Jennifer Anne Seiler Welcome to my homepage! It was created in 2001, and I am not so interested in updating it. Sorry. [ Work | AEI Webpage ] [ Email | jas278*at*cornell.edu ] [ Resume | PDF Resume ] [ Publications | Papers ] [ Instant Messenger | Steppensquirrle ] Research Interests Curriculum Vitae I am currently a PhD Student in the International Max Plank Research School (IMPRS) for Gravitational Waves. I study at the Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (the Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam, Germany. I work in the Numerical Relativity group doing vacuum simulations of black hole spacetimes numerically. My focus so far has been on non-reflective, well-posed, constraint preserving boundary conditions for Generalised Harmonic formulation of the Einstein Equations, phenomenological waveforms for templates for gravitational waves detectors, and predictions of the final spin and kick of merged black holes from arbitrary black hole binary initial parameters. Links quotes  |   QOTD  |   LibraryThing  |   books LiveJournal  |   Facebook   |   Squid   |   Flickr physchicks  |   xkcd  |   Pirates   |   bunnies Previous Experience June 2004 - August 2004: I was a visitor to the Max-Planck-Institut. I wrote a numerical code to simulate the propagation of gravitatinal waves off a potential in a three dimensional coordinate system. I wrote a generalization of the Zerilli Equation that reduced the problem to a radial equation expanded to three dimensions with spherical harmonics. November 2002 - October 2004: I worked for Prof. Saul Teukolsky on software for the visualization of numerical simulations of relevant solutions to the Einstein equations. These included inspiraling neutron stars toward supermassive black holes, interacting black holes, and the effects of large gravitational waves on supermassive black holes. Called Dustvis, it is a visualization program designed to be used with the Teukolsky group's DUST algorithm for solving the Einstein equations. DUSTVis is used to patch domains together visualize them and reasonably interpolate them using a selection of methods. We also worked on software for the visualization of warped neutron star accretion disks (situations like an offset magnetic dipole). Prof. Saul Teukolsky: Saul*at*astro.cornell.edu December 2004 - May 2004: We designed a program and system for the implementation of an industrial chemical waste exchange program which I titled National Trash/Treasure Network for submission to the EPA as a project for voluntary participation in environmental projects offered by the EPA to companies as an alternative to fines. The program requires the seller only to enter his or her location, the amount of waste and its MSDS number. A neural network determines what the waste can be used for or broken down into. The buyer may search for a chemical and the program gives a list of chemicals offered . A neural network finds other chemicals with similar properties and offers them to the buyer. Prof. Alan McAdams: akm3*at*cornell.edu May 2002-August 2002: I participated in Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's Internship for Physics Majors Program (IPM). I worked under supervisor Jin-yuan Wu on a project called BTeV. BTeV will be looking for rare B-meson and charm decays, trying to find a value for sine 2-beta and to generally better understand CP-violation and rare decays. It is a detector for which I coded the tracking algorithm for the Level 1 Trigger Code. This code finds triplet segments of hits in inner and outer regions of silicon pixel detectors in the central event region of the detector and tries to match them to tracks, find the location of primary events, and looks for detached tracks which may signify a decay. Dr. Jin yuan Wu: jywu168*at*fnal.gov Dr. Eric Gottschalk: erik*at*fnal.gov June 2001 - Sept. 2001: I worked at the Naval Research Laboratory in the Electronics Science & Technology Division (Code 6800) on the optimization of natural growth of Silicon dioxide, SiGe, and SiC samples via Molecular Beam Epitaxy. I also experimented with the temperature and surface segregation dependencies of Phosphorous doping rates via MBE. During my time at the NRL I gained experience with XPS, SIMS, STMs, MBE, and SEMs. I also helped to update their old XPS data acquisition system by monitoring the GPIB communication between the XPS system, the Channeltron, and the server. Dr. Philip Thompson: thompson*at*nrl.navy.mil Dr. Glenn Jernigan: glenn.jernigan*at*nrl.navy.mil May 2000 - August 2000: I worked in the National Superconducting Cyclotron at Michigan State University. I wrote data analysis code in C++ and did the analysis of data collected of Au on Au collisions at energies from 20-60 AMeV. I did analysis of the longitudinal flow in these collisions to work towards a nuclear equation of state to work towards better understanding of flow through in stellar core collapses. Dr. Gary Westfall: westfall*at*nscl.msu.edu