Optics Building
Room 201 B
Huntsville AL 35899
Tel: 256-824-2483
Lior Burko
Assistant Professor
Research Areas
Gravitational Physics and astrophysics
Black hole physics
Gravitational wave physics and astronomy
Physics education
Education
BA, 1992, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
MSc, 1995, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
PhD, 1999, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Employment
August 2005-Present: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, UAHuntsville
August 2004-July 2005: Assistant Professor, Bates College
July 2003-August 2004: Research Assistant Professor, University of Utah
September 2001-July 2003: Research Associate, University of Utah
January 2000-June 2000: Lecturer, University of Southern California
January 1999-September 2001: Research Scholar, California Institute of Technology
Current Graduate Students
Manish Jadhav
Selected Papers
Burko L.M. and Khanna, G., Accurate time-domain gravitational waveforms for extreme-mass-ratio binaries, EuroPhysics Letters 78, 6005 (2007)
Burko, L.M., Multipole structure and coordinate systems, European Journal of Physics 28, 593-602 (2007)
Burko, L.M., Towards a wave-extraction method for numerical relativity. V. Estimating the gravitational-wave content of spatial hypersurfaces, Physical Review D 74, 028501 (2007)
Burko, L.M. and Price, R.H., Ballistic trajectories: parabola, ellipse, or what?, American Journal of Physics 73, 516-520 (2005)
Burko, L.M., Black hole singularities: a new critical phenomenon, Physical Review Letters 90, 121101 (2003)
Beetle, C. and Burko, L.M, A radiation scalar for numerical relativity, Physical Review Letters 89, 271101 (2002)
Burko, L.M., Harte, A.I., and Poisson, E., Mass loss by a scalar charge in an expanding universe, Physical Review D 65, 124006 (2002)
Burko, L.M., and Liu Y.T., Self force on a scalar charge in the spacetime of a stationary, axisymmetric black hole, Physical Review D 64, 024006 (2001)
Barack, L. and Burko, L.M., Radiation-reaction force on a particle plunging into a black hole, Physical Review D 62, 084040 (2000)
Burko, L.M., Structure of the black hole's Cauchy horizon singularity, Physical Review Letters 79, 4958-4961 (1997)
Burko, L.M., and Ori, A., Are physical objects necessarily burnt up by the blue sheet inside a black hole?, Physical Review Letters 74, 1064-1066 (1995)