Dolan, Sam, Dr

Research interests

I am interested in the foundations and predictions of two very successful theories:

Einstein's theory of General Relativity, which describes gravity, and the structure of the Universe on the largest scales - e.g. galaxies, black holes and the big bang.
Quantum Field Theory (QFT), which describes the subatomic world and the weird quantum vacuum in which fundamental particles (eg. electrons, quarks, the Higgs boson, etc.) are created and destroyed.

Both theories are well-tested within their own regimes, and yet they seem to be fundamentally incompatible when brought together. This prevents us from fully understanding extreme scenarios, like the birth of the Universe, or the formation of black holes.The predictions of QFT have been tested to extraordinary precision in the laboratory. To test Einstein's theory, we must look out into the galaxy and beyond. A key prediction of the theory is the existence of Gravitational Waves: propagating ripples in spacetime created by the massive bodies in motion. There is strong indirect evidence for their existence, coming from decades-long observations of binary pulsars. But as yet there is no direct evidence, because GWs are extremely weak by the time they reach Earth. It is very plausible that the first detection will be made in 2015 by newly-upgraded detectors. If detected, gravitational waves will give us an exciting new way of viewing the Universe, which will reveal some of the most energetic processes - such as the merger of black holes - which are currently hidden from view behind shrouds of dust and plasma. With this goal in mind, my recent work has been focussed on modelling the GW signal that is generated by black hole mergers, to help in our search for the 'needle in the haystack'.

Publications

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Featured publications

Journal articles

Dolan SR, Durkan L, Kavanagh C & Wardell B (2024) . Classical and Quantum Gravity, 41.
Dolan SR & Barack L (2012) Self-force via $m$-mode regularization and 2+1D evolution: III. Gravitational field on Schwarzschild spacetime.
Dolan SR & Ottewill AC (2011) . Phys.Rev., D84, 104002-104002.
Casals M, Dolan SR, Ottewill AC & Wardell B (2009) . Phys.Rev., D79, 124043-124043.
Frost JA, Gaunt JR, Sampaio MOP, Casals M, Dolan SR & others (2009) . JHEP, 0910, 014-014.
Dolan SR (2008) . Class.Quant.Grav., 25, 235002-235002.

