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Scott Charles Noble

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Center for Computational Relativity & Gravitation

School of Mathematical Sciences

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Rochester, NY

85 Lomb Memorial Drive USA

Rochester, New York 14623

USA

Mobile:

Office: (585) 475-5879

FAX: (585) 475-7340

E-mail: scn AT astro.rit.edu

URL: http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn

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

07/2013 - 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 - 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

Awards and Honors

1994-95, 1996-97 Marion and Earle Jorgensen Endowed Scholarship

1993 Semi-Finalist, Westinghouse Science Talent Search

Research Grants

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). Supports S. Noble's annual salary, computer equipment and a student's salary. May be negotiated to support Noble's summer salary at another institute.

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.

	08/2010 - 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). Supports S. Noble's annual salary, computer equipment and a student's salary. May be negotiated to support Noble's summer salary at another institute.
	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)

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 - 03/2014 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.

	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 - 03/2014		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.

Synergistic Activities

Outreach: Exhibitor for the CCRG at ImagineRIT 2010 & 2011, presented research to the public, prepared scientific visualizations and an interactive computer program, www.rit.edu/imagine/

Collaborations: Community Infrastructure for General Relativistic MHD (CIGR),

NSF-PHY-0903782;

Computational Relativity and Gravitation at the Petascale: Simulating Astrophysical Realistic Compact Binaries, NSF OCI-0832606;

Memberships: American Astronomical Society, American Physical Society

Seminar Organizer: Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, RIT, 08/2010 - 09/2011

Peer Review: NASA Astrophysics Theory Program Panelist, 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

Student Supervision

08/2012 - present Dennis Bowen, graduate student at RIT: ``Circumbinary Disks''

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

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

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;

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, IDL, gprof, PAPI, CVS, PowerPoint, Open Office/Libre Office, ImageMagick, Supermongo;

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

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

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) OpenMP, Java, Load Balancing Algorithms, Gnuplot, Git, Subversion (SVN), MediaWiki, Mac OS X, Keynote;

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

Submitted

Zilhão, M. and Noble, S. C., ``Dynamic Fisheye Grids for Binary Black Holes Simulations'', submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity (2013). http://arxiv.org/pdf/1309.2960v1

Refereed
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'', accepted to Classical and Quantum Gravity, (2013). http://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.5544v1
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
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

``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 Inspiralling 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
``Magnetized Accretion onto Inspiralling 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 Inspiralling 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...

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
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
1. 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).
2. 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
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

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Center for Computational Relativity & Gravitation

School of Mathematical Sciences

Rochester Institute of Technology

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fax : 1 (585) 475-7340

web : ccrg.rit.edu/people/campanelli

Professor Matthew W. Choptuik

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of British Columbia

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CANADA

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Professor Charles F. Gammie

Department of Physics

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1110 West Green Street

Urbana, IL 61801-3080

USA

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office : 1 (217) 333-8646

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Department of Astronomy

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Professor Julian H. Krolik

Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

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Scott Noble 2013-11-15

	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 -		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

	1994-95, 1996-97		Marion and Earle Jorgensen Endowed Scholarship
	1993		Semi-Finalist, Westinghouse Science Talent Search

	Outreach:		Exhibitor for the CCRG at ImagineRIT 2010 & 2011, presented research to the public, prepared scientific visualizations and an interactive computer program, `www.rit.edu/imagine/`
	Collaborations:		Community Infrastructure for General Relativistic MHD (CIGR),
			NSF-PHY-0903782;
			Computational Relativity and Gravitation at the Petascale: Simulating Astrophysical Realistic Compact Binaries, NSF OCI-0832606;
	Memberships:		American Astronomical Society, American Physical Society
	Seminar Organizer:		Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, RIT, 08/2010 - 09/2011
	Peer Review:		NASA Astrophysics Theory Program Panelist, 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

	08/2012 - present		Dennis Bowen, graduate student at RIT: ``Circumbinary Disks''
	01/2010 - 11/2012		Billy Vazquez, graduate student at RIT: ``Imaging Binary Black Holes''
	06/2008 - 08/2009		Robert Abramovic, undergraduate student at JHU: ``Null Geodesics and Surfaces in Curved Spacetimes''

	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;
			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, IDL, gprof, PAPI, CVS, PowerPoint, Open Office/Libre Office, ImageMagick, Supermongo;
			Writing Proposals for Research Grants and Fellowships (NSF, NASA);
			Writing Proposals for National Supercomputing Allocations (Teragrid, XSEDE);
			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)		OpenMP, Java, Load Balancing Algorithms, Gnuplot, Git, Subversion (SVN), MediaWiki, Mac OS X, Keynote;

	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` .