 |
 |
 |
Kevin A. S. Croker / 古剛 / ケビン・クロカーDepartment of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of Hawai'i at Mānoa 2505 Correa Road, Room 404 Honolulu, HI 96822 Office: +1 (808) 956-2975 Email: kcroker(s/this/at symbol)phys.hawaii.edu |
Curriculum Vitae
Talks with Video
I'm affiliate graduate faculty at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, welcome to my webpage! My broad research interest is Einstein's theory of gravitation, General Relativity (GR). I am currently exploring the observational consequences of cosmological energy shifts within relativistic compact objects (e.g. stellar collapse remnants such as non-singular black holes and neutron stars). I frequently collaborate with Profs. Nishimura and Farrah within the Department, and Prof. Weiner within the Department of Mathematics. Feel free to contact me if you would like to know more about our team! My thesis work focused on cosmological applications of GR, in particular, the Dark Energy problem. My past work has focused on the use of numerical simulations to compare and constrain proposed extensions of GR through existing astrophysical data. I believe observation is paramount.
Education
- Ph. D. Physics 2018 University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
- M. S. Physics 2012 University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
- B. S. Computer Science 2005 Washington University in St. Louis
Research Interests
- Phenomenology of General Relativity
- Cosmology / Perturbation theory in classical gravitation
- Variational Principles
Publications and Preprints
This list is current as of October 12 2024 03:33:32 UTC. Links are to the NASA Astrophysical Data System (ADS), where you can find links to the published papers, as well as citations, references, and full bibliometric data.Recorded Talks
For a complete list of seminar talks I have given, please see my Curriculum Vitae.Invited Lecture at the 19th Appleton Space Conference, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
December 7th, 2023AAS Journal Author Series Interview with Associate Editor-in-Chief Frank Timmes
April 18th, 2023
Grants and Fellowships
- Geometrical Foundations of Gravity and Their Comparison with Observations
- Estonian Research Council: 150000 EUR, Co-PI, 2015-2018
- Fulbright U.S. Student Program Fellow
- University of Tartu (Tartu Ülikool), Estonia, 2015
- European Union Scholarship
- University of Pittsburgh, Summer Language Institutes, 2015
- Baltic Summer Studies Institute (BALSSI) Scholarship
- University of Pittsburgh, Summer Language Institutes, 2015
- NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellow
- University of Tokyo/Kavli IMPU, Japan, 2014
Course Resources
- Tutorials, Guides, and Ancillary Materials These are notes I developed long ago for introductory physics lab. The gnuplot tutorial is surprisingly heavy traffic still.
Community and Science Service
- SONY Digital Paper System - Utilities and Notes
- Aragorn Time Tracker (Android platform)
- The Megatron Daemon (Cross platform)
This site is traffic-analyzed via Google Analytics
Last updated on Sun, 13 Oct 24 10:15:07 +0000
Last updated on Sun, 13 Oct 24 10:15:07 +0000