The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a Project Grant of $207,638 to the Old Dominion University Research Foundation (Odurf) to conduct a rigorous mathematical study of equations modeling nematic liquid crystals. The grant, funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will investigate various models of nematic liquid crystals across different scales, from macroscopic to microscopic theories. The research aims to...
The University of Connecticut will use $348,009 in funding from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) over a three-year period from September 2021 through August 2024. The Project Grant award will support research on "Invariant Metrics on Complex Manifolds" to promote progress in mathematical sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. The funding will enable investigation of major problems in these fields...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $149,265 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Yale University. The grant, awarded on June 1, 2024 with a completion date of May 31, 2027, supports research focused on the mathematical foundations of nonlinear and disordered systems, with a specific emphasis on the study of solitons and their applications in quantum physics, chemistry, and materials science. The project aims to establish new...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $282,499 project grant to the University of Connecticut's Office of Sponsored Programs under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award, issued on June 1, 2021 and concluding on May 31, 2024, will support research into cluster algebras, combinatorics, and knot theory. Most project grants under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program promote progress in these fields to strengthen the nation's...
This three-year National Science Foundation Project Grant of $197,999 supports research and education activities at Worcester Polytechnic Institute under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The award will fund the development of novel mathematical methods to analyze partial differential equations describing singularities in continuum mechanics and materials science systems. The principal investigator will extend differential inclusion theory on rigidity and flexibility,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $230,111 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Utah's Office of Sponsored Projects Division. This 3-year grant, effective from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027, supports two scientific research threads: (1) fundamental research on liquid crystals, their suspensions, and related applications; and (2) investigations of extreme wave phenomena in photonic devices, with a focus on epsilon near...
This $583,191 National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences Project Grant supports research into hydrodynamics of liquid crystals and heat flow of harmonic maps at New York University from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. The principal investigator and their team will conduct interdisciplinary research exploring the Ericksen-Leslie system describing liquid crystal dynamics, singularities in fluid flows and topological defects. They will also investigate geometric variational...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $343,850 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Cincinnati. This 3-year grant, effective September 1, 2024, will fund research to develop new mathematical tools for analyzing the large-scale geometric behavior of non-smooth metric measure spaces, which have diverse applications across fields like fluid mechanics, neurophysiology, and fractal geometry. The project aims to enhance the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to New York University (NYU) for the period of August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The grant, funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), focuses on two key areas: Studying geometric evolution equations, specifically mean curvature flow and Ricci flow, with a focus on different aspects of regularity. This research aims to address longstanding open problems at the...
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...