Louisiana State University Physics & Astronomy

Edward Seidel
Floating Point Systems Professor of Physics

Ph.D., 1988 - Yale University

General Relativity & Computation & Technology

Office: 309 Johnston Hall
Telephone: 7877-Office
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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Seidel is the Floating Point Systems Professor in LSU's Departments of Physics & Astronomy and Computer Science. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in relativistic astrophysics. As a professor at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institute, or AEI) in Germany from 1996-2003, Seidel founded and led AEI's numerical relativity and e-science groups, which became leading forces worldwide in solving Einstein's equations using large-scale computers, and in distributed and Grid computing. He still maintains a strong affiliation with AEI. LSU and the AEI numerical relativity and computational science groups still work very closely together.

Seidel has been a leader of several very large international projects in both astrophysics and Grid computing, involving more than a dozen European and American institutions. In addition to leading the CCT, he helped initiate, and is presently the chief scientist for, the $40M Louisiana Optical Network Initiatives (LONI), a 40 Gigabit optical research network that will also deploy five IBM P5 systems to Louisiana universities and medical schools by summer 2006. He was previously a senior research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and associate professor in the Physics Department at the University of Illinois.

CURRENT AND SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Jonathan Thornburg, Peter Diener, Denis Pollney, Luciano Rezzolla, Erik Schnetter, Ed Seidel, Ryoji Takahashi, "Are moving punctures equivalent to moving black holes?," Class. Quant. Grav. 24, 3911-3918 (2007).
e-Print: gr-qc/0701038
Jayashree Balakrishna, Ruxandra Bonddarescu, Gregory Daues, F. Siddhartha Guzman, Edward Seidel, "Evolution of 3-D boson stars with wave form extraction," Class Quant. Grav. 23, 2631-2652 (2006).
e-Print: gr-qc/0602078
Frank Herrmann, Denis Pollney, Erik Schnetter, Edward Seidel, Ryoji Takahashi, Jonathan Thornburg, Jason Ventrella, "Accurate evolution of orbiting binary block holes," Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 121101 (2006).
e-Print: gr-qc/0512108
Miguel Alcubierre, et al., "Dynamical evolution of quasi-circular binary black hole data," Phys. Rev. D 72, 044004 (2005).
e-Print: gr-qc/0411149
Miguel Alcubierre, Bernd Brugmann, Peter Diener, Frank Herrmann, Denis Pollney, Edward Seidel, Ryoji Takahashi, "Testing excision techniques for dynamical 3-D black hole evolutions," Nov. 2004, 9pp.
e-Print: gr-qc/0411137
Luca Baiotti, Ian Hawke, Pedro J. Montero, Frank Loffler, Luciano Rezzolla, Nikolaos Stergioulas, Jose A. Font, Ed Seidel, "Three-dimensional relativistic simulations of rotating neutron star collapse to a Kerr black hole," Phys. Rev. D 71, 024035 (2005).

Updated: Thu, 11-Oct-2007 4:42 PM