The National Science Foundation awarded Northwestern University a $355,745 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2024. The grant funds research on combinatorial and algebraic structures in dynamics, advancing the program's goal of strengthening the nation's scientific enterprise through increased understanding of major problems. The university will utilize the three-year funding period to investigate major open...
This $353,236 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research at Northwestern University focused on questions at the interface of dynamical systems and the rigidity of group actions. The project aims to employ tools from dynamical systems to study group actions, with the goal of classifying certain actions, the underlying spaces they act on, and invariant geometric structures. The research will also...
Northwestern University received a $175,100 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds research on K-stability, moduli spaces, and singularities from July 1, 2021 through April 30, 2023. As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program's goal to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increased understanding of major problems, this project...
The National Science Foundation awarded Northwestern University a $404,999 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research titled "Nonlinear Dynamics of Colloidal Rotors: Chaos and Order" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant will fund research into the nonlinear dynamics exhibited by colloidal particles that rotate when subjected to an external torque. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded $270,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to Northwestern University from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The Project Grant funding will support research into Linear Partial Differential Equations on Singular Spaces. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through advancing knowledge and understanding of major...
Northwestern University was awarded a three-year $338,133 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds research on mean field spin glass models and first-passage percolation models to analyze complex disordered systems where interactions have high-dimensional dependence structures and where extremes play a significant role. Key products include quantifying the low-temperature structure of mean field spin...
The National Science Foundation awarded Northwestern University a $1.792 million Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from September 2021 through August 2026. The grant funds research to measure the electron and positron magnetic moments using a quantum cyclotron, with the goal of advancing understanding of fundamental problems in physics. The work is being performed at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The total funding amount and award...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports $299,998 in fundamental and applied research on the use of probabilistic methods to study deterministic objects with sophisticated structure. The principal investigator plans to address several significant conjectures in areas like geometric and combinatorial group theory, differential geometry, and automorphic forms. The award will fund activities to train...
Northwestern University received a $497,967 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on gravitational wave sources from dense star clusters. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) on September 1, 2021 for a three-year period concluding on August 31, 2024. Through this funding, Northwestern University researchers will investigate gravitational wave emissions produced by dense clusters of stars, with the...
This $145,617 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports fundamental research on the mathematical and physical properties of partial differential equations (PDEs) modeling processes with interfaces, degenerate regions, and convexity/concavity. The award recipient, Northwestern University, will investigate key qualitative and quantitative characteristics of PDE models for gas diffusion, liquid...