We will have several visitors in the second half of January and first half of February, including Sarah Caudill (Jan 22-25), Vitor Cardoso (Jan 15-Feb 12), Leonardo Gualtieri (Jan 29-Feb 10), Michael Horbatsch (Jan 26-Feb 11) and Uli Sperhake (Jan 31-Feb 13). Welcome everybody!
Friday, January 6, 2012
Resonant Shattering of Neutron Star Crusts
Postdoc Jocelyn Read has a new Physical Review Letters publication, Resonant Shattering of Neutron Star Crusts, along with collaborators from Caltech and Penn State. There is a synopsis in Physics, Neutron Stars Shattered by Perfect Pitch, giving a general summary of the results, and the Letter is an Editor’s Suggestion.
Friday, December 23, 2011
Supercomputing grant extended
The eXtreme Digital Request Allocation Committee (XRAC) recommended an extension of our NSF Grant PHY-090003 (High energy grazing collisions of black holes, PI: Ulrich Sperhake, Co-Is: Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso, Frans Pretorius). This grant will provide us with 2,000,000 core hours from XSEDE (formerly known as TeraGrid) to study black hole collisions.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Floating orbits in the press
Our recent paper on floating orbits was published in Physical Review Letters. The INAF website has a nice outreach article on our work. INAF is the Italian Institute of Astrophysics, and the article is in Italian (you have been warned!). Thanks to Marco Galliani for the write-up!
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Numerical Relativity and High-Energy Physics Network
The European Commission Research Executive Agency has approved an International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES) Marie Curie action on Numerical Relativity and High Energy Physics (NRHEP) within the FP7 People Programme. This action will promote research in gravitational physics, with a focus on applications of numerical relativity to high-energy physics.
The partnership involves research institutions in five countries. It is coordinated by Emanuele Berti (Mississippi, USA), Vitor Cardoso (Lisbon, Portugal), Luis Carlos Crispino (ParĂ¡, Brazil), Leonardo Gualtieri (Rome, Italy), Carlos Herdeiro (Aveiro, Portugal; action coordinator) and Ulrich Sperhake (Barcelona, Spain).
About thirty researchers will be exchanged between the six nodes over the four-year duration of the exchange program, that will start in 2012. The action will also support workshops and other events at each of the participating nodes.