Luis Lehner

Research Interests

Understanding gravity in strong/highly dynamical regimes. In
particular study of systems able to produce strong gravitational
and electromagnetic signals.
Understanding gravitating systems in higher dimensional scenarios.
Explorations of AdS/CFT in dynamical settings (quantum quenches and gravity/fluid correspondence)
Understanding of bubble collisions in non-linear regimes.

Positions Held

• 2012-present. Department of Physics. University of Guelph. Associate Professor of Physics
• 2011-present. Department of Physics. University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Adjunct Professor of Physics.
• 2009- present. Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University. Adjunct Professor of Physics.
• 2009 - 2012. Department of Physics. University of Guelph. Associate Professor of Physics.
• 2009 - present. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Associate Faculty.
• 2009 - present. Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Fellow.
• 2006-2009. Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University. Associate Professor of Physics.
• 2002-2006 Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University. Assistant Professor of Physics.

Awards

• American Physical Society Fellow
• Kavli-National Academy of Sciences Fellow.
• LSU Rainmaker award. Louisiana State University.
• Top 40 under 40. Baton Rouge Business Report.
• Institute of Physics Fellow, UK.
• Phi-Kappa-Phi Non-tenured Faculty Award in Natural Sciences, Louisiana State University,
• Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, Sloan Foundation.
• Nicholas Metropolis Award, American Physical Society.

Recent Publications

• Thermal quenches in N=2* plasmas. Alex Buchel, Luis Lehner, Robert C. Myers. arxiv: 1206.6785
• Collisions of charged black holes. M. Zilhaow, V. Cardoso, C. Herdeiro, L. Lehner, U. Spehake. Phys.Rev. D85 (2012) 124062
• NR/HEP: roadmap for the future. V. Cardoso, et.al. arxiv: 1201.5118
• Determining the outcome of cosmic bubble collisions in full General Relativity. M. Johnson, H. Peiris, L. Lehner, Phys.Rev. D85 (2012) 083516
• Intense Electromagnetic Outbursts from Collapsing Hypermassive Neutron Stars. L. Lehner, C. Palenzuela, S. Liebling, C. Thompson, C. Hanna. arxiv: 1112.2622
• Final State of Gregory-Laflamme Instability. L. Lehner and F. Pretorius. arxiv: 1106.5184
• Robustness of the Blandford-Znajek mechanism. C. Palenzuela, C. Bona, L. Lehner, O. Reula, Class.Quant.Grav. 28 (2011) 134007.
• Boosting jet power in black hole spacetimes. D. Neilsen, L. Lehner, C. Palenzuela, E. Hirschmann, S. Liebling, P. Motl and T. Garret, Proc.Nat.Acad.Sci. 108 (2011) 12641-12646
• Evolutions of Magnetized and Rotating Neutron Stars. S. Liebling, L. Lehner, D. Neilsen and C. Palenzuela. Phys.Rev. D81 (2010) 124023
• Mergers of Magnetized Neutron Stars with Spinning Black Holes: Disruption, Accretion and Fallback. S. Chawla et. al. Phys.Rev.Lett. 105 (2010) 111101.
• Black Strings, Low Viscosity Fluids, and Violation of Cosmic Censorship. L. Lehner and F. Pretorius, Phys.Rev.Lett. 105 (2010) 101102.
• A generalized advection formalism for relativistic fluid simulations. J. Call, J. Tohline and L. Lehner. Class.Quant.Grav. 27 (2010) 175002
• Dual Jets from Binary Black Holes. C. Palenzuela, L. Lehner and S. Liebling. Science 329 (2010) 927.
• Vacuum Electromagnetic Counterparts of Binary Black-Hole Mergers. P. Moesta et al. Phys.Rev. D81 (2010) 064017
• Understanding possible electromagnetic counterparts to loud gravitational wave events: Binary black hole effects on electromagnetic fields. C. Palenzuela, L. Lehner and S. Yoshida. Phys.Rev. D81 (2010) 084007.
• Post-merger electromagnetic emissions from disks perturbed by binary black holes. M. Anderson, L. Lehner, M. Megevand and D. Neilsen. Phys.Rev. D81 (2010) 044004
• Perturbed disks get shocked. M. Megevand et. al. Phys.Rev. D80 (2009) 024012.
• Stirring, not shaking: binary black holes' effects on electromagnetic fields. C. Palenzuela. et.al. Phys.Rev.Lett. 103 (2009) 081101.
• Beyond ideal MHD: towards a more realistic modeling of relativistic astrophysical plasmas. C. Palenzuela, L. Lehner, O Reula and L. Rezzolla. Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 394 (2009) 1727-1740
• On computations of angular momentum and its flux in numerical relativity. E. Gallo, L. Lehner and O. Moreschi. Class.Quant.Grav. 26 (2009) 048002
• Estimating total momentum at finite distances. E. Gallo, L. Lehner and O. Moreschi. Phys.Rev. D78 (2008) 084027.
• Magnetized Neutron Star Mergers and Gravitational Wave Signals. M. Anderson et al Phys.Rev.Lett. 100 (2008) 191101
• Collisions of charged black holes, Miguel Zilhão, Vitor Cardoso, Carlos Herdeiro, Luis Lehner, Ulrich Sperhake, arxiv: 1205.1063
• NR/HEP: roadmap for the future, Vitor Cardoso, Leonardo Gualtieri, Carlos Herdeiro, Ulrich Sperhake, Paul M. Chesler, Luis Lehner, Seong Chan Park, Harvey S. Reall, Carlos F. Sopuerta, Daniela Alic, Oscar J. C. Dias, Roberto Emparan, Valeria Ferrari, Steven B. Giddings, Mahdi Godazgar, Ruth Gregory, Veronika E. Hubeny, Akihiro Ishibashi, Greg Landsberg, Carlos O. Lousto, David Mateos, Vicki Moeller, Hirotada Okawa, Paolo Pani, M. Andy Parker, Frans Pretorius, Masaru Shibata, Hajime Sotani, Toby Wiseman, Helvi Witek, Nicolas Yunes, Miguel Zilhao, arxiv: 1201.5118
• Determining the outcome of cosmic bubble collisions in full General Relativity, Matthew C. Johnson, Hiranya V. Peiris, Luis Lehner, arxiv: 1112.4487
• Intense Electromagnetic Outbursts from Collapsing Hypermassive Neutron Stars, Luis Lehner, Carlos Palenzuela, Steven L. Liebling, Christopher Thompson, Chad Hanna, arxiv: 1112.2622
• Final State of Gregory-Laflamme Instability, Luis Lehner, Frans Pretorius, arxiv:gr-qc/arxiv: 1106
• Final State of Gregory-Laflamme Instability, Luis Lehner, Frans Pretorius, arxiv: 1106.5184
• Boosting jet power in black hole spacetimes, David Neilsen, Luis Lehner, Carlos Palenzuela, Eric W. Hirschmann, Steven L. Liebling, Patrick M. Motl, T. Garret, arxiv:astro-ph.HE/arxiv: 1012
• Magnetospheres of Black Hole Systems in Force-Free Plasma, Carlos Palenzuela, Travis Garrett, Luis Lehner, Steven L.Liebling, arxiv: 1007.1198
• Black Strings, Low Viscosity Fluids, and Violation of Cosmic Censorship, Luis Lehner, Frans Pretorius, arxiv: 1006.5960
• Mergers of Magnetized Neutron Stars with Spinning Black Holes: Disruption, Accretion and Fallback, Sarvnipun Chawla, Matthew Anderson, Michael Besselman, Luis Lehner, Steven L. Liebling, Patrick M. Motl, David Neilsen, arxiv: 1006.2839
• Mergers of Magnetized Neutron Stars with Spinning Black Holes: Disruption, Accretion and Fallback Authors: Sarvnipun Chawla, Matthew Anderson, Michael Besselman, Luis Lehner, Steven L. Liebling, Patrick M. Motl, David Neilsen . arxiv: 1006.2839
• Dual Jets from Binary Black Holes, Carlos Palenzuela, Luis Lehner, Steven L. Liebling, arxiv: 1005.1067
• Evolutions of Magnetized and Rotating Neutron Stars, Steven L. Liebling, Luis Lehner, David Neilsen, Carlos Palenzuela, arxiv: 1001.0575
• Vacuum Electromagnetic Counterparts of Binary Black-Hole Mergers, Philipp MÃ
• Understanding possible electromagnetic counterparts to loud gravitational wave events: Binary black hole effects on electromagnetic fields, Carlos Palenzuela, Luis Lehner, Shin Yoshida, arxiv: 0911.3889
• Post-merger electromagnetic emissions from disks perturbed by binary black holes, Matthew Anderson, Luis Lehner, Miguel Megevand, David Neilsen, arxiv: 0910.4969

