The Trustees of Indiana University, doing business as Indiana University, was awarded a $269,390 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (47.049) federal grant program. The grant will fund research from September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026 mapping semigroups and classifying conformal dynamical systems. Dynamical systems model phenomena like neural networks, epidemics, and weather patterns. This project...
The Trustees of Indiana University were awarded a $160,000 project grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support research exploiting the Higgs boson for discovery. The two-year award, which runs from August 1, 2021 through March 31, 2023, will fund research at Indiana University in Bloomington aimed at delivering scientific discoveries and major scientific tools to transform understanding of nature and...
This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $287,554 to Vanderbilt University from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026 to conduct collaborative research on experimental general relativity using radio interferometry of a black hole photon ring. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Studying the information encoded in the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure has awarded a $298,616 Project Grant to the University of Illinois to develop an open-source, general relativistic initial value code to support multi-messenger astronomy research under the NSF's "Windows on the Universe: The Era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics" initiative. The 3-year grant, running from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026, will fund the creation of a community software toolkit focused on...
This $1,919,422 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program will fund the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SCIPE: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE PROFESSIONALS INNOVATING AND BROADENING THE ADOPTION OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES (CI PIVOT)" initiative led by Indiana University. The project aims to address workforce challenges in supporting the growing technology needs of scientific research and education. It will create...
The National Science Foundation awarded Indiana University a $450,100 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds the acquisition of an Atomic Force Microscopy-Infrared Spectroscopy (AFM-IR) system to support multidisciplinary research and education activities. The AFM-IR system will enable Indiana University researchers to characterize material properties and analyze biological...
This $203,574 federal Project Grant award, provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), supports research efforts at Indiana University to advance the integrated theory of space-cyber power. The 3-year grant, with a performance period from July 2024 to July 2027, aims to develop innovative solutions and expand scientific understanding in areas critical to national defense capabilities, such as quantum computing, artificial...
This $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program aims to develop a simulation tool to model the information ecosystem and understand how content spreads and is consumed by people in a network. Using agent-based modeling techniques, the project will incorporate various features of information flow, network structures, and agent characteristics to predict the outcomes of individual actions at a larger...
This federal Project Grant award of $359,264, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports collaborative research to investigate signatures of warped accretion disks and jets around supermassive black holes. The principal investigators will leverage improvements to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) array and advanced image reconstruction algorithms to analyze observations for evidence of disk warping. They will...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), seeks to accelerate the execution of large graph problems on large, distributed machines. The $327,975 award to the Trustees of Indiana University, doing business as Indiana University, will fund a collaborative research effort across three interdependent main thrusts: new algorithms for graph...