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Scott Charles Noble

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Department of Physics & Engineering Physics

Keplinger Hall L171 Tulsa, OK

University of Tulsa (TU) USA

800 South Tucker Dr.

Tulsa, OK 74104

USA

Office: (918) 631-3309

FAX: (918) 631-2995

E-mail: scott-noble AT @utulsa.edu

URL: http://personal.utulsa.edu/~scn759

Skype: (upon request)

Citizenship: United States of America

Date of Birth: 1975

Place of Birth: USA

Education

12/2003 Ph.D. in Physics

University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

Thesis: A Numerical Study of Relativistic Fluid Collapse

Co-supervisors:

Prof. Matthew W. Choptuik, U. of British Columbia

Prof. Philip J. Morrison, U. of Texas at Austin

06/1997 B.S. in Physics

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

Professional and Teaching Experience

07/2015 - 07/2015 Invited Lecturer, ''Numerical Astrophysics: GRMHD'', 1-week graduate level, TIARA Summer School, National Taiwan University, http://events.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw/school/20150713/;

08/2014 - present Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics & Engineering Physics, TU

PHYS 4063: ``Electricity & Magnetism'', upper undergraduate level, (Fall 2014, Fall 2015);

PHYS 4073: ``Electromagnetic Waves & Optics'', upper undergraduate level, (Spring 2015);

PHYS 4563: ``Astrophysics'', upper undergraduate level, (Spring 2016);

PHYS 4982: ``Senior Thesis'', Vernon Londagin (AY 2015-2016), Jeffrey Harris (AY 2015-2016), William Bates (Fall 2014);

PHYS 7003: ``Advanced Classical Mechanics'', graduate level, (Fall 2015);

PHYS 7063: ``Electromagnetic Theory'', graduate level, (Spring 2016);

PHYS 7971: ``Graduate Seminar'', graduate level, organized Physics Colloquia, supervised student attendance (AY 2015-2016);

07/2013 - 08/2013 Invited Participant, ``A Universe of Black Holes'', Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, Univ. of California in Santa Barbara.

04/2011 - 04/2011 Co-Instructor, Perimeter Scholars International, Perimeter Institute, ``Explorations in Numerical Relativity'', www.perimeterscholars.org/314.html.

09/2009 - 08/2014 Associate Research Scientist, Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation (CCRG), RIT

01/2008 - 01/2008 Instructor, Johns Hopkins U. (JHU), Intersession 2008: Physics & Astronomy 171.299.01, ``Intro. to Computer Programming for Scientists & Engineers''

09/2006 - 08/2009 Associate Research Scientist, Center for Astrophysical Sciences, Johns Hopkins U. with Prof. Julian Krolik

10/2003 - 08/2006 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Theoretical Astrophysics, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with with Prof. Charles Gammie

09/2000 - 09/2003 Graduate Research Assistant, U. of British Columbia, with Prof. Matthew Choptuik

06/2000 - 08/2000 Graduate Research Assistant, U. of Texas at Austin, with Prof. Matthew Choptuik.

01/2000 - 05/2000 Assistant Instructor, U. of Texas at Austin: Physical Science 303: ``Physics Lab'' for Liberal Arts majors. Prepared original lectures and material supplementing existing teaching material, responsible for lab experiment setup, design, and execution;

06/1999 - 12/1999 Computer Programmer, Physics Computer Group, U. of Texas at Austin

08/1997 - 12/1999 Teaching Assistant, U. of Texas at Austin:

PHY 101L: ``Mechanics Lab'' Calculus-based, for Scientists and Engineers (lab instructor);

PHY n303K: ``Engineering Physics I'' (grader);

PHY 309K: ``Mechanics and Heat'' (test maker, teaching assistant);

PHY 329: ``Computational Physics'' (system administrator);

01/1997 - 07/1997 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Caltech, with Prof. Steven Koonin, Prof. Chris Adami and Dr. Nicholas Cerf: Solving the NP-Complete 3-SAT Problem through Simulation of a Quantum Computer

06/1996 - 08/1996 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Caltech, with Prof. Steven Koonin, Prof. Chris Adami and Dr. Nicholas Cerf: Solving the NP-Complete 3-SAT Problem through Simulation of a Quantum Computer

06/1995 - 08/1995 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Caltech, with Dr. Ren-yuan Zhu: A Study on the Performance of the Crystal Calorimeter for BaBar at SLAC

06/1994 - 08/1994 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Caltech, with Dr. Ren-yuan Zhu: Simulating the Resolution Performance of Crystal Calorimeters for the B Factory Experiment at SLAC and the CMS Experiment at LHC

Research Grants

08/2015 - 07/2018 Principal Investigator: Collaborative Research: Predicting the Transient Signals from Galactic Centers: Circumbinary Disks and Tidal Disruptions around Black Holes, PI: S. Noble; co-PIs: M. Campanelli (RIT), J. Krolik (JHU), Y. Zlochower (RIT); NSF ACI 1515969, PRAC program; Amount: $29,954 (total), $12,683 (TU). Supports travel for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, PI/co-PIs at TU, JHU, and RIT, and provides an allocation on the Blue Waters supercomputer (see below).

09/2015 - 08/2018 Co-Principal Investigator: Collaborative Research: Accretion Dynamics of Black Hole Mergers, PI: M. Campanelli (RIT); co-PIs: J. Krolik (JHU), S. Noble, Y. Zlochower (RIT); NSF AST 1515982; Amount: $967,006 (total), $137,348 (TU); Supports Noble's summer salary and travel.

ForUniversity (not awarded) Co-Principal Investigator: Collaborative Research: Accretion Dynamics of Black Hole Mergers, PI: M. Campanelli (RIT); co-PIs: J. Krolik (JHU), S. Noble, Y. Zlochower (RIT); NASA;
06/2015 - 07/2015

08/2010 - 07/2015 Co-Principal Investigator: CDI-Type II: Computing Supermassive Black Hole Mergers in Astrophysics, PIs: M. Campanelli (RIT), J. Krolik (JHU); co-PIs: S. Noble, Y. Zlochower; NSF CDI AST 1028087. Amount: $2,000,000 (split equally between RIT and JHU). Supported Noble's annual salary, computer equipment and a student's salary at RIT.

09/2012 - 05/2013 Co-Principal Investigator: Improving the Performance and Walltime of GRMHD Calculations for the Blue Waters Petascale Project, PI: M. Campanelli; co-PIs: S. Noble, J. Faber, Y. Zlochower; Amount: $74,759.00; Sponsors: NSF and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA); Supported annual salaries of Noble and Zilhao, a postdoctoral researcher at RIT.

