Project Grant 2206321
- Federal Project Grant Summary Rochester Institute of Technology received a $150,150 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2026. This award supports fundamental research in gravitational wave astronomy focused on numerical modeling of binary black hole mergers under extreme conditions. The principal deliverables include generating and...
- This $195,088 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) supports a collaborative research and education partnership between the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and Texas Tech University (TTU). The two-year program aims to break disciplinary and cultural barriers in multi-messenger astrophysics, with a focus on exploring neutron star astrophysics. Key aspects include: Developing pathways for deaf/hard-of-hearing and...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Rochester Institute of Technology received a $297,512 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2028. The research team will conduct observational and computational studies of common envelope evolution in binary star systems—a poorly understood astrophysical process in which a lower-mass star orbits within an...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Rochester Institute of Technology received a $150,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), awarded August 15, 2026, with completion targeted for July 31, 2029. This collaborative research initiative develops portable, open-source cyberinfrastructure for resistive general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) simulations used to model magnetized,...
- The National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $449,999 Project Grant to the Rochester Institute of Technology under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds collaborative research to deploy curvilinear coordinate and multipatch methods on neutron star mergers. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to promote progress in mathematics and...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $510,000 to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to develop new GPU-enabled algorithms and computational tools for accurately modeling the merger process of binary black hole and neutron star systems. The award aims to leverage both Cartesian and curvilinear coordinate systems to enhance the stability and accuracy of these simulations, enabling...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant, awarded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will establish the RITTU Partnership - a new research and education collaboration between Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and Texas Tech University (TTU). The two-year, $313,778 program aims to break down disciplinary and cultural barriers in astronomy, with a focus on exploring neutron star astrophysics through multi-messenger observations. The partnership...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Rochester Institute of Technology received a $249,556 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences directorate (CFDA 47.049) effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027. The project develops a novel computational method that integrates machine learning with quantum theory to accelerate simulations of strongly correlated materials. The core innovation employs dimensionality reduction techniques to construct compact...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program, provides funding of $462,122 to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site focused on multi-messenger astrophysics. The REU program will train the next generation of scientists in gravitational wave detection, astrophysical data analysis, observational astronomy, and theoretical modeling....
- The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) was awarded a $250,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry to develop the novel NMR-PNS technique for determining macromolecular and liquid structure. Under the two-year award running from September 2021 through August 2023, RIT will combine nuclear magnetic resonance and neutron scattering to advance understanding of major problems in the mathematical and physical sciences. Specifically, RIT aims to promote...
The Rochester Institute of Technology was awarded a $446,861 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support collaborative research between RIT and the University of Tennessee Knoxville to produce realistic computational models of kilonova explosions resulting from neutron star mergers. These models will be benchmarked against gravitational wave and electromagnetic detections of neutron star-neutron star mergers to improve estimates of the neutron mass distribution and further understanding of neutron star populations. The research team will also work to systematically incorporate rapid process observations into joint inference of neutron star population properties and the equation of state. The award will fund this research through November 2025 and support training of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers.