Curriculum Vitae

Last Update: Dec 1, 2006

A much more detailed version is available in PostScript or PDF (Mar 3/08)

PERSONAL DATA [TOP]
Name:Derek Charles Richardson
Date of Birth:February 1, 1968
Place of Birth:Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Citizenship:Canadian
U.S. Status:Permanent resident alien

CONTACT INFO [TOP]
Address:




 Department of Astronomy
Computer & Space Sciences Building
Stadium Drive
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
U.S.A. 20742-2421
Phone:(301) 405-8786
Fax:(301) 314-9067
Home page:http://www.astro.umd.edu/~dcr/

EMPLOYMENT [TOP]
2006-:


 Associate Professor
Department of Astronomy
University of Maryland at College Park
2000-2006:


 Assistant Professor
Department of Astronomy
University of Maryland at College Park
1999-2000:


 Research Assistant Professor
Department of Astronomy
University of Washington
1996-1999:


 Research Associate
Department of Astronomy
University of Washington
1993-1996:


 Postdoctoral Fellow
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
University of Toronto

EDUCATION [TOP]
Graduate:


 1993, Ph.D., Astrophysics
Institute of Astronomy
University of Cambridge
Undergraduate:


 1990, B.Sc., Astronomy & Physics
University of British Columbia
First Class Honours; Dean's Honour List

GRANTS (as PI or Co-I) [TOP]

Last update 3/05

Mar 1/04-Feb 28/09:Origin and Evolution of Organics in Planetary Systems (PI: M. Mumma, GSFC; NASA Astrobiology Institute)
Aug 1/03-Jul 31/06:Origin of Binary Near-Earth Asteroids (NSF Planetary Astronomy)
May 1/03-Apr 30/06:Planetesimals to Protoplanets (NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program)
Feb 15/02-Feb 14/06:Rubble Pile Dynamics (NASA Origins of Solar Systems)
Feb 1/02-Jan 31/05:Studies in Planetary Rings (PI: C. Porco, SWRI; NASA Planetary Geology and Geophysics)
summer 2002:Torques and Non-Central Impacts on Strong Aggregated Bodies: Applications to Asteroid Satellites, Tidal Disruption, and Granular Dynamics (U Maryland General Research Board)

HONOURS AND AWARDS [TOP]
2004:Arfken Visiting Scholar, Miami University
2002:Asteroid 1998 SH54 renamed 12566 Derichardson
1994-96:NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship
1990-93:Commonwealth Scholarship
1989-90:


 Wesbrook Scholar Prize
Maureta Evelyn McDonald Memorial Scholarship
Dorothy Gladys Studer Memorial Scholarship
1987-90: Charles and Jane Banks Scholarship
1986-90: Chancellor's Entrance Scholarship
1988-89: French Department Book Prize
1986-87: Joel Harold Marcoe Memorial Scholarship

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS [TOP]

Note that the publisher retains the original copyright to all reprints.

