Work

Publications:

1. M. Anderson, E.W. Hirschmann, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling, P.M. Motl, D. Neilsen, C. Palenzuela, J.E. Tohline
   Magnetized Neutron-Star Mergers and Gravitational-Wave Signals.
   Physical Review Letters 100, 191101 (2008).
   arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0801.4387.

2. M. Anderson, E.W. Hirschmann, L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling, P.M. Motl, D. Neilsen, C. Palenzuela, J.E. Tohline
   Simulating binary neutron stars: dynamics and gravitational waves.
   Physical Review D 77, 024006 (2008).
   arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0708.2720.

3. C. Palenzuela, L. Lehner and S.L. Liebling,
   Orbital Dynamics of Binary Boson Star Systems.
   Physical Review D 77, 044036 (2008).
   arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0706.2435.

4. D. Neilsen, E.W. Hirschmann, M. Anderson, S.L. Liebling.
   Adaptive Mesh Refinement and Relativistic MHD
   Proceedings of the Marcel Grossmann Meeting XI
   arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0702035.

5. C. Palenzuela, I. Olabarrieta, L. Lehner and S.L. Liebling,
   Head-on collisions of boson stars.
   Physical Review D 75, 064005 (2007).
   arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0612067.

6. M. Anderson, E.W. Hirschmann, S.L. Liebling, and D. Neilsen,
   Relativistic MHD with Adaptive Mesh Refinement.
   Classical and Quantum Gravity 23, 6503-6524 (2006).
   arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0605102.

7. L. Lehner, S.L. Liebling, and O. Reula,
   AMR, stability and higher accuracy.
   Classical and Quantum Gravity 23, S421-S445 (2006).
   arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0510111.

8. D. Choi, C.W. Lai., M.W. Choptuik, E.W. Hirschmann, S.L. Liebling, F. Pretorius,
   Dynamics of Axisymmetric (Head-on) Boson Star Collisions.
   To be submitted to Phys Rev D15.
   Link to PDF.

9. S.L. Liebling,
   Threshold of Singularity Formation in the Semilinear Wave Equation,
   Physical Review D 71, 044019 (2005).
   arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0502056.

10. M.W. Choptuik, E.W. Hirschmann, S.L. Liebling, and F. Pretorius.
    Critical Collapse of a Complex Scalar Field with Angular Momentum.
    Physical Review Letters 93, 131101 (2004).
    arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0405101.

11. S.L. Liebling,
    The Nonlinear Sigma Model With Distributed Adaptive Mesh Refinement,
    Classical and Quantum Gravity 21, 3995-4003 (2004).
    arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0403076.

12. M.W. Choptuik, E.W. Hirschmann, S.L. Liebling, and F. Pretorius.
    Critical Collapse of the Massless Scalar Field in Axisymmetry.
    Physical Review D 68, 044007 (2003).
    arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0305003.

13. M.W. Choptuik, E.W. Hirschmann, S.L. Liebling, and F. Pretorius.
    An Axisymmetric Gravitational Collapse Code.
    Classical and Quantum Gravity 20, 1857-1878 (2003).
    arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0301006.

14. M.W. Choptuik, E.W. Hirschmann, and S.L. Liebling.
    Towards Axisymmetric Critical Collapse,
    Proceedings of the Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity,
    World Scientific (2002).
15. S.L. Liebling,
    The Singularity Threshold of the Nonlinear Sigma Model Using 3D Adaptive Mesh Refinement
    Physical Review D 66, 041703 (2002).
    arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0202093.

16. J. Isenberg and S.L. Liebling,
    Singularity Formation in 2+1 Wave Maps.
    Journal of Mathematical Physics 43, 678-683 (2002).
    arXiv preprint: math-ph/0106029.
17. S.L. Liebling,
    Black Hole Critical Phenomena Without Black Holes.
    Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology published in Pramana 55, 497-509 (2000).
    arXiv preprint: gr-qc/0006005.
18. S.L. Liebling, E.W. Hirschmann, and J. Isenberg,
    Critical Phenomena in Nonlinear Sigma Models.
    Journal of Mathematical Physics 41, 5691-5700 (2000).
    arXiv preprint: math-ph/9911020.
19. D. Maison and S.L. Liebling,
    Some Remarks on Gravitational Global Monopoles.
    Physical Review Letters 83, 5218 (1999).
    arXiv preprint: gr-qc/9908038.
20. S.L. Liebling,
    Static Gravitational Global Monopoles.
    Physical Review D 61, 024030 (2000).
    arXiv preprint: gr-qc/9906014.
21. S.L. Liebling,
    Critical Phenomena Inside Global Monopoles.
    Physical Review D60, 061502 (1999).
    arXiv preprint: gr-qc/9904077.
22. E.W. Hirschmann and S.L. Liebling,
    Pair Production in the Collapse of a Hopf Texture.
    Classical and Quantum Gravity 16, 823-839 (1999).
    arXiv preprint: hep-ph/9808310.
23. S.L. Liebling,
    Multiply Unstable Black Hole Critical Solutions.
    Physical Review D58, 084015 (1998).
    arXiv preprint: gr-qc/9805043.
24. M.W. Choptuik, E.W. Hirschmann, and Steven L. Liebling,
    Instability of an ``Approximate Black Hole''.
    Physical Review D55, 6014-19 (1997).
    arXiv preprint: gr-qc/9701011.
25. M.W. Choptuik, E.W. Hirschmann, and S.L. Liebling.
    Dynamical Instability and Critical Behavior of van Putten's "Approximate Black Hole",
    Conference Proceedings of the Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, World Scientific (1997).
26. S.L. Liebling and M.W. Choptuik,
    Black Hole Criticality in the Brans-Dicke Model
    Physical Review Letters 77, 1424-1427 (1996)
    arXiv preprint: gr-qc/9606057.
27. R.A. Matzner, M. Huq, A. Botero, D.I. Choi, U. Kask, J. Lara, S. Liebling, D. Neilsen, P. Premadi, and D. Shoemaker,
    Analysis of ``Gauge Modes'' in Linearized Relativity.
    Classical and Quantum Gravity 14, L21-L27 (1997).
    arXiv preprint: gr-qc/9607031.

Talks:

• Invited Seminar: Nonlinear Wave Equations and Numerical Relativity.
  Miami Waves 2004, Miami, FL, January 2004.

• Invited Seminar: Black Hole Dynamics: Modeling Collapse and Collisions.
  UMass Dartmouth, Darmouth, MA, November 2003.

• Invited Seminar: Modeling Black Holes: Formation and Dynamics.
  Oakland University, Oakland, MI, February, 2003.

• Invited (Teleconference) Seminar: An Axisymmetric Gravitational Collapse Code.
  Penn State's Numerical Relativity Lunch, State College, PA, January 2003.

• Invited Seminar: Modeling Black Holes and Gravitational Waves (works with IE).
  Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, July 2002.

• Invited Seminar: Modeling Black Holes and Gravity Waves.
  University of Houston Clear Lake, Houston, TX, May 2002.

• Contributed Talk: Critical Behavior in Two and Three Dimensions Using AMR.
  APS April Meeting, Albuquerue, NM, April 2002.

• Invited Seminar: Nonlinear Aspects of Gravitational Collapse.
  Center For Relativity, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, November 2001.

• Invited Seminar: "Theoretical Experiments" in Gravity: Modeling Collapse.
  Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, October 2001.

• Invited Seminar: Global Existence of Wave Maps: Computing Dynamical PDE Solutions.
  The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, April 2001.

• Contributed Talk: Axisymmetric Gravitational Collapse.
  APS April Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 2001.

• Invited Seminar: Modeling Gravitational Collapse: Black Holes and Gravity Waves.
  Washington State University, Pullman, WA, April 2001.

• Invited Seminar: Axisymmetric Gravitational Collapse.
  Center For Relativity, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, January 2001.
  The slides and accompanying movies are available.
• Contributed Talk: Axisymmetric Collapse: Textures and Gravity.
  Eastern Gravity Meeting, Pittsburgh, April 2000
• Invited Talk: Global Monopoles.
  University of British Columbia, Vancouver, March 2000
• Invited Talk: Black Hole Critical Phenomena Without Black Holes.
  ICGC '00, Kharagpur, India, January 2000

Theses:

• S.L. Liebling,
  Nonlinear Field Dynamics in General Relativity:
  Black Hole Critical Phenomena and Topological Defects.
  Dissertation, unpublished, The University of Texas at Austin, May 1998.
  Abstract (HTML) · Gzipped Postscript (850Kb) · Converted PDF(7.2Mb)
• S.L. Liebling,
  Massless Scalar Field Collapse in Brans-Dicke Theory,
  Master's thesis, unpublished, The University of Texas at Austin, May 1995.
  Gzipped Postscript (250Kb) · Converted PDF(500Kb)

Publicity:

• The Independent of Southampton, March 30, 1999
• The New York Times, Long Island Section, June 6, 1999