Quite a few students have worked for me over the years with backgrounds in applied math, physics, and/or pure mathematics. The undergraduate and MSc research projects have usually been studies of exact, perturbative, or numerical black hole solutions while at the PhD level the projects become more involved.

Former and current students are listed below along with their projects to give you some idea of what they worked on. Many of these (graduate and undergraduate) have resulted in
publications. Papers on some others are still in preparation.

If you're interested in working with me on either physical or geometric problems drop by my office for a chat (or if you're not in St. John's email me). I'm cross-appointed to Physics and Physical Oceanography and so can supervise Honours and MSc students in either
Mathematics or Physics. At the doctoral level I can supervise degrees in either Mathematics or Theoretical Physics. For undergraduate jobs I often make use of the NSERC USRA, MUCEP, and SWASP programmes but occasionally I also hire people directly on my NSERC grant.
Post-doctoral fellows
  • Ben Tippett (Sept 2011 - Aug 2012)
Graduate Students
  • Sharmila Gunasekaran (MSc, Math, Sept 2013 - current)
  • Wei Chen* (MSc, Math, Sept 2013 - current)
  • Uzair Hussain* (PhD, Theoretical Physics, Sept 2012 - current)
  • Aghil Alaee* (PhD, Math, Sept 2011 - current)
  • Wenjie (David) Tian (MSc, Physics, Sept 2010 - Aug 2012, PhD Theoretical Physics, Sept 2012 - current ): Deformations of extremal black holes
  • Aida Ahmadzadegan (MSc, Physics, Sept 2009 - Sept 2011): Fluid-gravity duality for 4D AdS black holes
  • Terry Pilkington (MSc, Physics, Jan 2009 - Dec 2010): Horizon structure of deformed black holes
  • John Bowden (part-time MSc, Math, Sept 2008 - current): Non-commutative Vaidya space times
  • Tomas Liko (PhD, Theoretical Physics, Jan 2006 - Dec 2008): Extending the isolated horizon phase space to string-inspired gravity models
  • Huakun Ding (MSc, Math, Sept 2005-Aug 2007): Surface deformations in Vaidya spacetimes
  • William Kavanagh (MSc, Physics, Sept 2003-Aug 2006): Slowly evolving horizons in perturbative general relativity
Honours Students
  • Peter O'Reilly* (AM/Phys, 2013/2014):
  • Wei Chen* (AM/Phys 2012/2013): Geodesics for topological black holes
  • Mitch Sullivan* (AM/Phys, 2011/12): Geodesics near large AdS black holes
  • Danielle Leonard* (AM/Phys, 2011/2012): Near-horizon behaviour of four-dimension black holes
  • Andrew Day (AM/Phys, 2010/2011): Deformed black holes in an asymptotically flat background
  • Bradley Dart (AM/Phys, 2010/2011): Geometry of gauge theories
  • Michael Barriault (AM/Phys, 2008/09): Surface deformations in Vaidya spacetimes
  • Joseph Fitzgerald (AM/Phys, 2007/08): Weyl-deformed black holes
  • Andrew Critch (Pure Math, 2006/07): Resolving the Banach-Tarski paradox
  • Jonathan Martin (AM/Phys, 2005/06): Distance between event and apparent horizons in Vaidya
  • Lionel Brits (Physics, 2004/05): Formation and evolution of spherical trapping horizons
Recent Undergraduate Student Jobs
  • Peter O'Reilly (NSERC USRA, summer 2013) Robinson-Trautman isolated horizons
  • Michael Grudich (NSERC USRA, summer 2013) Approximate Killing vector fields
  • Danielle Leonard (part-time, 2010/2011) Geodesics near large AdS black holes
  • Andrew Day (NSERC USRA, summer 2010) Marginally trapped surfaces in shell-crossing Tolman-Bondi spacetimes
  • Michael Barriault (NSERC USRA, summer 2007, 2008, 2009) Numerical evolution of trapping horizons in Vaidya spacetime
  • Alex Melanson (NSERC USRA, summer 2009) Horizon structure of deformed black holes
  • Joe Fitzgerald (part-time, summer 2008) Horizon structure of deformed black holes
  • Bradley Dart (part-time, summer 2007) Spherically symmetric event and apparent horizons in Vaidya spacetimes
  • Jonathan Martin (part-time, summer 2006) Distance between event and apparent horizons in Vaidya
* indicates that the student was co-supervised with Hari Kunduri.