All publications

Journal articles

Dolan SR, Durkan L, Kavanagh C & Wardell B (2024) . Classical and Quantum Gravity, 41.
de Paula MAA, Leite LCS, Dolan SR & Crispino LCB (2024) . Physical Review D, 109(6), 064053.
Dolan SR, Kavanagh C & Wardell B (2022) . Physical Review Letters, 128(15).
Percival J & Dolan SR (2020) . Physical Review D, 102(10).
Akcay S, Dolan SR, Kavanagh C, Moxon J, Warburton N & Wardell B (2020) . Physical Review D, 102(6).
Stratton T, Leite LCS, Dolan SR & Crispino LCB (2020) . Physical Review D, 102(4).
Crispino LCB, Dolan SR, Font JA, Herdeiro CAR & Higuchi A (2020) . International Journal of Modern Physics D, 29(11).
Barausse E, Berti E, Hertog T, Hughes SA, Jetzer P, Pani P, Sotiriou TP, Tamanini N, Witek H, Yagi K , Yunes N et al (2020) . General Relativity and Gravitation, 52(8).
Ould El Hadj M, Stratton T & Dolan SR (2020) . Physical Review D, 101(10).
Leite LCS, Dolan SR & Crispino LCB (2019) . Physical Review D, 100(8).
Dolan SR (2019) . Physical Review D, 100(4).
Stratton T & Dolan SR (2019) . Physical Review D, 100(2).
Torres T, Coutant A, Dolan S & Weinfurtner S (2018) . Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 857, 291-311.
Dolan S (2018) . Physical Review D, 98(10).
Daza Á, Shipley JO, Dolan SR & Sanjuán MAF (2018) . Physical Review D, 98(8).
Leite LCS, Dolan S & Crispino CB (2018) . Physical Review D, 98.
Benone CL, Leite LCS, Crispino LCB & Dolan SR (2018) . International Journal of Modern Physics D.
Dolan SR (2018) . International Journal of Modern Physics D, 27(11), 1843010-1843010.
Crispino LCB, Dolan SR, Fewster CJ, Matsas GEA & Vanzella DAT (2018) . International Journal of Modern Physics D, 27(11), 1802004-1802004.
Leite LCS, Dolan SR & Crispino LCB (2017) . Physics Letters B.
Dolan S (2017) . Physics, 10, 83-83.
Dolan S & Stratton T (2017) . Physical Review D, 95.
Akcay S, Dempsey D & Dolan SR (2017) . Classical and Quantum Gravity, 34(8).
Benone CL, de Oliveira ES, Dolan SR & Crispino LCB (2017) . Physical Review D, 95(4).
Dolan SR & Shipley JO (2016) . Physical Review D.
Leite LCS, Crispino LCB, de Oliveira ES, Macedo CFB & Dolan SR (2016) . International Journal of Modern Physics D, 25(09).
Dempsey D & Dolan SR (2016) . International Journal of Modern Physics D, 25.
Shipley J & Dolan SR (2016) . Classical and Quantum Gravity, 33(17).
Ponglertsakul S, Dolan SR & Winstanley E (2016) . Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 94(2).
Dolan SR & Dempsey D (2015) . Classical and Quantum Gravity, 32(18), 184001-184001.
Benone CL, De Oliveira ES, Dolan SR & Crispino LC (2014) . Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 89(10).
Wardell B, Galley CR, Zenginoglu A, Casals M, Dolan SR & others (2014) . Phys.Rev., D89, 084021-084021.
Dolan SR, Warburton N, Harte AI, Le Tiec A, Wardell B & Barack L (2014) . Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 89(6).
Macedo CFB, Leite LCS, Oliveira ES, Dolan SR & Crispino LCB (2013) . Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 88(6).
Casals M, Dolan S, Ottewill AC & Wardell B (2013) . Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 88(4).
Dolan SR (2013) . Phys.Rev., D87, 124026-124026.
Dolan SR, Oliveira LA & Crispino LCB (2012) . Phys.Rev., D85, 044031-044031.
Rosa JG & Dolan SR (2012) . Phys.Rev., D85, 044043-044043.
Dolan SR & Barack L (2012) Self-force via $m$-mode regularization and 2+1D evolution: III. Gravitational field on Schwarzschild spacetime.
Dolan SR & Oliveira ES (2012) Scattering by a draining bathtub vortex.
Dolan SR & Barack L (2011) . Phys.Rev., D83, 024019-024019.
Dolan SR, Barack L & Wardell B (2011) . Phys.Rev., D84, 084001-084001.
Dolan SR & Ottewill AC (2011) . Phys.Rev., D84, 104002-104002.
Dolan SR, Oliveira ES & Crispino LCB (2011) . Phys.Lett., B701, 485-489-485-489.
Dolan SR (2010) . Phys.Rev., D82, 104003-104003.
Oliveira ES, Dolan SR & Crispino LCB (2010) . Phys.Rev., D81, 124013-124013.
Dolan SR, Oliveira LA & Crispino LCB (2010) . Phys.Rev., D82, 084037-084037.
Dolan SR, Oliveira ES & Crispino LCB (2009) . Phys.Rev., D79, 064014-064014.
Casals M, Dolan SR, Ottewill AC & Wardell B (2009) . Phys.Rev., D79, 124043-124043.
Frost JA, Gaunt JR, Sampaio MOP, Casals M, Dolan SR & others (2009) . JHEP, 0910, 014-014.
Casals M, Dolan S, Ottewill AC & Wardell B (2009) . Phys.Rev., D79, 124044-124044.
Dolan S & Gair J (2009) . Class.Quant.Grav., 26, 175020-175020.
Crispino LCB, Dolan SR & Oliveira ES (2009) . Phys.Rev., D79, 064022-064022.
Casals M, Dolan SR, Kanti P & Winstanley E (2009) . Phys.Lett., B680, 365-370-365-370.
Crispino LCB, Dolan SR & Oliveira ES (2009) . Phys.Rev.Lett., 102, 231103-231103.
Dolan SR & Ottewill AC (2009) . Class.Quant.Grav., 26, 225003-225003.
Dolan SR (2008) . Phys.Rev., D77, 044004-044004.
Dolan SR (2008) . Class.Quant.Grav., 25, 235002-235002.
Dolan SR (2008) Polarization of Long-Wavelength Gravitational Waves by Rotating Black Holes.
Casals M, Dolan SR, Kanti P & Winstanley E (2008) . JHEP, 0806, 071-071.
Casals M, Dolan S, Kanti P & Winstanley E (2007) Brane decay of a ( 4+n)-dimensional rotating black hole. III: spin-1/2 particles. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS(3).
Dolan SR (2007) . Phys.Rev., D76, 084001-084001.
Dolan S, Doran C & Lasenby A (2006) . Phys.Rev., D74, 064005-064005.
Doran C, Lasenby A, Dolan S & Hinder I (2005) . Phys.Rev., D71, 124020-124020.
Lasenby A, Doran C, Pritchard J, Caceres A & Dolan S (2005) . Phys.Rev., D72, 105014-105014.
Dolan SR, de Paula MAA, Leite LCS & Crispino LCB () . Physical Review D, 109(12).
German EJ, Cunningham K, Balakumar V, Warburton N & Dolan SR () . Physical Review D, 109(4).
Torres T, Lloyd M, Dolan SR & Weinfurtner S () . Physical Review Research, 4(3).
Hadj MOE & Dolan SR () . Physical Review D, 106(4).
Torres T & Dolan SR () . Physical Review D, 106(2).
Nolan P, Kavanagh C, Dolan SR, Ottewill AC, Warburton N & Wardell B () . Physical Review D, 92(12).
Crispino LCB, Dolan SR, Higuchi A & de Oliveira ES () . Physical Review D, 92(8).
Dolan SR, Nolan P, Ottewill AC, Warburton N & Wardell B () . Physical Review D, 91(2).
Crispino LCB, Dolan SR, Higuchi A & de Oliveira ES () . Physical Review D, 90(6).
Casals M, Dolan SR, Nolan BC, Ottewill AC & Winstanley E () . Phys.Rev.D, 87, 064027.
Dolan SR & Ottewill AC () . Physical Review D, 84(10).
Macedo CFB, Stratton T, Dolan S & Crispino LCB () . Physical Review D, 98(10).
Maggio E, Cardoso V, Dolan SR & Pani P () . Physical Review D, 99(6).
Isoyama S, Barack L, Dolan SR, Le Tiec A, Nakano H, Shah AG, Tanaka T & Warburton N () . Physical Review Letters, 113(16).
Dolan SR, Ponglertsakul S & Winstanley E () . Physical Review D, 92(12).
Torres T & Dolan SR () Electromagnetic self-force on a charged particle on Kerr spacetime: equatorial circular orbits.