	08/2015 - 07/2018		Principal Investigator: Collaborative Research: Predicting the Transient Signals from Galactic Centers: Circumbinary Disks and Tidal Disruptions around Black Holes, PI: S. Noble; co-PIs: M. Campanelli (RIT), J. Krolik (JHU), Y. Zlochower (RIT); NSF ACI 1515969, PRAC program; Amount: $29,954 (total), $12,683 (TU). Supports travel for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, PI/co-PIs at TU, JHU, and RIT, and provides an allocation on the Blue Waters supercomputer (see below).
	09/2015 - 08/2018		Co-Principal Investigator: Collaborative Research: Accretion Dynamics of Black Hole Mergers, PI: M. Campanelli (RIT); co-PIs: J. Krolik (JHU), S. Noble, Y. Zlochower (RIT); NSF AST 1515982; Amount: $967,006 (total), $137,348 (TU); Supports Noble's summer salary and travel.
	ForUniversity (not awarded)		Co-Principal Investigator: Collaborative Research: Accretion Dynamics of Black Hole Mergers, PI: M. Campanelli (RIT); co-PIs: J. Krolik (JHU), S. Noble, Y. Zlochower (RIT); NASA; 06/2015 - 07/2015
	08/2010 - 07/2015		Co-Principal Investigator: CDI-Type II: Computing Supermassive Black Hole Mergers in Astrophysics, PIs: M. Campanelli (RIT), J. Krolik (JHU); co-PIs: S. Noble, Y. Zlochower; NSF CDI AST 1028087. Amount: $2,000,000 (split equally between RIT and JHU). Supported Noble's annual salary, computer equipment and a student's salary at RIT.
	09/2012 - 05/2013		Co-Principal Investigator: Improving the Performance and Walltime of GRMHD Calculations for the Blue Waters Petascale Project, PI: M. Campanelli; co-PIs: S. Noble, J. Faber, Y. Zlochower; Amount: $74,759.00; Sponsors: NSF and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA); Supported annual salaries of Noble and Zilhao, a postdoctoral researcher at RIT.

Supercomputing Allocations(1 SU = 1 CPU-hour of computing power on a current processor)

10/2015 - 09/2016 Co-Principal Investigator: XSEDE; Renewal; Title: Simulation of extreme black hole binaries in astrophysical environments; TG-PHY060027N; PI: C.Lousto; co-PIs: H.-P.Bischof, M.Campanelli, J.Faber, S.Noble, and Y.Zlochower; Amount: 2.4M SUs on Gordon (SDSC), 5.4M SUs on Comet (SDSC), 2.7M SUs on Stampede (TACC), (the total amounts to approximately 15M SUs using SU units equivalent to previous years).

08/2015 - 07/2018 Principal Investigator: PRAC; Title: Collaborative Research: Predicting the Transient Signals from Galactic Centers: Circumbinary Disks and Tidal Disruptions around Black Holes, PI: S. Noble; co-PIs: M. Campanelli, J. Krolik, Y. Zlochower; NSF ACI 1515969, PRAC program; Amount: 32M SUs per year for 3 years on Blue Waters petascale supercomputer (NCSA).

10/2014 - 09/2015 Co-Principal Investigator: XSEDE; Renewal; Title: Dynamics of Highly Spinning Black Hole Binaries and Their Gaseous Environment; TG-PHY060027N; PI: C.Lousto; co-PIs: H.-P.Bischof, M.Campanelli, J.Faber, S.Noble, and Y.Zlochower; Amount: 5.4M SUs on Gordon (SDSC), 3M SUs on Stampede (TACC).

09/2013 - 08/2014 Co-Principal Investigator: XSEDE; Renewal; Title: Intermediate Mass Ratio Black-Hole Binaries with High Spins: Dynamics of the Black Holes and Their Gaseous Environments; TG-PHY060027N; PI: C.Lousto; co-PIs: H.-P.Bischof, M.Campanelli, J.Faber, S.Noble, and Y.Zlochower; Amount: 2.3M SUs on Gordon (SDSC), 4M SUs on Stampede (TACC), 1M SUs on Lonestar (TACC) (the total amounts to approximately 15M SUs using SU units equivalent to previous years).

04/2013 - 10/2014 Science & Technical Lead: PRAC; Title: Computational Relativity and Gravitation at Petascale: Simulating and Visualizing Astrophysically Realistic Compact Binaries; NSF ACI 0832606 PRAC; PI: M.Campanelli; co-PIs: H.-P.Bischof, J.Faber, C.Lousto, and Y.Zlochower; Science/Technical Lead: S. Noble; Amount: 17.5M SUs on Blue Waters (NCSA). Allocation is associated with a proposal submitted prior to Noble's arrival at RIT, but is now exclusively allocated for Noble's circumbinary disk calculations.

09/2012 - 08/2013 Co-Principal Investigator: XSEDE; Renewal; Title: Binary Black Holes of Intermediate Mass Ratios and Spins, and their Gaseous Environments; TG-PHY060027N; PI: C.Lousto; co-PIs: H.-P.Bischof, M.Campanelli, J.Faber, H. Nakano, S.Noble, B. Mundim, and Y.Zlochower; Amount: 17.3M SUs on several XSEDE clusters.

09/2011 - 08/2012 Co-Principal Investigator: XSEDE; Renewal; Title: Simulations of Astrophysical Extreme Binary Black Holes; TG-PHY060027N; PI: C.Lousto; co-PIs: H.-P.Bischof, M.Campanelli, J.Faber, S.Noble, and Y.Zlochower; Amount: 12.5M SUs on several XSEDE clusters.

	10/2015 - 09/2016		Co-Principal Investigator: XSEDE; Renewal; Title: Simulation of extreme black hole binaries in astrophysical environments; TG-PHY060027N; PI: C.Lousto; co-PIs: H.-P.Bischof, M.Campanelli, J.Faber, S.Noble, and Y.Zlochower; Amount: 2.4M SUs on Gordon (SDSC), 5.4M SUs on Comet (SDSC), 2.7M SUs on Stampede (TACC), (the total amounts to approximately 15M SUs using SU units equivalent to previous years).
	08/2015 - 07/2018		Principal Investigator: PRAC; Title: Collaborative Research: Predicting the Transient Signals from Galactic Centers: Circumbinary Disks and Tidal Disruptions around Black Holes, PI: S. Noble; co-PIs: M. Campanelli, J. Krolik, Y. Zlochower; NSF ACI 1515969, PRAC program; Amount: 32M SUs per year for 3 years on Blue Waters petascale supercomputer (NCSA).
	10/2014 - 09/2015		Co-Principal Investigator: XSEDE; Renewal; Title: Dynamics of Highly Spinning Black Hole Binaries and Their Gaseous Environment; TG-PHY060027N; PI: C.Lousto; co-PIs: H.-P.Bischof, M.Campanelli, J.Faber, S.Noble, and Y.Zlochower; Amount: 5.4M SUs on Gordon (SDSC), 3M SUs on Stampede (TACC).
	09/2013 - 08/2014		Co-Principal Investigator: XSEDE; Renewal; Title: Intermediate Mass Ratio Black-Hole Binaries with High Spins: Dynamics of the Black Holes and Their Gaseous Environments; TG-PHY060027N; PI: C.Lousto; co-PIs: H.-P.Bischof, M.Campanelli, J.Faber, S.Noble, and Y.Zlochower; Amount: 2.3M SUs on Gordon (SDSC), 4M SUs on Stampede (TACC), 1M SUs on Lonestar (TACC) (the total amounts to approximately 15M SUs using SU units equivalent to previous years).
	04/2013 - 10/2014		Science & Technical Lead: PRAC; Title: Computational Relativity and Gravitation at Petascale: Simulating and Visualizing Astrophysically Realistic Compact Binaries; NSF ACI 0832606 PRAC; PI: M.Campanelli; co-PIs: H.-P.Bischof, J.Faber, C.Lousto, and Y.Zlochower; Science/Technical Lead: S. Noble; Amount: 17.5M SUs on Blue Waters (NCSA). Allocation is associated with a proposal submitted prior to Noble's arrival at RIT, but is now exclusively allocated for Noble's circumbinary disk calculations.
	09/2012 - 08/2013		Co-Principal Investigator: XSEDE; Renewal; Title: Binary Black Holes of Intermediate Mass Ratios and Spins, and their Gaseous Environments; TG-PHY060027N; PI: C.Lousto; co-PIs: H.-P.Bischof, M.Campanelli, J.Faber, H. Nakano, S.Noble, B. Mundim, and Y.Zlochower; Amount: 17.3M SUs on several XSEDE clusters.
	09/2011 - 08/2012		Co-Principal Investigator: XSEDE; Renewal; Title: Simulations of Astrophysical Extreme Binary Black Holes; TG-PHY060027N; PI: C.Lousto; co-PIs: H.-P.Bischof, M.Campanelli, J.Faber, S.Noble, and Y.Zlochower; Amount: 12.5M SUs on several XSEDE clusters.

