Northwestern University received a $618,125 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences on September 1, 2021 to complete the project by August 31, 2024. The grant is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. Under this award, Northwestern University will conduct a self-consistent Bayesian investigation of star cluster...
Northwestern University received a $381,761 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences to study the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The grant is being carried out under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems. Through this award, Northwestern researchers will analyze past observational data on the black hole, known...
Northwestern University received a $296,685 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences on September 1, 2021 to complete work by August 31, 2024. The grant funds the COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NSF-BSF: WOU-MMA: CROSSING THE CHASM: FROM COMPACT OBJECT MERGERS TO COSMIC FIREWORKS project under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA #47.049). The project aims to advance understanding of major problems in astrophysics by...
Northwestern University received a $497,967 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on gravitational wave sources from dense star clusters. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) on September 1, 2021 for a three-year period concluding on August 31, 2024. Through this funding, Northwestern University researchers will investigate gravitational wave emissions produced by dense clusters of stars, with the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $289,379 Project Grant to The Trustees of Princeton University, doing business as Princeton University, for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. This award 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. Specifically, this award will support collaborative research to constrain...
The University of California, San Diego will receive $330,903 over three years from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences under a Project Grant award to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CDS & E: CONSTRAINING THE UNCERTAIN PHYSICS OF GALAXY FORMATION: COSMIC RAYS, BLACK HOLES, AND BEYOND." The award falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and...
Northwestern University received a $175,100 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds research on K-stability, moduli spaces, and singularities from July 1, 2021 through April 30, 2023. As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program's goal to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increased understanding of major problems, this project...
The National Science Foundation awarded Northwestern University a $1.792 million Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from September 2021 through August 2026. The grant funds research to measure the electron and positron magnetic moments using a quantum cyclotron, with the goal of advancing understanding of fundamental problems in physics. The work is being performed at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The total funding amount and award...
Northwestern University received a $420,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on July 15, 2021 to complete work by June 30, 2024. The grant supports the project "MEASURING GRAVITY AT THE MICRON-SCALE WITH LASER-COOLED TRAPPED MICROSPHERES: A RENEWAL PROPOSAL" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The program aims to promote progress in mathematical and physical sciences to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise....
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $526,943 to Northwestern University from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027 to investigate the role of collapsars (black hole-powered stellar explosions) in creating heavy elements that enrich our everyday lives. The project aims to develop numerical models that connect the pre-collapse stellar structure to the multimessenger emission (gravitational waves and...