Rui Liu

 

Physics and Astronomy, MS 108, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005; Email: rliu@rice.edu

Education

PhD in Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Aug 2008 (expected)

M.S. in Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Jan 2007

M.S. in Space Physics, Department of Geophysics, Peking University, Jul 2003

B.A. in Economics, China Center for Economics Research, Peking University, Jul 2000

B.S. in Space Physics, Department of Geophysics, Peking University, Jul 2000

Publications

Liu, R. & Alexander, D. Hard X-ray emission in kinking filaments, ApJ, in preparation

Liu, R., Alexander, D., & Gilbert, H. R. Asymmetric eruptive filaments, submitted to ApJ

Tripathi, D., Gibson, S. E., Qiu, J., Fletcher, L., Liu, R., & Gilbert, H. R. On partially erupting Prominences, submitted to A&A

Liu, R., Gilbert, H. R., Alexander, D., & Su, Y. The effect of magnetic reconnection and writhing in a partial filament eruption, ApJ, 680, 1508, 2008

Gilbert, H. R., Alexander, D., & Liu, R. Filament kinking and its implications for eruption and reformation, Solar Physics, 245, 287, 2007

Liu, R., Alexander, D., & Gilbert, H. R. Kink-induced catastrophe in a coronal eruption, ApJ, 661, 1260, 2007

Alexander, D., Liu, R., & Gilbert, H. R. Hard X-ray production in a failed filament eruption, ApJ, 653, 719, 2006

Wei, F., Liu, R., Feng, X., & Fan, Q. Magnetic structures inside boundary layers of magnetic clouds, GRL, 30 (24), 2283, 2003

Wei, F., Liu, R., Fan, Q., & Feng, X., Identification of the magnetic cloud boundary layers, JGR, 108 (A6), 1263, 2003

Oral Presentations

Effect of magnetic reconnection and writhing in a partial filament eruption, AGU/SPD, Ft. Lauderdale, May 27, 2008

Kink instability and solar filament eruptions, State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, Beijing, China, Dec 11, 2007

Kink instability and solar filament eruptions, Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, Nov 14, 2007

A partial filament eruption driven by the kink instability, SHINE 2007, Whistler, BC, Canada, Aug 1, 2007

The role of the kink instability in solar filament eruptions, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 5, 2007