parameters Using Multiple-arc Gravitational Lens Systems: a new technique''

M. A. in Astronomy

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1995

B. S. in Physics, with Honors

The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1993

Employment History

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Virginia, 1999--

Research Assistant: 3-D Hydrodynamic Simulations of Protostellar Disks

Indiana University, 1995--1999

Summer Lecturer: A110 Introduction to Astronomy

Indiana University, 1994-96, 1998

Teaching Assistant/Grader: A100,A110

Indiana University, 1994-95

Selected Awards, Merits, and Special Programs

Swain Fellowship

Indiana University, 1997

USRA Summer School for High-Performance Computation and Communication

Goddard Space Flight Center, 1997

Graduate Fellowship in Astronomy

Indiana University, 1993-94

Phi Beta Kappa honor society

The Florida State University, 1993

Sigma Pi Sigma physics honor society

The Florida State University, 1992

National Merit Scholarship

The Florida State University, 1989--1993

Publications

Refereed Papers

Cosmological Parameters from Multiple-arc Gravitational Lensing Systems II: Calculations with Realistic Cluster Models.

Link, R. and Pierce, M. J., in preparation.

The Effects of Thermal Energetics on 3D Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Massive Protostellar Disks II: High Resolution and Adiabatic Evolutions.

Pickett, B. K., Cassen, P., Durisen, R. H., and Link, R., Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal.

Cosmological Parameters from Multiple-arc Gravitational Lensing Systems

Link, R. and Pierce, M. J., 1998, Astrophysical Journal,502,63.

The Effects of Thermal Energetics on 3D Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Massive Protostellar Disks.

Pickett, B. K., Cassen, P., Durisen, R. H., and Link, R.,1998,Astrophysical Journal,504,468.

Magnetic-field alignment of cholesteric liquid-crystalline DNA

D. H. Van Winkle, Arunava Chatterjee, Robert Link, and R. L. Rill, 1997, Phys. Rev. E, 55, 4354

Rotating Protostars and Protostellar Disks I. Equilibrium Models

Pickett, B. K., Durisen, R. H., and Link, R., 1996, Icarus, 126, 243.

Abstracts and Conference Proceedings

Cosmological Parameters from Multiple-arc Gravitational Lens Systems

Link, R. and Pierce, M. J., AAS Meeting 190.

Three Dimensional Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Protostellar Disks: Adiabatic vs. Isothermal Evolutions

Pickett, B. K., Cassen, P., Durisen, R. H., and Link, R. 1997, Gordon Research Conference on Origins of Solar Systems.

Three Dimensional Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Protostellar Disks with Cooling.

Pickett, B. K., Cassen, P., Durisen, R. H., and Link, R. 1997, AAS Meeting 190.

Determining Cosmological Parameters using Gravitational Lens Systems with Multiple Giant Arcs

Link, R., Pierce, M. J., 1995, AAS Meeting 187.

The Dynamic Stability of Protostellar Disks: Hot and Cool Models

Pickett, B. K., Cassen, P., Durisen, R. H., Link, R., and Strom, C. S., 1996, Center for Star Formation Studies Summer Workshop '96.

Other Works

A Novel Texture in Liquid Crystalline DNA

Undergraduate Thesis, The Florida State University, 1993

References

Dr. Michael J. Pierce

Department of Astronomy, SW 319
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405.

Dr. Richard H. Durisen

Department of Astronomy, SW 319
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405.

Dr. Haldan N. Cohn

Department of Astronomy, SW 319
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405.

Dr. V. Alan Kostelecký

Department of Physics, SW 117
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405