The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a three-year, $276,575 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support collaborative research titled "Absorption and Emission Line Probes of Galactic Winds with EBOSS" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The research aims to promote progress in mathematical and physical sciences by increasing knowledge...
This $456,714 federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports a study of large-scale self-organization in three-dimensional shear-flow-driven magnetized plasma turbulence. The project, led by the University of Wisconsin - Madison, aims to use computer simulations to explore how magnetic fields are created and become smooth in turbulent plasma systems, such as those observed in fusion...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $420,110 Project Grant to the University of Wisconsin - Madison to "Explore Magnetic Fields on the Largest Scales." The 3-year award, beginning September 1, 2023, will fund research to develop a new "Gradient Technique" to map magnetic field directions in galaxy cluster "megahalos" - massive magnetic fields spanning millions of light years. The research aims to (1) test theories of the...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences. The grant supports research in theoretical nuclear and neutrino physics from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The award funds research that advances understanding of major problems in theoretical nuclear and neutrino physics, as outlined in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) of the National Science...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was awarded a $470,557 project grant from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences to conduct research on Galactic gamma-ray astrophysics with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory. The grant, issued under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will support research activities from September 2021 through August 2024. The project aims to advance understanding of major...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a $274,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences on June 15, 2021 to support research activities through May 31, 2024. The grant funds research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. Specifically, the University will analyze existence and stability...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a $276,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funding will support research related to averaging, spectral multipliers, sparse domination and subelliptic operators. As part of its mission to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences, the NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences program provides...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $349,660 Project Grant to the University of Wisconsin - Madison (UW-Madison) under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund a three-year research project to develop novel probabilistic machine learning techniques, such as normalizing flows, to model cosmological data from upcoming galaxy surveys. The goal is to enable more precise measurements of fundamental physics...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences provides $444,232 to support research into the evolution of gas in protoplanetary disks. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the award to the University of Wisconsin-Madison will gather breakthrough data through the ALMA survey of gas evolution in protoplanetary disks (Age-Pro) accepted Large Program. Researchers will collect and analyze deep ALMA...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will conduct research on the temperature of the circumgalactic and intergalactic medium over cosmic time under a $392,216 National Science Foundation Project Grant in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Over a three-year period from September 2021 through August 2024, the university's researchers will investigate the temperature of gas surrounding and between galaxies to better understand the evolution of large-scale structures in the...