Student Supervision

08/2015 - present Vernon Londagin, undergraduate senior thesis project (TU): ``Using Mathematica as a Bootstrap to Simulate Light and Gas Around Binary Black Hole Systems''

05/2015 - 08/2015 Luke Schriewer, Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge (TU): ``Application of Nuclear Equations of State to Explore Neutron Star Solutions in Simulations''

05/2015 - 08/2015 Vernon Londagin, Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge (TU): ``Using Mathematica as a Bootstrap to Simulate Light and Gas Around Binary Black Hole Systems''

05/2015 - present Amanda Seiders, PhD project (TU): ``GRMHD on Overlapping, Non-Aligned Grids''

08/2014 - 05/2015 Jeffrey Harris, undergraduate senior thesis project (TU): ``Visualization and Analysis of Lightlike and Timelike Geodesics in Isolated Schwarzschild and Binary Kerr Spacetime Geometries''

08/2014 - 11/2014 William Bates, undergraduate senior thesis project (TU) ``Neutron Star Collapse''

08/2012 - present Dennis Bowen, PhD project (RIT): ``Circumbinary Disks''

01/2010 - 11/2012 Billy Vazquez, graduate student project (RIT): ``Imaging Binary Black Holes''

06/2008 - 08/2009 Robert Abramovic, undergraduate student project (JHU): ``Null Geodesics and Surfaces in Curved Spacetimes''

ForUniversity University Service at TU

10/2014 Designed the course PHYS 4093/6093 ``Introduction to General Relativity'';

AY 2015 - 2016 Organizer of the 2015-2016 Norman M. Hulings Lecture (Prof. Clifford Will) on behalf of the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences;

Fall 2014 Member of the Department's Review Committee for Applied Associate Professor Jerry McCoy, Laboratory Curator & Instructor Arty Gibson;

Spring 2015 Member of the Department's Hiring Committee for an applied professor position;

AY 2014 - 2015 Member of the Department's Graduate Program's Review Committee;

Fall 2014 - present Member of the PhD Advisory Committee for Wenhua Xue;

Fall 2014 - present Member of the Department's Undergraduate Curriculum Committee;

Fall 2014 - present Member of the Department's Graduate Curriculum Committee;

Fall 2014 - present Member of the Department's Engineering Physics Curriculum Committee;

08/2015 Panelist of the New Faculty Orientation Panel, ``What I wish I knew then...Advice from colleagues who recently joined TU too'';

AY 2015 - 2016 $1^{\mathrm{st}}$ Alternate to the Faculty Senate for the College of ENS;

University Service at TU

10/2014 Designed the course PHYS 4093/6093 ``Introduction to General Relativity'';

AY 2015 - 2016 Organizer of the 2015-2016 Norman M. Hulings Lecture (Prof. Clifford Will) on behalf of the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences;

Fall 2014 - present Member of the Department's Hiring Committee for various academic positions;

AY 2014 - 2015 Member of the Department's Graduate Program's Review Committee;

Fall 2014 - present Member of the PhD Advisory Committee for Wenhua Xue;

Fall 2014 - present Member of the Department's Undergraduate Curriculum Committee;

Fall 2014 - present Member of the Department's Graduate Curriculum Committee;

Fall 2014 - present Member of the Department's Engineering Physics Curriculum Committee;

08/2015 Panelist of the New Faculty Orientation Panel, ``What I wish I knew then...Advice from colleagues who recently joined TU too'';

AY 2015 - 2016 $1^{\mathrm{st}}$ Alternate to the Faculty Senate for the College of ENS;

ForUniversity University Training at TU

01/2015 Attended ``All Faculty Meeting'' and subsequent brainstorming session on ways of improving student-professor interaction in and outside the classroom;

08/2014 Sensitivity and Sexual Harassment Policy Training;

08/2014 Attended New Faculty Orientation;

Outreach

09/2014 - present Supporting Faculty at Jerry McCoy's Physics Journal Club, a monthly meeting of local high school students and citizens to discuss articles on current physics topics;

2010 - 2013 Exhibitor for the CCRG at ImagineRIT, presented research to the public, prepared scientific visualizations and an interactive computer program, www.rit.edu/imagine/;

10/2013 Presented black holes and outer space to a preschool class at Margaret's House, Rochester, NY;

ForUniversity Professional Development

06/2015 Summer New Faculty Workshop, College Park, MD, sponsored by AAPT;

11/2014 SmartEvals Online Tutorial (TU);

08/2014 Blackboard Tutorial, instructor: Janet Cairns (TU);

ForUniversity Memberships

2003 - present American Physical Society

2008 - present American Astronomical Society

2015 - present American Association of Physics Teachers

Seminar Organizer

08/2015 - 05/2016 Physics Department Colloquia, TU;

08/2010 - 09/2011 Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, RIT;

Peer Review

Tenure Review Letter Writer (external);

NASA Astrophysics Theory Program Panelist;

Referee for: Astrophysical Journal Letters, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Classical & Quantum Gravity, Pub. of the Astron. Society of Japan, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, General Relativity & Gravitation, Astronomy & Computing;

Collaborations

2010 - 2015 CDI-Type II: Computing Supermassive Black Hole Mergers in Astrophysics, NSF CDI AST 1028087, lead science and computational development for simulating magnetized circumbinary accretion disks in GR, supervised graduate students and postdocs, organized annual collaboration meetings at RIT, participated in weekly telecons;

2009 - 2014 Computational Relativity and Gravitation at the Petascale: Simulating Astrophysical Realistic Compact Binaries, NSF OCI 0832606, lead collaborative efforts to optimize HARM3D's performance on Blue Waters, executed simulations;

2009 - 2014 Community Infrastructure for General Relativistic MHD (CIGR),

NSF-PHY-0903782, participated in GRMHD code development for the Einstein Toolkit, attended weekly telecons to discuss Toolkit news/updates/bug-fixes;;

