Patrick Bourg is an EPSRC Fellowship Senior Research Assistant in the Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics group within Mathematical Sciences at the University of Southampton.
2021-present: EPSRC Fellowship Senior Research Assistant
2018-2021: PhD Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton
2017-2018 Msc Theoretical Physics, King’s College London
2012-2016 Msci Mathematics, Imperial College London
My main research interest is in classical relativity, with applications to numerical relativity and black hole physics.
My main PhD work revolved around critical phenomena in gravitational collapse. That is, the phenomena that occur when evolving initial data that are close to the threshold of black-hole formation.
Currently, I am working on a multi-domain spectral method approach to solve the Poisson equation with a point-particle source term on a fixed Schwarzschild background. This has important and direct applications to current second-order calculation, which are crucial to the future LISA project.
PhD supervision : Prof. Carsten Gundlach and Prof. Leor Barack
MPhil/PhD research title: Critical phenomena in gravitational collapse, EPSRC funded
Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
Relativistic Astrophysics