The University of Illinois was awarded a $599,912 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds research to push the boundaries of classical and quantum information processing toward enhanced security and energy-efficient reliability. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to promote progress in these fields to...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $202,066 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund the collaborative research project "COSMIC SHEAR ON EXTREMELY LARGE SCALES WITH THE DARK ENERGY CAMERA" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The research aims to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences by increasing...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $330,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences to support research related to hydrodynamics of collective phenomena and applications under the agency's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award, issued June 1, 2021 with a completion date of May 31, 2024, will fund research exploring major problems confronting the Nation through advancing the store of scientific knowledge...
The University of Illinois was awarded a two-year, $249,538 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support the "LEAPS-MPS: ANALYTIC APPROACHES TO LIMIT THEOREMS AND RANDOM STRUCTURES" project conducted from September 2021 through August 2023. The project aims to advance understanding of major problems in the mathematical and physical sciences...
The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign received a $244,380 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop a deep learning framework for detecting, deblending, and classifying astronomical sources in wide-field survey images. The goal is to create efficient and robust methods to process the unprecedented volume of astronomical data that will be collected over the coming decade, enabling accurate...
The University of Illinois was awarded a three-year $541,824 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support spectroscopic and mechanistic studies of odd-electron palladium complexes being conducted from July 2021 through June 2024 at the University's campus in Urbana, Illinois. As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program's goals of advancing scientific knowledge...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $399,083 will support research at the University of Illinois from August 2022 to July 2025 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The award will fund development of single-photon quantum information processing using nonlinear photonic integrated circuits. Specifically, the university researchers will work to generate and manipulate few-photon quantum correlations and entanglement through an integrated photonic system with record-high...
This $600,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to develop efficient sources of pure single- and multi-photon quantum states to enable new advances in quantum communication, computing, and metrology. The principal investigators at the University of Illinois plan to leverage photon-addition and photon-subtraction techniques to engineer a variety of exotic quantum states of light, like Fock states,...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $1,198,092 will support research at Northwestern University from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The university will design photonic lattices and multilayer structures that can confine light in small spaces near metal nanostructures and support electrically-driven excitation. Researchers will fabricate new architectures based on multilayer nanoparticle arrays and realize...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $2,021,603 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Chicago for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds the development of a dynamic picoprobe for multi-modal, multi-dimensional hyperspectral imaging of soft/hard matter and interfaces in environmental media. Specifically, the University of Chicago will design and fabricate phase plates and diffractive optics for...