  1. Karin cluster formation by asteroid impact
    D. Nesvorný, B. L. Enke, W. F. Bottke Jr., D. D. Durda, E. Asphaug, D. C. Richardson, Icarus 183:296, 2006 [reprint]
  2. Binary minor planets
    D. C. Richardson, K. J. Walsh, AREPS 34:47, 2006 [reprint]
  3. 100-metre-diameter moonlets in Saturn's A ring from observations of `propeller' structures
    M. S. Tiscareno, J. A. Burns, M. M. Hedman, C. C. Porco, J. W. Weiss, L. Dones, D. C. Richardson, C. D. Murray, Nature 440:648, 2006 [reprint]
  4. Binary near-Earth asteroid formation: rubble pile model of tidal disruptions
    K. J. Walsh, D. C. Richardson, Icarus 180:201, 2006 [reprint]
  5. A fast method for finding bound systems in numerical simulations: results from the formation of asteroid binaries
    Z. M. Leinhardt, D. C. Richardson, Icarus 176:432, 2005 [reprint]
  6. Planetesimals to protoplanets. I. Effect of fragmentation on terrestrial planet formation
    Z. M. Leinhardt, D. C. Richardson, ApJ 625:427, 2005 [reprint]
  7. Numerical experiments with rubble piles: equilibrium shapes and spins
    D. C. Richardson, P. Elankumaran, R. E. Sanderson, Icarus 173:349, 2005 [reprint]
  8. Gravitational instability and clustering in a disk of planetesimals
    P. Tanga, S. J. Weidenschilling, P. Michel, D. C. Richardson, A&A 427:1105, 2004 [reprint]
  9. Catastrophic disruption of asteroids and family formation: a review of numerical simulations including both fragmentation and gravitational reaccumulations
    P. Michel, W. Benz, D. C. Richardson, P&SS 52:1109, 2004 [reprint]
  10. Catastrophic disruption of pre-shattered parent bodies
    P. Michel, W. Benz, D. C. Richardson, Icarus 168:420, 2004 [reprint]
  11. The pursuit of the whole NChilada: virtual petaflops using multi-adaptive algorithms for gravitational systems
    G. Lake, T. Quinn, D. C. Richardson, J. Stadel, IBM J. Res. & Dev. 48:183, 2004 [reprint]
  12. The formation of asteroid satellites in large impacts: results from numerical simulations
    D. D. Durda, W. F. Bottke Jr., B. L. Enke, W. J. Merline, E. Asphaug, D. C. Richardson, Z. M. Leinhardt, Icarus 167:382, 2004 [reprint]
    (also see Erratum 170:242 [reprint] and corrected article 170:243 [reprint])
  13. Disruption of fragmented parent bodies as the origin of asteroid families
    P. Michel, W. Benz, D. C. Richardson, Nature 421:608, 2003 [reprint]
  14. Formation of asteroid families by catastrophic disruption: simulations with fragmentation and gravitational reaccumulation
    P. Michel, P. Tanga, W. Benz, D. C. Richardson, Icarus 160:10, 2002 [reprint]
    (also see Erratum 161:198 [reprint] and Erratum 160:448 [reprint])
  15. Planetesimal clusters in a Keplerian disk. I. Gravitational evolution
    P. Tanga, P. Michel, D. C. Richardson, A&A 395:613, 2002 [reprint]
  16. N-body simulations of planetesimal evolution: effect of varying impactor mass ratio
    Z. M. Leinhardt, D. C. Richardson, Icarus 159:306, 2002 [reprint]
  17. Gravitational aggregates: evidence and evolution
    D. C. Richardson, Z. M. Leinhardt, H. J. Melosh, W. F. Bottke Jr., E. Asphaug, Asteroids III, pp. 501-515, 2002 [reprint]
  18. Collisions and gravitational reaccumulation: forming asteroid families and satellites
    P. Michel, W. Benz, P. Tanga, D. C. Richardson, Science 294:1696, 2001 [reprint]
  19. Direct N-body simulations of rubble pile collisions
    Z. M. Leinhardt, D. C. Richardson, T. Quinn, Icarus 146:133, 2000 [reprint]
  20. Direct large-scale N-body simulations of planetesimal dynamics
    D. C. Richardson, T. Quinn, J. Stadel, G. Lake, Icarus 143:45, 2000 [reprint]
  21. 1620 Geographos and 433 Eros: shaped by planetary tides?
    W. F. Bottke Jr., D. C. Richardson, P. Michel, S. G. Love, AJ 117:1921, 1999 [reprint]
  22. Tidal distortion and disruption of Earth-crossing asteroids
    D. C. Richardson, W. F. Bottke Jr., S. G. Love, Icarus 134:47, 1998 [reprint]
  23. Production of Tunguska-sized bodies by Earth's tidal forces
    W. F. Bottke Jr., D. C. Richardson, S. G. Love, P&SS 46:311, 1998 [reprint]
  24. NOTE: Can tidal disruption of asteroids make crater chains on the Earth and Moon?
    W. F. Bottke Jr., D. C. Richardson, S. G. Love, Icarus 126:470, 1997 [reprint]
  25. Orbital migration of the planetary companion of 51 Pegasi to its present location
    D. N. C. Lin, P. Bodenheimer, D. C. Richardson, Nature 380:606, 1996 [preprint]
  26. A search for Jupiter-mass companions to nearby stars
    G. A. H. Walker, A. R. Walker, A. W. Irwin, A. M. Larson, S. L. S. Yang, D. C. Richardson, Icarus 116:359, 1995 [reprint]
  27. A self-consistent numerical treatment of fractal aggregate dynamics
    D. C. Richardson, Icarus 115:320, 1995 [reprint]
  28. Tree code simulations of planetary rings
    D. C. Richardson, MNRAS 269:493, 1994 [reprint]
  29. A new tree code method for simulation of planetesimal dynamics
    D. C. Richardson, MNRAS 261:396, 1993 [reprint]
  30. Microlensing light curves: a new and efficient numerical method
    G. F. Lewis, J. Miralda-Escudé, D. C. Richardson, J. Wambsganss, MNRAS 261:647, 1993 [reprint]
  31. Cross talk in 1872 Reticon diode arrays
    G. A. H. Walker, R. Johnson, D. Richardson, B. Campbell, A. W. Irwin, S. Yang, PASP 102:1418, 1990 [reprint]
    (also see Erratum 103:260 [reprint])
In Press:
  1. Size-frequency distributions of fragments from SPH/N-body simulations of asteroid impacts: comparison with observed asteroid families
    D. D. Durda, W. F. Bottke Jr., D. Nesvorný, B. L. Enke, W. J. Merline, E. Asphaug, D. C. Richardson, Icarus, 2006 [version in press]
Submitted:
  1. A steady-state model of NEA binaries formed by tidal disruption of gravitational aggregates
    K. J. Walsh, D. C. Richardson, Icarus, 2007 [submitted version]

PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS [TOP]

Last update 3/05---see ADS for recent contributions

  1. Size-frequency distribution of fragments from SPH/N-body simulations: comparison with observed asteroid families
    D. D. Durda, W. F. Bottke Jr., D. Nesvorný, E. Asphaug, D. C. Richardson, LPSC 36:1876, 2005 [reprint]
  2. Joint thermal and collisional modeling of the H-chondrite parent body
    R. E. Grimm, W. F. Bottke Jr., D. D. Durda, B. L. Enke, E. R. D. Scott, E. Asphaug, D. C. Richardson, LPSC 36:1798, 2005 [reprint]
  3. Comparing the size-frequency distributions of asteroid families to those produced by SPH/N-body simulations
    D. D. Durda, W. F. Bottke Jr., D. Nesvorný, E. Asphaug, D. C. Richardson, BAAS 36:1185, 2004
  4. The growth of terrestrial planets: results from high-resolution N-body simulations
    Z. M. Leinhardt, D. C. Richardson, BAAS 36:1176, 2004
  5. Near-Earth asteroid satellite formation via tidal disruption of idealized rubble piles
    K. J. Walsh, D. C. Richardson, BAAS 36:1142, 2004
  6. Gravitational clustering in a disk of planetesimals
    P. Tanga, S. J. Weidenschilling, P. Michel, D. Richardson, EdP-Sciences Conf. Ser. SF2A-2004:264, 2004
  7. Gravitational instability and clustering in a disk of planetesimals
    P. Tanga, S. Weidenschilling, P. Michel, D. Richardson, BAAS 36:851, 2004
  8. Direct N-body simulations of rubble pile collisions in strong tidal fields: applied to Saturn's F ring
    K. J. Walsh, D. C. Richardson, BAAS 35:1486, 2004
  9. Morphological evolution of asteroids
    D. C. Richardson, BAAS 35:1033, 2003
  10. Random disruption of cometary nuclei by rotational spin-up
    P. R. Weissman, D. C. Richardson, W. F. Bottke Jr., BAAS 35:1012, 2004
  11. Planetesimal collisions and terrestrial planet formation
    Z. M. Leinhardt, D. C. Richardson, BAAS 35:965, 2004
  12. Saturn's particle disk and the A ring azimuthal asymmetry
    C. C. Porco, H. B. Throop, D. C. Richardson, BAAS 35: 929, 2004
  13. The formation of asteroid satellites in catastrophic impacts: results from numerical simulations
    D. D. Durda, W. F. Bottke Jr., B. L. Enke, E. Asphaug, D. C. Richardson, Z. M. Leinhardt, LPSC 34:1943, 2003 [reprint]
  14. Modeling the breakup of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
    K. J. Walsh, D. C. Richardson, T. W. Rettig, ASP Conference Series 291: 415, 2003 [preprint]
  15. Asteroid satellites formed by tidal disruption
    D. C. Richardson, D. J. Scheeres, ESA SP-500:737, 2002 [reprint]
  16. N-body simulations of planetesimal evolution: effect of varying impactor mass ratio
    Z. M. Leinhardt, D. C. Richardson, ESA SP-500:767, 2002
  17. The size distribution of planetesimals interior to 1 AU
    R. K. Barnes, T. Quinn, J. J. Lissauer, D. C. Richardson, 2nd Astrobiology Conf., Apr. 2002 [preprint]
  18. High performance computational astrophysics with pkdgrav/gasoline
    J. Stadel, J. Wadsley, D. C. Richardson, in High Performance Computing Systems and Applications (Eds. N. J. Dimopoulos, K. F. Lie), pp. 501-523, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2002 [preprint]
  19. Asteroid satellites from tidal disruption simulations
    D. C. Richardson, BAAS 33:1351, 2001
  20. N-body simulations of planetesimal evolution: effect of varying impactor mass ratio
