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Publications (Google Scholar)

Names with red font denote student researchers. Please meet all the members of the research group!

• Tousif Islam, Avi Vajpeyi, Feroz H. Shaik, Carl-Johan Haster, Vijay Varma, Scott E. Field, Jacob Lange, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Rory Smith, "Analysis of GWTC-3 with fully precessing numerical relativity surrogate models", submitted to Physical Review D. Preprint arXiv:2309.14473 [gr-qc]. GWTC-3 surrogate catalog.
• LISA Consortium Waveform Working Group; Afshordi, et al., "Waveform Modelling for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna", accepted to Living Review. Preprint arXiv:2311.01300 [gr-qc]
• Tousif Islam, Guglielmo Faggioli, Gaurav Khanna, Scott E. Field, Maarten van de Meent, Alessandra Buonanno, ``Phenomenology and origin of late-time tails in eccentric binary black hole mergers'', Submitted to Physical Review D. Preprint arXiv:2407.04682 [gr-qc]
• Tousif Islam, Gaurav Khanna, Scott E. Field, ``Adding higher-order spherical harmonics in non-spinning eccentric binary black hole merger waveform models'', Submitted to Physical Review D. Preprint arXiv:2408.02762 [gr-qc]
• Lorena Magana Zertuche, Leo C. Stein, Keefe Mitman, Scott E. Field, Vijay Varma, Michael Boyle, Nils Deppe, Lawrence E. Kidder, Jordan Moxon, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Mark A. Scheel, Kyle C. Nelli, William Throwe, Nils L. Vu, ``High-Precision Ringdown Surrogate Model for Non-Precessing Binary Black Holes'', Submitted to Physical Review D. Preprint arXiv:2408.05300 [gr-qc]
• Manas Vishal, Scott E. Field, Sigal Gottlieb, Jennifer Ryan, ``Superconvergent Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Scalar Teukolsky Equation on Hyperboloidal Domains: Efficient Waveform and Self-Force Computation'', submitted to the General Relativity and Gravitation journal's topical collection on hyperboloidal foliations. Preprint arXiv:2503.11523 [gr-qc]
• Guido Da Re, Keefe Mitman, Leo C. Stein, Mark A. Scheel, Saul A. Teukolsky, Dongze Sun, Michael Boyle, Nils Deppe, Scott E. Field, Lawrence E. Kidder, Jordan Moxon, Kyle C. Nelli, William Throwe, Vijay Varma, Nils L. Vu, ``Modeling the BMS transformation induced by a binary black hole merger'', Submitted to Physical Review D. Preprint arXiv:2503.09569 [gr-qc]
• Uddeepta Deka, Gopalkrishna Prabhu, Md Arif Shaikh, Shasvath J. Kapadia, Vijay Varma, Scott E. Field, ``Surrogate modeling of gravitational waves microlensed by spherically symmetric potentials'', Physical Review D 111, 104042 (2025). Preprint arXiv:2501.02974 [gr-qc]
• Scott E. Field, Vijay Varma, Jonathan Blackman, Bhooshan Gadre, Chad R. Galley, Tousif Islam, Keefe Mitman, Michael Purrer, Adhrit Ravichandran, Mark A. Scheel, Leo C. Stein, Jooheon Yoo, ``GWSurrogate: A Python package for gravitational wave surrogate models'', Journal of Open Source Software, 10(107), 7073 (2025). Preprint arXiv:2504.08839 [astro-ph.IM]
• Katie Rink, Ritesh Bachhar, Tousif Islam, Nur E. M. Rifat, Kevin Gonzalez-Quesada, Scott E. Field, Gaurav Khanna, Scott A. Hughes, Vijay Varma, ``Gravitational wave surrogate model for spinning, intermediate mass ratio binaries based on perturbation theory and numerical relativity'', Physical Review D 110, 124069 (2024). Preprint arXiv:2407.18319 [gr-qc]
• Bhooshan Gadre, Michael Purrer, Scott E. Field, Serguei Ossokine, Vijay Varma, ``A fully precessing higher-mode surrogate model of effective-one-body waveforms", Physical Review D 110, 124038 (2024). Preprint arXiv:2203.00381 [gr-qc]
• Manas Vishal, Scott E. Field, Katie Rink, Sigal Gottlieb, Gaurav Khanna, "Towards exponentially-convergent simulations of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals: A time-domain solver for the scalar Teukolsky equation with singular source terms", Physical Review D 110, 104009 (2024). Preprint arXiv:2307.01349 [gr-qc]
• Scott E. Field, Sigal Gottlieb, and Gaurav Khanna. "Editorial for the research topic: Advances in Computational Relativity", Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 10, 1420155. Online version.
