Project Grant 2307395
Award Date
9/1/23
Completion Date
8/31/26
Dollars Obligated
$375K
Funding Federal Agency
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Awarding Federal Agency
Division of Astronomical Sciences
Federal Grant Program
47.049
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
College Park, MD 20742, USA
Similar Awards
This three-year, $598,710 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research and education activities at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Maryland, College Park focused on investigating electromagnetic precursor transients to gravitational wave events through computational simulations. Caltech will lead the research effort to perform the first numerical simulations of the crustal shattering...
The University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program to improve gravitational wave data analysis tools and enable multi-messenger astrophysics research. Under the one-year award beginning September 1, 2023, UMCP will enhance its PyCBC data analysis pipeline using machine learning to incorporate data quality information into detection statistics. This upgraded pipeline will...
The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $513,716 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct research titled "Studying Compact Object Mergers from a New Perspective" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. As part of the NSF's mission to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences, this grant will fund research to enhance understanding of major problems confronting...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $298,216 Project Grant to the University of Maryland, College Park under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from July 15, 2022 to July 31, 2023. The grant will support research to better understand the dynamics of collisionless pair plasmas in environments with extremely strong magnetic and gravitational fields, such as those found in magnetars, merging neutron star binaries, and collapsing neutron stars. The researchers will...
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...
The University of Maryland, College Park will use a $405,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program to research particle acceleration during collisionless magnetic reconnection from June 2021 through May 2024. Through its Office of Research Administration, the University will examine major problems in plasma physics, such as how magnetic energy is converted to particle energy during magnetic reconnection events that occur without...
This $431,872 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will support research at the University of Maryland, College Park on the physical processes responsible for the generation of radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray emissions from pulsars. The research team will use advanced numerical simulations to investigate how pair plasma discharges and magnetic reconnection in pulsars lead to the production of coherent radio waves as...
This $329,290 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Maryland Baltimore County to improve understanding of outflows from accreting supermassive black holes and their impact on host environments. Funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, the three-year award will coordinate multiwavelength observations using the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System in Arizona and other observatories. Researchers will pair...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics awarded a $540,000 Project Grant to the University of Illinois from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. This award supports theoretical research in relativity and relativistic astrophysics under NSF's "Windows on the Universe" Big Idea program. The research addresses key topics including the physics of compact objects, the generation of gravitational waves and associated electromagnetic signals, the stability and evolution of...
The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $286,730 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research activities related to renormalization and higher rank parabolic actions from June 1, 2022 through May 31, 2027. As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program's goal of advancing scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems, this award will support the University's...