This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support research at The Johns Hopkins University to develop new theoretical frameworks for modeling multi-messenger signatures from the interactions of supermassive black hole binaries and their environments. The $443,481 award, effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028, aims to advance the state-of-the-art in multi-messenger astrophysics by...
The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $1,460,685 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support fundamental research in interactions and cosmology from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. This grant will fund research exploring major problems in particle physics and the evolution of the universe, with the goal of increasing scientific knowledge as outlined by the Mathematical and Physical...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $431,250 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to The Johns Hopkins University. The award period is from June 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. The funded research project has three main goals: (i) conduct radio follow-up observations of neutron star-neutron star and neutron star-black hole systems detected by gravitational wave observatories to study the physics of their ejecta and remnants; (ii) investigate...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $433,306 project grant to The Johns Hopkins University from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds collaborative research to take a panchromatic view of normal galaxies in the early universe. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise by increasing...
The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $413,757 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.049). The 3-year grant, running from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026, will be used to study compact binary formation and mergers using gravitational wave observations from LIGO and Virgo. Key objectives include using an expanded catalog of compact binary merger events to better understand their...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $432,276 supports research in physics and astrophysics of compact binaries at The Johns Hopkins University from June 2022 through May 2025. The award addresses priorities under the NSF's Windows on the Universe Big Idea by supporting studies of gravitational wave observations to advance understanding of gravity and black holes. Key products include research on black hole spectroscopy to identify merger remnants predicted by general relativity...
This $1.2 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences will fund research into the role of the dynamo effect in neutron star mergers from 2022 to 2025. As part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the grant supports efforts to elucidate the dynamo processes generated by instabilities in the pre-merger and post-merger phases of neutron star collisions. Insights into how accompanying magnetic...
The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program awarded a $630,000 Project Grant to The Johns Hopkins University to fund the research activities of Professors Marc Kamionkowski, David E. Kaplan, Surjeet Rajendran, and Ibrahima Bah. The 3-year grant, effective from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, supports theoretical physics research at the intersection of particle physics, cosmology, and the formal mathematical tools underlying physical theories. The...
The National Science Foundation awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $600,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025. The grant funds collaborative research on developing high-affinity supramolecular peptide materials for the selective capture and recovery of proteins. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to advance scientific knowledge and enhance understanding of major problems through support...
The National Science Foundation awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $289,999 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research titled "Geometric and Microlocal Study of Automorphic Periods" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. This funding will allow researchers at Johns Hopkins University to advance understanding of major problems in mathematics by conducting research into the geometric and microlocal properties of automorphic...