Associate Professor Charles Lineweaver
PhD Physics Berkeley
Associate Professor
ANU College of Science
T:
02-6125-6717
Areas of expertise
- Astrobiology 020101
- Planetary Science (Excl. Extraterrestrial Geology) 020108
- Cosmology And Extragalactic Astronomy 020103
- Stellar Astronomy And Planetary Systems 020110
- Extraterrestrial Geology 040302
- Astronomical And Space Instrumentation 020102
- Evolutionary Biology 0603
Available student projects
I have about a dozen projects dealing with exoplanet statistics, the recession of the Moon, cosmic entropy production, major transitions in cosmic and biological evolution and phylogenetic trees.
Publications
- Lineweaver, C & Patel, V 2023, 'All objects and some questions', American Journal of Physics, vol. 91, no. 10, pp. 819-825.
- Lineweaver, C 2022, 'The 'Oumuamua Controversy: Bayesian Priors and the Evolution of Technological Intelligence', Astrobiology, vol. 22, no. 12, pp. 1419-1428.
- Wang, H, Lineweaver, C, Quanz, S et al. 2022, 'A Model Earth-sized Planet in the Habitable Zone of α Centauri A/B', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 927, no. 2, p. 15.
- Lineweaver, C, Bussey, K, Blackburn, A et al. 2021, 'Cancer progression as a sequence of atavistic reversions', Bioessays, vol. 43, no. 7.
- Lineweaver, C & Davies, P 2020, 'Comparison of the atavistic model of cancer to somatic mutation theory: Phylostratigraphic analyses support the atavistic model', in Bernard S Gerstman (ed.), The Physics of Cancer, World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 243-261.
- Lineweaver, C & Sleep, N 2020, 'Are We Alone? An Interview with Dr. Norman Sleep', Astrobiology, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 563-571.
- Lineweaver, C 2019, 'Making a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) about Astrobiology: Why? For Whom? How?', 1st International Symposium on Education in Astronomy and Astrobiology, ISE2A 2017, ed. Deustua, S; Eastwood, K; TenKate, IL, E D P Sciences, France, pp. 1-11.
- Lineweaver, C, Chopra, A & McIntyre, S 2019, 'The Evolution of Habitability: Characteristics of Habitable Planets', in Vera M. Kolb (ed.), Handbook of Astrobiology, CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp. 685-696.
- Wang, H, Liu, F, Ireland, T et al. 2019, 'Enhanced constraints on the interior composition and structure of terrestrial exoplanets', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 482, no. 2, pp. 2222-2233.
- Lineweaver, C & Chopra, A 2019, 'The Biological Overview Effect: Our Place in Nature', The Journal of Big History, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 109-122.
- Lineweaver, C 2019, 'Cosmic Perspectives and the Myths We Need to Survive', The Journal of Big History, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 81-93.
- Wang, H, Lineweaver, C & Ireland, T 2019, 'The volatility trend of protosolar and terrestrial elemental abundances', Icarus, vol. 328, pp. 287-305.
- McIntyre, S, Lineweaver, C & Ireland, M 2019, 'Planetary magnetism as a parameter in exoplanet habitability', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 485, no. 3, pp. 3999-4012.
- Wang, H, Lineweaver, C & Ireland, T 2018, 'The elemental abundances (with uncertainties) of the most Earth-like planet', Icarus, vol. 299, no. 1, pp. 460-474pp.
- Bovaird, T & Lineweaver, C 2017, 'A flat inner disc model as an alternative to the Kepler dichotomy in the Q1-Q16 planet population', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 468, no. 2, pp. 1493-1504pp.
- Cisneros, L, Bussey, K, Orr, A et al 2017, 'Ancient genes establish stress-induced mutation as a hallmark of cancer', PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 22pp.
- Chopra, A & Lineweaver, C 2017, 'The cosmic evolution of biochemistry', in Richard Gordon and Alexei Sharov (ed.), Habitability of the Universe Before Earth: Astrobiology: Exploring Life on Earth and Beyond (series), Academic Press - Elsevier, tbc.
- McIntyre, S, Lineweaver, C, Groves, C et al 2017, 'Global biogeography since Pangaea', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, vol. 284, no. 1856, pp. 6pp.
- Bussey, K, Cisneros, L, Lineweaver, C et al 2017, 'Ancestral gene regulatory networks drive cancer', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 114, no. 24, pp. 6160-6162pp.
- Patel, V & Lineweaver, C 2017, 'Solutions to the cosmic initial entropy problem without equilibrium initial conditions', Entropy, vol. 19, no. 8, p. 411.
- Chopra, A & Lineweaver, C 2016, 'The Case for a Gaian Bottleneck: The Biology of Habitability', Astrobiology, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 7-22.
- Henderson, C, Poleski, R, Penny, M et al 2016, 'Campaign 9 of the K2 Mission: Observational Parameters, Scientific Drivers, and Community Involvement for a Simultaneous Space- and Ground-based Microlensing Survey', Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 128, no. 970, pp. 22pp.
- Bovaird, T & Lineweaver, C 2015, 'An artificial Kepler dichotomy? Implications for the coplanarity of planetary systems', International Astronomical Union. Proceedings, vol. 11, no. A29A, pp. 196pp.
- Wang, H & Lineweaver, C 2015, 'Chemical Complementarity between the Gas Phase of the Interstellar Medium and the Rocky Material of Our Planetary System', Australian Space Research Conference ASRC 2015, National Space Society of Australia Ltd, Canberra, pp. 10pp.
- Bovaird, T, Lineweaver, C & Jacobsen, S 2015, 'Using the inclinations of Kepler systems to prioritize new titius-bode-based exoplanet predictions', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 448, no. 4, pp. 3608-3627.
- Patel, V & Lineweaver, C 2015, 'An inflationary explanation to the initial entropy problem', 2nd International Electronic Conference on Entropy and its Applications, ECEA-2 2015, Conference Organising Committee, Online, pp. 1-7pp.
- Lineweaver, CH & O'Brien, M 2015, 'The Cosmic Context of the Millenium Development Goals: Maximum Entropy and Sustainability', in Dr Tom Faunce (ed.), Nanotechnology For a Secure and Sustainable Future, Pan Stanford Publishing, Singapore.
- Dewar, R, Lineweaver, C, Niven, R et al 2014, 'Beyond the second law: an overview', in Dewar, R.C., Lineweaver, C.H., Niven, R.K., Regenauer-Lieb, K. (ed.), Beyond the second law, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 3-27.
- Lineweaver, C 2014, 'The entropy of the universe and the maximum entropy production principle', in Dewar, R.C., Lineweaver, C.H., Niven, R.K., Regenauer-Lieb, K. (ed.), Beyond the second law, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 415-428.
- Lineweaver, C, Davies, P & Vincent, M 2014, 'Targeting cancer's weaknesses (not its strengths): Therapeutic strategies suggested by the atavistic model', Bioessays, vol. 36, no. 9, pp. 827-835.
- Dewar, R, Lineweaver, C, Niven, R et al, eds, 2014, Beyond the Second Law - Entropy Production and Non-equilibrium Systems, Springer, Heidelberg.
- Cady, L, Brack, A, Bueno Prieto, J et al. 2014, 'Where Do We Go from Here? AstrobiologyEditorial Board Opinions', Astrobiology, vol. 14, no. 8, pp. 629-644.
- Lineweaver, C 2014, 'The Astrobiological Landscape: Philosophical Foundations of the Study of Cosmic Life. By Milan M. Cirkovic', Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, vol. 44, pp. 159-163.
- Lineweaver, C, Davies, P & Ruse, M, eds, 2013, Complexity and the arrow of time, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- Bovaird, T & Lineweaver, C 2013, 'Exoplanet predictions based on the generalized Titius-Bode relation', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 435, no. 2, pp. 1126-1138.
- Jones, E & Lineweaver, C 2012, 'Using the phase diagram of liquid water to search for life', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 253-262.
- Lineweaver, C & Chopra, A 2012, 'The habitability of our earth and other earths: Astrophysical, geochemical, geophysical, and biological limits on planet habitability', Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, vol. 40, pp. 597-623.
- Dopita, M, Krauss, L, Sutherland, R et al 2011, 'Re-ionizing the universe without stars', Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 335, no. 2, pp. 345-352.
- Lineweaver, C 2011, 'Book review: How to Find a Habitable Planet', Astrobiology, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 88-89.
- Jones, E, Lineweaver, C & Clarke, J 2011, 'An Extensive Phase Space for the Potential Martian Biosphere', Astrobiology, vol. 11, no. 10, pp. 1017-1033.
- Davies, P & Lineweaver, C 2011, 'Cancer tumors as Metazoa 1.0: Tapping genes of ancient ancestors', Physical Biology, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 7.
- Chopra, A, Lineweaver, C, Brocks, J et al 2010, 'Palaeoecophylostoichiometrics Searching for the Elemental Composition of the Last Universal Common Ancestor', Australian Space Science Conference 2009, ed. W Short & I Cairns, National Space Society of Australia Ltd, Australia, pp. 91-104.
- Lineweaver, C & Norman, M 2010, 'The Potato Radius: a Lower Minimum Size for Dwarf Planets', Australian Space Science Conference 2009, ed. W Short & I Cairns, National Space Society of Australia Ltd, Australia, pp. 67-78.
- Jones, E & Lineweaver, C 2010, 'Pressure-temperature Phase Diagram of the Earth', Pathways Towards Habitable Planets Conference 2009, ed. Vincent Coude du Foresto, Dawn M. Gelino, and Ignasi Ribas, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Barcelona Spain, pp. 146-151.
- Lineweaver, C & Egan, C 2010, 'Dark Energy and the Entropy of the Observable Universe', Invisible Universe 2009, ed. J.-M. Alimi & A. Fuozfa, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 645-651.
- Jones, E & Lineweaver, C 2010, 'To what extent does terrestrial life "follow the water"?', Astrobiology, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 349-361.
- Egan, C & Lineweaver, C 2010, 'A larger estimate of the entropy of the universe', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 710, no. 2, pp. 1825-1834.
- Lineweaver, C 2010, 'Spreading the power: Comment on "Life, hierarchy, and the thermodynamic machinery of planet Earth" by A. Kleidon', Physics of Life Reviews, vol. 7, pp. 463-464.
- Davies, P, Benner, S, Cleland, C et al 2009, 'Signatures of a Shadow Biosphere', Astrobiology, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 241-249.
- Lineweaver, C 2009, 'Paleontological Tests: Human-like Intelligence is not a Convergent Feature of Evolution', in J Seckbach, M Walsh (ed.), From Fossils to Astrobiology: Records of Life on Earth and the search for Extraterrestrial Biosignatures, Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 355-368.
- Lineweaver, C & Egan, C 2008, 'Life, gravity and the second law of thermodynamics', Physics of Life Reviews, vol. 5, pp. 225-242.
- Robles-Martinez, J, Lineweaver, C, Grether, D et al. 2008, 'A Comprehensive Comparison of the Sun to Other Stars: Searching for Self-Selection Effects', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 684, pp. 691-706.
- Lineweaver, C 2008, 'Increasingly Overlapping Magisteria of Science and Religion', in Joseph Seckbach & Richard Gordon (ed.), Divine action and natural selection: Science, Faith and Evolution, World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, pp. 154-181.
- Egan, C & Lineweaver, C 2008, 'Dark-energy dynamics required to solve the cosmic coincidence', Physical Review D-Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 78, pp. 083528-1 - 083528-13.
- Egan, C & Lineweaver, C 2007, 'The Cosmic Coincidence as a Temporal Selection Effect Produced by the Age Distribution of Terrestrial Planets in the Universe', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 671, no. 11, pp. 853-860.
- Grether, D & Lineweaver, C 2007, 'The metallicity of stars with close companions', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 669, no. 2, pp. 1220-1234.
- Freeman, K, McNamara, G & Lineweaver, C 2006, In search of dark matter, Springer, Germany.
- Grether, D & Lineweaver, C 2006, 'How dry is the brown dwarf desert? Quantifying the relative number of planets, brown dwarfs, and stellar companions around nearby sun-like stars', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 640, pp. 1051-1062.
- Lineweaver, C 2006, 'We Have Not Detected Extraterrestrial Life, Or Have We?', in J. Seckbach (ed.), Life as We Know It, Springer, the Netherlands, pp. 445-457.
- Minier, V & Lineweaver, C 2006, 'A search for water masers toward extrasolar planets', Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 449, pp. 805-808.
- Lineweaver, C, Freeman, K & McNamara, G 2006, 'Towards Omega', in Ken Freeman and Geoff McNamara (ed.), In Search of Dark Matter, Springer, Germany, pp. 139-145.
- Lineweaver, C 2005, 'Intelligent Life in the Universe: From Common Origins to the Future of Humanity by Peter Ulmschneider', Astrobiology, vol. 5, pp. 658-657.
- Lineweaver, C & Davis, T 2005, 'Misconceptions about the Big Bang', Scientific American, vol. 292, pp. 24-33.
- Davies, P & Lineweaver, C 2005, 'Finding a second sample of life on earth', Astrobiology, vol. 5, pp. 154-163.
- Davis, T & Lineweaver, C 2004, 'Expanding Confusion: Common Misconceptions of Cosmological Horizons and the Superluminal Expansion of the Universe', Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, vol. 21, pp. 97-109.
- Griffiths, L & Lineweaver, C 2004, 'Testing the Cosmic Microwave Background Data for Systematic Effects', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 603, pp. 371-382.
- Lineweaver, C, Fenner, Y & Gibson, B 2004, 'The Galactic Habitable Zone and the Age Distribution of Complex Life in the Milky Way', Science, vol. 303, pp. 59-62.
- Lineweaver, C & Davis, T 2003, 'Rapid communication: On the Nonobservability of Recent Biogenesis', Astrobiology, vol. 3, pp. 241-243.
- Lineweaver, C & Grether, D 2003, 'What Fraction of Sun-like Stars Have Planets?', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 598, no. 2, pp. 1350-1360.
- Lineweaver, C & Griffiths, L 2003, 'Is the pre-WMAP CMB data self-consistent?', New Astronomy Reviews, vol. 47, pp. 901-905.
- Davies, P, Davis, T & Lineweaver, C 2002, 'Cosmology: Black holes constrain varying constants', Nature, vol. 418, no. 6898, pp. 602-603.
- Lineweaver, C, Davis, T & Davis, T 2002, 'Does the Rapid Appearance of Life on Earth Suggest that Life Is Common in the Universe?', Astrobiology, vol. 2, pp. 293-304.
- Lineweaver, C & Grether, D 2002, 'The Observational Case for Jupiter Being a Typical Massive Planet', Astrobiology, vol. 2, pp. 325-334.
- Lineweaver, C 2001, 'An Estimate of the Age Distribution of Terrestrial Planets in the Universe: Quantifying Metallicity as a Selection Effect', Icarus, vol. 151, pp. 307-313.
