This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research and educational activities to deepen the understanding of glassy materials and their molecular properties. The $260,000 award to Trustees of Dartmouth College will fund a 3-year project from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027. The research aims to link molecular-level changes to trends in thermophysical properties by studying structurally connected...
Brown University was awarded a $650,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for work on the project "CAREER: FINITE TEMPERATURE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE METHODS FOR PREDICTING MATERIAL PHASE DIAGRAMS" from May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2026. Under this award, Brown University will develop and apply finite temperature electronic structure methods to predict material phase diagrams and enhance understanding of major...
This $563,899 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund research at the University of Virginia from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The research aims to advance fundamental understanding of the role and properties of crystal lattices in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide materials across variable length and time scales. Specifically, the researchers will...
This Project Grant award of $311,106 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research by Brown University on several important mathematical problems in physics, fluid dynamics, and general relativity. The key research objectives include: Studying the "ghost effect" in heat conduction and constructing dynamical stability for related kinetic models. Developing global solutions for fundamental plasma physics models...
This Project Grant award of $188,815 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research at Yale University aimed at experimentally exploring the physics of quasicrystalline quantum materials. The project will use atomic physics techniques to build and probe an experimental analogue of a quasicrystalline material with unusual symmetries, observing the behavior of atoms moving around a dynamically reconfigurable and aperiodic...
This $318,775 National Science Foundation project grant supports theoretical and computational research and education activities at Lehigh University from May 2022 through April 2025. The award is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Specifically, the principal investigator and their team will develop advanced numerical techniques to model the properties of two-dimensional quantum...
This $295,495 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program to Brown University. The grant aims to develop and utilize advanced synchrotron X-ray scattering techniques to elucidate the magnetic structures and dynamic response of frustrated magnetic materials, particularly in two-dimensional device-relevant configurations. The research will establish a long-term collaboration between Brookhaven National Laboratory and...
The National Science Foundation awarded Brown University a $400,000 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support collaborative terahertz spectroscopy of clathrates from June 15, 2021 to May 31, 2024. Brown University will utilize the funding to conduct research on terahertz spectroscopy techniques to analyze gas hydrate clathrates. As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program's goals to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $384,772 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Alabama to conduct fundamental theoretical research and education on charge and heat transport in disordered materials. The 4-year project focuses on two key areas: 1) studying the disordered electron liquid near the metal-insulator transition to derive refined predictions for charge and heat transport, and 2) exploring thermal transport...
This $298,494 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics supports research on "Beyond Mean-Field Physics in Dynamical Bose-Einstein Condensates" under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The project aims to explore a variety of nonequilibrium processes in ultracold quantum gases, with a focus on investigating quantum and thermal fluctuation effects on the collision and thermalization of cold atoms, quantum phase...