Research

Projects

• The effects of magnetic fields on the dynamical bar-mode instability in rotating stars
• Studies of distorted black holes
• Studies of primordial black holes
• A parallel implementation of a chemical reactor simulation using Cactus

Publications

• Karen D. Camarda, Peter Anninos, P. Chris Fragile, and José A. Font, "Dynamical Bar-Mode Instability in Differentially Rotating Magnetized Neutron Stars," Astrophysical Journal 707 (2009) 1610-1622.
  
  
• Jay D. Salmonson, Peter Anninos, P. Chris Fragile, and Karen Camarda, "Cosmos++: Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics on Unstructured Grids with Local Adaptive Refinement," Journal of Physics: Conference Series 78 (2007) 012060.
  
  
• Steven Brandt, Karen Camarda, Edward Seidel, and Ryoji Takahashi, "Three dimensional distorted black holes," Class. Quantum Grav. 20, 1 (2003).
  
  
• Karen D. Camarda, Yuan He, and Kenneth A. Bishop, "A parallel chemical reactor simulation using Cactus," in the proceedings of Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution (Urbana, Illinois, 2001).
  
  
• K. Camarda and E. Seidel, "Three-dimensional simulations of distorted black holes. Comparison with axisymmetric results," Phys. Rev. D 59, 064019 (1999).
  
  
• S. R. Brandt, K. Camarda, and E. Seidel, "Three Dimensional Distorted Black Holes: Initial Data and Evolution," in Proceedings of the 8th Marcel Grossman Meeting on General Relativity, edited by T. Piran (World Scientific, Singapore, 1999), p. 741.
  
  
• P. Anninos, K. Camarda, J. Libson, J. Massó, E. Seidel, and W.-M. Suen, "Finding apparent horizons in dynamic 3D numerical spacetimes," Phys. Rev. D 58, 024003 (1998).
  
  
• K. Camarda and E. Seidel, "Numerical evolution of dynamic 3D black holes: Extracting waves," Phys. Rev. D 57, R3204 (1998).
  
  
• P. Anninos, K. Camarda, J. Massó, E. Seidel, W.-M. Suen, M. Tobias, and J. Towns, "3D Numerical Relativity at NCSA," in The Seventh Marcel Grossman Meeting: On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental Relativity, Gravitation, and Relativistic Field Theories, edited by R. T. Jantzen, G. M. Keiser, and R. Ruffini (World Scientific, Singapore, 1996), p. 644.
  
  
• P. Anninos, K. Camarda, J. Massó, E. Seidel, W.-M. Suen, and J. Towns, "Three-dimensional numerical relativity: The evolution of black holes," Phys. Rev. D 52, 2059 (1995).

Presentations

• "Dynamical Bar-Mode Instability in Differentially Rotating Magnetized Neutron Stars," 20th Midwest Relativity Meeting, Guelph, Ontario, November 6, 2010.
  
  
• "Black Hole Collisions as Sources of Gravitational Waves," talk given at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library as part of their "Visions of the Universe" exhibit, May 9, 2009.
  
  
• "Neutron Stars," talk given at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library as part of their "Visions of the Universe" exhibit, May 2, 2009.
  
  
• "Supercomputing at a Non-PhD Granting Institution," Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium 2008, Norman, OK, October 7, 2008.
  
  
• "Black Hole Collisions as Sources of Gravitational Waves," meeting of the Astronomical Society of Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, May 24, 2008.
  
  
• "Dynamical Bar-Mode Instability in Differentially Rotating Magnetized Neutron Stars," 38th Annual Mid-America Regional Astrophysics Conference, Kansas City, MO, April 12, 2008.
  
  
• "Dynamical Bar-Mode Instability in Differentially Rotating Magnetized Neutron Stars," University of Kansas Astrophysics Seminar, April 1, 2008.
  
  
• "Cosmos++: Evolving General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics on Unstructured Grids," 37th Mid-America Regional Astrophysics Conference, Kansas City, MO, April 14, 2007.
  
  
• "Cosmos++: Evolving General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics on Unstructured Grids," 16th Midwest Relativity Meeting, St. Louis, MO, November 18, 2006.
  
  
• "Numerical Binary Black Hole Collisions: A Status Report," seminar in the University of Valencia Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, June 28, 2006.
  
  
• "Testing Einstein: Gravity Probe B," meeting of the Astronomy Associates of Lawrence, February 18, 2005.
  
  
• "Black Hole Collisions as Sources of Gravitational Waves," Ad Astra Kansas Day! Second Annual Conference, April 24, 2004.
  
  
• "Black Hole Collisions as Sources of Gravitational Waves," meeting of the Washburn University Natural Sciences Division, February 14, 2003.
  
  
• "Black Hole Collisions as Sources of Gravitational Waves," University of Kansas Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium, October 14, 2002.
  
  
• "Black Hole Collisions as Sources of Gravitational Waves," meeting of the Northeast Kansas Amateur Astronomers' League (NEKAAL), May, 2002.
  
  
• "Numerical Relativity and its Application to Black Hole Spacetimes," University of Kansas Department of Mathematics Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar, April 17, 2002.
  
  
• "Numerical Simulations of Distorted Black Hole Spacetimes," University of Kansas Department of Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminar, February 7, 2002.
  
  
• "Parallelism and Portability with Cactus: Application to a Chemical Reactor Simulation," Kansas Center for Advanced Scientific Computing (KCASC) seminar, November 30, 2001.
  
  
• "Parallelism and Portability with Cactus: Application to a Chemical Reactor Simulation," American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Reno, NV, November 4-9, 2001.
  
  
• "A parallel chemical reactor simulation using Cactus," Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution, Urbana, IL, June 25-27, 2001.
  
  
• "Numerical Evolution of Dynamic 3D Black Holes: Extracting Waves," Penn State Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry Seminar, September 15, 1998.
  
  
• "Gravitational Radiation from Compact Objects Orbiting Massive Black Holes," 1998 Joint Meeting of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers, Columbus, OH, April 18-21, 1998.
  
  
• "3D Evolutions of Black Holes," 15th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation ("GR15"), Pune, India, December 16-21, 1997.
  
  
• "Three dimensional numerical simulations of distorted black holes," Penn State Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry Seminar, October 23, 1997.