I am an associate professor in the Physics and Astronomy department of Texas A&M University-Commerce. I’m interested in learning more about the behavior and internal workings of neutron stars, revealed by a wonderful interplay of nuclear theory and experiment, astrophysical modeling and observation. I am also interested in how a person learns physics, how a person comes to see themselves as a physicist and how we can improve the way we teach physics and foster culture of physics to maximize the opportunity to be a physicist for all people.

I am definitely famous in the Czech Republic.

I also really enjoy running and biking, I may be a bit of a TV and movie snob (in a good way, I think), I am a big proselytizer for popular music in its myriad forms, and love science fiction/fantasy/horror literature. I have come to accept and make peace with the fact that I am a crazy cat guy.

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Email: William dot newton at tamuc dot edu

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In previous papers we have demonstrated that possible detections of resonant shattering flares coincident with the gravitational wave signal from the neutron star merger that immediately follows, will allow a measurement of the resonant frequency of oscillation modes at the crust-core transition and can be used then to extract posterior distributions of important nuclear physics quantities, particularly the symmetry energy. In this paper we extend that work in 2 ways: we include realistic uncertainties in inferred neutron star masses, and we consider how the constraints improve if we see multiple of these events. We show that multiple events do indeed more tightly constrain the nuclear symmetry energy, independent of their masses.