The National Science Foundation awarded a $513,307 project grant to the University of California, San Diego under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research titled "Understanding and Controlling Reaction Mechanisms under Vibrational Strong Coupling" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The university, acting on behalf of principal investigator(s), will investigate major problems in understanding and manipulating chemical reactions at the...
The National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry awarded a $514,668 Project Grant to the University of California, Merced to develop new theoretical methods for simulating quantum effects in protonated water clusters. The project, titled "State-Resolved Vibrational Spectra of Fluxional Protonated Water Clusters via Tensor Network States", aims to enable efficient and accurate simulation of these clusters, which are key to understanding the fundamental properties of water. The...
The University of California, San Diego will receive $294,440 from the National Science Foundation over three years under a Project Grant award titled "Finitary Analysis in Homogeneous Dynamics and Applications." The funding will support research into mathematical and physical sciences under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Specifically, the award will advance understanding of major problems confronting the nation through increasing the store of...
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) received a $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant supports the development of advanced computational and statistical methods for analyzing complex, dependent data from diverse scientific domains such as climate, economics, and neuroimaging. Key research thrusts include subsampling and resampling techniques for large datasets, robust...
The University of California, San Diego will deliver a project titled "Responsive Materials from Self-Assembling Nucleic Acid Nanoshapes" through a $535,012 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award running from July 2021 to June 2024 will support research into developing responsive materials using self-assembling nucleic acid nanostructures. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences...
The University of California, San Diego will receive $200,000 from the National Science Foundation under a Project Grant award titled "NUMERICAL METHODS FOR NONLOCAL MODELS WITH APPLICATIONS TO MULTISCALE AND NONLINEAR SYSTEMS." The grant period runs from July 15, 2021 through June 30, 2024. The funding will support research into numerical methods for nonlocal models and their applications to multiscale and nonlinear systems, advancing the goals of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical...
This $599,648 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry (CFDA Program 47.049, Mathematical and Physical Sciences) supports research by Professors Vicki Grassian and Rommie Amaro at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) to investigate the chemistry of biological macromolecules, such as proteins and environmental DNA, within aqueous aerosols. The research team will integrate laboratory experiments and computational simulations to...
The University of California, San Diego was awarded a $218,577 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research in the field of combinatorial representation theory from July 2023 through June 2026. Specifically, the principal investigator and collaborators will study objects that remain invariant under certain linear symmetries, seeking to extend...
The University of California, San Diego received a $489,206 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on June 1, 2021 to support research titled "SMALL: NEW DIRECTIONS IN CLUSTERING: INTERACTIVE ALGORITHMS AND STATISTICAL MODELS." The award period runs through October 31, 2022. The funding supports the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, which aims to advance computing, communications, and information science through investigator-initiated...
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) was awarded a $1,316,678 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to conduct research on "Understanding the Supramolecular Nature of the Nanocrystal Ligand Shell". The project aims to elucidate the key mechanisms underlying ligand shell structuring and its impact on the behavior of colloidal nanocrystals, with a focus on the role of ligand-ligand interactions, solvation, and...