	06/2015		Summer New Faculty Workshop, College Park, MD, sponsored by AAPT;
	11/2014		SmartEvals Online Tutorial (TU);
	08/2014		Blackboard Tutorial, instructor: Janet Cairns (TU);

Skills and Expertise

Expert-level:

(10+ years) C, C++, Fortran, gdb, Make, Mathematica, Maple, MPI, Perl, Shell Scripting, L^ATEX, GNU/Linux/Unix, Windows, Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint,IDL, gprof, CVS, PowerPoint;

Mathematical Methods, ODEs, PDEs, Differential Geometry, Root-Finding, Minimization, Perturbation Theory, Statistics;

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Finite Volume/Difference Methods, High-Resolution Shock-Capturing Methods, Adaptive Mesh Refinement;

Scientific Computing and Code Development, High-performance/Massively Parallel Computing, Code Optimization, Debugging, Profiling/Benchmarking;

Presenting Research at National Conferences and Workshops, Scientific Research Collaboration, Scientific Research Program Management;

Intermediate-level:

(5+ years) HDF5, PAPI, CVS, Open Office/Libre Office, ImageMagick, Supermongo;

Git, MediaWiki, Mac OS X, Keynote;

Writing Proposals for Research Grants and Fellowships (NSF, NASA);

Writing Proposals for National Supercomputing Allocations (Teragrid, XSEDE, NSF/PRAC);

Presenting Research at International Conferences and Workshops, Supervising and Mentoring Students in an Academic Research Environment, Building and Managing Supercomputing Clusters and Workstation Networks, Data Backup/Archival Solutions;

Novice-level:

(1+ years) Python, OpenMP, Java, Load Balancing Algorithms, Gnuplot, Subversion (SVN), Blackboard;

Computational Infrastructure Contributions

Developer/Maintainer HARM3D, solves the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations of motion in curved, general relativistic (GR), spacetimes; employs Godunov-like, flux-conservative, high-resolution shock-capturing techniques, parallelism, fixed mesh refinement, constraint transport methods; [Noble2009a]; privately shared, to be released publicly.

Developer/Maintainer BOTHROS2, improved version of BOTHROS; supports a wider variety of emission models, 3-d simulation data with time-interpolation (resolves effects from the finite speed of light), nonuniform and adaptive ``camera'' resolutions or pixelation; [Noble2007a], privately shared, to be released publicly.

Developer/Maintainer my_Bessel_J, a very fast routine for calculating the Bessel function for arbitrarily large , up to $n\sim 10^{55}$ . Its execution time is constant with , in contrast to the typical $\sim n^p$ dependence seen with many popular routines. rainman.astro.illinois.edu/codelib/codes/bessel/src/ .

Principal Co-developer BOTHROS, general relativistic ray-tracing software to calculate electromagnetic energy transport in curved spacetimes from 2-d GRMHD simulation data; solves the relativistic absorptive radiative transfer equation; thermal synchrotron and bremsstrahlung emission models; [Noble2007a].

Principal Co-developer PVS_GRMHD, software suite used to calculate the primitive variables (density, pressure, and velocity) from a set of conserved variables (components of the stress-energy tensor) necessary for conservative GRMHD simulations; used by researchers worldwide; [Noble2006], released publicly: rainman.astro.illinois.edu/codelib/codes/pvs_grmhd/src/ .

Co-developer HARM (public release version), a 2-d GRMHD code on which HARM3D is based; released publicly: rainman.astro.illinois.edu/codelib/codes/harm/src/ .

Co-developer Einstein Toolkit, high performance computing software suite for a sundry of dynamical GR applications; based on the Cactus framework; helped develop its GRMHD component; released publicly: einsteintoolkit.org .

Publications

ForUniversity Submitted

Zlochower, Y., Nakano, H., Mundim, B. C., Campanelli, M., Noble, S. C., and Zilhão, M., ``Inspiraling Black-Hole Binary Spacetimes: Transitioning from Analytical to Numerical Techniques'', submitted Physical Review D, (2015). http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00286

Refereed

Schnittman, J. D., Krolik, J. H., and Noble, S. C., ``Disk Emission from Magneto-hydrodynamic Simulations of Spinning Black Holes'', accepted Astrophysical Journal, (2016). http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.00729
Noble, S. C. and Choptuik, M. W., ``Driven neutron star collapse: Type I critical phenomena and the initial black hole mass distribution'', Physical Review D, 93, 024015 (2016). http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02999
Shiokawa, H., Krolik, J. H., Cheng, R. M., Piran, T., Noble, S. C., ``General Relativistic Hydrodynamic Simulation of Accretion Flow from a Stellar Tidal Disruption'', Astrophysical Journal, 804, 85 (2015); http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04365.
Zilhão, M., Noble, S. C., Campanelli, M., Zlochower, Y., ``Resolving the relative influence of strong field spacetime dynamics and MHD on circumbinary disk physics'', Physical Review D, 91, 024034 (2015); http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/pn-cmbh-disks.pdf.
Mundim, B. C., Nakano, H., Yunes, N., Campanelli, M., Noble, S. C., Zlochower, Y., ``Approximate Black Hole Binary Spacetime via Asymptotic Matching'', Physical Review D, 89, 084008 (2014). http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6731
Zilhão, M. and Noble, S. C., ``Dynamic Fisheye Grids for Binary Black Holes Simulations'', Classical and Quantum Gravity, 31, 065013 (2014). http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/warped.pdf
Moesta, P., Mundim, B. C., Faber, J. A., Haas, R., Noble, S. C., Bode, T., Loeffler, F., Ott, C. D., Reisswig, C., and Schnetter, E., ``GRHydro: a new open-source general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics code for the Einstein toolkit'', Classical and Quantum Gravity, 31, 015005 (2014). http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/grhydro-et.pdf
Schnittman, J. D., Krolik, J. H., and Noble, S. C., ``X-ray Spectra from MHD Simulations of Accreting Black Holes'', Astrophysical Journal, 769, 156 (2013). http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/xray-spectra.pdf Press Release: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/black-hole-study.html
Noble, S. C., Mundim, B. C., Nakano, H., Krolik, J. H., Campanelli, M., Zlochower, Y., Yunes, N., ``Circumbinary MHD Accretion into Inspiraling Binary Black Holes'', Astrophysical Journal, 755, 51 (2012). http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/cmhdaiibh.pdf, Movies: http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/cmhdaiibh/
Dolence, J. C., Gammie, C. F., Shiokawa, H. and Noble, S. C., ``Near-infrared and X-Ray Quasi-periodic Oscillations in Numerical Models of Sgr A*'', Astrophysical Journal Letters, 746, L10 (2012). http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/sgra_qpos.pdf
Shiokawa, H., Dolence, J. C., Gammie, C. F., and Noble, S. C., ``Global GRMHD Simulations of Black Hole Accretion Flows: A Convergence Study'', Astrophysical Journal, 744, 187 (2012). http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/global_mhd_convergence.pdf
Noble, S. C., Krolik, J. H., Schnittman, J. D. and Hawley, J. F., ``Radiative efficiency and thermal spectrum of accretion onto Schwarzschild black holes'', Astrophysical Journal, 743, 115 (2011). http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/thermspec.pdf
Leung, P. K., Gammie, C. F. and Noble, S. C., ``Numerical Calculation of Magnetobremsstrahlung Emission and Absorption Coefficients'', Astrophysical Journal, 737, 21 (2011). http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/magbrem.pdf
Noble, S. C., Krolik, J. H. and Hawley, J. F., ``Dependence of inner accretion disk stress on parameters: the Schwarzschild case'', Astrophysical Journal, 711, 959-973 (2010). http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/schwarzstress.pdf
Noble, S. C. and Krolik, J. H., ``GRMHD prediction of coronal variability in accreting black holes'', Astrophysical Journal, 703, 964-975 (2009). http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/grmhd_var.pdf
Noble, S. C., Krolik, J. H., Hawley, J. F., ``Direct calculation of the radiative efficiency of an accretion disk around a black hole'', Astrophysical Journal, 692, 411-421 (2009). [Noble2009a] http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/radeff.pdf
Noble, S. C. and Choptuik, M. W. ``Type II critical phenomena of neutron star collapse'', Physical Review D, 78, 064059 (2008). http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/t2ns.pdf
Noble, S. C., Leung, P. K., Gammie, C. F., and Book, L. G., ``Simulating the Emission and Outflows from Accretion Disks'', Classical and Quantum Gravity, 24, S259-S274 (2007). [Noble2007a] http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/sgra2d.pdf
Noble, S. C., Gammie, C. F., McKinney, J. C., and Del Zanna, L. ``Primitive Variable Solvers for Conservative General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics'', Astrophysical Journal, 641, 626-637 (2006). [Noble2006] http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/pvs.pdf

