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associate professor; co-director of the Center for Computational Reltativity and Gravitation

Fields of Expertise:
Science > Astronomy
Science > Black Holes
Science > Computational Physics
Science > Numerical Relativity


Dept/Division: School for Mathematical Sciences
E-Mail: colsma@rit.edu
News Contact: Susan Gawlowicz, smguns@rit.edu, 585-475-5061
Website: http://ccrg.rit.edu/


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 supercomputing allocation proposals. Carlos is one of the authors of a breakthrough on binary black hole simulations and the main author in the discovery that supermassive black holes can be ejected from most galaxies at speeds of up to 4000km/s. With Campanelli and Zlochower, he also designed and built the Funes and NewHorizon clusters.