    Z. M. Leinhardt, D. C. Richardson, BAAS 33:1404, 2001
  21. Planetesimal clustering in protoplanetary disks
    P. Tanga, P. Michel, D. C. Richardson, BAAS 33: #23.02, 2001
  22. Light scattering in Saturn's rings: basic disk properties and the A ring azimuthal asymmetry
    C. C. Porco, H. B. Throop, D. C. Richardson, BAAS 33: #29.01, 2001
  23. The formation of asteroid satellites: numerical simulations using SPH and N-body models
    D. D. Durda, W. F. Bottke Jr., E. Asphaug, D. C. Richardson, BAAS 33: #52.03, 2001
  24. Merging, spinning and bouncing in catastrophic collisions: consequences for final fragment properties
    P. Michel, W. Benz, P. Tanga, D. C. Richardson, BAAS 33: #52.04, 2001
  25. Rubble piles in the solar system: evidence and dynamics
    D. C. Richardson, K. W. Flynn, Z. M. Leinhardt, Asteroids 2001 - from Piazzi to the 3rd millenium (Palermo, Italy, Jun 11-15, 2001, p. 255)
  26. Planetesimal evolution: a mass ratio study of rubble pile collisions
    Z. M. Leinhardt, D. C. Richardson, Asteroids 2001, Ibid. (p. 99)
  27. New simulations of collisions between asteroids in the gravity regime: comparison with the properties of some observed asteroid families
    P. Michel, W. Benz, P. Tanga, D. C. Richardson, Asteroids 2001, Ibid. (p. 92)
  28. Numerical models of the formation of asteroid satellites
    D. D. Durda, W. F. Bottke Jr., E. Asphaug, D. C. Richardson, Z. M. Leinhardt, W. J. Merline, K. W. Flynn, Asteroids 2001, Ibid. (pp. 88-89)
  29. The effect of the internal configuration of rubble piles on collision outcome
    Z. M. Leinhardt, D. C. Richardson, LPSC 32:1400, 2001 [reprint]
  30. The effects of passing stars on planetesimal disks
    R. K. Barnes, D. C. Richardson, J. M. Hahn, BAAS 32:1101, 2000
  31. Size distribution dependence in rubble pile collisions and implications for (216) Kleopatra
    Z. M. Leinhardt, D. C. Richardson, T. Quinn, BAAS 32:1017, 2000
  32. Speedup to virtual petaflops using adaptive potential solvers and integrators for gravitational systems
    G. Lake, T. Quinn, D. C. Richardson, J. Stadel, SPEEDUP 12:53, 2000 [preprint]
  33. When rubble piles collide
    Z. M. Leinhardt, D. C. Richardson, T. Quinn, LPSC 31:1274, 2000 [reprint]
  34. Light scattering in planetary rings: the nature of Saturn's particle disk
    C. C. Porco, M. J. Pantazopoulou, D. Richardson, T. Quinn, T. J. J. Kehoe, BAAS 31:1140, 1999
  35. When rubble piles collide...
    D. C. Richardson, Z. M. Leinhardt, T. Quinn, BAAS 31:1125, 1999
  36. Virtual petaflops to simulate solar system formation
    G. Lake, T. Quinn, D. C. Richardson, J. Stadel, High Performance Computing 1999: Grand Challenges in Computer Simulation - Proceedings of the 1999 Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference, pp. 128-131, Apr. 1999 [preprint]
  37. When rubble piles collide...
    Z. M. Leinhardt, D. C. Richardson, T. Quinn, BAAS 31:670, 1999
  38. Simulating collisions in the solar system
    D. C. Richardson, in Planetary systems: the long view (Eds. L. M. Celnikier, J. T. T. Vân), pp. 199-205, 1997. Editions Frontières, France [preprint]
  39. Direct simulation of planet formation with a million planetesimals: first results
    D. C. Richardson, T. Quinn, J. Stadel, G. Lake, BAAS 30:1052, 1998
