Project Grant 0969810

This $3 million National Science Foundation project grant supports research and development activities critical to the success of gravitational-wave astronomy through the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)-Virgo-KAGRA network. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will deliver several data analysis elements for low-latency detection of transient gravitational waves from binary neutron star and black hole...

This $628,695 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Northwestern University to analyze gravitational wave data and infer astrophysical population properties. The university will characterize gravitational waves detected in the fourth observing run of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory to understand how black holes and neutron stars interact. Researchers will develop frameworks to analyze binary merger source populations, interpret observed...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award of $429,000 to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) will enhance the Gravitational-Wave Event Portal, a platform that provides public access to data from gravitational wave detectors like LIGO and Virgo. The award has two components: Expanding the Event Portal database to include hundreds of anticipated compact object merger detections, broadening it to include events discovered outside the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration, and...

Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Rhode Island's Research Office received a $149,703 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) awarded on July 15, 2025, with a completion date of June 30, 2028. The grant supports research on "Advancing Gravitational Wave Inference and Waveform Modeling with Deep Learning," addressing computational challenges in analyzing gravitational wave data collected by advanced...

This $210,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) supports research by the University of Virginia to advance gravitational wave physics and astrophysics. The key goals are to: (i) Compute persistent gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers using new conservation law models, and assess their detection prospects. (ii) Improve modeling of the gravitational wave memory effect to better understand its...

This $1,075,500 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) supports theoretical research to improve the ability of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) to extract information from observed gravitational waves. The research aims to enhance the accuracy and parameter coverage of gravitational waveform predictions using the Spectral Einstein Code (SPEC) for binary black hole collisions,...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $446,421 to improve modeling of gravitational wave detections through active galactic nuclei channels. The award to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York at Borough Manhattan Community College, from September 2022 to August 2025, will support rewriting and publicly releasing a Monte Carlo code developed to study compact object mergers in galactic...

This $376,729 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will fund an interdisciplinary research team at Brown University to develop new machine learning techniques for modeling the complex environmental interactions affecting gravitational waves from binary black hole systems. The research aims to advance a previously developed machine learning approach called Gravitational Waveform Inversion (GWI) to...

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley received a three-year, $414,434 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support the development of the TOROS Project software pipeline to enable optical follow-up observations of gravitational-wave events in the southern hemisphere through June 2024. The TOROS Project aims to coordinate electromagnetic observations of astrophysical events detected by...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program, provides funding of $462,122 to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site focused on multi-messenger astrophysics. The REU program will train the next generation of scientists in gravitational wave detection, astrophysical data analysis, observational astronomy, and theoretical modeling....