Grants | Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation (CCRG)

Preparing for the onslaught of multimessenger and gravitational wave observations

PI: Richard O'Shaughnessy

Award: Simons Foundation 917622 Dates: 06/01/2022—05/30/2023; Funds: $90,796

WoU-MMA: Inference about Gravitational-Wave Sources and Source Populations

PI: Richard O'Shaughnessy

Award: NSF PHY-2012057 Dates: 07/01/2020—06/30/2023; Funds: $101,456

WoU-MMA: Inference about gravitational- wave sources and source populations

PI: Richard O'Shaughnessy

Award: NSF PHY-2012057 Dates: 07/01/2020—06/30/2023; Funds: $304,735

Binary black hole simulations with eccentricity for LIGO observations

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

Award: NSF PHY-PHY20007 Dates: 09/01/2019—08/31/2022; Funds: $0

WoU-MMA Collaborative Research: Constraining the nuclear EOS and neutron star astrophysics through multi-messenger and multi-object observations of neutron star

PI: Richard O'Shaughnessy

Award: NSF AST-1909534 Dates: 07/15/2019—06/30/2022; Funds: $405,734

WoU-MMA: Collaborative Research: Constraining the Nuclear Equation of State and Neutron Star Astrophysics Through Multi-messenger and Multi-object Observations of Neutron Stars

PI: Richard O'Schaughenessy

Award: NSF AST-1909534 Dates: 07/15/2019—06/30/2022; Funds: $405,734

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

Gravitational Waves as a Tool of Astronomical Discovery

PI: Richard O'Shaughnessy

Award: NSF PHY-1707965 Dates: 07/01/2017—06/30/2020; Funds: $90,000

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