{"id":23,"date":"2020-07-21T09:35:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T13:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lab-template\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2026-08-22T06:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:06:16","slug":"20-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravity Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

U\u00b2GRC<\/h1>

UMass-URI Gravity Research Consortium<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Gravitational waves from LIGO’s first detection<\/div>
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Welcome to the UMass-URI Gravity Research Consortium (U2<\/sup>GRC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The U2<\/sup>GRC is a collaboration between the gravity research groups at UMass Dartmouth<\/a> and the University of Rhode Island<\/a>. The research areas of interest to the group members include: black holes<\/a>, gravitational waves<\/a>, multi-messenger astronomy<\/a>, astrophysics<\/a> and quantum gravitation<\/a>. Most members are part of the LIGO Science Collaboration<\/a> or the LISA Consortium<\/a>. Research efforts in the U2<\/sup>GRC are funded through multiple National Science Foundation<\/a> (NSF) grants, NASA<\/a> and private foundations (FQXi<\/a> and others).<\/p>\n\n<\/div>

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Details on key research projects.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Details on our group members.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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Publications<\/h2>

Recent publications.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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U2<\/sup>GRC members collaborate externally with other research groups including the Simulating Extreme Spacetimes (SXS) Collaboration<\/a> (Caltech & Cornell), Kavli Institute for Astrophysics<\/a> (MIT), Black Hole Initiative <\/a>& Center for Astrophysics<\/a> (Harvard), Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics<\/a> (Germany), Texas Tech<\/a>, Penn State University<\/a> and Louisiana State University.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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