Grants | Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation (CCRG)

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

PI: Carlos Lousto; Co-PI(s): 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(s): 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

Collaborative Research: Photons from Binary Black Hole Inspirals

PI: Manuela Campanelli; Co-PI(s): Yosef Zlochower

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

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

PI: Manuela Campanelli

Award: NASA HQ-80NSSC18K1488 Dates: 07/02/2018—09/03/2021; Funds: $1,301,037

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PI: Manuela Campanelli; Co-PI(s): Joshua Faber, Carlos Lousto, Yosef Zlochower

Award: NSF PHY-1707946 Dates: 09/01/2017—08/31/2021; Funds: $300,000

Studies of the Extreme Dynamics of Black Hole Binaries

PI: Carlos Lousto; Co-PI(s): Manuela Campanelli, Yosef Zlochower, Richard O'Shaughnessy

Award: NSF PHY-1607520 Dates: 09/01/2016—08/31/2019; Funds: $600,006

Collaborative Research: Accretion Dynamics of Black Hole Mergers

PI: Manuela Campanelli; Co-PI(s): Yosef Zlochower

Award: NSF AST-1516150 Dates: 09/01/2015—08/31/2019; Funds: $350,372

Collaborative Research: Predicting the Transient Signals from Galactic Centers: Circumbinary Disks and Tidal Disruptions around Black Holes

PI: Manuela Campanelli; Co-PI(s): Yosef Zlochower

Award: NSF OAC-1516125 Dates: 08/01/2015—07/31/2018; Funds: $12,163