This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences provides $403,383 to President And Fellows Of Harvard College for research and application development under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Specifically, the award supports collaborative research to develop machine learning techniques for classifying optical transients detected through astronomical observation. The research is being conducted between September 2021 and...
The National Science Foundation's Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $1 million project grant to the President and Fellows of Harvard College on September 1, 2021 through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The five-year project grant will support research advancing the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program's goals of strengthening the nation's scientific enterprise and increasing knowledge of major problems. Specifically, funding will...
The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $570,000 project grant to the President And Fellows Of Harvard College for the project "THE H3 SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY AND THE ORIGIN OF THE GALAXY." The grant period runs from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. Under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), this project grant will fund a spectroscopic survey of galaxies using the H3 instrument. The survey aims to advance understanding...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $207,876 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to President and Fellows of Harvard College. This grant will support the development, testing, and application of machine learning (ML) algorithms and pipelines for the photometric classification of optical transients from current and future astronomical surveys. The key products and services to be delivered under this project include: (i) combining...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $522,928 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to President and Fellows of Harvard College. The grant will fund a legacy spectral line survey of 40 protoplanetary disks using the Submillimeter Array (SMA). The research team will survey 120 GHz of bandwidth between 210 and 370 GHz at high spectral resolution to study the chemistry of the outer disk regions, beyond the water snowline, where comets and most...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $222,345 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to President and Fellows of Harvard College. The award supports research on birational geometry, Hodge theory, and singularities in algebraic geometry. The project aims to continue developing applications of mixed Hodge modules to complex geometry, with a focus on studying key invariants such as the Kodaira dimension and local cohomological dimension....
The Trustees of Boston University were awarded a two-year, $464,331 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 research connecting multiwavelength variability of protoplanetary disks and their dynamic host stars through August 2023. As part of its mission to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences, the NSF Mathematical and Physical...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $436,310 to President and Fellows of Harvard College to develop advanced statistical techniques and tools for analyzing the unprecedented volume of supernova data expected from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). The award aims to improve understanding of the progenitor systems and properties of rare, exceptionally bright...
The National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to support a POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP from June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2025. The grant was awarded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences and strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise. The four-year fellowship funding will support postdoctoral research activities focused on advancing...
This Project Grant award of $190,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, under CFDA 47.049, supports a postdoctoral research fellowship for Nive Achenjang at Harvard University. The project, mentored by Melanie Wood, is focused on "Function Field Arithmetic Statistics and Brauer Groups of Stacks". The fellowship will fund research and training activities in the mathematical sciences, including applications to other disciplines,...