The Regents of the University of California at Riverside received a $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on September 15, 2021 to support research titled "EAGER: ADAPT: UNDERSTANDING NONLINEAR NOISE IN LIGO: A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH" through August 31, 2023. 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...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program grant, awarded under CFDA Number 47.049, provides $150,000.00 in funding to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside to develop and deploy new adaptive optical technology. The goal is to significantly improve the sensitivity of gravitational-wave detectors, expanding their detection horizon past a redshift of 5 and enabling new tests of strong-field gravity, cosmology, and dense nuclear matter. This...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $479,600 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award, made on September 1, 2021 and concluding on August 31, 2024, will support research into codes, circuits, and networks for modular quantum computation. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise through advancing knowledge and...
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received a $298,244 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) on August 15, 2021 to enable research for next generation gravitational wave detectors through July 31, 2022. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which supports progress in these scientific fields and strengthens the nation's scientific enterprise through increased knowledge and understanding of major...
Colorado State University was awarded a $449,930 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research into coatings for next generation gravitational wave interferometers from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The funding will support development of advanced optical coatings to increase sensitivity and reduce noise in future gravitational wave detectors,...
This $414,000 federal Project Grant award, issued by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports research to develop next-generation dielectric coatings that can reduce thermal noise in gravitational wave interferometers by a factor of two. The 3-year project, running from July 2024 to June 2027, aims to investigate new amorphous oxide mixtures and utilize ion beam sputtering deposition to create advanced coatings that can...
The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded a $533,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara for research into quantum phenomena in solids. The three-year award, running from September 2021 through August 2024, will fund investigation into major problems confronting the Nation through advancement of the mathematical and physical sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). As the prime awardee, UC Santa Barbara...
This $120,000 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the CFDA program 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences, supports fundamental research on gravitational astrophysics and computational methods to advance scientific understanding of neutron stars, black holes, gravitational waves, and the large-scale structure of the universe. The award will fund a series of research projects at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) focused on developing new...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $888,328 in funding to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The grant supports an international program led by UCSC researchers to study the electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave events, with the key goals of: 1) discovering and characterizing new electromagnetic counterparts, 2) producing improved...
The University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside) received a $233,452 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to study the behavior of geometric and linear data associated with the solution sets of polynomials. The award will support research on the algebraic geometry and topological properties of moduli spaces of varieties and pairs, with a focus on...