• Tousif Islam, Scott E. Field, Gaurav Khanna, ``Comparing numerical relativity and perturbation theory waveforms for a non-spinning equal-mass binary", Universe, 10(1), 25. This is a themed issue in honor of Prof. Jorge Pullin on his 60th birthday. Preprint arXiv:2312.01636 [gr-qc]
• Jooheon Yoo, Keefe Mitman, Vijay Varma, Michael Boyle, Scott E. Field, Nils Deppe, Francois Hebert, Lawrence E. Kidder, Jordan Moxon, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Mark A. Scheel, Leo C. Stein, Saul A. Teukolsky, William Throwe, and Nils L. Vu, ``Numerical relativity surrogate model with memory effects and post-Newtonian hybridization", Physical Review D 108, 064027 (2023). Preprint arXiv:2306.03148 [gr-qc]
• Tousif Islam, Scott E. Field, Gaurav Khanna, ``Remnant black hole properties from numerical-relativity-informed perturbation theory and implications for waveform modelling", Physical Review D 108, 064048 (2023). Preprint arXiv:2301.07215 [gr-qc]
• Tousif Islam, Scott E. Field, Gaurav Khanna, Niels Warburton, ``Survey of gravitational wave memory in intermediate mass ratio binaries", Physical Review D 108, 024046 (2023). Preprint arXiv:2109.00754 [gr-qc]
• Scott E. Field, Sigal Gottlieb, Gaurav Khanna, and Ed McClain, ``Discontinuous Galerkin method for linear wave equations involving derivatives of the Dirac delta distribution", Spectral and High Order Methods for Partial Differential Equations ICOSAHOM 2020+1. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 137. Springer (2023). Preprint arXiv:2211.14390 [math.NA]
• Scott E. Field, Sigal Gottlieb, Zachary J. Grant, Leah F. Isherwood, and Gaurav Khanna, ``A GPU-accelerated mixed-precision WENO method for extremal black hole and gravitational wave physics computations", Communications on Applied Mathematics and Computation 5, 97–115 (2023). Preprint arXiv:2010.04760 [math.NA]
• Tousif Islam, Scott E. Field, Scott A. Hughes, Gaurav Khanna, Vijay Varma, Matthew Giesler, Mark A. Scheel, Lawrence E. Kidder, Harald P. Pfeiffer, ``Surrogate model for gravitational wave signals from non-spinning, comparable- to large-mass-ratio black hole binaries built on black hole perturbation theory waveforms calibrated to numerical relativity", Physical Review D 106, 104025 (2022). Editors Suggestion. Preprint arXiv:2204.01972 [gr-qc]
• Vijay Varma, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Tousif Islam, Feroz H. Shaik, Carl-Johan Haster, Maximiliano Isi, Will M. Farr, Scott E. Field, Salvatore Vitale, ``Evidence of large recoil velocity from a black hole merger signal", Physical Review Letters 128, 191102 (2022). Featured in Physics synopsis. Preprint arXiv:2201.01302 [astro-ph.HE]
• Brendan Keith, Akshay Khadse, Scott E Field, ``Learning orbital dynamics of binary black hole systems from gravitational wave measurements", Physical Review Research 3, 043101 (2021). Preprint arXiv:2102.12695 [gr-qc]
• Tousif Islam, Scott E. Field, Carl-Johan Haster, Rory Smith, ``High-precision source characterization of intermediate mass-ratio black hole coalescences with gravitational waves: The importance of higher-order multipoles", Physical Review D 104, 084068 (2021). Preprint arXiv:2105.04422 [gr-qc]
• Rory Smith, Ssohrab Borhanian, Bangalore Sathyaprakash, Francisco Hernandez Vivanco, Scott Field, Paul Lasky, Ilya Mandel, Soichiro Morisaki, David Ottaway, Bram Slagmolen, Eric Thrane, Daniel Toyra, Salvatore Vitale, ``Bayesian inference for gravitational waves from binary neutron star mergers in third-generation observatories", Physical Review Letters, Volume 127, 081102, August 2021. Preprint arXiv:2103.12274 [gr-qc]
