Carlos Lousto


Carlos O. Lousto is a Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences in Rochester Institute of Technology, known for his work on black hole collisions.

Professional career

Lousto is a professor in the RIT's School of Mathematical Sciences and co-director of the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation. He holds two PhDs, one in Astronomy from the National University of La Plata, and one in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires, received in 1987 and 1992.
Carlos Lousto has an extensive research experience which ranges from observational astronomy to black hole perturbation theory and numerical relativity to string theory and quantum gravity. He has authored and co-authored over 150 papers
, including several reviews and book chapters. His research is funded by NSF and NASA grants and supercomputing allocations in national labs.
Lousto is a key author of the breakthrough on binary black hole simulations and his research discovered that supermassive black holes can be ejected from most galaxies at speeds of up to 5000 km/s. He recently performed challenging simulations of small mass ratio black hole binaries up to 100:1 and at separations up to 100M and for flip-flopping black holes.
Lousto has designed the Funes, NewHorizon, BlueSky, and GreenPrairies supercomputer clusters to perform binary black hole simulations and used them to support the first detection of gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes.

Distinctions

In 1991, Carlos Lousto was honored with an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship.
In and in his research was acknowledged in the US congressional records.
In 2012, Carlos Lousto was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society .
2016 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics .
2019 Edward A. Bouchet Award Recipient .

Selected bibliography

Highlights per year:
1997 Exact self-consistent solution to semiclassical gravity. Published in
2000 First explicit computation of Self-Force. Published in
2001 First waveform of BBHs with Lazarus. Published in
2005 Breakthrough in Numerical Relativity for evolving BBHs. Published in
2006 The hangup effect in BBHs. Published in
2007 The large recoils in BBHs. Published in . Published in
2010 Evolution of 100:1 mass ratio black hole binaries. Published in
2011 The 5000 km/s recoils. Published in
2015 Flip-Flops. Published in
2016 Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger. Published in