Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge Alliance

Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge Alliance
Formation1993
Membership
University of Texas at Austin
University of Illinois
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Cornell University
Syracuse University
University of Pittsburgh
Northwestern University
Penn State University
Lead PI
Richard Matzner
Co-Is
J. Browne, M. Choptuik, E. Seidel, L. Smarr, P. Saylor, F. Saied, J. York, C. Evans, S. Shapiro, S. Teukolsky, G. Fox, J. Winicour, S. Finn, P. Laguna

The Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge Alliance (BBH Challenge Alliance) was a scientific collaboration of international physics institutes and research groups dedicated to simulating the sources and predicting the waveforms for gravitational waves, in anticipation of gravitational radiation experiments such as LIGO.[1][2]

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