Dr. Richard Matzner

Biography

Richard Matzner earned his Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of Maryland. He is involved in questions related to cosmology, gravitational radiation, and black hole physics. Since 1987, he has served as the Director of the Center for Relativity at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1993, he organized and became the Lead Principal Investigator of a National Science Foundation/ARPA funded eight-university Computational Grand Challenge program which focused on the interactions of black holes as potential sources of observable gravitational radiation. Matzner has served on several advisory committees for the Air Force, National Science Foundation, European Space Agency, and the Department of Energy. He is currently a member of the High Performance Computing advisory allocation committees at both campus and national levels. Between 1996 and 1997, he had a research assignment at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, where he began work on the Dictionary of Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy, published by CRC Press. His research interests include cosmology, general relativity, computational astrophysics, satellite dynamics, and large-scale computation.

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