• Tousif Islam, Vijay Varma, Jackie Lodman, Scott E Field, Gaurav Khanna, Mark A Scheel, Harald P Pfeiffer, Davide Gerosa, Lawrence E Kidder, ``Eccentric binary black hole surrogate models for the gravitational waveform and remnant properties: Comparable mass, nonspinning case", Physical Review D 103, 064022 (2021). Preprint arXiv:2101.11798 [gr-qc]
• Tousif Islam, Scott E. Field, Carl-Johan Haster, and Rory Smith, ``Improved analysis of GW190412 with a precessing numerical relativity surrogate waveform model", Physical Review D 103, 104027 (2021). Preprint arXiv:2010.04848 [gr-qc]
• Dwyer S. Deighan, Scott E. Field, Collin D. Capano, and Gaurav Khanna, ``Genetic-algorithm-optimized neural networks for gravitational wave classification", Neural Computing and Applications (2021). Preprint arXiv:2010.04340 [gr-qc]
• Feroz H. Shaik, Jacob Lange, Scott E. Field, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Vijay Varma, Lawrence E. Kidder, Harald P. Pfeiffer, and Daniel Wysocki, ``Impact of subdominant modes on the interpretation of gravitational-wave signals from heavy binary black hole systems", Phys. Rev. D 101, 124054 (2020). Preprint arXiv:1911.02693 [gr-qc].
• Nur E. M. Rifat, Scott E. Field, Gaurav Khanna, and Vijay Varma, ``A Surrogate Model for Gravitational Wave Signals from Comparable- to Large-Mass-Ratio Black Hole Binaries", Phys. Rev. D 101, 081502(R) (2020). Preprint arXiv:1910.10473 [gr-qc].
• Vijay Varma, Scott E. Field, Mark A. Scheel, Jonathan Blackman, Davide Gerosa, Leo C. Stein, Lawrence E. Kidder, and Harald P. Pfeiffer, ``Surrogate models for precessing binary black hole simulations with unequal masses", Physical Review Research 1, 033015 (2019). Preprint arXiv:1905.09300 [gr-qc].
• Vijay Varma, Scott Field, Mark A Scheel, Jonathan Blackman, Lawrence E Kidder, Harald P Pfeiffer, ``Surrogate model of hybridized numerical relativity binary black hole waveforms", Phys. Rev. D 99, 064045 (2019). Preprint arXiv:1812.07865 [gr-qc].
• Michael Boyle, et al. ``The SXS Collaboration catalog of binary black hole simulations", Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 36, Number 19 (2019). Preprint arXiv:1904.04831 [gr-qc].
• Prayush Kumar, Jonathan Blackman, Scott Field, Mark Scheel, Chad Galley, Michael Boyle, Lawrence Kidder, Harald Pfeiffer, Bela Szilagyi, Saul Teukolsky, ``Constraining the parameters of GW150914 & GW170104 with numerical relativity surrogates", Physical Review D 99, 124005 (2019). Preprint arXiv:1808.08004 [gr-qc].
• Harbir Antil, Dangxing Chen, Scott E. Field. ``A Note on QR-Based Model Reduction: Algorithm, Software, and Gravitational Wave Applications," IEEE's Computing in Science & Engineering, (2018). Preprint arXiv:1805.06124 [cs.DC].
• Jeroen Meidam, Ka Wa Tsang, Janna Goldstein, Michalis Agathos, Archisman Ghosh, Carl-Johan Haster, Vivien Raymond, Anuradha Samajdar, Patricia Schmidt, Rory Smith, Kent Blackburn, Walter Del Pozzo, Scott E. Field, Tjonnie Li, Michael Pürrer, Chris Van Den Broeck, John Veitch, Salvatore Vitale. ``Parameterized tests of the strong-field dynamics of general relativity using gravitational wave signals from coalescing binary black holes: Fast likelihood calculations and sensitivity of the method", Phys. Rev. D 97, 044033 (2018). Preprint arXiv:1712.08772 [gr-qc].