  40. Direct simulation of planet formation with a million planetesimals: a progress report
    D. C. Richardson, G. Lake, T. Quinn, J. Stadel, BAAS 30:765, 1998
  41. Direct simulation of planet formation with a million planetesimals
    D. C. Richardson, T. Quinn, G. Lake, BAAS 29:1027, 1997
  42. Has 1620 Geographos been reshaped by planetary tides?
    W. F. Bottke Jr., D. C. Richardson, S. G. Love, BAAS 29:965, 1997
  43. Parallel gravity from the 9 planet problem to billions and billions
    G. Lake, T. Quinn, D. C. Richardson, J. Stadel, High Performance Computing 1997: Grand Challenges in Computer Simulation - Proceedings of the 1997 Simulation MultiConference, pp. 86-91, Apr. 1997 [preprint]
  44. Alternative formation mechanisms for terrestrial crater chains
    S. G. Love, W. F. Bottke Jr., D. C. Richardson, LPSC 28:837, 1997
  45. Making crater chains on the Earth and Moon with planetary tidal forces
    W. F. Bottke Jr., D. C. Richardson, S. G. Love, LPSC 28:141, 1997
  46. Can tidal disruption enhance the population of small Earth-approaching objects?
    W. F. Bottke Jr., D. C. Richardson, S. G. Love, LPSC 28:139, 1997
  47. From Sir Isaac Newton to the Sloan survey: calculating the structure and chaos owing to gravity in the universe
    G. Lake, T. Quinn, D. C. Richardson, Proceedings of the Eighth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, pp. 1-10, Jan. 1997 [preprint]
  48. Tidal breakup of asteroids by the Earth and Moon
    D. C. Richardson, W. F. Bottke Jr., ASP Conf. Ser. 122: From Stardust to Planetesimals, pp. 205-208, Oct. 1996 [preprint]
  49. Tidal distortion and disruption of Earth-crossing asteroids
    D. C. Richardson, W. F. Bottke Jr., BAAS 28:1103, 1996
  50. Can tidal disruption of asteroids make crater chains on Earth?
    W. F. Bottke Jr., D. C. Richardson, S. G. Love, BAAS 28:1103, 1996
  51. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9: a `rubble pile' model with dissipative collisions and gravitational perturbations
    D. C. Richardson, E. Asphaug, L. Benner, BAAS 27:1114, 1995
  52. A decade searching for stellar planetary companions with the HF technique
    G. Walker, D. Bohlender, D. Richardson, A. Walker, A. Irwin, S. Yang, Montreal International Astronautical Federation Congress, p. 3, Oct. 1991

POPULAR ARTICLES [TOP]

  1. Rocks that go bump in the night
    D. C. Richardson, Nature 417:697, 2002 [reprint]
  2. Giants in the asteroid belt
    D. C. Richardson, Nature 411:899, 2001 [reprint]

PRESENTATIONS AVAILABLE ONLINE [TOP]

For a complete list of my talks, etc., follow the links to my full detailed CV up top.
  1. Workshop: N-body Problems in Astrophysics, IPAM (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA: Apr 18-22/05 [abstract presentation (ZIP file)]
  2. Workshop: Fast Multipole Method, Tree Code, and Related Approximate Algorithms, Trading Exactness for Efficiency, CSCAMM (UMd), College Park, MD: Apr 2004 [abstract presentation (PPT)]
  3. Meeting: Planet Formation: Terrestrial and Extra Solar, KITP (UCSB), Santa Barbara, CA: Mar 19/04 [presentation]
  4. Meeting: Catastrophic Disruptions VI, Cannes, France: Jun 2003 [presentation (PPT)]

MEDIA APPEARANCES [TOP]

  1. TV interview for Researching Maryland (recorded May 15/02, broadcast May 30/02).
Last modified: Dec 1, 2006 DCR