This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will support research to develop a robust Scott analysis theory for continuous mathematical structures, such as metric and topological spaces. The $109,999 award, running from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2026, will enable researchers at the University of Illinois to bridge the gap between syntactic characterizations in...
This federal Project Grant award for $300,000.00, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports research to significantly expand the investigator's work on applications of model theory to the study of geometric structures. The key objectives are to: 1) tackle major transcendence problems such as the Ax-Lindemann-Weierstrass and Ax-Schanuel conjectures for uniformizing functions of geometric structures in higher...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Project Grant award of $327,441 to the University of Illinois will fund research focused on challenges at the intersection of harmonic analysis, number theory, and dispersive equations. The principal investigator (PI) plans to explore connections between diverse mathematical fields, including additive combinatorics, classical Fourier analysis, dispersive equations on tori, and ergodic theory. The funded...
This Project Grant award, totaling $119,999.00 and provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports three main research projects focused on the applications of model theory. The first project aims to continue advancing the use of model theoretic methods in resolving long-standing open problems for algebraic differential and difference equations. The second project seeks to develop...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences provides $210,000 to Brandeis University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2025. The funding supports research in the field of combinatorics, which analyzes discrete data structures and is a central tool for solving problems in mathematics, computer science, and physics. Specific projects include unifying bijections between planar maps and...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $102,612 supports research at the University of Illinois from October 1, 2022 through May 31, 2024 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The award aims to advance understanding of dynamical systems and number theory through four objectives: developing methods in homogeneous dynamics to study rational points near manifolds and self-similar sets; techniques in random walk theory and representations of algebraic...
This $290,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program supports research in computable model theory and invariant descriptive computability theory. The award, spanning July 2024 to June 2027, will fund work that explores connections between computability theory and the fields of model theory and set theory within mathematical logic. Key objectives include investigating cases where mathematically equivalent objects have...
The National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a $141,400 Project Grant to the University of Illinois under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research into Galois structures and arithmetic statistics in number theory from August 15, 2022 to July 31, 2025. Specifically, the principal investigator and collaborators will modify non-abelian Cohen-Lenstra heuristics when the base field contains roots of unity;...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $210,000 in funding to The Trustees of Smith College to support research on combinatorial models in representation theory, geometry, and analysis. The key focus areas of the research project include optimizing and analyzing two types of edge-labeled graphs: webs from knot theory and representation theory, and algebraic splines from applied mathematics. The...
This $210,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the CFDA Program 47.049 "Mathematical and Physical Sciences" will fund research in algebraic combinatorics and braid varieties. The project aims to use algebraic methods to produce new combinatorial results with applications in areas like cryptography, protein folding, high-energy physics, and quantum computing. Specifically, the funds will support exploring the use of braid...