Faculty members invited to research group

Sukanya Chakrabarti, assistant professor of physics in the College of Science, and Jason Nordhaus, NTID assistant professor of physics and a faculty member in RIT’s Ph.D. program in astrophysical sciences and technology, were invited by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) to participate in a Scialog (Science Dialog) on Time Domain Astrophysics in Tucson, Ariz., May 9-12. At the Scialog, approximately 50 Fellows will pursue collaborative, high risk, highly impactful discovery research on untested ideas applicable to creating breakthroughs in fundamental science. Both faculty are members of RIT’s Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, whose simulations of merging black hole binaries were used by the LIGO Project to confirm the breakthrough detection of gravitational waves from binary black holes in space.