RESEARCH PAGE

Thesis

• Doctoral thesis, "Transport and Stability Analysis of Dilute Magnetized Accreting Flows." (2007) PDF of thesis, PDF of thesis defense.
• Undergraduate thesis, "Parity Violation in B → γKππ Decays."

Publications

• "Axisymmetric Nonlinear Waves and Structures in Hall Plasmas," Tanim Islam and Leonid Rudakov, unpublished (2002)
• "Dynamics of the Magnetoviscous Instability," Tanim Islam and Steven Balbus, ApJ 633, 328-333 (2005)
• "The Magnetoviscous-Thermal Instability," in preparation
• "The Drift-Kinetic Equation in a Rotating Frame, With Applications to Hot Dilute Magnetized Accretion," in preparation

Conference Proceedings

• "Hall Astrophysics in Dusty Plasmas," APS Division of Plasma Physics, Fall 2001
• "Non-Viscous Transport of Angular Momentum in Accretion Disks," APS Division of Plasma Physics, Fall 2002
• "Analysis of Nonaxisymmetric Modes in Accretion Disks at Marginal Stability With Nonlinear Diffusion and Dissipation," Sherwood Theory Conference, April 2003
• "The Magnetoviscous Instability in Rotating Systems," Jansky Symposium, February 2005
• "The Magnetoviscous-Thermal Instability in Dilute Magnetized Astrophysical Plasmas", Sf2A 2006, Paris, France
• "The Magnetothermal Instability in Dilute Accreting Plasmas", Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, October 30, 2006, Philadelphia, PA, US; abstract
• "The Magnetothermal Instability And Its Role in Angular Momentum Transport in Hot, Dilute Magnetized Accretion", APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, November 12, 2007, Orlando, FL, US; posters one and two (warning, posters are 32'' x 47'' in size); abstract

Informal and Group Presentations

• "A Non-Viscous Transport of Angular Momentum in Accretion Disks," MIT Student Presentation, April 2003
• "The Weibel Instability in Collisionless Relativistic Shocks", TUNA Talk, September 2003
• "The Magnetorotational Instability in Accreting Disks," SPS Talk, January 2005
• "The Magnetoviscous Instability With General Viscosity",TUNA Talk, Feb. 2005
• "The Magnetorotational Instability in Accreting Disks," IAP Student Talk, Jun. 2005
• "Stability in Dilute Magnetized Accreting Plasmas," LRA ENS Talk, Dec. 2005
• "Accretion in Dilute Magnetized Plasmas: Main Issues, Physics, and Analytic Approaches" LRA ENS MHD Talk, March 2006
• "The Nature of Low Mass Rate Accretion Onto Supermassive Black Holes" IAP Talk, June 2006
• "The Magnethermal Instability (MTI) And Its Role in Hot, Dilute, Magnetized Accretion," APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, November 13, 2007, Orlando, FL