BLAKE   TEMPLE

Professor
Department of Mathematics
UC-Davis

Contact Information

Dept. Address:	Department of Mathematics University of California One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616-8633 Dept Fax: (530) 752-6635
Office:	3148 Mathematical Sciences Building
Phone Number:	(530) 752-2214 (office)
E-mail:	temple@math.ucdavis.edu
Faculty Profile:	http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/research/profiles/temple

Recent Research Articles/Books

• General Relativistic Self-Similar Waves that induce an Anomalous Acceleration into the Standard Model of Cosmology
  Preprint, March 23, 2010
  

• A one parameter family of expanding wave solutions of the Einstein equations that induces an anomalous acceleration into the Standard Model of Cosmology
  PNAS, August 25, 2009
  http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

• Answers to Questions posed by Reporters:
  PNAS August 17, 2009

• Simulation of general relativistic shock wave interactions by a locally inertial godunov method featuring dynamical time dilation
  Preprint

• Points of general relativistic shock wave interaction are ``regularity singularities'' where spacetime is not locally flat
  Preprint

• The Formation of a Regularity Singularity in General Relativity at the level of shock wave interactions
  Moritz Reintjes, Doctoral Dissertation, September 2011

• The Numerical Simulation of General Relativistic Shock Waves by a Locally Inertial Godunov Method Featuring Dynamical Time Dilation
  Zeke Vogler, Doctoral Dissertation, March 2010

• Global Solutions to the Ultra-Relativistic Euler Equations
  Brian Wissman, CMP July 2011

• A Paradigm for time-periodic sound wave propagation in the Compressible Euler Equations
  Meth Appl Anal, September, 2009

• Time-periodic Linearized solutions of the Compressible Euler Equations and a problem of small divisors
  SIAM Jour Math Anal, 2011

• A Liapunov-Schmidt reduction for time-periodic solutions of the Compressible Euler Equations
  Meth Appl Anal, (to appear)

• Linear waves that express the simplest possible periodic structure of the compressible Euler equations
  Acta Mathematica Scientia, (Special Issue J. Glimm), 2009

• Shock-Wave Interactions in General Relativity
  Springer Lecture Notes 2007

Visualization/Media Articles

• News Articles-GR Expandng Wave 2009

• News Articles-Shock Wave Cosmology 2003

• Shock-Wave Cosmology Visualization

Conference/Seminar Talks

• A One Parameter Family of Expanding Wave Solutions of the Einstein Equations that Induces an Anomalous Acceleration into the Standard Model of Cosmology,
  Regensburg Germany, September 2010 (Conference on Quantum Gravity), University of Wyoming, June 2010 (Workshop on Conservation Laws); Invited Lectures 08-10: Geometry Seminar Stanford, Applied Math Colloquiums at Cal Tech, Penn State, Naval Post-Graduate School Monterey, Academia Sinica, Central University and National Taiwan University in Taiwan; Croucher Lab Seminar at University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong; Applied Math Seminars at UC-Berkeley, Konstanz University in Germany, and UC-Davis; Conference talks at KTH Sweden and at SIAM in Miami.

• Numerical Simulation of GR Shock Waves by a Locally Inertial Godunov Method with Dynamic Time Dilation, University of Wyoming, June 2010, (Workshop on Conservation Laws); Philadephia, August 2010 (SIAM Special Session on Numerical Relativity); Konstanz University, Germany October 2010 (Applied Math Seminar)
  

• Periodic Solutions of the Compressible Euler Equations, Gehring Professor, University of Michigan
  Fall 2007 (2 seminar talks)

• Periodic Solutions of the Compressible Euler Equations, Gehring Professor, University of Michigan
  Fall 2007 (Colloquium)

• Numerical Shock-Wave Cosmology,
  New Orleans, January 2007

• Shock-Wave Cosmology - Inside a Black Hole,
  Academy Public Lecture, Indian National Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, January 2006

• Locally Inertial Glimm Scheme for General Relativity,
  Plenary Talk, Stonybrook, July 2004

• Introduction to Shock-Waves and General Relativity,
  Three Lectures, Cambridge University, July 2003

Undergraduate Research

• Stability Results in the Theory of Relativistic Stars
  by Assad Lodia (Senior)
  Research Supported by NSF, Summer 2011

• Why the curvature tensor needs 20 independent components
  by David Melgin (Senior)
  Research Supported by NSF Summer 2011

• Adding Lagrange Multipliers to the Schwarzschild Geometry
  by David Melgin (Senior)
  Research Supported by NSF Summer 2011

• The p-system
  by Shane Austin (Freshman)
  Research Supported by NSF Summer 2011

• The Starting Theory Behind Playing Jazz Piano

Course Links

• Course Website for MAT 16A

• Course Website for MAT 21D

• Course Website for MAT 22C

• Course Website for MAT 25

• Course Website for MAT 116

• Course Website for MAT 119A

• Course Website for MAT 167

  Course Website for MAT 280 Shock-Waves

  Course Website for MAT 280 Introduction to Differential Geometry & General Relativity