Matthew Giesler Curriculum Vitæ

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Academic Positions Research Associate Sep 2020 - Present Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) Research Group Postdoctoral Scholar Mar 2020 - Sep 2020 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA Theoretical Astrophysics including Relativity (TAPIR)

Education Ph.D. in Physics Oct 2013 - Feb 2020 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA B.S. in Physics Jan 2011 - May 2013 California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA B.S. in Business Administration Aug 2003 - Dec 2006 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Experience Graduate Research Assistant (Advisor: Prof. Saul Teukolsky) June 2015 - Feb 2020 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA Theoretical Astrophysics including Relativity (TAPIR) Teaching Assistant Oct 2013 - June 2015 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA Ph1,Ph3 Undergraduate Research Assistant (Advisor: Prof. Geoffrey Lovelace) Aug 2012 - July 2013 California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Center (GWPAC) Undergraduate Research Assistant (Advisor: Prof. Murtadha Khakoo) May 2012 - June 2013 California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA Atomic and Molecular Electron-Reaction Science

Peer-reviewed publications 1. Hang Yu, Sizheng Ma, Matthew Giesler, Yanbei Chen “Spin and Eccentricity Evolution in Triple Systems: from the Lidov-Kozai Interaction to the Final Merger of the Inner Binary” Phys. Rev. D 102, 123009 (2020) 2. Maximiliano Isi, Matthew Giesler, Will M. Farr, Mark A. Scheel, Saul A. Teukolsky “Testing the no-hair theorem with GW150914” Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 111102 (2019) PRL: Featured in Physics, PRL: Editors’ Suggestion 3. Matthew Giesler, Maximiliano Isi, Mark Scheel, Saul Teukolsky “Black hole ringdown: the impor- tance of overtones” Phys. Rev. X 9, 041060 (2019) 4. Michael Boyle, et al. (40 authors including Matthew Giesler) “The SXS Collaboration catalog of binary black hole simulations” Class. Quantum Grav. 36, 195006 (2019) 5. Katerina Chatziioannou, et al. (56 authors including Matthew Giesler) “On the properties of the massive binary black hole merger GW170729” Phys. Rev. D 100, 104015 (2019) 6. Katerina Chatziioannou, Geoffrey Lovelace, Michael Boyle, Matthew Giesler, Daniel A. Hemberger, Reza Katebi, Lawrence E. Kidder, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Mark A. Scheel, Bela Szilagyi “Measuring the properties of nearly extremal black holes with gravitational waves” Phys. Rev. D 98, 044028 (2018) 7. Swetha Bhagwat, Maria Okounkova, Stefan W. Ballmer, Duncan A. Brown, Matthew Giesler, Mark A. Scheel, Saul A. Teukolsky. “On choosing the start time of binary black hole ringdown” Phys. Rev. D 97, 104065 (2018)

1 8. Matthew Giesler, Drew Clausen, Christian D. Ott. “Low-mass X-ray binaries from black-hole retaining globular clusters” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 477, 1853 (2018) 9. Geoffrey Lovelace, Mark A. Scheel, Robert Owen, Matthew Giesler, Reza Katebi, Bela Szilagyi, Tony Chu, Nicholas Demos, Daniel A. Hemberger, Lawrence E. Kidder, Harald P. Pfeiffer, and Nousha Afshari. “Nearly extremal apparent horizons in simulations of merging black holes” Class. Quantum Grav. 32, 065007 (2015) 10. Mark A. Scheel, Matthew Giesler, Daniel A. Hemberger, Geoffrey Lovelace, Kevin Kuper, Michael Boyle, Bela Szilagyi, and Lawrence E. Kidder. “Improved methods for simulating nearly extremal binary black holes” Class. Quantum Grav. 32, 105009 (2015) CQG Highlight 11. Abdul H. Mroue, Mark A. Scheel, Bela Szilagyi, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Michael Boyle, Daniel A. Hem- berger, Lawrence E. Kidder, Geoffrey Lovelace, Serguei Ossokine, Nicholas W. Taylor, Anil Zenginoglu, Luisa T. Buchman, Tony Chu, Evan Foley, Matthew Giesler, Robert Owen, and Saul A. Teukolsky. “Catalog of 174 Binary Black Hole Simulations for Gravitational Wave Astronomy” Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 241104 (2013)

Submitted Publications 1. Sizheng Ma, Matthew Giesler, Mark A. Scheel, Vijay Varma “Extending superposed harmonic initial data to higher spin” arXiv:2102.06618 (2021) 2. Maximiliano Isi, Will M. Farr, Matthew Giesler, Mark A. Scheel, Saul A. Teukolsky “Testing the black-hole area law with GW150914” arXiv:2012.04486 (2020)

Invited and Contributed Presentations

“Testing the no-hair theorem with overtones” 1. (invited) Gravity Seminar, Cornell Sep 2019 “Black hole ringdown: the importance of overtones” 2. (invited) GWPAC High Performance Computing Workshop, CSUF Aug 2019 3. 22nd International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR 22), Spain Jul 2019 4. American Physical Society April Meeting, Denver, CO Apr 2019 5. (invited) Black Hole Initiative Colloquim, Harvard Apr 2019 6. (invited) GRITTS Seminar, MIT Apr 2019 “Black holes in globular clusters: black-hole low-mass x-ray binaries and BBH mergers” 7. American Physical Society April Meeting, Columbus, OH Apr 2018 8. 34th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting, Caltech Mar 2017 “The population of low-mass X-ray binaries from black-hole retaining globular clusters” 9. 33rd Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting, UC Santa Barbara Mar 2017 10. American Physical Society April Meeting, Washington, D.C. Jan 2017 “Simulations of nearly extremal binary black holes” 11. 21st International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR 21), Columbia University Jul 2016 12. 32nd Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting, CSUF Apr 2016 13. 15th Theoretical Astrophysics in Southern California Meeting, CSUF Nov 2015 14. American Physical Society April Meeting, Baltimore, MD Apr 2015 15. 31st Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting, University of Oregon Mar 2015 “Numerical simulations of colliding black holes” 16. Colleagues Colloquium, CSUF Apr 2013 17. Research Week, CSUF Mar 2013 18. Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Center grand opening, CSUF Sep 2012

Selected Awards and Honors

2 • Robert F. Christy Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in Theoretical Physics (Caltech) Jun 2020 • APS Division of Astrophysics Travel Award (Caltech) Apr 2018 • Best Talk APS Topical Group on Gravitation (GGR), PCGM 32 @ CSUF (Caltech) Apr 2016 • Wolfram Award in Computational Science (CSUF) Aug 2012 - Jun 2013 • Department of Physics Outstanding Scholarship (CSUF) Aug 2012 - Jun 2013 • Dan Black Scholarship (CSUF) Aug 2012 - Jun 2013

Media coverage and Outreach • “Black hole ringdown: the importance of overtones” Sep 2019 Caltech, Science Magazine, Ars Technica, CNN, PBS • “Testing the no-hair theorem with GW150914” Sep 2019 MIT, Boston Globe, Live Science, PBS • (public lecture) Ringing black holes, Astronomy on tap, Pasadena Apr 2019 • (panel member) Graduate school panel, CSUF Sep 2018

Professional Activities • LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) member 2015 - present • Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) Collaboration member 2012 - present • Journal Referee 2018 - present • Palomar Transient Factory Theory Network Meeting, UC Berkeley Sep 2015 • (volunteer) Caltech Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics School (CGWAS) Jul 2015 • Caltech Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics School (CGWAS) Jul 2013 • APS DAMOP Meeting Jun 2012

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