Seminars and Talks

Invited Talks

  1. ``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/;
  2. ``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.
  3. ``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.
  4. ``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/
  5. ``Computational Relativity and Gravitation at Petascale: Simulating and Visualizing Astrophysically Realistic Compact Binaries,'' NCSA/Illinois Enhanced Intellectual Services for Petascale Performance (NEIS-$P^2$) Symposium, NCSA, Univ. of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, May 21, 2013.
  6. ``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
  7. ``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
  8. ``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
  9. ``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
  10. ``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
  11. ``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
  12. ``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
  13. ``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
  14. ``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
  15. ``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
  16. ``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
  17. ``Simulating Black Hole Lighthouses,'' Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation Seminar, RIT, May 16, 2008, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/rit-05162008.pdf
  18. ``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
  19. ``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
  20. ``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

  21. ``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.
  22. ``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.
  23. ``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
  24. ``Magnetized Accretion onto Inspiralling Binary Black Holes,'' CCRG Seminar, RIT, Rochester, NY, March 23, 2012, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/ccrg-03232012.pdf
  25. ``Bridging the Gap: Circumbinary MHD Accretion in the Post-Newtonian Regime,'' $21^\mathrm{st}$ Midwest Relativity Meeting, November 5, 2011.
  26. ``Relativistic MHD Simulations of Circumbinary Disks,'' BBH Disk Workshop, RIT, June 28, 2011.
  27. ``Beyond MOND,'' Review talk, CCRG Lunch Seminar, RIT, July 2, 2010.
  28. ``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
  29. ``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
  30. ``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
  31. ``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
  32. ``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
  33. ``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
  34. ``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
  35. ``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
  36. ``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
  37. ``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
  38. ``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
  39. ``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
  40. ``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
  41. ``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
  42. ``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
  43. ``Dynamically Perturbed Neutron Stars,'' Gravity Group Seminar, U. of British Columbia, September 27, 2001, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/gravity_group2.ps
  44. ``Simulating Relativistic Perfect Fluids,'' Gravity Group Seminar, U. of British Columbia, January 18, 2001, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/pres/gravity_group1.ps
  45. ``Simulating Ultrarelativistic Flows with Adaptive Mesh Refinement,'' Ph.D. Qualifier, Relativity Seminar, U. of Texas at Austin, October 28, 1999.
  46. ``Solving the NP-Complete 3-SAT Problem through Simulation of a Quantum Computer,'' Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Presentation Day, Caltech, October 1996.
  47. ``A Study on the Performance of the Crystal Calorimeter for BaBar at SLAC,'' Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Presentation Day, Caltech, October 1995.
  48. ``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.




Scott Noble 2016-02-08