Research Interests Theoretical astrophysics, focusing on planet formation and planetary dynamics

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1 Curriculum Vitae June 21, 2014 Yoram Lithwick Northwestern University Dept. of Physics & Astronomy 2145 Sheridan Rd Evanston, IL webpage: Research Interests Theoretical astrophysics, focusing on planet formation and planetary dynamics Education : Ph.D. in Physics, California Institute of Technology. Advisor: Peter Goldreich : M.Sc. in Physics, University of Toronto. Advisor: Dick Bond : B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science, University of Toronto Awards and Honors : NSF CAREER award 2011: Nominated for Packard Fellowship, Northwestern University 2010: Heilborn Lecture, Northwestern University : Jeffrey L. Bishop Fellowship, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics : Theoretical Astrophysics Center Fellow, UC Berkeley Employment 2010 present: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University : Senior Research Associate, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics : Postdoctoral Fellow, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics : Theoretical Astrophysics Center (TAC) Fellow, UC Berkeley Visiting Positions July 2014: International Summer Institute for Modeling in Astrophysics, CITA, U of Toronto July 2011: International Summer Institute for Modeling in Astrophysics, Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University, Beijing, China March 2010: Program on the Theory and Observations of Exoplanets, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB November 2009: Visitor at the Kavli Institute at Peking University, Beijing, China Fall 2009: Program on the Dynamics of Discs & Planets, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK Spring 2004: Program on Planet Formation, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB

2 Professional Talks 2014: AAS meeting in Washington, invited speaker at special session on Exoplanets and Kepler CITA, Astrophysics Seminar UC Berkeley, Astrophysics Seminar Notre Dame, Astronomy Seminar ISIMA 2014 Conference: Gravitational Dynamics, CITA 2013: Ohio State University, Astronomy Colloquium Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Colloquium University of Arizona, Astronomy Colloquium Exoplanets in Multi-Body Systems in the Kepler Era, Meeting at the Aspen Center 2012: Northwestern University, Physics of Complex Systems Seminar University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Astronomy Colloquium University of Wisconsin Madison, Astronomy Colloquium Argonne National Labs, Astrophysics Luncheon 2011: University of Chicago, Astronomy Journal Club Talk Cornell University, Astronomy Colloquium University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Physics Colloquium Extreme Solar Systems II, Conference at Grand Teton National Park International Summer Institute for Modeling in Astrophysics, Beijing, China Exploring Strange New Worlds. Conference at Flagstaff, Arizona 2010: Michigan State University, Astronomy Seminar Institute for Advanced Study Seminar, Princeton Heilborn Lecture, Northwestern University 2009: Cambridge University Seminar at Programme on Dynamics of Discs UC Berkeley, Astrophysics Seminar Caltech, Special Astrophysics Seminar MIT, Astrophysics Colloquium 2008: Northwestern University, Physics & Astronomy Colloquium University of Texas at Austin, Astronomy Colloquium University of Pennsylvania, Physics & Astronomy Colloquium University of Chicago, Astronomy & Astrophysics Colloquium 2007 and earlier: Johns Hopkins, Center for Astrophysical Sciences (CAS) Seminar Workshop on Conceptual Aspects of Turbulence, Wolfgang Pauli Institute, Vienna McGill University, Astronomy Seminar Harvard-Smithsonian Conference on Astrophysics of Planetary Systems KITP Conference: Planet Formation UC Berkeley, Astronomy Colloquium UC Berkeley, Astrophysics Seminar CITA, Astrophysics Seminar Workshop on Astro-Plasma Physics, Ringberg Castle, Germany

3 Peer Review Panel referee for NASA and NSF Referee for: Science; The Astrophysical Journal; The Astrophysical Journal Letters; Icarus; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; The Astronomical Journal; Astrobiology; Physics of Plasmas External referee for: NASA/NSF research proposals; Canadian Time Allocation Committee; United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation Grants NSF (9/1/11 8/31/14): Architecture of Planetary Systems: Solar and Extrasolar NASA Origins (1/1/14 12/31/17): Deciphering Kepler s Planetary Systems NSF CAREER (6/1/14 5/31/19): CAREER: Planet Formation in the Age of Kepler Courses Fall 2013, PHYS411: Classical Mechanics Spring 2013, PHYS352: Introduction to Computational Physics Winter 2013, ASTRON441: Advanced Topics: Classic Papers in Theoretical Astrophysics Fall 2012, PHYS411: Classical Mechanics Spring 2012, PHYS252: Introduction to Computational Physics Fall 2011, ASTRON 441: Advanced Topics: Dynamics of Planetary Systems Spring 2011, PHYS252: Introduction to Computational Physics Spring 2010, PHYS252: Introduction to Computational Physics Advising Postdocs 2012 ongoing: Nathan Kaib : Adrian Barker : Evghenii Gaburov : Will Farr : Smadar Naoz Graduate students 2012 ongoing: Adam Dempsey 2011 ongoing: Sam Hadden : Sara Rastegar Undergraduate students 2014: Nicholas Boffi (joint with Adilson Motter) 2012: Xiaowen Chen (joint with Fred Rasio) : Mauricio Maluf Masi Outreach Talks to the public at Adler Planetarium s Astronomy Conversations ( 6 talks per year)

