Nils Vu
PhD Student
Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity
Location Potsdam
Location Potsdam
Main Focus
In my Ph.D. research I develop numerical techniques to
simulate strongly relativistic spacetimes with a particular focus on
spinning black holes and neutron stars in binary configurations for
detection by current and future gravitational wave observatories. To
this end, I work with the [Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) collaboration] on the next-generation pseudo-spectral numerical relativity code [SpECTRE].
It incorporates nodal discontinuous Galerkin methods, task-based
parallelism and adaptive mesh refinement to dynamically resolve
neutron star matter and distribute computation to supercomputers with
thousands of CPUs and more. Currently, my main area of research is
the development of numerical schemes to solve the elliptic partial
differential equations that appear in general relativistic initial data
problems.
My Ph.D. supervisor is Prof. Dr. Harald Pfeiffer.
My Ph.D. supervisor is Prof. Dr. Harald Pfeiffer.
Curriculum Vitae
2012—2017: M.Sc. in Physics at Heidelberg University, Germany.
2018: Summer school on gravitational waves in Les Houches, France
2017:
DAAD PROMOS scholarship to visit Dr. Marcus C. Werner at the Yukawa
Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan for research in the
context of my master thesis
2016: CERN summer student programme in Geneva, Switzerland
2015: Winter School on Gravity and Light in Linz, Austria
2014: Research internship in the Complexity Science Group at the University of Calgary, Canada