This $380,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at the University of Illinois on mirror symmetry. The three-year award will fund a collaborative research group investigating mirror symmetry as it relates to symplectic geometry, complex algebraic geometry, and quantization. The group brings expertise from different mathematics areas and will use various techniques to construct concrete models...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $740,299 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The funding will support research into complex Lagrangian geometry as a tool to study geometric questions and quantization arising at the intersection of geometry and topology. Specifically, the award will allow researchers to construct concrete models...
This $307,873 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund research into geometric, analytic, and algebraic aspects of real submanifolds in complex varieties and their symmetries from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2025. The University of California, San Diego will study properties of various metrics and kernels related to Kähler-Einstein metrics on higher-dimensional spaces, with goals of characterizing domains and...
This $270,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports fundamental research in geometric representation theory and symplectic geometry at the University of California, Berkeley. The research aims to develop new tools and solve open problems in these mathematical fields, which draw inspiration from theoretical physics. Key research themes include investigating the cocenter of the affine Hecke category,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides funding of $181,612 to the University of Texas at Austin to conduct research on homological and enumerative intrinsic mirror symmetry and related topics. The award aims to prove parts of mirror symmetry in the context of Calabi-Yau varieties, a class of spaces in algebraic and differential geometry. Specifically, the research will seek to relate the...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences, under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $200,000 in funding to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) from August 15, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The funding supports research aimed at uncovering patterns and symmetries in Khovanov-Rozansky link homology, a generalization of the famous HOMFLY polynomial in knot theory. The project will build upon...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a $170,443 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports research in "Critical Symplectic Geometry, Lagrangian Cobordisms, and Stable Homotopy Theory." The project aims to incorporate ideas from homotopy theory and category theory into symplectic geometry to prove structural results about...
This $132,652 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at Brandeis University aimed at studying the "Nearby Lagrangian Conjecture" in symplectic topology using tools from algebraic K-theory and stable homotopy theory. The overarching research goal is to obtain new results that shed light on this long-standing open problem in modern...
This $280,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support research in birational geometry at New York University from April 2022 through March 2025. Specifically, the principal investigator will use methods from Galois cohomology of function fields, properties of algebraic cycles over non-algebraically closed fields, K-theory, and degeneration techniques to advance understanding of rationality and stable...
This three-year, $157,604 National Science Foundation Project Grant in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support research at Boston University focusing on gravitational instantons, mirror symmetry, and enumerative geometry. Specifically, the principal investigator will investigate the differential geometric aspects of gravitational instantons and implications for enumerative geometry and algebraic geometry through mirror symmetry. The research aims to unify...