Richard Matzner
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| 🎓 Alma mater | University of Notre Dame University of Maryland |
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| Known for | Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge Alliance |
Richard Alfred Matzner is an American physicist, working mostly in the field of general relativity and cosmology, to include numerical relativity, kinetic theory, black hole physics, and gravitational radiation.[1] He is Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin where he was the longtime Director of the Center for Relativity.[2] In 1993 he organized and became the Lead Principal Investigator of a NSF/ARPA funded Computational Grand Challenge program involving ten university teams seeking descriptions for the interaction of black holes as potential sources for observable gravitational radiation.[3][4] His work leading what became known as the Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge Alliance[5][6] was highlighted in Kip Thorne's Nobel Prize Lecture, as well as the wager regarding numerical relativity Matzner and colleagues won, Thorne saying he "conceded the bet with great happiness."[7]
Education and Career
Matzner received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in Physics in 1967. Advised by Charles Misner[8] at the University of Maryland, Matzner has advised and educated students in cosmology, relativity, and astrophysics.[9][10] He concluded his graduate education with a year at the University of Cambridge. Matzner was one of the first to calculate what a simplified, head-on collision between two black holes would look like, including the weak gravitational waves such a merger could emit.[11] Matzner's research in theoretical questions includes topology and signature change in the early universe, and quantum gravity using the tool of path integration.[12][13] His observational/experimental studies include tests of General Relativistic effects via laser-ranging to dense geodetic satellites.[14] Matzner is a Co-I member of the LARES (Laser Relativity Satellite) satellite team, the densest artificial satellite in orbit, launched in 2012.[15] LARES 2 was launched in 2022.[16]
Broader Contributions
Matzner served on advisory committees to the Air Force, the National Science Foundation, the European Space Agency, and The Department of Energy.[17][18][19][20][21] He was on research assignment at Los Alamos National Laboratory[22], in the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, where he began work on the Dictionary of Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy.[17] He has been engaged in science outreach activities,[23] to include being a Jefferson Fellow at the US Department of State (run by the National Academy), participation on scientific editorial boards[24], a decade-long tenure as Southwest Region Lead Judge for the Siemens/Westinghouse Science Competition, and co-directing international summer schools on Relativistic Astrophysics in Erice, Italy. [24][25] Matzner's international experience includes work as a Senior Science Advisor in the East Asia and Pacific Bureau at the State Department.[25] He has spent a sabbatical year and several summers at the Astrophysics department at the University of Oxford, and is a long-term visitor at Institutes in Britain, France, Germany (he was a long-term member of the external advisory committee to the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam Germany), Turkey, and Italy.[24][25] Professor Matzner has an ongoing collaboration with the Aerospace Engineering Department of the University of Rome on laser ranged satellites.[25] This collaboration saw the launch of its satellite LARES on 13 February 2012.[24] He lectured extensively on Relativistic Astrophysics at The University of Lecce in Italy.[25][26]
Recognitions
- Fellow of the American Physical Society (1995)
- Foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of Turin
References
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- ↑ "Richard Matzner in INSPIRE High Energy Physics Database". CERN, DESY, Fermilab, IHEP, IN2P3, and SLAC. Retrieved 2023-09-24.
- ↑ "Richard Matzner at the University of Texas at Austin Department of Physics". Retrieved 2023-08-14.
- ↑ Thorne, Kip (2018-12-18). "Nobel Lecture: LIGO and gravitational waves III". Rev. Mod. Phys. 90 (40503): 040503. Bibcode:2018RvMP...90d0503T. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.90.040503. Retrieved 2023-09-24. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Matzner, Richard; Seidel, H (1995-11-10). "Geometry of a Black Hole Collision". Science. 270 (5238): 941–947. Bibcode:1995Sci...270..941M. doi:10.1126/science.270.5238.941. Retrieved 2023-09-24. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Choptuik, M. (1997). D. A. Clarke and M. J. West, ed. The Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge Project. 12th Kingston Meeting on Theoretical Astrophysics; proceedings of meeting held in Halifax; Nova Scotia; Canada October 17-19, 1996. Computational Astrophysics. 123 (ASP Conference Series). pp. 305–313. Bibcode:1997ASPC..123..305C. Retrieved 2023-09-24.
