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, addressing key shortcomings in current galaxy formation models. The 3-year project will also provide mentoring for graduate students, develop an educational cosmology module, and offer a free summer STEM program for high school students. The simulations and analytical models developed under this grant will be made publicly available to aid in the interpretation of current and upcoming observational data on the gas surrounding galaxies.
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