Curriculum Vitae
A pdf version of my full CV can be found here.
Education
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Princeton University, Princeton, NJ USA
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Ph.D., Physics, September 2013
- Adviser: Professor Frans Pretorius
- M.A., Physics, January 2010
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Ph.D., Physics, September 2013
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Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
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B.S., Mathematics and Physics, June 2008
- with Honors in Physics, Conferred with Distinction
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B.S., Mathematics and Physics, June 2008
Employment
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Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON Canada
- Senior Faculty October 2023 to present
- Junior Faculty January 2018 to September 2023
- Director's Fellow September 2016 to December 2017
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Physics and Astronomy Department, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON Canada
- Adjunct Faculty January 2018 to present
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Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA USA
- Postdoctoral Fellow September 2013 to August 2016
Awards
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International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation
- Jürgen Ehlers Thesis Prize for an Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in Mathematical and Numerical Relativity, 2016
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American Physical Society
- Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics, 2015
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Princeton University
- Ray Grimm Memorial Prize in Computational Physics, 2013
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National Science Foundation
- Graduate Research Fellowship, 2008-2011
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Stanford University
- Deans' Award for Academic Accomplishment, 2008
- President's Award for Academic Excellence, 2005
Selected Publications
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See the arxiv for an up-to-date list.
- W.E. East "Cosmic censorship upheld in spheroidal collapse of collisionless matter", Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 231103 (2019)
- W.E. East and F. Pretorius "Superradiant instability and backreaction of massive vector fields around Kerr black holes", Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 041101 (2017)
- W.E. East, J. Kearney, B. Shakya, H. Yoo, and K.M. Zurek "Spacetime dynamics of a Higgs vacuum instability during inflation", Phys. Rev. D 95, 023526 (2017)
- W.E. East, M. Kleban, A. Linde, and L. Senatore "Beginning inflation in an inhomogeneous universe", JCAP 09 (2016) 010
- W.E. East, V. Paschalidis, F. Pretorius, and S.L. Shapiro "Relativistic simulations of eccentric binary neutron star mergers: One-arm spiral instability and effects of neutron star spin", Phys. Rev. D 85, 124009 (2016)
- W.E. East, J. Zrake, Y. Yuan, and R.D. Blandford "Spontaneous decay of periodic magnetostatic equilibria", Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 095002 (2015)
- W.E. East, F. Pretorius, and B.C. Stephens "Eccentric black hole-neutron star mergers: Effects of black hole spin and equation of state", Phys. Rev. D 85, 124009 (2012)