• Jonathan Blackman, Scott E. Field, Mark A. Scheel, Chad R. Galley, Christian D. Ott, Michael Boyle, Lawrence E. Kidder, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Béla Szilágyi. ``A Numerical Relativity Waveform Surrogate Model for Generically Precessing Binary Black Hole Mergers". Physical Review D 96, (2017). Preprint arXiv:1705.07089 [gr-qc].
• Richard O'Shaughnessy, Jonathan Blackman, and Scott E. Field. ``An architecture for efficient multimodal gravitational wave parameter estimation with linear surrogate models." Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 34, Number 14, June 2017. Preprint arXiv:1701.01137v1 [gr-qc].
• Jonathan Blackman, Scott E. Field, Mark A. Scheel, Chad R. Galley, Daniel A. Hemberger, Patricia Schmidt, and Rory Smith. ``A Surrogate Model of Gravitational Waveforms from Numerical Relativity Simulations of Precessing Binary Black Hole Mergers." Physical Review D, Volume 95, May 2017. arXiv: 1701.00550 [gr-qc].
• Lawrence Kidder, Scott Field, Francois Foucart, Erik Schnetter, Saul Teukolsky, Andy Bohn, Nils Deppe, Peter Diener, Francois Hebert, Jonas Lippuner, Jonah Miller, Christian Ott, Mark Scheel, Trevor Vincent, ``SpECTRE: A task-based discontinuous Galerkin code for relativistic astrophysics,'' Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 335, 15 April 2017, Pages 84-114. arXiv: astro-ph.HE:1609.00098
• Christian D. Ott, Mark Scheel, Peter Diener, Philipp Mosta, Luke Roberts, David Radice, Sherwood Richers, Roland Haas, Erik Schnetter, Lawrence Kidder, Saul Teukolsky, Scott Field, and Francois Foucart. "Magnetars, black hole collisions for LIGO, and a next generation numerical relativity code." Blue Waters 2016 Annual report
• Rory Smith, Scott Field, Kent Blackburn, Carl-Johan Haster, Michael Purrer, Vivien Raymond and Patricia Schmidt. "Fast and Accurate Inference on Gravitational Waves from Precessing Compact Binaries". Physical Review D, Volume 94, August 2016. arXiv: gr-qc:1604.08253v1
• Michael Purrer, Rory Smith, Scott Field, Priscilla Canizares, Vivien Raymond, Jonathan Gair, Mark Hannam. "Accelerating Parameter Estimation of Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Binaries with Reduced Order Quadratures", Proceedings of the 14th Marcel Grossmann meeting, 2015.
• Jonathan Blackman, Scott Field, Chad Galley, Bela Szilagyi, Mark Scheel, Manuel Tiglio, Daniel Hemberger. "Fast and accurate prediction of numerical relativity waveforms from binary black hole mergers using surrogate models". Physical Review Letters, Volume 115, Issue 12, September 2015. arXiv: gr-qc:1502.07758
• Scott Field and Stephen Lau. “Fast recovery of far-field time-domain signals from near-field data” Journal of Scientific Computing, September 2015. arXiv: math.na:1409.5893
• Scott Field and Paul Huwe. ``Modern Gravitational Lens Cosmology for Introductory Physics and Astronomy Students" The Physics Teacher, Volume 53, April 2015. article
• Priscilla Canizares, Scott Field, Jonathan Gair, Vivien Raymond, Rory Smith, and Manuel Tiglio. ``Accelerated gravitational-wave parameter estimation with reduced order modeling" Physical Review Letters, Volume 114, Issue 071104, February 2015. arXiv: gr-qc:1404.6284
• Scott Field, Chad Galley, Jan Hesthaven, Jason Kaye, and Manuel Tiglio. ``Fast prediction and evaluation of gravitational waveforms using surrogate models” Physical Review X 4, 031006 2014. arXiv: gr-qc:1308.3565
• Priscilla Canizares, Scott Field, Jonathan Gair, and Manuel Tiglio. ``Gravitational wave parameter estimation with compressed likelihood evaluations" Physical Review D, Volume 87, Issue 12, June 2013. arxiv: gr-qc:1304.0462
• Harbir Antil, Scott Field, Frank Herrmann, Ricardo Nochetto and Manuel Tiglio. ``Two-step greedy algorithm for reduced order quadratures" Journal of Scientific Computing, May 2013. arxiv: cs-na:1210.0577