Conference Proceedings
Gammie, C. F., Noble, S. C., Leung, P. K., ``Numerical models of black hole accretion flows'', Computer Physics Communications, 177, 250-253 (2007). http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/nmbhaf.pdf
Noble, S. C., Leung, P. K., Gammie, C. F., and Book, L. G., ``Simulating VLBI Images of $\mathrm{Sgr A^{*}}$ '', Proceedings of the MG11 Meeting on General Relativity, Berlin, Germany July 23 - 29, 2006 http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/mg11.pdf

Seminars and Talks

Invited Talks

``Topics in GRMHD'' and ``Future Directions in GRMHD'', talks on latest research results in the field and personal, given during the TIARA Summer School titled ''Numerical Astrophysics: GRMHD'', June 11, 2015. http://events.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw/school/20150713/;
``The Influence of Strong Field Spacetime Dynamics and MHD on Circumbinary Disk Physics'', Blue Waters Symposium, NCSA, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 14, 2014.
``Computational Plasma Physics Meets Einstein's Theory of General Relativity: Using Supercomputers to Predict How Black Holes Shine'', Physics & Astronomy Colloquium, SUNY-Geneseo, April 24, 2014.
``Predicting the Needle in the Haystack: Simulating Accreting Supermassive Binary Black Holes'', Conference titled Massive Black Holes: Birth, Growth and Impact associated with the program titled A Universe of Black Holes, KITP, UCSB, August 7, 2013. http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/bholes_c13/noble/
``Computational Relativity and Gravitation at Petascale: Simulating and Visualizing Astrophysically Realistic Compact Binaries'', NCSA/Illinois Enhanced Intellectual Services for Petascale Performance (NEIS-) Symposium, NCSA, Univ. of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, May 21, 2013.
``Frontiers in Computational Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics Applied to Astrophysical Systems:Predicting Light Signatures of Black Holes'', Conference on Computational Physics, Kobe, Japan, October 18, 2012. http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/ccp-2012.pdf
``Magnetized Accretion onto Inspiraling Binary Black Holes'', CITA Seminar, Toronto, ON, Canada, March 15, 2012. Talk: http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/cita-03152012.pdf, Video: http://hosting.epresence.tv/CITA/1/watch/421.aspx
``Simulating the Light and Plasma of Thin Accretion Disks about Black Holes'', Astro Lunch Seminar, RIT, June 15, 2011. http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/astro-lunch-rit-06152011.pdf
``MHD Simulations of Black Hole Accretion Disks'', SnowPAC: Snowbird Workshop on Particle Astrophysics, Astronomy & Cosmology, Utah, February 1, 2011. http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/snowpac-2011.pdf
``The Razor's Edge: Dynamical Models of Thin Accretion Disks around Black Holes'', TAPIR Seminar, Caltech, May 28, 2010. http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/tapir-may-2010.pdf
``Illuminating Black Hole Spacetimes with Accretion Disks'', Strong Gravity Seminar, Perimeter Institute, March 25, 2010. http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/noble-pi-march-2010.pdf
``Seeing Spacetime by Proxy: Binary Black Holes in Gaseous Environments'', APS April Meeting 2010, Washington, DC, February 14, 2010. http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/aps-april-2010.pdf
``Accretion onto Black Holes'', Computational Relativistic Astrophysics Program, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University, October 24, 2009. http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/pcts-10232009.pdf
``The GRMHD Paradigm of Black Hole Accretion'', Applied Mathematics and Statistics Seminar, Univ. of California Santa Cruz, October 15, 2009. http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/ucsc-102009.pdf
``Calculating the Radiative Efficiency of Thin Disks with 3D GRMHD Simulations'', Gravity Group Astrophysics/Cosmology Lunch Seminar, Princeton University, November 14, 2008. http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/princeton-11142008.pdf
``Theoretical Calculations of the Inner Disk's Luminosity'', $37^\mathrm{th}$ COSPAR 2008, E17, Montreal, Quebec, July 16, 2008, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/cospar-2008.ppt
``Simulating Black Hole Lighthouses'', Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation Seminar, RIT, May 16, 2008, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/rit-05162008.pdf
``Simulating grMHD Accretion Disks and their Emission'', Numerical Relativity Seminar, Physics Department, Louisiana State University, November 30, 2006, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/lsu-11302006.pdf
``Simulating and Imaging Accretion Disks (e.g. Sgr A*, i.e. the Galactic Center)'', FLAMR2 Workshop, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), U. of Toronto, June 2, 2006, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/flamr2-06022006.pdf
``Solving the NP-Complete 3-SAT Problem through Simulation of a Quantum Computer'', Quantum Information and Computation (QUIC) Kickoff Mini-Workshop, Caltech, February 1997.

