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Research project

Rolling PPARC grant

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Nils Andersson

Professor of Applied Maths

Research interests

  • General relativistic astrosphysics
  • Black holes
  • Neutron stars
Other researchers

Emeritus Professor James Vickers

Professor Carsten Gundlach

Professor of Mathematical Physics

Research interests

  • Classical general relativity
  • Numerical relativity
  • Critical phenomena in gravitational collapse

Professor Ian Jones

Professor of Mathematical Physics

Research interests

  • Gravitational wave astronomy
  • Neutron stars
  • Radio pulsars

Professor Leor Barack

Professor of Mathematical Physics

Research interests

  • Classical General Relativity
  • Gravitational waves
  • Black Holes

Dr Ian Hawke

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Numerical relativity
  • Neutron Stars
  • Gravitational waves

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

We focus on mathematical modelling and mathematical physics, and investigate everything from neutron stars to superfluids.

Research outputs

Gravitational self force in extreme mass-ratio inspirals
Leor Barack
, 2009 , Classical and Quantum Gravity , 26 (21) , 213001--213056
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/26/21/213001
Type: article
Gravitational self-force correction to the innermost stable circular orbit of a Schwarzschild black hole
L. Barack,
& N. Sago
, 2009 , Physical Review Letters , 102 (19) , 1--4
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.191101
Type: article
Collapse of differentially rotating supermassive stars: post black hole formation
Motoyuki Saijo,
& Ian Hawke
, 2009 , Physical Review D , 80 , 064001--[17 pp]
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.064001
Type: article
Numerical relativity simulations in the era of the Einstein Telescope
Mark Hannam,
& Ian Hawke
, 2009 , General Relativity and Gravitation , 43 (2) , 465--483
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-010-1008-2
Type: article
Superfluid signatures in magnetar seismology
N. Andersson,
K. Glampedakis,
& L. Samuelsson
, 2009 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 396 (2) , 894--899
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14734.x
Type: article