• Alex Benedict, Scott Field and Stephen Lau. ``Fast evaluation of asymptotic waveforms from gravitational perturbations" Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 30, Number 5, February 2013. arxiv: gr-qc:1210.1565
• Scott Field, Chad Galley and Evan Ochsner. ``Towards beating the curse of dimensionality for gravitational waves using Reduced Basis" Phyical Review D, Volume 86, Issue 8 October 2012. arxiv: gr-qc:1205.600
• David Brown, Peter Diener, Scott Field, Jan Hesthaven, Frank Herrmann, Abdul Mroue, Olivier Sarbach, Erik Schnetter, Manuel Tiglio and Michael Wagman. ``Numerical simulations with a first order BSSN formulation of Einstein's field equations" Physical Review D, Volume 85, Issue 8, April 2012. arxiv: gr-qc:1202.1038
• Sarah Caudill, Scott Field, Chad Galley, Frank Herrmann and Manuel Tiglio. ``Reduced Basis representations of multi-mode black hole ringdown gravitational waves" Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 29, Number 9, April 2012. arxiv: gr-qc:1109.5642
• Scott Field, Chad Galley, Frank Herrmann, Jan Hesthaven, Evan Ochsner and Manuel Tiglio. ``Reduced basis catalogs for gravitational wave templates" Physical Review Letters, Volume 106, Issue 22, June 2011. arxiv: gr-qc:1101.3765
• Scott Field, Jan Hesthaven, Stephen Lau and Abdul Mroue. ``Discontinuous Galerkin method for the spherically reduced BSSN system with second-order operators" Physical Review D, Volume 82, Issue 10, November 2010. arxiv: gr-qc:1008.1820
• Scott Field, Jan Hesthaven and Stephen Lau. ``Persistent junk solutions in time-domain modeling of extreme mass ratio binaries" Physical Review D, Volume 81, Issue 12, June 2010. arxiv: gr-qc:1001.2578
• Scott Field, Jan Hesthaven and Stephen Lau. ``Discontinuous Galerkin method for computing gravitational waveforms from extreme mass ratio binaries" Classical and Quantum Gravity Volume 26, Number 16, 21, August 2009. arxiv: gr-qc:0902.1287

Dissertations

• PhD dissertation Applications of Discontinuous Galerkin Methods to Computational General Relativity (2011)
• Undergraduate thesis Search for $\Xi_b$ and $\Sigma_b$ with the CDF II Detector at Fermilab (2006)

Selection of past talks:

• Tutorial: Learning high-fidelity gravitational-wave models from numerical relativity data (Workshop on Statistical Methods for the Detection, Classification, and Inference of Relativistic Objects, 11/2020) Video with [Tutorial Notebooks](https://github.com/vijayvarma392/ICERM_workshop)
• An ICERM Public Lecture: Discovering Black Holes and Gravitational Waves: Algorithms and Simulation (Brown University, 2/2019) Video
• Surrogate gravitational waveform models (Cornell, 11/2013) PDF
• Reduced order quadratures (UNM, 5/2013) PDF
• Fast, exact far-field signals from gravitational perturbations (Caltech, 5/2013) PDF
• Discontinuous Galerkin scheme for accurate modeling of (extreme mass ratio) binary black boles, exact boundary conditions and static junk solutions (GMU, 2/2013) PDF
• Numerical simulations with a first-order BSSN formulation of Einstein field equations (APS, 5/2012) PDF
• A reduced basis representation for chirp and ringdown templates (UMD, 9/2011) PDF
• A Discontinuous Galerkin Method for BSSN-Type Systems (ACCGR, 6/2011) PDF
• Greedy algorithm for building a reduced basis of gravitational wave templates (CITA, 1/2011) PDF

Most of the above talks use the latex beamer class. While there are many excellent references for beamer and other latex packages, it is sometimes nice to work from an example. In case this could be useful for anyone, here are the latex beamer files for the talk “A reduced basis representation for chirp and ringdown templates”.

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