Project Grant 2209991
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) will support a collaborative research project at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) to reconstruct primordial density fluctuations using near-field cosmology. The key product of this $419,979 award, with a performance period from December 1, 2024 to October 31, 2027, will be an efficient and accurate model for predicting the Milky...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $280,576 Project Grant to Princeton University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant will support collaborative research on "COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPHYSICS WITH MACHINE LEARNING SIMULATIONS (CAMELS) TO MAXIMIZE THE SCIENCE RETURN OF NEXT-GENERATION COSMOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS." Specifically, Princeton University will leverage machine learning techniques...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $733,325 Project Grant to Yale University through its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support an extended suite of cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical simulations to resolve the filaments and intergalactic medium (IGM) and accurately model their evolution. This research aims to provide a detailed understanding of how gas accretion from the cosmic web fuels star formation and drives the evolution of galaxies,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $293,196 Project Grant to Swarthmore College to address fundamental issues in cosmology under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The funding will support theoretical work to provide insights into tensions in the current standard cosmological model, specifically the "Hubble tension" and "Sigma-8 tension" that challenge our understanding of the Universe's expansion...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) Project Grant award provides $251,928 to the University of Chicago to conduct collaborative research on combining galaxy and cosmic microwave background surveys to obtain precise and robust constraints on cosmology - the distribution of matter throughout the universe. The research team will analyze complementary measurements of galaxy positions, gravitational lensing of galaxies, gravitational lensing...
- The University of Connecticut received a $598,336 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop advanced computer simulations that will lead to a better understanding of galaxies, supermassive black holes, and the evolution of the universe. The 5-year research project, which began on September 1, 2025, will focus on two key areas: (1) advancing physically predictive models of galaxies at sub-parsec resolution, and...
- This $345,303 collaborative research project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) will support scientists at the University of Hawaii and the University of Chicago in analyzing complementary datasets from state-of-the-art astronomical surveys to obtain precise and unbiased constraints on the properties of the universe. The research team will use measurements of galaxy positions, gravitational lensing of galaxies, gravitational...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $165,000 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Professor Sarah Shandera at The Pennsylvania State University. This 3-year award will fund research on applying the theory of open quantum systems to cosmological problems, in order to improve our understanding of the origin, content, and evolution of the universe. Key aspects of the research include studying how the dynamics of open quantum systems...
- This $120,000 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the CFDA program 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences, supports fundamental research on gravitational astrophysics and computational methods to advance scientific understanding of neutron stars, black holes, gravitational waves, and the large-scale structure of the universe. The award will fund a series of research projects at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) focused on developing new...
- This $508,212 five-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports the creation of an ambitious simulation suite that will uniformly cover an unprecedented range of dark matter and gravity models. The goal is to enable detailed comparisons between these simulations and observational survey data, potentially ruling out certain models of dark matter and gravity. The simulations will be publicly available to enable...
This $270,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) funds research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, to be conducted from August 15, 2022 through July 31, 2025. Professor Matias Zaldarriaga will improve theoretical understanding of the physical processes responsible for cosmological structure formation, and develop new modeling and analysis tools for galaxy surveys to advance constraints on the universe's evolution. His work combines effective field theory with computational and statistical techniques to confront theory with observations. Broader impacts include disseminating research to non-scientists through public lectures and media outreach, as well as contributing to student and postdoctoral education. The grant supports advancing fundamental discovery in cosmology through Professor Zaldarriaga's unique approach harnessing previously inaccessible cosmological data.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $270.0k | 8/12/22 |