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Saeed Rastgoo

ATS Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Science - Physics

Personal Website: https://www.srastgoo.com

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ATS Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Science - Physics
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srastgoo@ualberta.ca

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Area of Study / Keywords

Classical Gravity Quantum Gravity Black Holes Cosmology Problem of Time Quantum Spacetime Properties and Emergence

Courses

MATH 102 - Applied Linear Algebra

Vectors and matrices, solution of linear equations, equations of lines and planes, determinants, matrix algebra, orthogonality and applications (Gram-Schmidt), eigenvalues and eigenvectors and applications, complex numbers. Prerequisite or corequisite: MATH 100. Notes: (1) Credit can be obtained in at most one of MATH 102, 125, or 127. (2) Students in all sections of this course will write a common final examination. (3) Restricted to Engineering students. Non-Engineering students who take this course will receive 3 units.

Winter Term 2026

PHYS 230 - Electricity and Magnetism

Electric fields, Gauss' Law; electric potential; capacitance and dielectrics; electric current and resistance; magnetic fields, Ampere's Law; Faraday's Law; inductance; magnetic properties of matter. Prerequisites: PHYS 130 or 144 or 146, and MATH 100 or 114 or 117 or 144. Corequisite: MATH 101 or 115 or 118. Note: Restricted to Engineering students. Other students who take this course will receive 3 units. Credit can normally be obtained for only one of PHYS 181, 230, or 281.

Winter Term 2026

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Featured Publications

Geometry of a generalized uncertainty-inspired spacetime

Gingrich, Douglas M., Rastgoo, Saeed

Phys.Rev.D. 2025 May; 10.1103/PhysRevD.111.104017

A generalized uncertainty-inspired quantum black hole

Federica Fragomeno, Douglas M. Gingrich, Samantha Hergott, Saeed Rastgoo, Evan Vienneau

Physical Review D. 2025 January; 10.1103/PhysRevD.111.024048

Post-Newtonian Effects in Compact Binaries with a Dark Matter Spike: A Lagrangian Approach

Diego Montalvo, Adam Smith-Orlik, Saeed Rastgoo, Laura Sagunski, Niklas Becker, Hazkeel Khan

Universe. 2024 November; 10.3390/universe10110427

Black hole interior quantization: a minimal uncertainty approach

Bosso, Pasquale, Obregón, Octavio, Rastgoo, Saeed, Yupanqui, Wilfredo

Class.Quant.Grav.. 2024 June; 10.1088/1361-6382/ad4fd7

Constraining the quantum gravity polymer scale using LIGO data

Garcia-Chung, Angel, Carney, Matthew F., Mertens, James B., Parvizi, Aliasghar, Rastgoo, Saeed, Tavakoli, Yaser

Class.Quant.Grav.. 2023 December; 10.1088/1361-6382/ad0db1

Model metrics for quantum black hole evolution: Gravitational collapse, singularity resolution, and transient horizons

Samantha Hergott, Viqar Husain, Saeed Rastgoo

Physical Review D. 2022 August; 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.046012

Probing the Interior of the Schwarzschild Black Hole Using Congruences: LQG vs. GUP

Rastgoo, Saeed, Das, Saurya

Universe. 2022 June; 10.3390/universe8070349

Circularization versus eccentrification in intermediate mass ratio inspirals inside dark matter spikes

Becker, Niklas, Sagunski, Laura, Prinz, Lukas, Rastgoo, Saeed

Phys.Rev.D. 2022 March; 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.063029

Effective GUP-modified Raychaudhuri equation and black hole singularity: four models

Blanchette, Keagan, Das, Saurya, Rastgoo, Saeed

JHEP. 2021 September; 10.1007/JHEP09(2021)062

Deformed algebra and the effective dynamics of the interior of black holes

Bosso, Pasquale, Obregón, Octavio, Rastgoo, Saeed, Yupanqui, Wilfredo

Class.Quant.Grav.. 2021 June; 10.1088/1361-6382/ac025f

Black hole singularity resolution via the modified Raychaudhuri equation in loop quantum gravity

Keagan Blanchette, Saurya Das, Samantha Hergott, Saeed Rastgoo

Physical Review D. 2021 April; 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.084038

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