Erik Schnetter , Ph.D.

Erik Schnetter , PhD
Assistant Research Professor and Research Scientist

Ph.D., 2003 - Universität Tübingen

Louisiana State University
Center for Computation and Technology (CCT) and
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
327 Johnston Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001
(225) 578-8907-Office

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Research Interests

I am an assistant research professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy and at the Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University. My main research interests lie in relativistic astrophysics, general relativity, and in computational physics; these fields overlap in numerical relativity. My current research topics include black holes, neutron stars, merging binaries of these, and the horizon structure of these spacetimes. I am also a researcher in high performance computing, which provides the infrastructure that is necessary for these calculations; I am especially interested in programming models and software tools for using current and future supercomputing architectures efficiently.

Current and Selected Publications

• Christian D. Ott, Harald Dimmelmeier, Andreas Marek, Hans-Thomas Janka, Ian Hawke, Burkhard Zink, and Erik Schnetter, "3d collapse of rotating stellar iron cores in general relativity including deleptonization and a nuclear equation of state," Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 2611-1 (2007).
  doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.261101

• Michael Koppitz, Denis Pollney, Christian Reisswig, Luciano Rezzolla, Jonathan Thornburg, Peter Diener, and Erik Schnetter, "Recoil velocities from equal-mass binary-black-hole mergers," Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 041102 (2007).
  doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.041102

• Luciano Rezzolla, Peter Diener, Ernst Nils Dorband, Denis Pollney, Christian Reisswig, Erik Schnetter and Jennifer Seiler, "The final spin from the coalescence of aligned-spin black-hole binaries," Astrophys. J. Lett. 674, L29-L32 (2008).
  doi:10.1086/528935

• Christian D. Ott, Erik Schnetter, Gabrielle Allen, Edward Seidel, Jian Tao, and Burkhard Zink, "A case study for petascale applications in astrophysics: Simulating Gamma-Ray Bursts," In Proceedings of the 15th ACM Mardi Gras conference: From lightweight mash-ups to lambda grids: Understanding the spectrum of distributed computing requirements, applications, tools, infrastructures, interoperability, and the incremental adoption of key capabilities, number 18 in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 2008. ACM. (PDF, 9 pages, 886.2 kbyte).
  doi:10.1145/1341811.1341831

• Burkhard Zink, Erik Schnetter, and Manuel Tiglio, "Multi-patch methods in general relativistic astrophysics-I. Hydrodynamical flows on fixed backgrounds," Phys. Rev. D 77, 103015 (2008).
  doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.77.103015