Welcome to the UMass-URI Gravity Research Consortium (U2GRC).
The U2GRC is a collaboration between the gravity research groups at UMass Dartmouth and the University of Rhode Island. The research areas of interest to the group members include: black holes, gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy, astrophysics and quantum gravitation. Most members are part of the LIGO Science Collaboration or the LISA Consortium. Research efforts in the U2GRC are funded through multiple National Science Foundation (NSF) grants, NASA and private foundations (FQXi and others).
U2GRC members collaborate externally with other research groups including the Simulating Extreme Spacetimes (SXS) Collaboration (Caltech & Cornell), Kavli Institute for Astrophysics (MIT), Black Hole Initiative & Center for Astrophysics (Harvard), Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Germany), Texas Tech, Penn State University and Louisiana State University.
News
New U²GRC faculty position at URI — Sept 30 deadline! - The University of Rhode Island (URI) is hiring a tenure-track, assistant professor position in the broad area of gravitational wave astrophysics (theory, data analysis, or computational). URI runs a regional gravity research consortium with UMass Dartmouth that includes Sarah Caudill (UMassD), Rob Coyne (URI), Scott Field (UMassD), Bob Fisher (UMassD), Doug Gobeille (URI), Gaurav Khanna […]
Manas Vishal’s first paper was published in PRD - Congrats to Manas Vishal, whose paper “Toward exponentially-convergent simulations of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals: A time-domain solver for the scalar Teukolsky equation with singular source terms” was recently accepted for publication in Physical Review D. You can find about more about this work here.- Multiple funded PhD positions available at the U²GRC - Multiple funded PhD positions are available at the UMass Dartmouth and University of Rhode Island gravity research group. We seek candidates for multiple, fully-funded PhD positions at UMass Dartmouth and the University of Rhode Island in the broad area of gravitational-wave science. Gravitational physics researchers at both universities have recently established the UMass-URI Gravity Research […]
Welcome Aidan Chatwin-Davies — New Faculty at URI - The U²GRC welcomes Aidan Chatwin-Davies! Aidan is joining URI as an Assistant Professor starting Fall semester (2024). His research interests lie in quantum information and quantum gravity, and he generally works on problems in which these fields intersect. These days Aidan is particularly interested in exploring connections among quantum error correction, cosmology, gauge theories, and other […]- Productive summer! Many new papers by the U²GRC group - High-Precision Ringdown Surrogate Model for Non-Precessing Binary Black Holes arXiv:2408.05300 Adding higher-order spherical harmonics in non-spinning eccentric binary black hole merger waveform models arXiv:2408.02762 Gravitational wave surrogate model for spinning, intermediate mass ratio binaries based on perturbation theory and numerical relativity arXiv:2407.18319 Gravitational waves from black hole emission arXiv:2407.16989 Non-Axisymmetric Gravitational “Hair” for Extremal Black […]