John Belz Professor of Physics University of Utah 270 S 1400 E #E2108 Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0830 USA Office: LSSB #W2205 Phone: 801-891-8630 email: jbr0jb@gmail.com

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• Current Course Spring 2026: PHYS5730: Computational Physics II
• Research Interests:
  
  
  • Numerical Relativity
    
  • Machine Learning
    
  • Particle Astrophysics
    
  • Elementary Particles
• Selected Recent Publications:
  
  
  • DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHOD APPLIED TO CRITICAL PHENOMENA IN GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE, S. Johnson, S. Mesicek and J. Belz, submitted to Phys. Rev. D (2025).
    
    
  • BOUNDARY DYNAMICS IN COMPETING CRITICAL BLACK HOLE FORMATION, C. Kelson-Packer and J. Belz, Phys. Rev. D 106 084063 (2022).
    
    
  • OBSERVATION OF THE ORIGIN OF DOWNWARD TERRESTRIAL GAMMA-RAY FLASHES, J. Belz et al., J. Geophys. Res. 125 e2019JD031940 (2020).
    
    
  • INVESTIGATION INTO LENGTH SCALE DOMINANCE IN CRITICAL BLACK HOLE FORMATION, C. Kelson-Packer and J. Belz, Phys. Rev. D 102 084050 (2020).
    
    
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