Contributed Talks
``Exploring the Model Dependence of Electromagnetic Signals in Circumbinary Disk Simulations'', General Relativity and Gravitation: A Centennial Perspective, sponsored by the ISGRG and GGR/APS, Pennsylvania State University, June 7-12, 2015, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/grg-2015.pdf.
``3-D GRMHD Simulations of Accreting Binary Black Holes'', Aspen Winter Conference (``Black Holes in Dense Stellar Clusters''), Aspen Center for Physics, January 2015, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/aspen-winter-2015.pdf.
``Magnetized Accretion onto Inspiraling Binary Black Holes: II. Disk Dynamics'', APS April Meeting 2012, Atlanta, GA, April 1, 2012, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/aps-april-2012.pdf
``Magnetized Accretion onto Inspiraling Binary Black Holes'', CCRG Seminar, RIT, Rochester, NY, March 23, 2012, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/ccrg-03232012.pdf
``Bridging the Gap: Circumbinary MHD Accretion in the Post-Newtonian Regime'', $21^\mathrm{st}$ Midwest Relativity Meeting, November 5, 2011.
``Relativistic MHD Simulations of Circumbinary Disks'', BBH Disk Workshop, RIT, June 28, 2011.
``Beyond MOND'', Review talk, CCRG Lunch Seminar, RIT, July 2, 2010.
``Direct Calculation of the Radiative Efficiency of Thin Accretion Disks'', 213th American Astronomical Society Meeting, #338.05, Long Beach, CA, USA, January 6, 2009, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/aas-01062009.pdf
``The Radiative Efficiency of Thin Accretion Disks'', 24th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Vancouver, Canada, December 12, 2008, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/texas-12122008.pdf
``Calculating the Radiative Efficiency of Thin Disks with 3D GRMHD Simulations'', Center for Astrophysical Sciences Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, November 25, 2008, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/cas-jhu-11252008.pdf
``Simulating Accretion Disks and their Emission'', Center for Astrophysical Sciences Seminar, Johns Hopkins U., December 11, 2007, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/cas-12112007.pdf
``Simulating VLBI Images of Sgr A*'', $11^\mathrm{th}$ Marcel Grossmann International General Relativity Conference, Berlin, Germany, July 28, 2006, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/mg11-07282006.pdf
``Imaging Accretion Disk Evolutions'', New Frontiers of Numerical Relativity, Albert Einstein Institute, Golm, Germany, July 20, 2006, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/nfnr-07202006.pdf
``Beyond MOND: TeVeS and its Tests'', Center for Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar, U. of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, March 1, 2006, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/cta_uiuc_03012006.pdf
``Bulletin on the Biggest, Baddest Black Hole on the Block: Recent Observations and Models of the Accretion Disk around Sgr A*'', Center for Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar, U. of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, September 21, 2005, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/cta_uiuc_09212005.pdf
``The Origins, Applications and Mysteries of the Fluorescent Iron Line'', Center for Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar, U. of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, November 3, 2004, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/cta_uiuc_11032004.pdf
``State of the Art MHD Methods for Astrophysical Applications'', Center for Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar, U. of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, February 25, 2004, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/cta_uiuc_02252004.pdf
``Critical Phenomena and Driven Neutron Star Collapse'', Center for Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar, U. of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, October 22, 2003, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/cta_uiuc_10222003.pdf
``A Numerical Study of Relativistic Fluid Collapse'', Final Ph. D. Defense, Physics Dept., U. of Texas at Austin, September 5, 2003, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/defense.pdf
``Critical Phenomena in General Relativity'', Graduate Student Seminar, Physics and Astronomy Dept., U. of British Columbia, June 10, 2003, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/grad_theory_lunch.pdf
``Critical Phenomena in Velocity-Induced Perfect Fluid Collapse'', American Physical Society, April Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, April 5-8, 2003, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/aps_april2003.pdf
``Critical Phenomenon in Perturbed Neutron Star Models'', Scientific Computing and Visualization Laboratory Seminar, U. of British Columbia, February 11, 2003, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/scv_seminar.pdf
``Dynamically Perturbed Neutron Stars'', Gravity Group Seminar, U. of British Columbia, September 27, 2001, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/gravity_group2.ps
``Simulating Relativistic Perfect Fluids'', Gravity Group Seminar, U. of British Columbia, January 18, 2001, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/gravity_group1.ps
``Simulating Ultrarelativistic Flows with Adaptive Mesh Refinement'', Ph.D. Qualifier, Relativity Seminar, U. of Texas at Austin, October 28, 1999.
``Solving the NP-Complete 3-SAT Problem through Simulation of a Quantum Computer'', Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Presentation Day, Caltech, October 1996.
``A Study on the Performance of the Crystal Calorimeter for BaBar at SLAC'', Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Presentation Day, Caltech, October 1995.
``Simulating the Resolution Performance of Crystal Calorimeters for the B Factory Experiment at SLAC and the CMS Experiment at LHC'', Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Presentation Day, Caltech, October 1994.

Conference Posters

``Self-consistent Models of Sagittarius A*'', Black Holes: 2007 Spring Symposium, STScI, Baltimore, April 23-26, 2007, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/posters/bh_stsci_apr2007.pdf
``Improved Primitive Variable Calculation for Conservative GRMHD Codes'', Physics of Astrophysical Outflows and Accretion Disks Conf., KITP, UCSB, May 23-27, 2005, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/posters/kitp-2005-poster.pdf
``Perfect Fluids at the Threshold of Black Hole Formation'', $17^\mathrm{th}$ International Conf. on General Relativity and Gravitation (a.k.a. GR17) , Dublin, Ireland, July 18-23, 2004. http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/posters/gr17-poster.pdf

In the News...

Magazine Cover & Interior Photograph: Science News, May 31, 2014 edition. https://www.sciencenews.org/sn-magazine/may-31-2014?mode=archive&context=189185. Cover photograph and cover animation for the ``app'' version of the magazine were selected from the visualization made for http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/black-hole-study.html (see below). Another image of mine, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/images/sgra_3d-hires.jpg, was used for the header for the article on the Firewall Paradox in the edition.
Movie: Provided image sequence of ray-traced simulation data for a NASA animation of the X-ray emission from the corona of a geometric thin black hole accretion disk. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/black-hole-study.html . Several articles were written about our findings, including:
1. TACC front-page article, Feb. 26, 2014, ``Let There Be Light'', by Aaron Dubrow: https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/news/feature-stories/2014/let-there-be-light.
2. NSF.gov front-page article, Feb. 18, 2014, by Aaron Dubrow: http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=130431.
3. Wikipedia: ``animations of black hole accretion'', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_disc.
4. HPCWire, March 3, 2014: ``Supercomputers Advance Understanding of Black Holes'' by Tiffany Trader, http://www.hpcwire.com/2014/03/03/supercomputers-advance-understanding-black-holes/.
Movie: Animation of the synchrotron emission from a 3D GRMHD simulation of plasma surrounding the Milky Way's nuclear supermassive black hole, Credits: Noble, S. C. and Gammie, C. F., ``How the Universe Works: Black Holes'', Discovery Channel, dsc.discovery.com/videos/how-the-universe-works-black-holes
Image Description: ``Theoretical calculation of synchrotron emission from the Milky Way's nuclear supermassive black hole using 3D GRMHD simulation data'', Image: http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/press_images/sgra_3d.jpg, Hi-res.: http://personal.utulsa.edu/~scn759/images/sgra_3d-hires.jpg
1. ``The Shadow of a Black Hole'', by Matthew Francis, The Nature of Reality, NOVA, PBS, (Aug. 21, 2015), http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2015/08/the-shadow-of-a-black-hole/.
2. Appeared in NASA's Astrophysics Roadmap (2013), ``Enduring Quests, Daring Visions NASA Astrophysics in the Next Three Decades'' http://science.nasa.gov/science-committee/subcommittees/nac-astrophysics-subcommittee/astrophysics-roadmap/.
3. Appeared in the table of contents of journal Nature in support of the article: Doeleman, S. S. et al., ``Event-horizon-scale structure in the supermassive black hole candidate at the Galactic Centre'', Nature, 455, 78-80 (2008).
4. Image Description: ``Theoretical calculation of synchrotron emission from the Milky Way's nuclear supermassive black hole using 3D GRMHD simulation data'', Appeared in the on-line article: ``Milky Way's black hole seen in new detail'', Science News, 174, #7 (September 27th, 2008), http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/36161/description/Milky_Ways_black_hole_seen_in_new_detail
5. Appeared on FrenchTribune.com:
  http://frenchtribune.com/teneur/1319997-scientists-declared-super-massive-black-hole-center-milky-way
Image Description: ``Theoretical calculation of synchrotron emission from the Milky Way's nuclear supermassive black hole using 2D GRMHD simulation data'', Advertisement for the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity (2007), Image: http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/press_images/sgra_2d.jpg

