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...
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....
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...
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...
This $301,094 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research on neutron stars and gravitational waves. The main research activities include searches for continuous gravitational waves from young neutron stars, including R-mode oscillations of known pulsars and searches of supernova remnants for non-pulsing neutron stars. The award also contributes to searches for other signals like neutron star...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences provides $229,131 to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) to develop a new research and education partnership in astronomy with Texas Southmost College (TSC). The partnership will engage Hispanic community college students in South Texas in multi-messenger and time domain astronomy research, including observational techniques, data analysis, and machine learning. Key activities...
This $374,699 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund a 4-year collaborative research program led by investigators at Louisiana State University, Harvard University, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and University of Maryland, College Park. The research aims to improve the understanding of explosive transients in the distant universe by...
This $259,995 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the development of an open-source, GPU-enabled computational code for modeling the physics of compact object mergers, such as binary neutron star and black hole-neutron star collisions. The code will leverage advanced neutrino transport models and high-performance GPU computing to enable more accurate and scalable simulations of these...
This $590,559 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support a three-year research program led by Columbia University. The program aims to perform computer simulations that predict the radiation emitted from neutron star winds and how it propagates through the debris of stellar explosions. The research will also apply these calculations to spinning neutron stars created from the merger of...
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...