• General Relativity
• Numerical Relativity
• Computational Astrophysics
• Data Visualization

Publications

My PhD thesis on "Initial Data for the Two-Body Problem of General Relativity".
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Recent talks:

• Black-Hole Binaries in Quasi-Equilibrium - [includes Audio Link] - [presentation version]
  Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Penn State, Jan. 21, 2002
• Toward Astrophysical Black-Hole Binaries - [presentation version]
  Center for Gravitational Wave Physics, Penn State, Mar. 29 & 30, 2002
• Toward Astrophysical Black-Hole Binaries - [presentation version]
  Caltech Visitors Program in the Numerical Simulation of Gravitational Wave Sources: Quasi-Adiabatic Evolution, Caltech, June 10—14, 2002
• Computing Initial Data I: Formalisms and History - [presentation version]
  Institute for Mathematics and it Applications: Numerical Relativity Workshop, University of Minnesota, June 24—29, 2002
• Generating Binary Black Hole Initial Data - [presentation version]
  Caltech Visitors Program in the Numerical Simulation of Gravitational Wave Sources, Seminars on the Initial Data Problem, California Institue of Technology, May 2, 2003
• Generating Initial Data for Interacting Compact Binaries - [includes Video Link] - [presentation version]
  Gravitational Interaction of Compact Objects, Kavli Institute for Theoritical Physics, May 12—14, 2003
• Initial Data For Black-Hole Binaries - [presentation version]
  7th Eastern Gravity Meeting, Bowdoin College, June 11 & 12, 2004
• Einstein, Black Holes, and Gravitational Waves. WYOP-2005 Talk
• Black-Hole Binary Initial Data, 8th Eastern Gravity Meeting, Wake Forest University, Mar. 18—19, 2005.
• Getting the Spin Right In Black-Hole Binaries, Post-YKIS2005 Scientific Program on Gravitation and Cosmology, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Japan, July 24—Aug. 3 , 2005.
• Black-Hole Binary Initial Data, Frontiers of Gravitational Wave Physics, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Japan, July 27—28, 2005.
• Black-Hole Binary Initial Data: Getting the Spin Right, CTA Seminar on Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Oct. 5, 2005.
• Black-Hole Binary Initial Data: Getting the Spin Right, Numerical Relativity 2005: Compact Binaries, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Nov. 2—4, 2005.
• Status of Initial Data for Binary Black Hole Collisions, Focus Session: Initial Data for Numerical Relativity, APS April Meeting, Dallas, Texas, Apr. 23, 2006.
• Circular Orbits and Spin in Black-Hole Initial Data, Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Seminar, Caltech, June 7, 2006.
• Circular Orbits and Spin in Black-Hole Initial Data, Gravity Theory Seminars, University of Maryland, Sept. 29, 2006.
• Inspiral, Merger, and Ring-Down of Equal-Mass Black-Hole Binaries, Physics Colloquium, North Carolina State University, Nov. 20, 2006.
• The Role of Diagnostics in Evaluating Initial-Data Sets, NR Meets 3PN, Washington University in St. Louis, Feb. 8—11, 2007.
• Approximate Killing Vectors and Black-Hole Diagnostics, 10th Eastern Gravity Meeting, Cornell University, May 31—June1, 2007.
• Approximate Killing Vectors for Computing Spin in Black-Hole Initial Data and Evolutions, 18th International Converence on General Relativity & Gravitation, Sydney Australia, July 8—13, 2007.

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