Grants | Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation (CCRG)

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. Parma Italy), Bruno Giacomazzo (Collaborator UNITN Italy), Kenta Kiuchi (Collaborator Kyoto Japan/AEI Germany), Tsvi Piran (Collaborator HUJI Israel).

Award: NASA NNH17ZDA001N-TCAN-17-TCAN17-0018 80NSSC18K1488 Dates: 10/01/2018—07/30/2020; 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

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

Unveiling hidden companions in post-AGB stars: 3D simulations of evolved star binaries

PI: Jason Nordhaus

Award: NASA HST-15044 Dates: 10/01/2017—09/30/2020; Funds: $79,195

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: $300,000

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

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

REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research for Students who are Deaf or Hard- of-Hearing in Applying Mathematical and Statistical Methods to Problems from the Sciences

PI: Jason Nordhaus; Co-PI(s): Bonnie Jacob

Award: NSF PHY-1659299 Dates: 06/01/2017—05/31/2020; Funds: $303,000

Galactoseismology: From the Milky Way to XUV Disks

PI: Sukanya Chakrabarti

Award: NASA NNX17AK90G Dates: 05/08/2017—05/07/2020; Funds: $186,000

REU Site: Multimessenger Astrophysics

PI: Joshua Faber; Co-PI(s): Sukanya Chakrabarti, Jeyhan Kartaltepe, Jason Nordhaus, John Whelan

Award: NSF PHY-1659740 Dates: 04/01/2017—03/31/2017; Funds: $252,439