William Marsh Rice University was awarded a $208,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award will support research to recover material parameters and friction laws associated with earthquakes, interseismic slip, and tidal deformation. The grant aims to advance understanding of major problems in the mathematical and physical sciences by increasing...
William Marsh Rice University was awarded a $588,816 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics on July 15, 2021, with a completion date of June 30, 2024. The grant is being used to support the "RYDBERG SYNTHETIC DIMENSIONS: A NEW SIMULATOR FOR QUANTUM MATTER" project under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The project aims to develop a new quantum simulator using Rydberg atoms to model quantum systems and advance understanding of...
William Marsh Rice University was awarded a $425,741 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems on February 15, 2021 to develop novel mammalian cell-based devices that sense and respond. The award has a completion date of January 31, 2024. The funding is provided through the NSF Directorate for Engineering's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through...
William Marsh Rice University was awarded a $258,127 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences on July 1, 2021, with a completion date of June 30, 2024. The grant falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing understanding of major problems. Under this award, Rice University will...
William Marsh Rice University was awarded a $149,994 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences on August 15, 2021 to complete work by July 31, 2024. The grant falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing understanding of major problems. Specifically, Rice University will conduct...
Rice University was awarded a $294,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support the project "Spectral Theory and Quantum Dynamics" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. Under this award, Rice University researchers will conduct work related to spectral theory and quantum dynamics to promote progress in mathematical and physical sciences and strengthen the national scientific enterprise. The funding will...
Rice University received a $214,533 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support collaborative research on risk-sensitive control of stochastic networks. The two-year award beginning January 1, 2022 will advance mathematical analysis in stochastic control and develop advanced methods and algorithms to provide risk-mitigating solutions for operational...
William Marsh Rice University was awarded a $269,195 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences. The grant funds the CAREER: STABLE AND SCALABLE ESTIMATION OF THE INTRINSIC GEOMETRY OF MULTIWAY DATA project under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The project will develop new statistical methods to analyze multiway data in a stable and scalable manner to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences. The funding...
Rice University received a $165,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to investigate strain and strain relaxation mechanisms in complex two-dimensional materials. Through this five-year award running from May 2023 to April 2028, Rice University will conduct research using scanning transmission electron microscopy techniques to map lattice strain and deformations in two-dimensional...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $215,057 project grant to William Marsh Rice University, doing business as Rice University, through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The grant funds research to study singularity, rigidity, and extremality phenomena in minimal hypersurfaces, which are generalizations of minimal surfaces important in areas like general relativity and phase transition theory. This 3-year research project will further...