Matthew (Matt) W. Choptuik

Coordinates as of July 7 1999

     Department of Physics and Astronomy
     University of British Columbia
     6224 Agricultural Road 
     Vancouver BC, V6T 1Z1
     Canada
     
     Office:        Hennings 413
     Office Phone:  (604) 822-2412

     Main Office:   (604) 822-3853     
     Fax:           (604) 822-5324
     Email:         choptuik@physics.ubc.ca
     URL:           http://laplace.physics.ubc.ca/~matt

     Center for Relativity, Department of Physics
     The University of Texas at Austin
     Austin, Texas 78712-1081
     
     Main Office:  (512) 471-1103
     Fax:          (512) 471-0890
     Email:        matt@infeld.ph.utexas.edu

Teaching

• Previous
• Proposed "New" Phy 329 Syllabus

Research

• Animations of SU(2) Einstein-Yang-Mills critical collapse.
• Schematic plot of black hole mass function for Einstein-Yang-Mills collapse.
• CIAR Gravity and Cosmology Program Talk, Banff, May 20 1999: Postscript
• 2D Analog of Electrostatic Trap
• GR15 Talk: The (Unstable) Threshold of Black Hole Formation: Original slides (postscript) and proceedings version.
• BBH wave2d development
• Meetings and Conferences
• Sommerfeld OBC Proposal for ADM Code: (R. Marsa)
• BBH GC Update Talk: Aspen, Feb 1, 1997: Postscript
• Software and Related
• Center for Relativity anonymous ftp site
• BBH Grand Challenge AMR development
• RNPL examples (time dependent finite difference equations)
• BBH I/O Proposal (November 20, 1995) --- See also:
  • Source code and sample test application (compressed UNIX tape archive)
  • Man pages for BBHUTIL routines: Postscript
  • The RNPL Reference Manual: HTML or Postscript
  • The RNPL User's Guide:HTML or Postscript
  • A couple of images full scale and zoomed illustrating a simple Explorer set up for validating 3D AMR parent-to-child interpolation.
• The Berger & Oliger Algorithm Using a Shadow Hierarchy for TE Estimation
• Status of BBH GC Toolkit Action Items
• Parallel Multigrid with the DAGH package: Specifications and Applications: Postscript
• Critical Phenomena in Gravitational Collapse: Bibliography
• MPEG Movies of Research Results
• Self-gravitating scalar field: critical data
• F90 Data Structure Proposal (Texas, local, provisional)

Community

• Congressman Lloyd Doggett (Austin/Travis county)

Miscellaneous

• Scientific Computing at Selected Institutions
• Prototype for Larry's Retirement Party
• Prototype for Larry's Retirement Party (Phase II)
• Paul William Choptuik, born Dec 18, 1995
  • Dec 31, 1995
  • Dec 30, 1996 [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]
  • Dec 30, 1997 [1], [2], [3], [4]