Rochester Institute of Technology

Collaborative research: Frameworks: The Einstein Toolkit ecosystem: Enabling fundamental research in the era of multi-messenger astrophysics

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

Award: NSF OAC-2004044 Dates: 07/01/2020—06/30/2024; Funds: $439,675

Supermassive Black Hole Approaching Merger: Accretion Dynamics, Jets and Electromagnetic Signals

PI: Manuela Campanelli; Co-PI: Yosef Zlochower, Scott Noble

Award: NSF PHY-2001000 Dates: 04/15/2020—03/30/2021; Funds: $0

Binary Black Hole Waveforms for LISA Using Numerical Relativity

PI: David Neilsen; Co-PI: Yosef Zlochower, Eric Hirschmann, Hari Sundar

Award: NASA 80NSSC20K0528 Dates: 01/23/2020—01/06/2023; Funds: $462,125

Binary black hole simulations with eccentricity for LIGO observations

PI: Dr Carlos Lousto; Co-PI: 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 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

Sustained-Petascale in Action: Blue Waters Enabling Transformative Science and Engineering

PI: Carlos Lousto; Co-PI: Nicole Rosato

Award: NSF NCSA UIUC-1238993/067846-17494 Dates: 06/01/2019—07/31/2020; Funds: $50,000

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

Lost in Translation: Removing the Most Significant Barrier Preventing Deaf participation in STEM

PI: Jason Nordhaus; Co-PI: Jessica Trussell

Award: Moore Foundation 7903 Dates: 12/31/2018—12/31/2021; Funds: $294,219

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

Extending the Reach of Continous Gravitational Wave Searches

PI: John Whelan

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