Classwork
Comprising the bulk of the first years here at MSU. Here is a short list of classes and examples of some solutions of mine:
EM I & II - Jackson
jackson 3.2 (ps) jackson 3.4 (ps) jackson 3.6 (ps)
QM I & II - Baym
Baym 3.11 (ps) Baym 3.12 (ps) Baym 4.1 (ps) Baym 4.16 (ps)
Baym 14.2 (ps)
Research
Cosmological Black Holes
Black holes larger than the largest stellar holes but many times smaller than galactic-center supermassive black holes are found to be severely deficient in the local universe. It is thought that supermassive black holes probably grew by merging and accretion as their host galaxy grew through similar processes.
Here at MSU we study the various clues in gravity waves and other observations for details on the formation history of supermassive black holes. Black holes are especially good targets for gravity wave detectors as their mergers are some of the loudest gravitational wave sources known but we are hindered by the expansion of the universe which dims their signals the farther back we look in time. Thus the number of mergers we do see must be modeled to a fidelity where different formation scenarios can be compared.