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Saul A. Teukolsky
Teukolsky in 1975
Born	August 2, 1947 (age 73) Johannesburg
Alma mater	University of the Witwatersrand Caltech
Known for	Numerical Recipes
Scientific career
Fields	Astrophysics Numerical relativity
Institutions	Cornell Caltech
Doctoral advisor	Kip Thorne

Saul A. Teukolsky (born August 2, 1947) is a theoretical astrophysicist and a professor of Physics and Astronomy at Caltech and Cornell University. His major research interests include general relativity, relativistic astrophysics, and computational astrophysics.

Publications

• Spin Evolution of Accreting Neutron Stars: Nonlinear Development of the R-mode Instability
• High-accuracy comparison of numerical relativity simulations with post-Newtonian expansions
• High accuracy simulations of Kerr tails: coordinate dependence and higher multipoles
• Initial data for black hole–neutron star binaries: a flexible, high-accuracy spectral method
• Ineffectiveness of Pade resummation techniques in post-Newtonian approximations
• Evolving black hole-neutron star binaries in general relativity using pseudospectral and finite difference methods
• Spinning down newborn neutron stars: nonlinear development of the r-mode instability
• Orbiting binary black hole evolutions with a multipatch high order finite-difference approach
• Equation of state effects in black hole-neutron star mergers
• Measuring orbital eccentricity and periastron advance in quasi-circular black hole simulations
• Spectral methods for the wave equation in second-order form
• Black hole-neutron star mergers: effects of the orientation of the black hole spin
• Black hole-neutron star mergers for 10M_⊙ black holes
• Are different approaches to constructing initial data for binary black hole simulations of the same astrophysical situation equivalent?
• Dynamical Excision Boundaries in Spectral Evolutions of Binary Black Hole Spacetimes
• Black-hole–neutron-star mergers at realistic mass ratios: Equation of state and spin orientation effects
• A catalog of 174 binary black-hole simulations for gravitational-wave astronomy
• Final spin and radiated energy in numerical simulations of binary black holes with equal masses and equal, aligned or anti-aligned spins
• Error-analysis and comparison to analytical models of numerical waveforms produced by the NRAR Collaboration
• Periastron Advance in Spinning Black Hole Binaries: Gravitational Self-Force from Numerical Relativity
• Periastron advance in spinning black hole binaries: comparing effective-one-body and numerical relativity
• Magnetic effects on the low-T/|W| instability in differentially rotating neutron stars
• Initial data for high-compactness black hole–neutron star binaries
• The Kerr Metric
• Short note on the mass matrix for Gauss-Lobatto grid points
• Formulation of discontinuous Galerkin methods for relativistic astrophysics
• Simulations of inspiraling and merging double neutron stars using the Spectral Einstein Code
• Toroidal Horizons in Binary Black Hole Mergers
• A Parallel Adaptive Event Horizon Finder for Numerical Relativity
• Modeling the source of GW150914 with targeted numerical-relativity simulations
• SpECTRE: A Task-based Discontinuous Galerkin Code for Relativistic Astrophysics
• A Parameter Estimation Method that Directly Compares Gravitational Wave Observations to Numerical Relativity
• On choosing the start time of binary black hole ringdown
• Targeted numerical simulations of binary black holes for GW170104
• Critical behavior in 3-d gravitational collapse of massless scalar fields
• General-relativistic neutron star evolutions with the discontinuous Galerkin method
• Constraining the parameters of GW150914 and GW170104 with numerical relativity surrogates
• Numerical black hole initial data and shadows in dynamical Chern-Simons gravity
• A HIGH-ORDER, CONSERVATIVE INTEGRATOR WITH LOCAL TIME-STEPPING
• Evolving Metric Perturbations in dynamical Chern-Simons Gravity
• On the properties of the massive binary black hole merger GW170729
• Black hole ringdown: the importance of overtones
• The SXS Collaboration catalog of binary black hole simulations
• Testing the no-hair theorem with GW150914
• Numerical binary black hole collisions in dynamical Chern-Simons gravity
• Numerical relativity simulation of GW150914 beyond general relativity
• Improved Cauchy-characteristic evolution system for high-precision numerical relativity waveforms
• Computation of Normal and Spin Memory in Numerical Relativity
• Black hole evolution by spectral methods
• Quasi-circular Orbits for Spinning Binary Black Holes
• Nonlinear mode coupling in rotating stars and the r-mode instability in neutron stars
• Extending the lifetime of 3D black hole computations with a new hyperbolic system of evolution equations
• A multidomain spectral method for solving elliptic equations
• Saturation of the R-mode Instability
• Comparing initial-data sets for binary black holes
• Toward Stable 3D Numerical Evolutions of Black-Hole Spacetimes
• 3D simulations of linearized scalar fields in Kerr spacetime
• Controlling the Growth of Constraints in Hyperbolic Evolution Systems
• Nonlinear Couplings of R-modes: Energy Transfer and Saturation Amplitudes at Realistic Timescales
• A Nonlinear Coupling Network to Simulate the Development of the r-mode Instablility in Neutron Stars I. Construction
• A Nonlinear Coupling Network to Simulate the Development of the r-mode Instablility in Neutron Stars II. Dynamics.
• Solving Einstein's Equations With Dual Coordinate Frames
• EVOLVING RELATIVISTIC FLUID SPACETIMES USING PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHODS AND FINITE DIFFERENCING
• Disk collapse in general relativity
• Calculation of gravitational wave forms from black hole collisions and disk collapse: Applying perturbation theory to numerical spacetimes
• Collapse to Black Holes in Brans-Dicke Theory: I. Horizon Boundary Conditions for Dynamical Spacetimes
• Collapse to Black Holes in Brans-Dicke Theory: II. Comparison with General Relativity
• Testing a Simplified Version of Einstein's Equations for Numerical Relativity
• Implementing an apparent-horizon finder in three dimensions
• BINARY NEUTRON STARS IN QUASI-EQUILIBRIUM CIRCULAR ORBIT: A FULLY RELATIVISTIC TREATMENT
• Numerical Evolution of Black Holes with a Hyperbolic Formulation of General Relativity
• Hot, Rotating Disks In General Relativity: Collisionless Equilibrium Models
• Treating instabilities in a hyperbolic formulation of Einstein's equations
• Black Holes
• On the Stability of the Iterated Crank-Nicholson Method in Numerical Relativity
• An Efficient Method for Fully Relativistic Simulations of Coalescing Binary Neutron Stars