Simon Portegies Zwart
Professor of Numerical star dynamics
- Name
- Prof.dr. S.F. Portegies Zwart
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 8429
- spz@strw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5839-0302
Supercomputers help Simon Portegies Zwart to better understand the universe. 'You can't do research on the Universe in the laboratory, but you can have black holes collide with each other in a super computer.'
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This is how astronomers found out how three stars were ejected from star cluster R136 -
Dozens of massive stars launched from young star cluster R136 -
Outer solar system possibly formed by a passing star -
Motion of stars near Milky Way's central black hole is only predictable for few hundred years -
Planeetvormende schijven evolueren verrassend vergelijkbaar -
A+ for Leiden astronomy student who simulated chaotic interactions of black holes -
Leiden astronomers calculate genesis of Oort cloud in chronological order -
International astronomers come to the aid of secluded Cuban scientists -
Dutch collaboration wins HPC Innovation Excellence Award for the first time -
Face-to-face astronomy conference consumes 3000 times more CO2 than online edition -
EAS 2020 in Leiden: the largest online astronomy meeting ever
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Why turning back time is not always possible -
World news: eleven asteroids on a collision course with Earth -
Science Groot funding for Leiden scientists -
Leiden astronomers discover potential near-Earth objects
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Discovering new physics in extremely bright neutron stars -
Green light for Leiden supercomputer -
Orbiting black holes explained with super computer -
PhD prize for astronomer Adrian Hamers -
What the galaxy will look like billions of years from now -
Netherlands' smallest supercomputer -
Astronomers from Leiden write IEEE Software Impact column -
Chaotic orbit of Comet Halley explained -
Software, star clusters and supercomputers -
From ent to orc: how Tolkien recycled medieval sources -
Why fundamental science matters -
Investment Grant NWO Medium for Simon Portegies Zwart -
What happens when two galaxies collide?
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Simon Portegies Zwart obtained his PhD at Utrecht University. He held several positions at the University of Amsterdam, the University of Tokyo, Boston University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His research interests lie with Computational Gravitational Dynamics, Stellar and Binary Evolution, Galaxy Dynamics, Modeling Dense Stellar Systems, Supermassive Black Holes, Binary Population Synthesis and High-performance Computing. Portegies Zwart is part of the AMUSE (Astrophysical Multipurpose Software Environment) team. The aim of this project is to provide a software framework for astrophysical simulations in which existing codes from different domains, such as stellar dynamics, stellar evolution, hydrodynamics and radiative transfer can be easily coupled.
Professor of Numerical star dynamics
- Faculty of Science
- Leiden Observatory
- Leiden Observatory
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