Jake Mac Uilliam (Williams)
I completed my bachelor's degree in theoretical physics at UCD in 2020 and then went on to complete a PhD in applied and computational mathematics at UCD in 2024. My research focused on precession effects in compact binary inspirals in general relativity.
I then lectured at UCD for a year, teaching General Relativity (ACM40750), Data Programming in Python (STAT40800), Financial Mathematics (MST30030) and Optimisation in Machine Learning (ACM40990). I tutored the modules on offer from ICHEC for 5 years.
I joined ICHEC in 2025 as part of the performance engineering team. I am also involved in the delivery of university modules.
Outside work I like to bake, write music, attend metal concerts, and train martial arts. When not doing those, I am an avid enjoyer of trading card games and video games.
| Publications | ||
C. Hoy, S. Akçay, J. Mac Uilliam, J. E. Thompson, "Incorporation of model accuracy in gravitational-wave Bayesian inference," accepted for publication in Nature Astronomy, https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19404
G. Piovano, C. Pantelidou, J. Mac Uilliam, V. Witzany, "Spinning particles near Kerr black holes: Orbits and gravitational-wave fluxes through the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism", Phys. Rev. D, vol. 111, no. 4, p. 044009, Feb 2025, https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05769
J. Mac Uilliam, S. Akçay, J. E. Thompson, "Survey of four precessing waveform models for binary black hole systems," Phys. Rev. D. vol, 109, no. 8, p. 084077, April 2024, https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06781
R. Gamba, S. Akçay, S. Bernuzzi, J. Williams, "Effective-one-body waveforms for precessing coalescing compact binaries with post-Newtonian twist", Phys. Rev. D. vol. 106, no. 2, p. 024020, Jul 2022, https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03675
