Project Grant 2308091
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences will provide $275,850 to Purdue University from September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026. The award will support collaborative research to study the physics and electromagnetic counterparts of neutrino blazars, which are powerful cosmic particle accelerators. The research will leverage advanced computer simulations to track cosmic ray acceleration and transport, identify...
- This $450,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics Project Grant, awarded on August 1, 2023, will fund theoretical research and modeling to further the understanding of neutrinos and their role in multi-messenger astrophysics. Key focus areas include the physics of neutrinos from core collapse supernovae, predictions of the diffuse flux of cosmological supernovae, and interpretation of the observed flux of TeV-PeV neutrinos from outside our galaxy. The research aims to develop...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to The Ohio State University from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The grant supports a program of theoretical work in neutrino astrophysics led by the principal investigator. The research has three main thrusts: studying solar neutrinos, supernova neutrinos, and high-energy neutrinos. The goal is to advance the understanding of nuclear physics processes in astrophysical...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $199,282 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the University of San Diego to conduct research on the quantum kinetic evolution of neutrinos in the early universe. The goal is to perform high-fidelity simulations of neutrino behavior in the dense plasma of the early universe, connecting cosmological observations to fundamental neutrino physics. This research aims to leverage the early...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $303,516 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to develop software and conduct research on explosive transients in the distant universe. The 4-year research program, running from March 2025 to August 2028, will leverage data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the Interplanetary Network, and the International Gravitational Wave Network to enable new...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant award provides $180,000.00 to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The primary goal of the project is to develop novel numerical simulations and data-driven models to predict gravitational wave signals from mergers of black holes and neutron stars. This research will test Einstein's general relativity under extreme conditions and help maximize...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences, provides $180,000 in funding to Northern Illinois University to conduct research on particle physics and advance the understanding of the fundamental constituents of matter. The key activities under this award include: Studying particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland to enhance the understanding of the Higgs boson and search for new...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program totaling $415,597 will fund research at Arizona State University on neutrino emission from stars from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The awardee will study neutrino production in stars across their life cycles using stellar evolution models spanning a wide range of initial masses. This will help analyze the impact of initial stellar composition, helium burning nuclear reaction rates, and...
- This $259,995 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the development of an open-source, GPU-enabled computational code for modeling the physics of compact object mergers, such as binary neutron star and black hole-neutron star collisions. The code will leverage advanced neutrino transport models and high-performance GPU computing to enable more accurate and scalable simulations of these...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), is providing $270,310 from Sep 1, 2023 to Aug 31, 2026 to conduct collaborative research on the physics and electromagnetic counterparts of neutrino blazars. The investigators will use advanced computer simulations to study these powerful cosmic events where jets shoot out from the vicinity of supermassive black holes, in order to unlock the secrets of these sources and make predictions for future multi-messenger discoveries. The project will offer research opportunities for undergraduate students at Purdue University and engage high school students through the Saturday Morning Astrophysics Program with activities focused on special relativity concepts. This award supports NSF's mission to promote the progress of the mathematical and physical sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $270.3k | 7/18/23 |