LIN Lap Ming Lecturer
Phone (852) 3943 4072
Email lmlin(at)cuhk.edu.hk
Office Room 221, 2/F, Science Centre North Block


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: 2012-now, Lecturer, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2008-2012, Instructor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2007, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2004-2006, Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratoire de l'Univers et de ses Theories, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon
Research Interest: Relativistic astrophysics
Gravitational-wave sources
Numerical relativity
Recent Publications: S. Y. Lau, P. T. Leung, and L.-M. Lin, "Tidal deformations of compact stars with crystalline quark matter
Dark matter admixed Type Ia supernovae
A new hydrodynamics code for Type Ia supernovae
Torsional oscillations of crystalline color-superconducting hybrid stars: Possible sources for Advanced LIGO?
The spin parameter of uniformly rotating compact stars
Oscillations of general relativistic multifluid/multilayer compact stars
Constraining crystalline color superconducting quark matter with gravitational-wave data
A new spectral apparent horizon finder for 3D numerical relativity
Rotating star initial data for a constrained scheme in numerical relativity
Nonlinear r-modes in neutron stars: A hydrodynamical limitation on r-mode amplitudes
Gravitational waves from phase-transition induced collapse of neutron stars
Nonlinear r-modes in neutron stars: Instability of an unstable mode", Physical Review D 66 (Rapid Communications), 041303(R) (2002).