References

Professor Manuela Campanelli

Center for Computational Relativity & Gravitation

School of Mathematical Sciences

Rochester Institute of Technology

85 Lomb Memorial Drive

Rochester, New York 14623

USA

web : ccrg.rit.edu/people/campanelli

Professor Matthew W. Choptuik

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of British Columbia

6224 Agricultural Road

Vancouver BC V6T 1Z1

CANADA

web : laplace.physics.ubc.ca/People/matt/

Professor Charles F. Gammie

Department of Physics

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1110 West Green Street

Urbana, IL 61801-3080

USA

web : rainman.astro.illinois.edu/gammie/

Professor John F. Hawley

Department of Astronomy

University of Virginia

PO Box 400325

Charlottesville, VA 22904-4325

USA

web : www.astro.virginia.edu/~jh8h/

Professor Julian H. Krolik

Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

Johns Hopkins University

3400 N. Charles Street

Baltimore, MD 21218-2686

USA

web : http://physics-astronomy.jhu.edu/directory/julian-h-krolik/physics-astronomy.jhu.edu/directory/julian-h-krolik/

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Scott Noble 2016-02-08

	07/2015 - 07/2015		Invited Lecturer, ''Numerical Astrophysics: GRMHD'', 1-week graduate level, TIARA Summer School, National Taiwan University, `http://events.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw/school/20150713/`;
	08/2014 - present		Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics & Engineering Physics, TU
			PHYS 4063: ``Electricity & Magnetism'', upper undergraduate level, (Fall 2014, Fall 2015);
			PHYS 4073: ``Electromagnetic Waves & Optics'', upper undergraduate level, (Spring 2015);
			PHYS 4563: ``Astrophysics'', upper undergraduate level, (Spring 2016);
			PHYS 4982: ``Senior Thesis'', Vernon Londagin (AY 2015-2016), Jeffrey Harris (AY 2015-2016), William Bates (Fall 2014);
			PHYS 7003: ``Advanced Classical Mechanics'', graduate level, (Fall 2015);
			PHYS 7063: ``Electromagnetic Theory'', graduate level, (Spring 2016);
			PHYS 7971: ``Graduate Seminar'', graduate level, organized Physics Colloquia, supervised student attendance (AY 2015-2016);
	07/2013 - 08/2013		Invited Participant, ``A Universe of Black Holes'', Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, Univ. of California in Santa Barbara.
	04/2011 - 04/2011		Co-Instructor, Perimeter Scholars International, Perimeter Institute, ``Explorations in Numerical Relativity'', `www.perimeterscholars.org/314.html`.
	09/2009 - 08/2014		Associate Research Scientist, Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation (CCRG), RIT
	01/2008 - 01/2008		Instructor, Johns Hopkins U. (JHU), Intersession 2008: Physics & Astronomy 171.299.01, ``Intro. to Computer Programming for Scientists & Engineers''
	09/2006 - 08/2009		Associate Research Scientist, Center for Astrophysical Sciences, Johns Hopkins U. with Prof. Julian Krolik
	10/2003 - 08/2006		Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Theoretical Astrophysics, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with with Prof. Charles Gammie
	09/2000 - 09/2003		Graduate Research Assistant, U. of British Columbia, with Prof. Matthew Choptuik
	06/2000 - 08/2000		Graduate Research Assistant, U. of Texas at Austin, with Prof. Matthew Choptuik.
	01/2000 - 05/2000		Assistant Instructor, U. of Texas at Austin: Physical Science 303: ``Physics Lab'' for Liberal Arts majors. Prepared original lectures and material supplementing existing teaching material, responsible for lab experiment setup, design, and execution;
	06/1999 - 12/1999		Computer Programmer, Physics Computer Group, U. of Texas at Austin
	08/1997 - 12/1999		Teaching Assistant, U. of Texas at Austin:
			PHY 101L: ``Mechanics Lab'' Calculus-based, for Scientists and Engineers (lab instructor);
			PHY n303K: ``Engineering Physics I'' (grader);
			PHY 309K: ``Mechanics and Heat'' (test maker, teaching assistant);
			PHY 329: ``Computational Physics'' (system administrator);
	01/1997 - 07/1997		Undergraduate Research Assistant, Caltech, with Prof. Steven Koonin, Prof. Chris Adami and Dr. Nicholas Cerf: Solving the NP-Complete 3-SAT Problem through Simulation of a Quantum Computer
	06/1996 - 08/1996		Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Caltech, with Prof. Steven Koonin, Prof. Chris Adami and Dr. Nicholas Cerf: Solving the NP-Complete 3-SAT Problem through Simulation of a Quantum Computer
	06/1995 - 08/1995		Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Caltech, with Dr. Ren-yuan Zhu: A Study on the Performance of the Crystal Calorimeter for BaBar at SLAC
	06/1994 - 08/1994		Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Caltech, with Dr. Ren-yuan Zhu: Simulating the Resolution Performance of Crystal Calorimeters for the B Factory Experiment at SLAC and the CMS Experiment at LHC

	08/2015 - present		Vernon Londagin, undergraduate senior thesis project (TU): ``Using Mathematica as a Bootstrap to Simulate Light and Gas Around Binary Black Hole Systems''
	05/2015 - 08/2015		Luke Schriewer, Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge (TU): ``Application of Nuclear Equations of State to Explore Neutron Star Solutions in Simulations''
	05/2015 - 08/2015		Vernon Londagin, Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge (TU): ``Using Mathematica as a Bootstrap to Simulate Light and Gas Around Binary Black Hole Systems''
	05/2015 - present		Amanda Seiders, PhD project (TU): ``GRMHD on Overlapping, Non-Aligned Grids''
	08/2014 - 05/2015		Jeffrey Harris, undergraduate senior thesis project (TU): ``Visualization and Analysis of Lightlike and Timelike Geodesics in Isolated Schwarzschild and Binary Kerr Spacetime Geometries''
	08/2014 - 11/2014		William Bates, undergraduate senior thesis project (TU) ``Neutron Star Collapse''
	08/2012 - present		Dennis Bowen, PhD project (RIT): ``Circumbinary Disks''
	01/2010 - 11/2012		Billy Vazquez, graduate student project (RIT): ``Imaging Binary Black Holes''
	06/2008 - 08/2009		Robert Abramovic, undergraduate student project (JHU): ``Null Geodesics and Surfaces in Curved Spacetimes''

