Grants | Compact Binaries

Fully Relativistic Studies of Black Hole Binaries with Applications to Gravitational Wave Observations

PI: Carlos Lousto; Co-PI: Manuela Campanelli, Richard O'Schaughnessy and Yosef Zlochower

Award: NSF PHY-1912632 Dates: 01/09/2019—07/08/2022; Funds: $450,000

Advancing Computational Methods to Understand the Dynamics of Ejection, Accretion, Winds and Jets in Neutron Star Mergers

PI: Manuela Campanelli (RIT); Co-PI: Julian Krolik (co-I/JHU Site PI), Jeremy Schnittman (co-I/NASA-JSFC Site PI), Zachariah Etienne (co-I/UWV Site PI), Joshua Faber (co-I RIT), John Baker (co-I NASA-GSFC), Bernard Kelly (co-I NASA-GSFC), Scott Noble (co-I NASA-GSFC), Jason Nordhaus (co-I RIT), Richard O'Shaughnessy (co-I RIT), Yosef Zlochower (co-I RIT), Matthew Duez (Collaborator WSU), Sebastiano Bernuzzi (Collaborator U. Iena Germany), Riccardo Ciolfi (INFN Padova Italy), Bruno Giacomazzo (Collaborator UNITN Italy), Kenta Kiuchi (Collaborator Kyoto Japan/AEI Germany), Tsvi Piran (Collaborator HUJI Israel), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (collab UCSC), Ariadna Murguia-Berthier (collab UCSC)Luke Roberts (collab MSU). Postdocs at RIT: Vassilios Mewes, Mark Avara, Federico Cipolletta, Federico Lopez Armengol; Graduate Student at RIT: Brendan Drachler, Tanmayee Gupte, Grace Fiacco, Trung Ha, Nicole Rosato, Michael Kolacki

Award: NASA NNH17ZDA001N-TCAN-17-TCAN17-0018 80NSSC18K1488 Dates: 10/01/2018—07/30/2021; Funds: $1,590,362

Boosting Algorithmic Efficiency: Numerical Relativity in Dynamical, Curvilinear Coordinates, NSF Gravitational Physics–Theory

PI: Zachariah Etienne

Award: NSF PHY-1806596 Dates: 09/01/2018—08/31/2021; Funds: $103,931

Extending the Reach of Continuous Gravitational Wave Searches

PI: John Whelan

Award: NSF PHY-1806824 Dates: 08/15/2018—08/15/2021; Funds: $240,000

Collaborative Research: Photons from Binary Black Hole Inspirals

PI: Manuela Campanelli; Co-PI: Yosef Zlochower

Award: NSF OAC-1811228 Dates: 08/01/2018—07/31/2019; Funds: $8,155

MULTI-MESSENGER SOURCE MODELLING

PI: Zachariah Etienne

Award: NASA GSFC-80NSSC18K0538 Dates: 03/01/2018—02/28/2021; Funds: $95,848

MRI: Acquisition of Thorny Flat Next Generation Cluster for High-Performance Computing in West Virginia

PI: Blake Mertz; Co-PI: George Spirou, Aldo Romero, Zachariah Etienne, Stephen DiFazio

Award: NSF PHY-1726534 Dates: 10/01/2017—09/30/2020; Funds: $989,408

MRI: Acquisition of a Computing Cluster for Gravitiational-Wave and Multimessenger Astrophysics in the Era of LIGO Dectections

PI: Manuela Campanelli; Co-PI: Joshua Faber, Carlos Louto, Yosef Zlochower, Hans-Peter Bischof

Award: NSF PHY-1726215 Dates: 09/01/2017—08/31/2020; Funds: $346,661

Physics of Tidal Disruptions

PI: Julian Krolik

Award: NSF AST-1715032 Dates: 09/01/2017—08/31/2020; Funds: $400,316

Collaborative Research: Curvilinear and Multipatch Methods for General Relativistic Astrophysics in the Gravitational Wave Era

PI: Manuela Campanelli; Co-PI: Joshua Faber, Jason Nordhaus, Yosef Zlochower

Award: NSF PHY-1707946 Dates: 09/01/2017—08/31/2020; Funds: $310,484