- ↑ "Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge Alliance page at Center for Research on Parallel Computing at Rice University". Retrieved 2023-09-24.
- ↑ Thorne, Kip S. (2017-12-08). Kip S. Thorne – Nobel Lecture (Speech). Nobel Prize Ceremony. Stockholm University: Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2023. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
- ↑ "A Brief History of Gravitational Waves Research at the University of Maryland". Retrieved 2023-09-24.
- ↑ Ali, Eunice (2016-02-14). "UT alumnus leads team in detecting gravitational waves, confirms Einstein's theory". The Daily Texan. Austin, Texas. Retrieved 2023-09-24.
- ↑ "Mathematics Genealogy Project on Richard Matzner". Retrieved 2023-09-24.
- ↑ Wright, Matthew (2016-10-29). "The Chirps Heard Round the World". Odyssey magazine. University of Maryland. Retrieved 2023-09-24.
- ↑ "Richard Matzner in zbMATH". Retrieved 2023-09-24.
- ↑ Ellis, G. F. R.; Rothman, Tony (1989). "THE GARDEN OF COSMOLOGICAL DELIGHTS". Science a La Mode: Physical Fashions and Fictions. Princeton University Press, JSTOR. pp. 3–28. Retrieved 2023-09-24. Search this book on
- ↑ "ResearchGate database results on Richard Matzner". Retrieved 2023-09-24.
- ↑ "NASA LARES Mission page LARES". Retrieved 2023-09-24.
- ↑ "Richard Matzner in Oden Institute Directory". Retrieved 2023-08-14.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 "Richard Matzner in UT Experts". Retrieved 2023-09-24.
- ↑ Andreas Albrecht, Stefi Baum, Sarah Church, Debra Elmegreen, Joshua Frieman, Martha Haynes, Gregory Laughlin, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Richard Matzner, Paul Vanden Bout, John Wefel, Brian Winer, Charles Woodward (2012-03-15). Report of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee (PDF) (Report). National Science Foundation. Retrieved 2023-09-24.CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
- ↑ Andreas Albrecht, Stefi Baum, James Buckley, William Cochran, Priscilla Cushman, Debra Elmegreen, Joshua Frieman, Martha Haynes, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Geoffrey Marcy, Richard Matzner, Paula Szkody, Paul Vanden Bout (2013-03-08). Report of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee (PDF) (Report). National Science Foundation. Retrieved 2023-09-24.CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
- ↑ Andreas Albrecht, Stefi Baum, James Buckley, William Cochran, Priscilla Cushman, Craig Hogan, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Geoffrey Marcy, Richard Matzner, Angela Olinto, Paula Szkody, Angela Speck, Suzanne Staggs (2014-03-15). Report of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee (PDF) (Report). National Science Foundation. Retrieved 2023-09-24.CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
- ↑ "National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee Members Bio on Richard Matzner" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-09-24.
- ↑ Laguna, P.; Kurki-Suonio, H.; Matzner, R. A. (January 1991). "Los Alamos National Laboratory archives, DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information". Retrieved 2023-09-24.
- ↑ Bloodworth, Sarah (2017-05-03). "Sci-Fact Column: Rick, Morty and the multiverse". The Daily Texan. Austin, TX. Retrieved 2023-09-24.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 "National Academies: Jefferson Science Fellows 2004 – 2017" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-08-14.
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 25.4 "Richard Matzner in National Academies Directory". Retrieved 2023-08-14.
- ↑ International School on Astrophysical Relativity (PDF) (poster). Sicily, Italy: NASA, Ettore Majorana Foundation, World Federation of Scientists. 2006-05-31. Retrieved 2023-09-24.CS1 maint: Date and year (link)
External links
- [1] - Richard Matzner at the University of Texas at Austin, Department of Physics
- [2] - Richard Matzner at the National Academies
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