	10/2014		Designed the course PHYS 4093/6093 ``Introduction to General Relativity'';
	AY 2015 - 2016		Organizer of the 2015-2016 Norman M. Hulings Lecture (Prof. Clifford Will) on behalf of the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences;
	Fall 2014		Member of the Department's Review Committee for Applied Associate Professor Jerry McCoy, Laboratory Curator & Instructor Arty Gibson;
	Spring 2015		Member of the Department's Hiring Committee for an applied professor position;
	AY 2014 - 2015		Member of the Department's Graduate Program's Review Committee;
	Fall 2014 - present		Member of the PhD Advisory Committee for Wenhua Xue;
	Fall 2014 - present		Member of the Department's Undergraduate Curriculum Committee;
	Fall 2014 - present		Member of the Department's Graduate Curriculum Committee;
	Fall 2014 - present		Member of the Department's Engineering Physics Curriculum Committee;
	08/2015		Panelist of the New Faculty Orientation Panel, ``What I wish I knew then...Advice from colleagues who recently joined TU too'';
	AY 2015 - 2016		$1^{\mathrm{st}}$ Alternate to the Faculty Senate for the College of ENS;

	01/2015		Attended ``All Faculty Meeting'' and subsequent brainstorming session on ways of improving student-professor interaction in and outside the classroom;
	08/2014		Sensitivity and Sexual Harassment Policy Training;
	08/2014		Attended New Faculty Orientation;

	09/2014 - present		Supporting Faculty at Jerry McCoy's Physics Journal Club, a monthly meeting of local high school students and citizens to discuss articles on current physics topics;
	2010 - 2013		Exhibitor for the CCRG at ImagineRIT, presented research to the public, prepared scientific visualizations and an interactive computer program, `www.rit.edu/imagine/`;
	10/2013		Presented black holes and outer space to a preschool class at Margaret's House, Rochester, NY;

	2003 - present		American Physical Society
	2008 - present		American Astronomical Society
	2015 - present		American Association of Physics Teachers

	08/2015 - 05/2016		Physics Department Colloquia, TU;
	08/2010 - 09/2011		Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, RIT;

			Tenure Review Letter Writer (external);
			NASA Astrophysics Theory Program Panelist;
			Referee for: Astrophysical Journal Letters, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Classical & Quantum Gravity, Pub. of the Astron. Society of Japan, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, General Relativity & Gravitation, Astronomy & Computing;

	2010 - 2015		CDI-Type II: Computing Supermassive Black Hole Mergers in Astrophysics, NSF CDI AST 1028087, lead science and computational development for simulating magnetized circumbinary accretion disks in GR, supervised graduate students and postdocs, organized annual collaboration meetings at RIT, participated in weekly telecons;
	2009 - 2014		Computational Relativity and Gravitation at the Petascale: Simulating Astrophysical Realistic Compact Binaries, NSF OCI 0832606, lead collaborative efforts to optimize `HARM3D`'s performance on Blue Waters, executed simulations;
	2009 - 2014		Community Infrastructure for General Relativistic MHD (CIGR),
			NSF-PHY-0903782, participated in GRMHD code development for the Einstein Toolkit, attended weekly telecons to discuss Toolkit news/updates/bug-fixes;;

	Expert-level:
	(10+ years)		C, C++, Fortran, gdb, Make, Mathematica, Maple, MPI, Perl, Shell Scripting, L^ATEX, GNU/Linux/Unix, Windows, Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint,IDL, gprof, CVS, PowerPoint;
			Mathematical Methods, ODEs, PDEs, Differential Geometry, Root-Finding, Minimization, Perturbation Theory, Statistics;
			Computational Fluid Dynamics, Finite Volume/Difference Methods, High-Resolution Shock-Capturing Methods, Adaptive Mesh Refinement;
			Scientific Computing and Code Development, High-performance/Massively Parallel Computing, Code Optimization, Debugging, Profiling/Benchmarking;
			Presenting Research at National Conferences and Workshops, Scientific Research Collaboration, Scientific Research Program Management;
	Intermediate-level:
	(5+ years)		HDF5, PAPI, CVS, Open Office/Libre Office, ImageMagick, Supermongo;
			Git, MediaWiki, Mac OS X, Keynote;
			Writing Proposals for Research Grants and Fellowships (NSF, NASA);
			Writing Proposals for National Supercomputing Allocations (Teragrid, XSEDE, NSF/PRAC);
			Presenting Research at International Conferences and Workshops, Supervising and Mentoring Students in an Academic Research Environment, Building and Managing Supercomputing Clusters and Workstation Networks, Data Backup/Archival Solutions;
	Novice-level:
	(1+ years)		Python, OpenMP, Java, Load Balancing Algorithms, Gnuplot, Subversion (SVN), Blackboard;

	Developer/Maintainer		`HARM3D`, solves the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations of motion in curved, general relativistic (GR), spacetimes; employs Godunov-like, flux-conservative, high-resolution shock-capturing techniques, parallelism, fixed mesh refinement, constraint transport methods; [Noble2009a]; privately shared, to be released publicly.
	Developer/Maintainer		`BOTHROS2`, improved version of `BOTHROS`; supports a wider variety of emission models, 3-d simulation data with time-interpolation (resolves effects from the finite speed of light), nonuniform and adaptive ``camera'' resolutions or pixelation; [Noble2007a], privately shared, to be released publicly.
	Developer/Maintainer		`my_Bessel_J`, a very fast routine for calculating the Bessel function for arbitrarily large , up to $n\sim 10^{55}$ . Its execution time is constant with , in contrast to the typical $\sim n^p$ dependence seen with many popular routines. `rainman.astro.illinois.edu/codelib/codes/bessel/src/` .
	Principal Co-developer		`BOTHROS`, general relativistic ray-tracing software to calculate electromagnetic energy transport in curved spacetimes from 2-d GRMHD simulation data; solves the relativistic absorptive radiative transfer equation; thermal synchrotron and bremsstrahlung emission models; [Noble2007a].
	Principal Co-developer		`PVS_GRMHD`, software suite used to calculate the primitive variables (density, pressure, and velocity) from a set of conserved variables (components of the stress-energy tensor) necessary for conservative GRMHD simulations; used by researchers worldwide; [Noble2006], released publicly: `rainman.astro.illinois.edu/codelib/codes/pvs_grmhd/src/` .
	Co-developer		`HARM` (public release version), a 2-d GRMHD code on which `HARM3D` is based; released publicly: `rainman.astro.illinois.edu/codelib/codes/harm/src/` .
	Co-developer		`Einstein Toolkit`, high performance computing software suite for a sundry of dynamical GR applications; based on the `Cactus` framework; helped develop its GRMHD component; released publicly: `einsteintoolkit.org` .