Professor Thomas Baumgarte visits the Strong Group

In the beginning of January 2023, the Strong Group will be visited by Prof. Thomas Baumgarte, Bowdoin College.

Prof. Baumgarte will also give a talk as part of the Gravity Seminar series on January 10, 2023.

About Prof. Thomas Baumgarte
Thomas Baumgarte is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine (USA). He received his Diploma (1993) and Doctorate (1995) degrees from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich, Germany, but carried out most of his dissertation research at Cornell University. He held a post-doctoral position at the University of Illinois before joining the faculty at Bowdoin College in 2001. His work in numerical relativity and relativistic astrophysics has been recognized with Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Physical Society (APS), and the Simons Foundation, as well as with the Bessel Research Prize of the Humboldt Foundation. He co-authored, together with Stuart Shapiro, the textbook Numerical Relativity: Solving Einstein’s Equations on the Computer (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and more recently Numerical Relativity: Starting from Scratch (Cambridge University Press, 2021).