Stuart Shapiro is a professor of physics and of astronomy at the University of Illinois. Thomas Baumgarte, who worked with Shapiro as a postdoctoral research associate and remains an adjunct professor of physics at Illinois, is a professor of physics and chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department at Bowdoin College.
Baumgarte and Shapiro are described by Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University, as “established leaders in their field,” whose book is “a timely contribution to the literature and the ideal primer for researchers newly attracted to the burgeoning field of computational relativity.”
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