Project Grant 2143861

This project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $200,000 in funding to the University of Utah for a two-year period (July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2027). The award supports fundamental mathematical research focused on understanding random growth patterns and stochastic processes that occur naturally in complex systems such as disease spread, crystal formation, and traffic...

CAREER: Safety-Centered Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Wake Forest University received $520,013 in Project Grant funding from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (CFDA 47.070) awarded on July 15, 2025, with a completion date of June 30, 2030. This CAREER award supports research and development of a comprehensive safety framework for multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) systems. The project delivers four key innovations: (1) learning...

The Carnegie Mellon University was awarded a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences to support research focusing on long-term investing in high-dimensional open markets. The three-year award, made on August 1, 2022, will fund analysis of explicit, tractable models of open markets where the set of available assets can vary over time. In particular, the research will advance understanding of recently developed hybrid and rank Jacobi models,...

This $388,536 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports fundamental research at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) to study the propagation of randomness in nonlinear wave phenomena. The key objectives of the 3-year project are to: Analyze the long-term dynamics and stability of dispersive flows from a probabilistic perspective in energy subcritical regimes....

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $659,740 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to support research centered around stochastic dynamical systems describing interacting particle behavior. The research aims to characterize typical behavior, fluctuation probabilities, and large deviations for such systems as the number of particles...

Rice University received a $214,533 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support collaborative research on risk-sensitive control of stochastic networks. The two-year award beginning January 1, 2022 will advance mathematical analysis in stochastic control and develop advanced methods and algorithms to provide risk-mitigating solutions for operational...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a CAREER grant of $174,629 to Stanford University, effective February 1, 2026 through January 31, 2029, to develop advanced learning theory and mathematical frameworks for large-scale stochastic games and mean-field games (MFGs). The research addresses decision-making in complex systems with large populations by creating flexible mathematical models and learning algorithms that...

This $649,684 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the University of Pittsburgh from May 1, 2026, through April 30, 2031. The primary product of this award is the establishment of mathematical and computational foundations for bifurcation engineering—a systematic methodology for designing nonlinear dynamical systems with specified qualitative...

This $412,038 CAREER (Careers in Teaching and Research) award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports a five-year research project at Boston University running from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2030. The project develops improved approximation algorithms for NP-hard graph problems that are computationally intractable to solve exactly. The...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences has awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to Cornell University to support research on stochastic models and their properties. The key objectives of this 3-year grant, which runs from July 15, 2023 to June 30, 2026, are to: Develop novel methodologies to characterize different types of orbits exhibited by Markov semigroups on Hilbert spaces, providing a comprehensive understanding of these structures. Utilize the classification...