General relativity

cosmology

geometrical methods

Education

• Ph.D., Physics, Yale University, 1968
• M.S., Physics, Yale University, 1964
• B.S., Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1963

Research Interests

• Theoretical general relativity and cosmology
• Geometrical methods in physics

Select Publications

• Robert H. Gowdy (2014) Gowdy Spacetimes. Scholarpedia, 9(3):31673.
• Gowdy, R. H, B. Douglas Edmonds: “Cylindrical Waves in Expanding Universes: Models for Compact Sources,”Physical Review 75. 084011, 2007
• Gowdy, R. H.:  “Vacuum Spacetimes with Two-parameter Spacelike Isometry Groups and Compact Invariant Hypersurfaces:  Topologies and Boundary Conditions,” Annals of Physics (N.Y.) 83, pp 203-241, 1974.