The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Hampton University to organize a conference focused on workforce development needs for future fusion energy technologies. This award was made under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The conference, planned for late May 2024, will bring together public and private stakeholders to identify opportunities for partnership in fusion research and education. The goal is to address the workforce needs of the emerging...
This $265,965 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) supports research and development by Nearstar Fusion Inc., a for-profit organization, on a new approach to fusion energy for grid-based electric power. The project aims to perform computational modeling, analytical calculations, and design work to de-risk and establish a point design for a "hypervelocity gradient field fusion" concept. This...
The National Science Foundation awarded Columbia University a $419,433 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports research to advance data-driven modeling approaches for magnetized plasmas through three key efforts. First, several emerging data decomposition methods will be applied to numerical simulations of magnetized plasmas for the first time and assessed for these systems. Second, data-driven nonlinear models based on these...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, doing business as Columbia University. The award, titled "DYGENAI: DYNAMIC GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR PREDICTION AND CONTROL OF HIGH-DIMENSIONAL NONLINEAR COMPLEX SYSTEMS," is for the period of September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. The grant supports fundamental...
The Columbia University was awarded a $774,628 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences on September 1, 2021 to complete work by August 31, 2026. The grant supports the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: MICROSTRUCTURE BY DESIGN: INTEGRATING GRAIN GROWTH EXPERIMENTS, DATA ANALYTICS, SIMULATION, AND THEORY" project under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The project aims to advance understanding of major problems in...
This Project Grant award for $250,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of novel computational approaches to accurately model kinetic physics in high-temperature fusion plasmas. The research aims to integrate data compression techniques, fast numerical methods, and advanced mathematical modeling to enable high-fidelity plasma simulations on modern supercomputers. The project will apply...
This Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports collaborative research on microscale plasma processes in shock and turbulent environments. The $341,464 award to Columbia University, spanning August 2024 to July 2027, will focus on two key areas: 1) particle heating and acceleration in shocks, and 2) thermodynamics and transport driven by large-scale turbulence. The research aims to develop...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $1,262,150.02 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop "An Open Source Nuclear Modeling Ecosystem to Support Fusion Pilot Plant Design". The award, granted under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), will fund a one-year project starting on September 1, 2024 and concluding on August 31, 2025. The grant supports fundamental and applied research to advance U.S....
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), is aimed at the "INITIATIVES TO GROW NEW INNOVATE TALENT TO ENABLE FUSION ENERGY (IGNITE FUSION ENERGY)" initiative. The $490,151.50 grant, awarded to Tennessee Technological University on February 1, 2025, with a completion date of January 31, 2026, will support fundamental scientific research and technological innovation to advance U.S. energy,...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $120,645 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2025. The grant supports research to develop a low-temperature Penning plasma discharge process for nitridation of atomically smooth (111) diamond surfaces. This fundamental research project aims to advance U.S. priorities in energy,...