赖东/ 李政道讲席教授(访问)
天文与天体物理研究部
N625 dong AT astro.cornell.edu

教育背景

  • 1991- 1994, 美国康奈尔大学 , 博士
  • 1988- 1991, 美国康奈尔大学 , 硕士
  • 1983- 1988, 中国科学技术大学 , 学士

工作经历

  • 2008-至今, 美国康奈尔大学, 教授
  • 2002-2008, 美国康奈尔大学, 副教授
  • 1997-2002, 美国康奈尔大学, 助理教授
  • 1994-1997, 美国加州理工, 博士后

研究方向

  • 地外行星:动力学、原行星盘、恒星-行星相互作用
  • 致密物体:中子星、黑洞、白矮星、引力波、中微子等
  • 天体物理动力学:天体力学、波、振动、不稳定性

荣誉信息

  • 1984-1988, 中国科学技术大学学校奖学金
  • 1988, 中美联合培养物理类研究生计划(CUSPEA) 获得者
  • 1988-1989, 康奈尔大学Sage研究生奖学金
  • 1991, 康奈尔大学C.Liu学术优秀纪念奖
  • 1994-1997, 加州理工学院Richard C. Tolman理论天体物理学研究奖学金
  • 1998-2002, Alfred P. Sloan研究奖学金
  • 2000, 康奈尔大学Dorothy与Fred Chau本科生研究项目监督优秀奖
  • 2004, 中国海外杰出青年科学家
  • 2016-2017, 西蒙斯理论物理学研究员,西蒙斯基金会
  • 2018, 中国科学技术大学杰出校友授课者
  • 2020, 加州大学伯克利分校米勒访问教授

代表性论文专著

  • Lai, D. 2001,``Matter in Strong Magnetic Fields'',Review of Modern Physics, 73, 629-661
  • Harding, A. K., Lai, D. 2006, ``Physics of Strongly Magnetized Neutron Stars'', Report of Progress of Physics, 69, 2631
  • Lai, D., Tsang, D. 2009, ``Corotational Instability of Inertial-Acoustic Modes in Black Hole Accretion Discs and Quasi-Periodic Oscillations'', MNRAS, 393, 979-991
  • Lai, D., Foucart, F., Lin, D.N.C. 2011, ``Evolution of Spin Direction of Accreting Magnetic Protostars and Spin-Orbit Misalignment in Exoplanetary Systems'', MNRAS, 412, 2790-2798
  • Fuller, J., Lai, D. 2012, ``Dynamical Tides in Compact White Dwarf Binaries: Tidal Synchronization and Dissipation'', MNRAS, 421, 426-445
  • Lai, D. 2012, ``DC Circuit Powered by Orbital Motion: Magnetic Interactions in Compact Object Binaries and Exoplanetary Systems'', ApJ, 757, L3
  • Storch, N.I., Anderson, K.R., Lai, D. 2014, ``Chaotic Dynamics of Stellar Spin in Binaries and the Production of Misaligned Hot Jupiters'', Science, 345, 1317
  • Wang, C., Lai, D. 2016, ``Axion-Photon Propagation in Magnetized Universe'', JCAP, 6, 006
  • Xu, Wenrui, Lai, D. 2017, ``Resonant Tidal Excitation of Oscillation Modes in Merging Binary Neutron Stars: Inertial-Gravity Modes", Phys. Rev. D 96, 083005
  • Zanazzi, J.J., Lai, D. 2018, ``Inclination Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks Around Eccentric Binaries'', MNRAS, 473, 603-615
  • Liu, B., Lai, D. 2018, ``Black Hole and Neutron Star Binary Mergers in Triple Systems: Merger Fraction and Spin-Orbit Misalignment'', ApJ, 863, 68
  • Munoz, D.J., Miranda, R., Lai, D. 2019, ``Hydrodynamics of circumbinary accretion: Angular momentum transfer and binary orbital evolution'', ApJ, 871, 84
  • Vick, M., Lai, D., Anderson, K.R. 2019, ``Chaotic Tides in Migrating Gas Giants: Forming Hot and Transient Warm Jupiters via High-Eccentricity Migration'', MNRAS, 484, 5645-5668
  • Liu, B., Lai, D., Wang, Y.-H. 2019,``Binary Mergers near a Supermassive Black Hole: Relativistic Effects in Triples'',ApJ Letters, 883, L7
  • Li, Jiaru, Lai, D. 2020,``Planetary Spin and Obliquity from Mergers'', ApJ Letters, 898, L20
  • Lai, Dong 2021,``Jupiter's Dynamical Love Number'',Planetary Science Journal, 2, 122
  • Su, Yubo, & Lai, Dong 2022,``Dynamics of Colombo's Top: Tidal Dissipation and Resonance Capture, with Applications to Oblique Super-Earths, Ultra-Short-Period Planets and Inspiraling Hot Jupiters'' MNRAS, 509, 3301-3320
  • O'Connor, C.E., Teyssandier, J., Lai, Dong 2022,``Secular chaos in white-dwarf planetary systems: origins of metal pollution and short-period planetary companions'', MNRAS, 513, 4178-4195
  • Li, Jiaru, Lai, Dong, & Rodet, L.⋆ 2022, ``Long-term Evolution of Tightly-Packed Stellar Black Holes in AGN Disks: Formation of Merging Black-Hole Binaries via Close Encounters'', ApJ, 934, 154
  • Li, Rixin, & Lai, Dong 2022, ``Hydrodynamical Evolution of Black-Hole Binaries Embedded in AGN Discs'',MNRAS, 517, 1602-1624
  • Rodet, Laetitia, & Lai, Dong 2022, ``Eccentric debris belts reveal the dynamical history of the companion exoplanet'', MNRAS, 516, 5544-5554
  • Lai, Dong 2023, ``IXPE Detection of Polarized X-rays from Magnetars and Photon Mode Conversion at QED Vacuum Resonance'', PNAS, 120, 17, e2216534120
  • Lai, Dong, & Munoz, Diego J. 2023, ``Circumbinary Accretion: From Binary Stars to Massive Binary Black Holes'', Ann Review Astron. Astrophys.Chai 61, 517-560