Professional Appointments

• Agnew H. Bahnson, Jr. Professor of Physics, 2015 -- present
•     Associate Department Chair, 2006-2009, 2012-2017
•     Director of Graduate Studies, 2006-2009
• Visiting Full Professor, University College Dublin, 2023-2028
• Professor, UNC-CH, 1999-2015
• Associate Professor, UNC-CH, 1994-1999
• Assistant Professor, UNC-CH, 1989-1994
• Research Associate, California Institute of Technology, 1986-1989
• Research Associate, University of Illinois, 1984-1986

Awards and Honors

• Visiting Full Professor, University College Dublin, 2023-2028
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2017
• Agnew H. Bahnson, Jr. Distinguished Professor, 2015
• Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction, 2014
• Senior Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, 2013
• Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Award, 1994
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1991
• Presidential Young Investigator, 1990
• Associated Western Universities Graduate Fellow, 1982

Education

• Ph.D. - University of Texas at Austin, 1984 (Physics)
• B.A. - Vanderbilt University, 1976 (Physics and Mathematics)

Lecture Courses

• Phys 631 - Mathematical Methods of Theoretical Physics
• Phys 701 - Classical Dynamics
• Phys 712 - Classical Electrodynamics
• Phys 832 - General Relativity
• Phys 193 - Scientific Computation (Replaced by Phys 331)
• Astr 702 - High-Energy Astrophysics
• Astr 031 - Descriptive Astronomy (Replaced by Astr 101 and 102)
• Astr 102 - Introduction to Astronomy: Stars, Galaxies & Cosmology

Present PhD Thesis Student(s)

• Jezreel Castillo, PhD expected 2025

Recent PhD Students

• Nishita Jadoo, PhD 2023 (Co-advised by J.D. Brown and C.R. Evans)
•     Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Idaho, 2023-
• Reece Boston, PhD 2022
•     Scientific Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2023-
•     Postdoctoral Researcher, UNC, 2022
• Chris Munna, PhD 2020
•     Research Scientist, Strong Analytics, Inc, 2023-
•     Postdoctoral Research Associate, MIT, 2021
• Zach Nasipak, PhD 2020
•     NASA NPP Postdoctoral Program Fellow, Goddard SFC, 2021-
•     Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University, Fall 2020
• Kyle Slinker, PhD 2017
•     Physics Instructor, North Carolina School of Science and Math, 2017-
• Erik Forseth, PhD 2016
•     Quant. Research Analyst, Graham Capital Management, L.P., 2016-
• Thomas Osburn, PhD 2016
•     Associate Professor, SUNY Geneseo, 2019-
•     Assistant Professor, Oxford College of Emory University, 2016-2019
• Roseanne Cheng, PhD 2012
•     Staff Scientist, T3 Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2019-
•     Nicholas C. Metropolis Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2017-2019
•     Postdoctoral Research Associate, Johns Hopkins, 2014-2017
•     Postdoctoral Research Associate, Georgia Tech, 2012-2014
• Seth Hopper, PhD 2011
•     Assistant Professor, Earlham College, 2017-
•     Postdoc Res Assoc, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, 2015-2017
•     Postdoc Res Assoc, University College Dublin, 2014-2015
•     Postdoc Res Assoc, Max Planck, Albert Einstein Institute, 2011-2014
• Michael Good, PhD 2011
•     Associate Professor, Nazarbayev University, 2014-
•     Postdoc Res Assoc, Nanyang Technological Univ, Singapore, 2011-2014
• Valery Tenyotkin, PhD 2009
•     Software engineer, San Francisco Bay Area, 2009-
• Travis Garrett, PhD 2007
•     Staff Physicist, Air Force Research Laboratory, Albuquerque, 2023-
•     Staff Physicist, Stellar Science, Inc., Albuquerque, 2011-2023
•     Postdoc Res Assoc, Perimeter Institute, 2009-2011
•     Postdoc Res Assoc, LSU, 2007-2009
• Mark Hannam, PhD 2003 (Co-advised by G. Cook and C. Evans)
•     Professor, Cardiff University, 2015-
•     STFC Advanced Fellow: Cardiff University, 2010-2015
• Brian Brill, PhD 2001
•     Ab Initio Software, 2001-