Conference proceedings papers

Ponglertsakul S, Dolan S & Winstanley E (2018) (pp 69-74)
Benone CL, de Oliveira ES, Crispino LCB & Dolan SR (2017) . The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting
Ponglertsakul S, Dolan S & Winstanley E (2017) . The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting
OLIVEIRA ES, CRISPINO LCB & DOLAN SR (2015) . The Thirteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting
OLIVEIRA LA, CRISPINO LCB & DOLAN SR (2015) . The Thirteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting
CRISPINO LCB, OLIVEIRA ES, DOLAN SR & MATSAS GEA (2012) . The Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting
Casals M, Dolan S, Ottewill AC & Wardell B (2010) (pp 844-847-844-847)
Mount S, Gaura E, Newman RM, Beresford AR, Dolan SR & Allen M (2005) . Proceedings of the 2005 joint conference on Smart objects and ambient intelligence: innovative context-aware services: usages and technologies

Preprints

Dolan SR, Paula MAAD, Leite LCS & Crispino LCB (2024) Superradiant instability of a charged regular black hole.
German EJ, Cunningham K, Balakumar V, Warburton N & Dolan SR (2023) Adiabatic inspirals under electromagnetic radiation reaction on Kerr spacetime.
Dolan SR, Durkan L, Kavanagh C & Wardell B (2023) Metric perturbations of Kerr spacetime in Lorenz gauge: Circular equatorial orbits.
Dolan SR (2018) Higher-order geometrical optics for circularly-polarized electromagnetic waves.

Research group

Grants

Current grants, as Coinvestigator
STFC Consortium: Fundamental Physics - Lancaster-Manchester-91ֱ��	STFC
Past grants, as Principal Investigator
	EPSRC
Past grants, as Coinvestigator
STFC Consolidated Grant Renewal	STFC

Teaching activities

MAS116	Mathematical Investigation Skills
MAS314	Introduction to Relativity
MAS61009	Research Skills in Mathematics

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School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Dr Sam Dolan

Featured publications

Journal articles

All publications

Journal articles

Conference proceedings papers

Preprints

Current grants, as Coinvestigator

Past grants, as Principal Investigator

Past grants, as Coinvestigator

91ֱ��

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Dr Sam Dolan

Featured publications

Journal articles

All publications

Journal articles

Conference proceedings papers

Preprints

Current grants, as Coinvestigator

Past grants, as Principal Investigator

Past grants, as Coinvestigator

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