People

Core Faculty

1. •Scott Field UMassD Math, MA
   

2. •Dana Fine, UMassD Math, MA
   

3. •Robert Fisher, UMassD Physics, MA
   

4. •J. P. Hsu, UMassD Physics, MA
   

5. •Gaurav Khanna, UMassD Physics, MA
   

6. •David Kagan, UMassD Physics, MA
   

Collaborative Faculty

1. •Martin Bojowald, Penn State, PA
   

2. •Lior Burko, Georgia G College, GA
   

3. •Richard Price, MIT / UMassD, MA
   

4. •Scott Hughes, MIT, MA
   

5. •Jorge Pullin, Louisiana State, LA
   

6. •Alessandra Buonanno, Max Planck Inst.
   

Current Students

1. •Rahul Kashyap, UMassD Physics, MA
   

2. •Patrick Parks, UMassD Physics, MA
   

3. •Alec Yonika, UMassD Physics, MA
   

4. •Caroline Mallary, UMassD Physics, MA
   

5. •Izak Thuestad, UMassD Physics, MA
   

6. •Dominic Gastaldo, UMassD Physics, MA
   

Past Students (Current Location)

1. •Will Duff, Industry
   

2. •Sarah Seva, Teaching
   

3. •Tyler Spilhaus, UAlaska
   

4. •David Torndorf-Dick, UNH
   

5. •Ed McClain, Louisiana State
   

6. •Charles Harnden, Teaching
   

7. •Dan Walsh, Teaching
   

8. •Gary Forrester, Teaching
   

9. •Mike DeSousa, Industry
   

10. •Justin McKennon, General Dynamics
    

11. •Dave Falta, Michigan State
    

12. •Matthew Hogan, Florida Atlantic Univ.
    

13. •Philip Mendonca, Florida Atlantic Univ.
    

14. •Rakesh Ginjupalli, IBM
    

15. •Sarah McLeod, Univ. of Melbourne
    

16. •Ian Nagle, Florida Atlantic Univ.
    

17. •Joshua Liberty, Univ. of Rhode Island
    

18. •Emanuel Simon, Univ. of Ulm, Germany
    

19. •Francis Boateng, UMass Lowell
    

20. •Subir Sabharwal, Columbia University
    

21. •Vishnu Paruchuri, Columbia U. Finance
    

22. •Jessica Rosen, Industry
    

23. •Peter Goetz, Univ. of Ulm, Germany
    

24. •Seth Connors, High-School Teacher
    

25. •Zhenhua Ning, Univ. of Illinois UC
    

26. •Nobuhiro Suzuki, Univ. of Rhode Island
    

27. •Mike O'Brien, Rutgers Univ.
    

28. •Matt Strafuss, MIT

Welcome to the Gravity Group of the Physics Department at UMass Dartmouth. This website is about different aspects of theoretical and computational gravitational physics, in particular: Our research on Black Holes, Quantum Cosmology and also Scientific Computation. All technical papers related to our research are available on the gr-qc list at the e-print archive. Here is an explicit list of a few selected articles. Research in this group is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), MA Space Grant Consortium (NASA), US Air Force Research (AFRL/AFOSR), private foundations (FQXi and others) and the computer industry (Apple, IBM, Sony, Nvidia and others). Interested students and general public should contact Professor Gaurav Khanna (gkhanna-at-umassd-dot-edu) for any queries or suggestions.

Check out our PS3 cluster for various research projects, that was made possible owing to a generous, partial donation from Sony. And here is its “big brother” built in a “reefer” container. Also check out the website of our new campus-wide Center for Scientific Computing & Visualization Research.

And here is Prof. Khanna’s talk on the GW150914 detection at our campus’ Interstellar event (2016) with Prof. Kip Thorne!

External Links

Here are some external links to related sites and other gravity groups.

General Relativity

Black Holes

Quantum Gravity

Numerical Relativity

LIGO

LISA

LANL preprints

Matters of Gravity

Hyperspace

Einstein@Home

Penn State Gravity Group

Louisiana State Gravity Group

Georgia Tech Relativity Group

A.E.I. Max Planck Institute

International Relativity Group

Caltech Relativity Group

UT Austin Relativity Group

Syracuse Relativity Group

UWM Relativity Group

FAU Space-Time Physics Group

RIT Relativity Group

UTB Relativity Group

Cornell Relativity Group

UMaryland Relativity Group

UC Santa Barbara Relativity Group