Research Interests

• Gravitational physics & relativistic astrophysics
• Self-force, gravitational waves, and binary black hole inspirals
• Tidal disruption of stars by massive black holes
• Numerical relativity, critical phenomena in gravitational collapse
• Pulsars and compact binary systems
• Computational fluid dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics

Recent Publications

• Determination of new coefficients in the angular momentum and energy fluxes at infinity to 9PN for eccentric Schwarzschild extreme-mass-ratio inspirals using mode-by-mode fitting, Munna, C., Evans, C.R., Hopper, S., and Forseth, E., Physical Review D102, 024047 (2020), arXiv:2005.03044


• Eccentric-orbit EMRI radiation: Analytic forms of leading-logarithm and subleading-logarithm flux terms at high PN orders, Munna, C. and Evans, C.R., Physical Review D100, 104060 (2019)


• Repeated faint quasinormal bursts in extreme-mass-ratio inspiral waveforms: Evidence from frequency-domain scalar self-force calculations on generic Kerr orbits, Nasipak, Z., Osburn, T., and Evans, C.R., Physical Review D100, 064008 (2019)


• Evolution of small-mass-ratio binaries with a spinning secondary, Warburton, N., Osburn, T., and Evans, C.R., Physical Review D96, 084057 (2017)


• Eccentric-orbit extreme-mass-ratio inspiral gravitational wave energy fluxes to 7PN order, Forseth, E., Evans, C. R., and Hopper, S., Physical Review D93, 064058 (2016)


• Highly eccentric inspirals into a black hole, Osburn, T., Warburton, N., and Evans, C. R., Physical Review D93, 064024 (2016)


• Fast spectral source integration in black hole perturbation calculations, Hopper, S., Forseth, E., Osburn, T., and Evans, C. R., Physical Review D92, 044048 (2015)


• Lorenz gauge gravitational self-force calculations of eccentric binaries using a frequency domain procedure, Osburn, T., Forseth, E., Evans, C. R., and Hopper, S., Physical Review D90, 104031 (2014)


• Relativistic effects in the tidal interaction between a white dwarf and a massive black hole in Fermi normal coordinates, Cheng, R. M. and Evans, C. R., Physical Review D87, 104010 (2013)


• Metric perturbations from eccentric orbits on a Schwarzschild black hole. I. Odd-parity Regge-Wheeler to Lorenz gauge transformation and two new methods to circumvent the Gibbs phenomenon, Hopper, S. and Evans, C. R., Physical Review D87, 064008 (2013)


• Gravitational perturbations and metric reconstruction: Method of extended homogeneous solutions applied to eccentric orbits on a Schwarzschild black hole, Hopper, S. and Evans, C. R., Physical Review D82, 084010 (2010)

Selected Publications

• Simulation of Magnetohydrodynamic Flows: A Constrained Transport Method, Evans, C. R. and Hawley, J. F., Astrophysical Journal, 332, 659 (1988)


• The Tidal Disruption of a Star by a Massive Black Hole, Evans, C. R. and Kochanek, C. S., Astrophysical Journal Letters, 346, L13 (1989)


• Critical Phenomena and Self-Similarity in the Gravitational Collapse of Radiation Fluid, Evans, C. R. and Coleman, J., Physical Review Letters, 72, 1782 (1994)


• Critical Behavior and Scaling in Vacuum Axisymmetric Gravitational Collapse, Abrahams, A. M. and Evans, C. R., Physical Review Letters, 70, 2980 (1993)

PhD Dissertation

• A Method for Numerical Relativity: Simulation of Axisymmetric Gravitational Collapse and Gravitational Radiation Generation, Evans, C. R., University of Texas at Austin (1984)