UT Austin PhD Theses

1. Numerical Techniques for the Initial Value Problem for Two Black Holes,
   Scott Klasky (co-supervised with R. Matzner), December 1994 [PDF]
2. A Numerical Study of the Time Dependent Schrodinger Equation,
   Reid Guenther (co-supervised with R. Matzner), December 1995 [PDF]
3. Radiative Problems in Black Hole Spacetimes,
   Robert Marsa, December 1995 [PDF]
4. Nonlinear Field Dynamics in General Relativity: Black Hole Critical Phenomena and Topological Defects,
   Steven Liebling, May 1998 [PDF]
5. Numerical Studies of Nonlinear Schrodinger and Klein-Gordon Systems: Techniques and Applications,
   Dae-Il Choi, November 1998 [PDF]
6. Extremely Relativistic Fluids in Strong-Field General Relativity,
   David Neilsen, August 1999 [PDF]
7. Scalar Analogues of Compact Astrophysical Systems,
   Scott Hawley, August 2000 [PDF]
8. Resonant Dynamics Within the Nonlinear Klein-Gordon Equation,
   Ethan Honda, August 2000 [PDF]
9. A Numerical Treatment of Spin-1/2 Fields Coupled to Gravity,
   Jason Ventrella, December 2002 [PDF]
10. A Numerical Study of Relativstic Fluid Collapse,
    Scott Noble, August 2003 [PDF]

UBC PhD Theses

1. Numerical Simulations of Gravitational Collapse,
   Frans Pretorius, August 2002 [PDF]
2. Relativistic Hydrodynamics and other topics in Numerical relativity,
   Inaki Olabarrieta, September 2004 [PDF]
   
3. A Numerical Study of Boson Stars,
   Chi-Wai (Kevin) Lai, December 2004 [PDF]
   
4. Maxwell-Klein-Gordon Fields in Black Hole Spacetimes,
   Roman Petryk, November 2005 [PDF]
5. A Numerical Study of Boson Star Binaries,
   Bruno Mundim, February 2010 [PDF]
6. Numerical Analysis of General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics,
   Jason Penner, February 2011 (draft) [PDF]
7. Relativistic Scattering of Solitons in Nonlinear Field Theory,
   Benjamin Gutierrez, May 2013 [PDF]
8. Gravitational Collapse and Black Hole Formation in a Braneworld,
   Daoyan Wang, April 2015 [PDF]
9. Critical Collapse of Newtonian Fluids,
   Silvestre Aguilar-Martinez, August 2015 [PDF]
10. Numerical Studies in Gravitational Collapse,
    Arman Akbarian, December 2015 [PDF]
11. Topics in Numerical Relativity,
    Gray Reid, September 2023 [PDF]
12. Electrodynamics of Non-topological Solitons
    Michael Kinach, October 2024 [PDF]
    

UT Austin MA Theses

1. Massless Scalar Field Collapse in Brans-Dicke Theory ,
   Steven Liebling, May 1995 [PS | PDF]

UBC MSc Theses

1. Critical Collapse of Collisionless Matter in Spherical Symmetry,
   Inaki Olabarrieta, September 2000 [PS | PDF]
2. Axisymmetric Boson Stars in the Conformally Flat Approximation,
   Bruno Rousseau, November, 2003 [PS | PDF]
3. The Spherically Symmetric Collapse of Collisionless Matter,
   Roland Stevenson, August 2005 [PS | PDF], defended in Gravity Seminar, July 22, 2005.
4. Initial Data for Axially Symmetric Black Holes with Distorted Apparent Horizons,
   Aaryn Tonita, December 2008 [PDF]
5. Relative Stability in Critical Collapse of Massless Scalar Fields with Angular Momentum,
   Arman Akbarian, November 2010 [PDF]

UBC BSc Honors Theses

1. Computer Simulation of Pattern Formation in Granular Materials,
   Brock Wilson, April 2000 [PDF]
2. Critical Collapse of Scalar Field in 3+1 Formalism,
   Palbinder Sandhu, May 2002 [PDF]
3. Vortex Interactions in Type II Superconductors,
   Brian Martin (co-supervised with I. Affleck), April 2005 [PDF]
4. Comparison of Landau Damping in Two Computer Models,
   Aaron Froese, April 2005 [PDF]
5. Numerical Solution of a Two-Component Reaction-Diffusion Equation in Two Spatial Dimensions,
   John Homenuke, April 2006 [PDF]
6. Critical Pheonomena in the Gravitational Collapse of SU(2) Yang-Mills Fields,
   Tyler Dodds, April 2007 [PDF]
7. Critical Collapse of a Massive Scalar Field in Newtonian Gravity,
   Andrew Inwood, April 2009 [PDF]
8. Critical Collapse of a Nonlinear Schrodinger Field in Newtonian Gravity,
   David Shinkaruk, April 2010 (draft) [PDF]