Seminars

• "Gravitational waves and astrophysics" Invited talk at "Gravitational Waves at South Africa" Pretoria. May 1st. 2012.
• "Towards electromagnetic counterparts to loud gravitational events: facts, fictions and possible surprises" Invited talk at "Connecting the Electromagnetic and Gravitational Wave Skies in the Era of Advanced LIGO" Princeton Center for Theoretical Sciences, Princeton (April 30th 2012-May 4th 2012)
• "Higher dimensional gravity and black holes" Invited focused talk at 2012 April APS meeting. Atlanta, Ga.
• "Black holes & membranes: observables & surprises?" Invited talk at "The State of the Universe" (meeting celebrating Hawking's 70th birthday), Jan 5th-8th 2012.
• "Electromagnetic counterparts to loud gravitational events" Invited talk at "ICGC Conference", Goa, India, December 2011.
• Final fate of black strings, Numerical Relativity Beyond Astrophysics, ICMS, Eddinburgh, Scotland
• High powered jets from black hole spacetimes, HEPRO III,Barcelona, Spain,
• "Black holes and membranes: From astrophysics to cosmic censorship violation" Grav 11 Conference, Cordoba, Argentina.
• Black holes and membranes: From astrophysics to cosmic censorship violation, BHVIII, Niagara Falls, Canada,
• "High powered jets from black hole spacetimes" Invited talk at "Shining light on Black Holes Workshop", IPMU, Japan. (February 2011)
• Gravitational waves, adding the score to a beautiful movie Mc Gill University, Montreal, Qc.
• "Membranas por todas partes". Seminar at the National University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina.
• "Electromagnetic counterparts to loud gravitational wave events" Invited talk at the 8th Lisa Simposym. Sanford, Ca. (June 2010)
• "Membranas por todas partes". Colloquim at the University of Michoacan, Morelia. Mexico.
• "Towards electromagnetic counterparts from compact binary systems". Talk at Rochester Institute of Technology.
• "Electromagnetic counterparts in binary systems". Talk at the 2010 CIFAR Cosmology and Gravity meeting. Lake Louise, Alberta.
• "Magnetic fields through an unorthodox road", invited talk at Computational Relativistic Astrophysics Conference. Princeton Center for Theoretical Physics. Princeton, NJ. (January 2010)
• "Compact binary systems as engines of light: gravity meets electromagnetic fields", invited talk at Computational Relativistic Astrophysics Conference. Princeton Center for Theoretical Physics. Princeton, NJ. (October 2009)
• "Black hole binaries as inducers of light." Invited talk at "Shining light on Black Holes Workshop", University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. (September 2009)