RCUK Academic Fellow, Dept. of Earth Sciences & St. Anne's College, University of Oxford
Email: Richard.Katz@earth.ox.ac.uk
Curriculum Vitae
See below for: Research / Teaching 		Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
Parks Road, Oxford  OX1 3PR, United Kingdom
Phone: +44-1865-282122
what i think about most days
 Research Interests  (Oxford Geodynamics Group)
• Dynamics of fluid--solid systems with chemical, mechanical and thermodynamic interactions between phases.  • Applications to geophysical systems. • Pattern formation in two-phase systems.  Fluid focusing and localization.  Shear and reactive instability in partially molten materials.  • Plate boundary volcanism.  Reactive flow of magma and hydrous fluids through the mantle.  Geochemical predictions and comparison with geochemical observations.  • The integration of large-scale computation, analytical theory, and laboratory fluid dynamics experiments. 
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From Oct 2007 at the Department of Earth Sciences and St. Anne's College
University of Oxford,  Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PR.
yo, rabbi! Coauthors
Eberhard Bodenschatz, Suzanne Carbotte, Ethan Coon, Ben Holtzman, Matt Knepley, Charles Langmuir, Rolf Ragnarsson, Barry Smith, Marc Spiegelman, M. Grae Worster
Thumbnail of an ice-sheet calculation.
 Dynamics of Ice-sheet Grounding Lines
Katz, R. F. and M.G. Worster (2010); Stability of Ice-sheet Grounding Lines.  Proceedings of the Royal Society A, doi: 10.1098/rspa.2009.0434. (BibTeX) (New Scientist article)
MOR porosity field
 Magma Dynamics in the Mantle Beneath a Mid-Ocean Ridge
Katz, R. F. (2008); Magma dynamics with the Enthalpy Method: Benchmark Solutions and Magmatic Focusing at Mid-ocean Ridges.  Journal of Petrology, doi: 10.1093/petrology/egn058. (BibTeX)
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 Directional Solidification of a Binary Alloy
Katz, R. F. and M.G. Worster, (2008); Simulation of directional solidification, thermochemical convection, and chimney formation in a Hele-Shaw cell.  Journal of Computational Physics,  doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2008.06.039. (BibTeX)
Stress Driven Melt Segregation and Shear Localization
 Katz, R. F., M. Spiegelman, and B. Holtzman, (2006); The dynamics of melt and shear localization in partially molten aggregates, Nature, doi:10.1038/nature05039. (BibTeX) (Supplementary Info)
3D image of a ridge simulation
 Three Dimensional Mantle Flow and Thermal Structure Beneath Mid-Ocean Ridges
Katz, R. F., M. Knepley, B. Smith, M. Spiegelman and E. Coon, (2007); Numerical simulation of geodynamic processes with the Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation, Phys. of the Earth and Planetary Interiors,  doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2007.04.016. (BibTeX)
Reactive Flow of Hydrous Magma
Fall '04 AGU meeting: Progress towards an integrated computational model of magma genesis and transport in subduction zones. (BibTeX)
Tectonic Microplates
Katz, R. F., R. Ragnarsson, and E. Bodenschatz, (2005); Tectonic Microplates in a Wax Model of Sea Floor Spreading, New Journal of Physics,  doi:10.1088/1367-2630/7/1/037.  (BibTeX) (press release) (movies)
Katz, R. F. and E. Bodenschatz, (2005); Taking wax for a spin: microplates in an analog model of plate tectonics, Europhysics News, Vol. 5, September/October. (BibTeX)

Ridge Migration and Asymmetric Magma Genesis
Katz, R. F., M. Spiegelman, and S. M.Carbotte (2004), Ridge migration, asthenospheric flow and the origin of magmatic segmentation in the global mid-ocean ridge system, Geophys. Res. Lett.,  doi:10.1029/2004GL020388.  (BibTeX)

Mantle Flow & Thermal Structure in Subduction Zones
Knepley, M. G., R. F. Katz and B. F. Smith, (2006). Developing a Geodynamics Simulator with PETSc. In Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations on Parallel Computers,  Series: Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, Vol. 51, A. M. Bruaset and A. Tveito (Eds.). (BibTeX)
Semi-Lagrangian Advection Schemes
Spiegelman, M. and R. F. Katz, (2006), A Semi-Lagrangian Crank-Nicolson Algorithm for the Numerical Solution of Advection-Diffusion Problems,  Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., doi:10.1029/2005GC001073. (BibTeX)
Parallel Semi-Lagrangian Advection now available in PETSc
Parameterization of Hydrous Mantle Melting
Katz, R. F., M. Spiegelman, and C. H. Langmuir, (2003), A new parameterization of hydrous mantle melting, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., doi:10.1029/2002GC000433. (BibTeX)
Implementation of melt parameterization: source code in C and f90.
Cambridge + NSF US National Science Foundation International Research Fellowship, held 2006--2008
For two years of postdoctoral study at the Institute for Theoretical Geophysics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge, UK with host Professor Grae Worster. (NSF Award 0602101)
US Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, held 2001--2005
My thesis dissertation, deposited December 23rd, 2005, Columbia University. (BibTeX)
My thesis defense given November 21st, 2005, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.
G. Baley Price in class, 1960s Teaching
Columbia University U4735: Environmental Science for Decision Makers Quantitative Analysis Section
Guest lecture: Parallel solution of non-linear PDEs with PETSc's Scalable Nonlinear Equations Solvers