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 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 awarded a $300,000 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 will support collaborative research to deploy curvilinear coordinate and multipatch methods on neutron star mergers. The Johns Hopkins University will leverage the funding to advance scientific understanding of major problems in astrophysics, such as modeling compact binary...
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 University of Nebraska was awarded a three-year $525,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research pursuing a non-standard Higgs boson off the beaten path from September 2021 through August 2024. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. This...
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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $150,000 in funding to Kenyon College from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The award supports Professor John T. Giblin, Jr.'s research on the non-linear universe, with a focus on precision numerical cosmology and fundamental physics. Key research activities include probing high-energy physics through numerical simulations to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded a $234,026 Project Grant to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York for the project "Intersections of String Phenomenology, Cosmology, and Astrophysics." This three-year award running from September 2021 through August 2024 will support research exploring the relationships between string theory, cosmology, and astrophysical observations. Specifically, the grantee will investigate theoretical predictions from...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $215,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This 3-year grant, effective September 1, 2024, funds the research activities of Professors John Donoghue, Ben Heidenreich, and Lorenzo Sorbo. The research explores theoretical aspects of quantum gravity and how such theories may have left observable effects during the early evolution of the...
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...