The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a $120,678.00 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The grant will fund research focused on the intersection of microlocal analysis and hyperbolic dynamics, with specific goals of understanding the behavior of waves and quantum states in chaotic systems, proving spectral gaps for open systems with...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $395,910 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program (CFDA 47.049) to fund research on statistical and computational thresholds in spin glasses and graph inference problems. The 3-year project, which will run from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, aims to develop new methods for analyzing long-range dependencies and characterizing the typical behaviors of large...
This $183,897 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) focused on curve counting beyond rational numbers. The project aims to develop new curve-counting invariants and methods to analyze symplectic manifolds, which are crucial mathematical objects for understanding physical phenomena like the movement of planets and particle behavior. The...
This Project Grant award, totaling $416,387.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The award will fund a collaborative research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) focused on investigating emergent phenomena, phases, properties, and principles in an unusual family of crystalline 2D semiconductor materials. The key objectives are to study spontaneous symmetry breaking, demonstrate novel...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $432,714 project grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund a three-year collaborative research project titled "New Challenges in the Derivation and Dynamics of Quantum Systems" from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2024. The project aims to promote progress in mathematical and physical sciences by increasing scientific knowledge and enhancing...
This $129,353 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to support research on evolution equations in geometry. The project will investigate topics such as mean curvature flow and new methods for the diffeomorphism group, with applications to Ricci flow. The research aims to advance the understanding of how natural phenomena change over time, with potential...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $1.2 million Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct collaborative research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The four-year award, made on October 1, 2021 and running through September 30, 2025, will support MIT's "Designer 3D Mesoscale Materials Synthesized in the Self-Assembly Foundry" project. This project aims to advance the design and synthesis of...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $162,172 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This grant supports a 3-year research project aimed at using randomized algorithms to address fundamental combinatorial problems and construct interesting mathematical objects, such as Latin squares. The research will explore threshold phenomena in random hypergraphs and develop techniques based...
This federal Project Grant award of $190,000 was made by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) as part of the FY 2025 Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships program. The award supports a postdoctoral research and training project titled "Geometric Double Affine Representation Theory Beyond Link Homology" conducted by Xinchun Ma at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the mentorship of Roman Bezrukavnikov. The...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $436,585 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support theoretical and computational research on novel phenomena in electronic insulators and related quantum Hall systems from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. Specifically, the award will fund the development of new theoretical concepts and field theoretic methods to describe strongly...