Computational physicist pursuing my Ph.D. in numerical relativity and gravitational-wave astronomy at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany. Also passionate about software development, design, data visualisation and teaching. I recently changed my last name from Fischer to Vu.

Education
2018 to date
Numerical simulations of compact object binaries with the Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) collaboration. Core developer of the SpECTRE numerical relativity code. Advisor: Prof. Harald P. Pfeiffer.
2012—2017
Core specialization in General Relativity and Theoretical Astrophysics.
Scholarships
2019
2018
2017 and 2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
Teaching & Employment
2019—2020
- Multi-messenger Astronomy (2020)
- Gravitational Wave Astrophysics (2019)
2014 to date
- General Relativity (2017)
- Quantum Mechanics (2016)
- Electrodynamics and Special Relativity (2015/16)
- Analytical Mechanics and Thermodynamics (2015)
- Mechanics and Mathematical Methods (2014/15)
2015—2016
2013-2017
2013—2014
Publications
- N. L. Vu, S. Rodriguez, T. Wlodarczyk, et al. High-accuracy numerical models of Brownian thermal noise in thin mirror coatings. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D (2021). arXiv:2111.06893.
- N. L. Vu, H. P. Pfeiffer, G. S. Bonilla, et al. A scalable elliptic solver with task-based parallelism for the SpECTRE numerical relativity code. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D (2021). arXiv:2111.06767.
- L. M. Zertuche, K. Mitman, N. Khera, et al. High Precision Ringdown Modeling: Multimode Fits and BMS Frames. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D (2021). arXiv:2110.15922.
- N. Deppe, F. Hébert, L. E. Kidder, et al. Simulating magnetized neutron stars with discontinuous Galerkin methods. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D (2021). arXiv:2109.12033.
- J. Moxon, M. A. Scheel, S. A. Teukolsky, et al. The SpECTRE Cauchy-characteristic evolution system for rapid, precise waveform extraction. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D (2021). arXiv:2110.08635.
- N. L. Fischer and H. P. Pfeiffer. Unified discontinuous Galerkin scheme for a large class of elliptic equations. Phys. Rev. D 105, 2, p. 024034 (2022). arXiv:2108.05826.
- T. Vincent, H. P. Pfeiffer, and N. L. Fischer. hp-adaptive discontinuous Galerkin solver for elliptic equations in numerical relativity. Phys. Rev. D 100, 8 (2019). arXiv:1907.01572.
- M. Boyle, D. Hemberger, D. A. B. Iozzo, et al. The SXS collaboration catalog of binary black hole simulations. Classical and Quantum Gravity 36, 19, p. 195006 (2019). arXiv:1904.04831.
- M. Düll, N. L. Fischer, B. M. Schaefer, and F. P. Schuller. Symmetric gravitational closure. arXiv:2003.07109.
- V. Kuznetsov, N. L. Fischer, and Y. Guo. The Archive Solution for Distributed Workflow Management Agents of the CMS Experiment at LHC. Computing and Software for Big Science 2, 1 (2018). arXiv:1801.03872.
Codes
- N. Deppe, W. Throwe, L. E. Kidder, N. L. Vu, F. Hébert, J. Moxon, C. Armaza, G. S. Bonilla, P. Kumar, G. Lovelace, E. O’Shea, H. P. Pfeiffer, M. A. Scheel, S. A. Teukolsky, et al. SpECTRE. sxs-collaboration/spectre. Zenodo:10.5281/zenodo.4290404.
- N. L. Vu. dgpy. nilsvu/dgpy. Zenodo:10.5281/zenodo.5086180.
- N. L. Vu. gwpv. nilsvu/gwpv.