Andrew Hamilton's Homepage

Find out what happens
Inside Black Holes.

Animation of what it looks like orbiting a black hole.

Orbiting a black hole
at 2 Schwarzschild radii.
Wanna fall in?

Lorentz-contracted cartwheel
at 87% of the speed of light.
Try this tour of Special Relativity.

PSCz Power

What is wrong with this?
Colour quiz.

Fast Fourier or Hankel Transform
of a periodic sequence of
logarithmically spaced points.

Growth factor in
\(\Lambda\)CDM Universes

Angular masks of
galaxy surveys.

Professor, APS (Dept. of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences)
Fellow, JILA (formerly the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics)
Just good friends with the people at CASA (Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy)
BA (Mathematics) a very long time ago at Catz, Oxford
Ph.D (Astronomy) at Ole Virginie.

Recent talks:

JILA 2023: So you found a theory of everything. Now what?
OMSU2204: String Theory, Unification, and Geometric Algebra
A recent grad student Tyler McMaken's PhD thesis defense July 2024 (148K hits as of Nov 2024): Quantum Effects inside Rotating, Accreting Black Holes

My publications (since 1995, including preprints).
My publications (since 1982).

From time to time I lecture at Fiske Planetarium.

As far as I know, I am not a relation of Sir William Rowan Hamilton.

My wonderful wife Catherine owns and runs an environmentally friendly small business, BigGame Trophies.

My wonderful eldest daughter Liberty is an Associate Professor at U. Texas, Austin, teaching and doing research on auditory systems and the brain.

My wonderful youngest daughter Wildrose is an artist, filmaker, and apparel designer.

My interests include:

Teaching stuff:

Homepage for Fall 2024 ASTR 5110 Atomic and Molecular Physics.
Homepage for Fall 2023 ASTR 5110 Atomic and Molecular Physics.
Homepage for Fall 2023 ASTR 5770 Cosmology.
Homepage for Spring 2023 ASTR 3740 Relativity & Cosmology.
Homepage for Fall 2022 ASTR 5110 Atomic and Molecular Physics.
Homepage for Spring 2022 ASTR 2010 Cosmology.
Homepage for Spring 2022 ASTR 3740 Relativity & Cosmology.
Homepage for Fall 2021 ASTR 5770 Cosmology.
Homepage for Spring 2021 ASTR 3740 Relativity & Cosmology.
Homepage for Fall 2020 ASTR 5110 Atomic and Molecular Physics.
Homepage for Spring 2020 ASTR 3740 Relativity & Cosmology.
Homepage for Spring 2019 ASTR 2030 Black Holes.
Homepage for Spring 2019 ASTR 3740 Relativity & Cosmology.
Homepage for Fall 2018 ASTR 5770 Cosmology.
Homepage for Spring 2018 ASTR 1200 Stars & Galaxies.
Homepage for Spring 2017 ASTR 3740 Relativity & Cosmology.
Homepage for Spring 2016 PHYS 5770 Gravitational Theory (General Relativity).
Homepage for Fall 2014 ASTR 5770 Cosmology.
Homepage for Spring 2014 ASTR 3740 Relativity & Cosmology.
Homepage for Spring 2014 PHYS 5770 Gravitational Theory (General Relativity).
Homepage for Fall 2013 ASTR 5110 Atomic and Molecular Physics.
Homepage for Spring 2013 PHYS 5770 Gravitational Theory (General Relativity).
Homepage for Spring 2012 ASTR 2030 Black Holes.
\(\pi\forall\) Homepage for Spring 2012 ASTR 5540 Mathematical Methods.
Homepage for Fall 2011 ASTR 2030 Black Holes.
Homepage for Spring 2010 PHYS 5770 Gravitational Theory (General Relativity).
Homepage for Fall 2009 ASTR 2030 Black Holes.
\(\pi\forall\) Homepage for Fall 2008 ASTR 5540 Mathematical Methods.
Homepage for Spring 2008 PHYS 5770 Gravitational Theory (General Relativity).
Homepage for Fall 2007 ASTR 1120-880/1 General Astronomy Stars & Galaxies Honors Co-Seminars
Homepage for Spring 2007 ASTR 3740 Relativity & Cosmology.
Homepage for Fall 2006 ASTR 2030 Black Holes.
Homepage for Spring 2006 ASTR 5770 Cosmology
Homepage for Fall 2005 ASTR 1120-001 General Astronomy: Stars & Galaxies.
Homepage for Spring 2005 ASTR 2030 Black Holes.
Homepage for Spring 2004 ASTR 3740 Relativity & Cosmology.
Homepage for Fall 2003 ASTR 2030 Black Holes.
Homepage for Spring 2003 ASTR 1120-002 General Astronomy: Stars & Galaxies.
Homepage for Fall 2002 ASTR 2030-002 Black Holes.
Homepage for Spring 2001 PHYS 5770-001 Gravitational Theory (General Relativity).
Homepage for Fall 2000 ASTR 1120-001 General Astronomy: Stars & Galaxies.
Homepage for Fall 2000 ASTR 6000 Astrophysics Graduate Seminar: Large Scale Structure and Galaxy Formation.
Homepage for Spring 2000 ASTR 3740 Relativity & Cosmology.
Homepage for Fall 1999 ASTR 5110 Internal Processes 1.
Homepage for Spring 1999 ASTR 6000 Astrophysics Graduate Seminar: Black Hole Astrophysics.
Homepage for Spring 1999 ASTR 3740 Relativity & Cosmology.
Course Description and \(\pi\forall\) Homepage for Fall 1998 ASTR 5540 Mathematical Methods.
Course Description and Homepage for Spring 1998 ASTR 3740 Relativity & Cosmology.
Course Description and Homepage for Fall 1997 ASTR 5720 Galaxies & Cosmology.
Course Description and Syllabus for Spring 1997 APAS 3220 Special Topics: Relativity & Cosmology.