GREGORY LAUGHLIN - UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ

UCO/Lick Observatory, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Phone:  831-459-3208     Fax:  831-459-5265     Email:  Laughlin@ucolick.org

Title and Role

Co-Investigator - Authority on dynamical processes in protostellar disks, planet formation, and celestial mechanics. Responsible for directing and carrying out proposed simulations of orbital stability for habitable terrestrial planets within the constraints provided by known multiple-planet exo-planetary systems.

Related Experience Summary

• Experience with analytic and numerical studies of self-gravitating protostellar disks.
• Experience with dynamical studies of stability within known extrasolar planetary systems.
• Experience with observation and reduction techniques for planet detection using the Doppler radial velocity method.

Employment History

2001- Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz
1999-2001 Space Scientist, Planetary Systems Branch, NASA Ames Research Center
1998-1999 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
1995-1997 Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Physics, University of Michigan
1994-1995 Postdoctoral Fellow, National Astronomical Observatory, Tokyo, Japan

Education

1988 – B.S. University of Illinois
1994–Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz

Professional Societies

American Astronomical Society
Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Awards and Honors

Elected Member, Phi Beta Kappa
NSF/JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow

Selected Relevant Publications

Adams, F.C. and Laughlin, G. (2003) "Migration and Dynamical Relaxation in Crowded Systems of Giant Planets'', Icarus, In Press.

Laughlin, G., J. Chambers, Fischer, D. (2002) "A Dynamical Analysis of the 47 Ursae Majoris Planetary System'', Astrophysical Journal, v. 579, pp. 455-467.

Marcy, G., Butler, R.P., Fischer, D., Laughlin, G., Vogt, S., Henry, G., Pourbaix D. (2002) "A Planet at 5 AU Around 55 Cancri", Astrophysical Journal, v. 581, pp. 1375-1388.

Laughlin, G., Chambers, J. (2001) "Short-Term Dynamical Interactions Among Extrasolar Planets'', Astrophysical Journal Letters, v. 551, pp. 109-113.

Laughlin, G. (2000) "Mining the Metal-Rich Stars for Planets'', Astrophysical Journal, v. 545, pp. 1064-1073

Laughlin, G., Adams, F. (1999) "Stability and Chaos in the Upsilon Andromedae Planetary System'', Astrophysical Journal, v. 526, pp. 881-889

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