The University of Chicago was awarded a $550,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research using multiconfiguration pair-density functional theory for spectroscopy and photochemistry from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. As part of the NSF's mission to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences, this award will fund the development and application of...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $187,000 Project Grant to the University of Chicago from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds collaborative research on new challenges in the derivation and dynamics of quantum systems. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to promote progress in mathematics and the physical sciences to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. This award supports the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $387,874 Project Grant to the University of Chicago to develop new theoretical and computational tools for efficiently estimating long-time molecular thermodynamics and kinetics. Under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program, Andrew Ferguson of the University of Chicago will establish novel simulation approaches enabled by machine learning and new mathematical theorems to simulate biomolecules...
The University of Chicago was awarded a $238,603 project grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research at the intersection of conformal field theory, cryo-electron microscopy, and neural networks from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2024. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increased understanding of major problems. Through this funding, the University...
The University of Chicago received a $480,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on May 1, 2021 to fund research titled "LADDER OLIGOMERS AND POLYMERS: SELF-ASSEMBLIES AND OPTO-ELECTRIC PROPERTIES" through April 30, 2024. The grant is part of NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $492,284 project grant to the University of Chicago under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research from July 2021 through June 2024 to study acoustic forces and active fluctuations in levitated granular matter. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through advancing knowledge and understanding of major problems in mathematical and physical...
The University of Chicago received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research to support collaborative research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: DESIGNER 3D MESOSCALE MATERIALS SYNTHESIZED IN THE SELF-ASSEMBLY FOUNDRY." The award period is from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025. The grant supports research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these...
The University of Chicago received a $360,114 project grant award from the National Science Foundation on October 1, 2021 to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: LIVING BIOTIC-ABIOTIC MATERIALS WITH TEMPORALLY PROGRAMMABLE ACTUATION" through September 30, 2025. The award is being administered under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $526,536 to the University of Chicago for research on novel quantum phenomena and quantum chemistry. The funded work focuses on two main areas: (1) investigating "quantum super-chemistry" involving chemical reactions at ultra-low temperatures, and (2) studying the transition between two-body pairing via the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $275,107 project grant to the University of Chicago under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) for work titled "Diffusion and Regularity." The three-year award running from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024 will support research into promoting progress in the mathematical and physical sciences to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. As part of increasing scientific knowledge and enhancing...