Scott C. Noble
I don't have time to make a homepage for this site so I'll give a brief summary of
my happenings.
I graduated from Caltech in June of 1997 with a BS in
Physics. I did some work in high-energy
physics and quantum computing while I was there.
I then switched gears when I headed down to the University of Texas
at Austin where I studied
Numerical Relativity with
Prof. Matt Choptuik.
At the end of my 2nd year there, he moved up to Department
of Physics and Astronomy at the University of British Columbia,
to where I followed him a year later. I finished my research
up there in the refreshingly open-minded country of Canada and finally graduated in October of 2003
from UT-Austin (I didn't transfer to UBC since I had completed most of my course work at UT-Austin).
My doctoral thesis was on
critical phenomenon in self-gravitating perfect fluid
configuration, primarily with initial data consisting of a spherical, polytropic, neutron star.
Now, I'm a postdoctoral fellow in the Center
for Theoretical Astrophysics of the Physics Department
in the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign studying
accretion disks and MHD flows in curved, stationary spacetimes
with Prof. Charles Gammie.
scn@uiuc.edu