The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $112,949 Project Grant to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology to conduct research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The project, titled "Uniformization of Surfaces and Mapping Problems in Metric Spaces", aims to develop new mathematical approaches for understanding the geometry of non-smooth spaces, building on the classical Uniformization Theorem. The research will investigate methods for...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $249,460 project grant to Texas A&M University from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The university will research the geometry of graphs and Banach spaces over this three-year period. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to advance these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increased knowledge and understanding of major problems. This...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $343,850 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Cincinnati. This 3-year grant, effective September 1, 2024, will fund research to develop new mathematical tools for analyzing the large-scale geometric behavior of non-smooth metric measure spaces, which have diverse applications across fields like fluid mechanics, neurophysiology, and fractal geometry. The project aims to enhance the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $204,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the Regents of the University of Michigan to investigate rigidity phenomena in geometry and dynamics, with a focus on actions of higher rank abelian and semi-simple Lie groups and their lattices. This 3-year research project, with an award period from June 2024 to May 2027, will explore topics such as the classification of higher-rank...
Michigan State University was awarded a $436,377 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences on July 15, 2021 to complete work by 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 increased knowledge and understanding of major problems. Specifically, the funding will support Michigan State University's...
The National Science Foundation awarded Indiana University a $142,059 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct research investigating ways to characterize, describe, and study spaces with many symmetries in various dynamical, geometric, and topological settings. The grant will support research exploiting connections between a wide range of mathematical areas to further understand fundamental structures related to lattices in Lie groups. Key...
The National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded North Carolina State University a $408,832 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research into Lagrangian mechanics and low-dimensional topology from July 2021 through June 2024. As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program's goal of strengthening the nation's scientific enterprise through advances in mathematics and physics, this...
This $575,244 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research into complex dynamics in higher dimensions at Indiana University from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The award will fund Ph.D. students' research into topics including holomorphic group actions on complex surfaces from Painlevé 6 differential equations, Migdal-Kadanoff renormalization mappings in statistical physics, and ergodic theory of rational maps...
This $260,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research on geometric limits in low dimensional geometry and topology at Boston College. The key objectives of the project are to analyze the global topology of the "space of all hyperbolic manifolds" and study the relationship between the "rank" of closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds and their geometry. In addition to the research...
Boise State University was awarded a $486,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research from July 1, 2021 through December 31, 2024 to study lattice dynamics and phase transitions in multifunctional oxide nanomaterials using ultraviolet Raman spectroscopy. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to advance scientific knowledge and enhance...