Project Grant 2402292
- Dr. Allen Alvarez Loya of Fullerton, California was awarded a $300,000 National Science Foundation Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (NSF MPS-ASCEND) Project Grant to conduct research and activities related to broadening participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. Under the mentorship of Dr. Qi Tang at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Dr. Loya will develop efficient and accurate algorithms to preserve important...
- This $330,000 NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship award to Antonio Porras-Valverde at Yale University will support research and education activities under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The research will develop testable predictions for black hole formation, growth, and feedback, leveraging upcoming survey data such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time. The educational component will involve...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the amount of $330,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research conducted at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA. The award, effective September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2029, funds a comprehensive research and education initiative led by Rodrigo Cordova Rosado focused on...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Dr. Omar Hurtado has been awarded a $300,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MPS-ASCEND), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. Under the mentorship of Dr. Nikhil Srivastava at the University of California, Berkeley, the fellowship supports a research program focused on random spectral theory with two primary research objectives: (1) advancing the spectral theory of random...
- This $244,369 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research to identify and characterize populations of massive stellar binary systems, composed of a black hole or neutron star and a massive star, in nearby low-metallicity dwarf galaxies. The project will use multiwavelength archival data to study these "high mass X-ray binaries" as analogs to similar systems that may have formed in the early universe....
- Dr. Alan Marquez was awarded a $300,000 National Science Foundation Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (NSF MPS-ASCEND) from August 15, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The award is funded by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and administered through the National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Under this award, Dr. Marquez will conduct research at...
- The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University) was awarded a three-year, $527,708 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds global kinetic modeling and particle-in-cell simulations by Columbia University researchers to better understand the intrabinary shock in "spider pulsars," which are rapidly rotating neutron stars in...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Dr. Etienne Palos received a $300,000 NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS-ASCEND) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (CFDA 47.049) awarded August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2028, hosted at the University of California, Berkeley under the mentorship of Dr. Martin Head-Gordon. The fellowship supports the development of correlated wavefunction theory (WFT) methods and computational algorithms to advance the discovery and identification of new molecules and ions in...
- The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was awarded a three-year, $369,564 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Through this funding, Caltech researchers will study the formation pathways of binary compact object systems containing black holes and neutron stars. They will use advanced computational modeling techniques to better understand the physical processes governing...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Nathan Sandford is awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellowship totaling $330,000.00 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2029. The award supports research and educational activities conducted at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with no planned subawards. The primary research deliverable involves conducting a comprehensive chemodynamic...
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP: MPS-ASCEND: GLOBAL KINETIC MODELING OF COMPACT BINARY SYSTEMS -JORGE IVAN CORT?S IS AWARDED AN NSF MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES ASCENDING POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (MPS-ASCEND) TO CONDUCT A PROGRAM OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ. CORT?S WILL USE COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATIONS TO STUDY THE EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS SURROUNDING NEUTRON STARS IN BINARY SYSTEMS. THIS STUDY WILL RESULT IN PHYSICALLY-GROUNDED MODELS THAT WILL LEAD TO A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF SOME OF THE MOST VIOLENT ASTROPHYSICAL PHENOMENA. IN TANDEM WITH THE RESEARCH PROGRAM, CORT?S WILL MENTOR PARTICIPANTS OF THE UC SANTA CRUZ LAMAT INSTITUTE, AS WELL AS DEVELOP AND LEAD WORKSHOPS (OF VARIOUS TOPICS, E.G., HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMING, DATA VISUALIZATION, ETC.) FOR STUDENTS OF NEIGHBORING COMMUNITY COLLEGES. CORT?S INTENDS TO STUDY THE PARTICLE ACCELERATION AND NON-THERMAL EMISSION FROM NEUTRON STARS IN BINARY SYSTEMS VIA GLOBAL FULLY-KINETIC RADIATIVE PARTICLE-IN-CELL (PIC) SIMULATIONS. THROUGH THE PROPOSED RESEARCH PROGRAM, CORT?S WILL (1) CONDUCT 3D PIC SIMULATIONS OF THE INTERACTION BETWEEN A NEUTRON STAR?S WIND AND A NEARBY COMPANION ? TAKING BLACK WIDOW PULSARS AND TEV BINARIES AS INSPIRATION FOR SIMULATION SETUP ? AND (2) DETERMINE THE RELATIVE ROLE OF SHOCK-DRIVEN MAGNETIC RECONNECTION IN MEDIATING EFFICIENT PARTICLE ACCELERATION, AND THE IMPACT OF THE RESULTING PARTICLE POPULATIONS ON THE OBSERVED SPECTRA AND LIGHTCURVES. WHILE THE MAIN FOCUS IS ON COMPACT BINARY SYSTEMS, THE QUESTION OF PARTICLE ACCELERATION IN MAGNETICALLY-DOMINATED PLASMAS IS OF PROFOUND RELEVANCE TO THE PHYSICS OF POYNTING-FLUX-DOMINATED RELATIVISTIC OUTFLOWS IN OTHER SYSTEMS, LIKE JETS OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI AND GAMMA-RAY BURSTS. THUS, CORT?S ANTICIPATES THE FINDINGS OF THIS PROJECT TO BE OF BROAD INTEREST TO THE WHOLE HIGH-ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS COMMUNITY. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $100.0k | 7/7/25 | ||
| Not listed | $200.0k | 5/13/24 |