Maurice H.P.M. van Putten

		Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1992 mvp@ligo.mit.edu Qualifie Professeur des universites, 29-Constituants elementaires, France (09129197780)

Most recent talks and projects
Alleviating tension in LambdaCDM with the local distance ladder from first principles with no free parameters (AAS234 June 12 2019)
Alleviating LambdaCDM tension in Pantheon in late time cosmology (March 18 2019)
Observational evidence for Extended Emission to GW170817: calorimetric evidence for a Kerr black hole following delayed core-collapse of a HNS, Aspen Winter Conf. Astrophys. Grav.-Wave Pop., 2019, Feb 9-15

Recent invited talks
H0 tension: shimmer of an unstable de Sitter cosmology? (APCTP H0 tension and the Swampland: theory confronts reality, Dec 2018, Postech)
Observational Evidence for Extended Emission to GW170817 (ITP, CAS, 2018; SIGRAV 2018, Italy)
Evidence for galaxy dynamics tracing cosmological evolution (AAS231 Jan 11 2018)
Deep searches for broadband extended emission in gravitational waves in nearby energetic core-collapse supernovae (LIGO-Caltech, Jan 5 2018)
Studium Generale Lecture on Physics Nobel Prize 2017 (UT, Enschede, 2017)
Some new directions in cosmology and astrophysics (OIST, Okinawa 2017)
Gravitation: general relativity and beyond (Caltech 2015)
Broadband detection algorithm for LIGO-Virgo and KAGRA searches of long GW bursts in energetic CC-supernovae (MG14, 2015)
Dynamical dark energy in cosmological holography (KNU, 2015)

Research focus
On the nature of the cosmological vacuum: evanescent dark energy and dark matter with implications for tension-free estimates of H0. High-frequency broadband multimessenger searches for gravitational radiation from energetic core-collapse supernovae by GPU-accelerated butterfly filtering. On the origin of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) from intermittent Alfven fronts from supermassive black holes in Seyfert galaxies; Hyperbolic formulations of general relativity; Experimental fluid dynamics.

Some recent lectures

Lectures on Introduction to Modern Cosmology (Spring 2020, online)
The Expanding Universe
Relativistic astrophysics of the transient universe
Relativity and Gravitation (Syllabus)
Lectures on General Physics I (Spring 2020, online)
Lectures on General Physics II

Present and former Collaborators
Lorenzo Amati, Cristiano Guidorzi, Filippo Frontera, Gyeong Min Lee, Massimo Della Valle, Alok C. Gupta, Nobuyuki Kanda, Amir Levinson, Fujimoto Masa-Katsu, Eve C. Ostriker, Abi Sarkar, Tania Regimbau (former postdoc), Hideyuki Tagasho, Daisuke Tatsumi, Hyung Kyu Lee

Research Highlights
Gravitational waves from a merged hyper-massive neutron star (Royal Astronomical Society, Nov 14 2018; MNRAS 482, L46)
Dark energy and dark matter from entanglement with the cosmological horizon: ApJ 848 28 (2017), MNRAS 481, L26
Pair condensates produced in bosenovae (Phys. Lett. A, 2010)
Linear asymptotic behavior in heat transfer at micro-Kelvin resolution in a modulated Rayleigh-Benard chambers (PRS London A, 2007, CTEP/CDFA#5554-8)

Membership, Public Outreach
2014-Associate Editor, J. Korean Astronomical Society
2011-Member of KAGRA (formerly the Large Cryogenic Gravitational-wave Telescope, LCGT)
2009-Member of US National Working Group (USNWG/NIST) on H2
2009-Advisory Report to La Region Centre, France (ISBN 978-90-9023939-2)
2008-Advisory to NTEP/NCWM
2008-Advisory Report to the Dutch Government on energy legislation (ISBN 978-90-9022005-5)
2008-Testimony at a Congressional Hearing in The Hague on energy legislation

Some recent publications

Collaborations

Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-wave Transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA, 2017, LIGO-Virgo and KAGRA Collaborations: Abbott, B.P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T.D., Abernernaathy, M.R., Acernese, F., et al., arXiv:1304.0670v4
THESEUS: a key space mission for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics, THESEUS Collaboration: Stratta, G., Amati, L., Ghirlanda, G., Tanvir, N., Bozzo, E., et al., 2017, arXiv:1712.08153
Construction of KAGRA: an underground gravitational-wave observatory, KAGRA Collaboration: Akutsu, T., Ando, M., Araki, S., Araya, A., Arima, T., et al., 2018, PTEP, 013F01

Gravitational-waves and Cosmology

Observational evidence for Extended Emission to GW170817, van Putten, Maurice H.P.M., and Della Valle, Massimo, 2018, MNRAS, 482, L47
Self-similar galaxy dynamics below the de Sitter scale of acceleration, 2018, MNRAS, 481, L26
Accelerated cosmological expansion without tension in the Hubble parameter: Fast Evolution of the Hubble parameter H(z), 2018, EPJ Web Conf, 168, 08005
Evidence for Galaxy Dynamics Tracing Background Cosmology below the de Sitter Scale of Acceleration, 2017, ApJ, 848, 28
Deep searches for broadband extended gravitational-wave emission bursts by heterogeneous computing, 2017, PTEP, 093F01
Scaling in global tidal dissipation in the Earth-Moon system, 2017, NewA, 54, 115
Galaxy rotation curves and the deceleration parameter in weak gravity (Brief Review), 2017, MPLA, 32, 17230019
Anomalous Galactic Dynamics by Collusion of Rindler and Cosmological Horizons, 2017, ApJ, 837, 22
On extreme transient events from rotating black holes and their gravitational wave emission, van Putten, Maurice H.P.M. and Della Valle, Massimo, 2016, MNRAS, 464, 3219
On the origin of exponential growth in induced earthquakes in Groningen, van Putten, Maurice H.P.M., van Putten, Anton, F.P., and van Putten, Michel J.A.M., 2016, Earthquakes and Structures, 11, 861
Gauge dependence and self-force from Galilean to Einsteinian free fall, compact stars falling into black holes, Hawking radiation and the Pisa tower at th general relativity centenial, Spallicci, Alessandro D.A.M. and van Putten, Maurice H.P.M., 2016, IJGMM, 1330014
A new estimator of the deceleration parameter from galaxy rotation curves, 2016, ApJ, 824, 43
Directed searches for broadband extended gravitational wave emission in nearby energetic core-collapse supernovae, 2016, ApJ, 819, 169
Broadband extended emission in gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae, Amir Levinson, Maurice H.P.M. van Putten & Guy Pick, 2015, ApJ, to appear
Near-exremal black holes as initial conditions of long GRB supernovae and probes of their gravitational wave emission, 2015, ApJ, 810, 7
Proposed searches for candidate sources of gravitational waves in a nearby core-collapse supernova survey, Jeong-Eun Heo, Soyoung Yoon, Dae-Sub Lee, In-Taek Kong, Sang-Hoon Lee, Maurice H.P.M. van Putten & Massimo Della Valle, 2016, NewA, 42, 24
Accelerated expansion from cosmological holography, 2015, MNRAS Lett., 450, L48
A holographic bound on the total number of computations in the visible universe, 2015, IJMP-D, 4, 1550024
Extreme luminosities in ejecta by intermittent outflows around rotating black holes, 2015, MNRAS Lett., MNRAS, 447, L11
On the origin of short GRBs with extended emission and long GRBs without associated SN, Maurice H.P.M. van Putten, Gyeong Min Lee, Massimo Della Valle, Lorenzo Amati & Amir Levinson, 2014, MNRAS Lett., 444, L58
Broadband turbulent spctra in gamma-ray burst light curves, Maurice H.P.M. van Putten, Cristiano Guidorzi & Filippo Frontera, 2014, ApJ, 786, 146
Asymptotic harmonic behavior in the prime number distribution, 2014, Applied Mathematics, 5, 2547
Search for gravitational waves from supernovae and long GRBs, 2013, Acta Polytechnica, 53 (Suppl.), 736
Entropic force between black holes and its Newtonian limits, 2012, Phys. Rev. D, 85, 064046
Discovery of black hole spindown in the BATSE catalogue of long GRBs, 2012, Prog. Theor. Phys., 127(2), 331
Relaxation-limited evaporation of globular clusters, 2012, NewA, 17, 411
Prospects for true calorimetry on Kerr black holes in core-collapse supernovae and mergers, Maurice H.P.M. van Putten, Nobuyuki Kanda, Hideyuki Tagasho, Daisuke Tatsumi, Fujimoto Masa-Katsu, and Massimo Della Valla, 2011, Phys. Rev. D, 83, 044046
Pair condensates produced in bosenovae, 2010, Phys. Lett. A., 374, 3376
Extended black hole cosmologies in de Sitter space, 2010, Class. Quant. Grav., 27, 075011
On the origin of long gamma-ray bursts, 2009, MNRAS Lett., 396, L81
Nonthermal transient sources from rotating black holes, 2009, MNRAS, 394, 2238 (with Alok C. Gupta)
Gravitational-wave forms from Kerr black holes interacting with high-density matter, 2008, Astroph. J. Lett., 685, L63
Non-thermal emissions from black holes by a relativistic capillary effect, 2008, Astroph. J. Lett., 684, L91
Detecting energy emissions from a rotating black hole cover of Science(2002) (with A. Levinson)
Global spectral representations of black holes in the complex plane cover of the Proc. Nat. Acad. Sc. (2006)
Discovery of linear asymptotic behavior at micro-Kelvin resolution in a modulated Rayleigh-Benard chamber Proc. Roy. Soc. London A (2007) ( US Pat. 7,246,519 (2007), Approved by the State of California (2008))
Superradiance in a torus magnetosphere around a black hole Science(1999);

Books
van Putten, M.H.P.M., 2017, Introduction to Methods of Approximation in Physics and Astronomy, Springer Nature, ISBN: 978-981-10-2931-8
van Putten, M.H.P.M. and Levison A., 2012, Relativistic Astrophysics of the Transient Universe, Cambridge University Press, with a foreword by Prof. Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel Laureate Physics 1999)
van Putten, M.H.P.M., 2005, Gravitational Radiation, Luminous Black Holes and Gamma-ray Burst Supernovae ,Cambridge University Press, with a foreword by Prof. Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel Laureate Physics 1999)

Fall 2012-
faculty member, Astronomy and Space Science, Sejong University, Seoul
Fall 2008
Invited 2008-2009 Studium Chair d'Astrophysique position at the University of Orleans, France

Press

Book Review (2007)
MIT Press Release (2002)
MIT/NASA Press Release (2003)
Honouring Roy Kerr, TV3 New Zealand Evening News (August 2004), Interview

Software
ISCO waves, van Putten, M.H.P.M., 2002, ApJ, 575, L71

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