Lousto, Carlos

Associate Professor (SMS - COS)
Ph.D: 
Astronomy, University of La Plata
Ph.D: 
Physics, University of Buenos Aires
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Office: 
74-2069
E-mail: 
colsma@rit.edu
Phone: 
585-475-2219
Fax: 
585-475-7340
Publications: 

SPIRES HEP, ADS

Research: 
Numerical Relativity,
Relativistic Astrophysics,
Black Hole Physics,
Perturbation theory
Background: 

Carlos Lousto is an associate professor in the RIT's School of Mathematical Sciences and co-director of the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation. He holds two Ph. Ds, one in relativistic astrophysics (on accretion disks around black holes and the structure of neutron stars) from the University of La Plata, and one in physics from University of Buenos Aires. Carlos has an extensive research experience which ranges from black hole perturbation theory and numerical relativity to string theory and quantum gravity. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 papers, including several reviews and book chapters. His research is funded by several NSF and NASA grants and was the main PI in previous DAC and MRAC supercomputing allocation proposals. Carlos and colleagues, Campanelli and Zlochower, were authors of a major scientific breakthrough on binary black hole simulations and discovered that supermassive black holes can be ejected from most galaxies at speeds of up to 4000km/s.