4 Publications [Link to publications at ADS] **Asterisks denote highlighted publications since joining Northwestern (1) **Barker, A., Dempsey, A., & Lithwick Theory and Simulations of Rotating Convection. The Astrophysical Journal, in press. (2) Xie, J-W., Wu, Y. & Lithwick, Y Frequency of Close Companions among Kepler Planets a TTV study. The Astrophysical Journal, in press. (3) **Hadden, S. & Lithwick, Y Densities and Eccentricities of 139 Kepler Planets from Transit Time Variations. The Astrophysical Journal. 787:80 (4) Shannon, A., Wu, Y. & Lithwick, Y Efficiency in Collisionless Growth of Planetesimals. Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal. (5) **Lithwick, Y After Runaway: The Trans-Hill Stage of Planetesimal Growth. The Astrophysical Journal. 780:22 (6) **Lithwick, Y. & Wu, Y Secular chaos and its application to Mercury, hot Jupiters, and the organization of planetary systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Invited Review (7) Barker, A. & Lithwick, Y Non-linear evolution of the elliptical instability in the presence of weak magnetic fields. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 437: (8) Barker, A. & Lithwick, Y Non-linear evolution of the tidal elliptical instability in gaseous planets and stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 435: (9) Wu, Y. & Lithwick, Y Density and Eccentricity of Kepler Planets. The Astrophysical Journal. 772:74. (10) Naoz, S., Farr, W., Lithwick, Y., Rasio, F., & Teyssandier, J Secular Dynamics in Three-Body Systems. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 431: (11) Wu, Y. & Lithwick, Y Ohmic Heating Suspends, not Reverses, the Cooling Contraction of Hot Jupiters. The Astrophysical Journal. 763:13. (12) **Lithwick, Y., Xie, J. & Wu, Y Extracting Planet Mass and Eccentricity From TTV data. The Astrophysical Journal. 761:122. (13) **Lithwick, Y. & Wu, Y Resonant Repulsion of Kepler Planet Pairs. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 756, L11. (14) Dalal, N., Lithwick, Y., & Kuhlen, M The Origin of Dark Matter Halo Profiles. Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal. Online at

5 (15) Johansen, A., Youdin, A., & Lithwick, Y Adding particle collisions to the formation of asteroids and Kuiper belt objects via streaming instabilities. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 537, A125. (16) **Lithwick, Y. & Wu, Y Theory of Secular Chaos and Mercury s Orbit. The Astrophysical Journal. 739: (17) **Wu, Y. & Lithwick, Y Secular Chaos and the Production of Hot Jupiters. The Astrophysical Journal. 735: (18) **Lithwick, Y. & Dalal, N Self-Similar Solutions of Triaxial Dark Matter Halos. The Astrophysical Journal. 734: (19) **Lithwick, Y. & Naoz, S The Eccentric Kozai Mechanism for a Test Particle. The Astrophysical Journal. 742: (20) **Naoz, S., Farr, W., Lithwick, Y., Rasio, F., & Teyssandier, J Hot Jupiters from Secular Planet-Planet Interactions. Nature. 473: (21) Lithwick, Y., Formation, Survival, and Destruction of Vortices in Accretion Disks. The Astrophysical Journal, 693: (22) Lithwick, Y. & Wu, Y On the Origin of Pluto s Minor Moons, Nix and Hydra. Online at (23) Lithwick, Y. & Wu, Y The Effect of Charon s Tidal Damping on the Orbits of Pluto s Three Moons. Online at (24) Lithwick, Y Nonlinear Evolution of Hydrodynamical Shear Flows in Two Dimensions. The Astrophysical Journal, 670, (25) Youdin, A. & Lithwick, Y Particle Stirring in Turbulent Gas Disks: Including Orbital Oscillations. Icarus, 192: (26) Lithwick, Y. & Chiang, E.I Collisional Particle Disks. The Astrophysical Journal, 656: (27) Lithwick, Y., Goldreich, P. & Sridhar, S Imbalanced Strong MHD Turbulence. The Astrophysical Journal, 655: (28) Chiang, E.I., Lithwick, Y., Murray-Clay, R., Buie, M., Grundy, W. & Holman, M A Brief History of Transneptunian Space, pp In Protostars and Planets V, Reipurth, Jewitt, & Keil (eds.), University of Arizona Press, Tucson. (29) Bower, G., Goss, W., Falcke, H., Backer, D. & Lithwick, Y The Intrinsic Size of Sagittarius A from 0.35 to 6 cm. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 648: L127-L130. (30) Bower, G., Roberts, D., Yusef-Zadeh, F., Backer, D., Cotton, W., Goss, W., Lang, C. & Lithwick, Y A Radio Transient 0.1 Parsecs from Sagittarius A. The Astrophysical Journal, 633:

6 (31) Chiang, E.I. & Lithwick, Y Neptune Trojans as a Test Bed for Planet Formation. The Astrophysical Journal, 628: (32) Goldreich, P., Lithwick, Y. & Sari, R Final Stages of Planet Formation. The Astrophysical Journal, 614: (33) Goldreich, P., Lithwick, Y. & Sari, R Planet Formation by Coagulation: a Focus on Uranus and Neptune. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 42: (34) Lithwick, Y. & Goldreich, P Imbalanced Weak MHD Turbulence. The Astrophysical Journal, 582: (35) Goldreich, P., Lithwick, Y. & Sari, R Formation of Kuiper-belt Binaries by Dynamical Friction and Three-Body Encounters. Nature, 420: (36) Lithwick, Y. & Goldreich, P Compressible Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in Interstellar Plasmas. The Astrophysical Journal, 562: (37) Lithwick, Y. & Sari, R Lower Limits on Lorentz Factors in Gamma-Ray Bursts. The Astrophysical Journal, 555: (38) Shaviv, N., Heyl, J. & Lithwick, Y Magnetic Lensing Near Ultramagnetized Neutron Stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 306: