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105
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47193
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Hans A. Bethe Prize, American Physical Society For seminal and sustained contributions to understanding physical processes in compact object astrophysics, and advancing numerical relativity.
  • 1998 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his broad contributions to theoretical astrophysics and general relativity, including the physics of black holes, neutron stars, and large Nbody dynamical systems, and his pioneering use of supercomputers to explore these areas
  • 1989 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1979 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Stuart L. Shapiro is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their primary research field spans Physics and Astronomy, with significant contributions in subfields such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Ocean Engineering, Geophysics, and Oceanography.

Their work focuses on several main scientific topics that encompass Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, Geophysics and Sensor Technology, Black Holes and Theoretical Physics, and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • GW190814: Spin and Equation of State of a Neutron Star Companion, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal
  • Theoretical and experimental constraints for the equation of state of dense and hot matter, 2024, Living Reviews in Relativity
  • Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of binary neutron star mergers in general relativity: Effects of magnetic field orientation on jet launching, 2020, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • Jet launching from binary neutron star mergers: Incorporating neutrino transport and magnetic fields, 2022, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • Accretion onto a small black hole at the center of a neutron star, 2021, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Thomas W. Baumgarte
  • Antonios Tsokaros
  • Milton Ruiz
  • Jamie Bamber
  • Vasileios Paschalidis

Shapiro has published in several venues, notably:

  • Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Physical Review Letters
  • The Astrophysical Journal

They have also contributed to academic books, including a publication with Cambridge University Press titled Numerical Relativity: Starting from Scratch in 2021.

Stuart L. Shapiro's career has been recognized with various awards such as the Hans A. Bethe Prize from the American Physical Society in 2017 for contributions to compact object astrophysics and numerical relativity.

Other honors include being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1998, a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1989, and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1979.

Best Publications

  • Black Holes, White Dwarfs, and Neutron Stars

    Stuart L. Shapiro;Saul A. Teukolsky

  • Black Holes, White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars: The Physics of Compact Objects

    Stuart L. Shapiro;Saul A. Teukolsky

  • Numerical integration of Einstein’s field equations

    Thomas W. Baumgarte;Stuart Louis Shapiro

  • A two-temperature accretion disk model for Cygnus X-1: structure and spectrum.

    S.L. Shapiro;A.P. Lightman;D.M. Eardley

  • Boson Stars: Gravitational Equilibria of Self-Interacting Scalar Fields

    Monica Colpi;Stuart Louis Shapiro;Ira Wasserman

  • Rapidly Rotating Neutron Stars in General Relativity: Realistic Equations of State

    Gregory B. Cook;Stuart L. Shapiro;Saul A. Teukolsky

  • Numerical Relativity: Solving Einstein's Equations on the Computer

    Thomas W. Baumgarte;Thomas W. Baumgarte;Stuart L. Shapiro

  • Random Gravitational Encounters and the Evolution of Spherical Systems. III. Halo

    Lyman Spitzer;Stuart L. Shapiro

  • The distribution and consumption rate of stars around a massive, collapsed object

    A.P. Lightman;S.L. Shapiro

  • GW170817, General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations, and the Neutron Star Maximum Mass

    Milton Ruiz;Stuart Shapiro;Antonios Tsokaros

  • Cold equation of state in a strong magnetic field - Effects of inverse beta-decay

    Dong Lai;Stuart L. Shapiro

  • On the Maximum Mass of Differentially Rotating Neutron Stars

    Thomas W. Baumgarte;Stuart L. Shapiro;Masaru Shibata;Masaru Shibata

  • Black Hole Spin Evolution

    Charles F. Gammie;Stuart L. Shapiro;Jonathan C. McKinney

  • Formation of naked singularities: The violation of cosmic censorship

    Stuart Louis Shapiro;Saul A. Teukolsky

  • Spin-up of a rapidly rotating star by angular momentum loss: Effects of general relativity

    Gregory B. Cook;Stuart Louis Shapiro;Saul A. Teukolsky

  • Ellipsoidal figures of equilibrium: Compressible models

    Dong Lai;Frederic A. Rasio;Stuart L. Shapiro

  • Prospects for Fundamental Physics with LISA

    Enrico Barausse;Emanuele Berti;Thomas Hertog;Scott A. Hughes

  • Spin, accretion, and the cosmological growth of supermassive black holes

    Stuart Louis Shapiro

  • Rapidly Rotating Polytropes in General Relativity

    Gregory B. Cook;Stuart L. Shapiro;Saul A. Teukolsky

  • Neutrino-driven Winds from Young, Hot Neutron Stars

    Robert C. Duncan;Stuart L. Shapiro;Ira Wasserman

Frequent Co-Authors

Masaru Shibata
Masaru Shibata Kyoto University
Frederic A. Rasio
Frederic A. Rasio Northwestern University
Mark A. Scheel
Mark A. Scheel California Institute of Technology
Dong Lai
Dong Lai Cornell University
Harald P. Pfeiffer
Harald P. Pfeiffer Max Planck Society
Luciano Rezzolla
Luciano Rezzolla Goethe University Frankfurt
Luca Zampieri
Luca Zampieri National Institute for Astrophysics
Ulrich Sperhake
Ulrich Sperhake University of Cambridge
Sascha Husa
Sascha Husa University of the Balearic Islands
Richard A. Matzner
Richard A. Matzner The University of Texas at Austin

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