Project Grant 2509910
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $528,007 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Southern Methodist University (SMU) and Arizona State University (ASU). The grant, awarded on October 1, 2025, with a completion date of September 30, 2027, will support two distinct efforts: Developing techniques to search for gravitational waves using gravitational lensing methods, and Extending a new small-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB)...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research to investigate dark matter, the largest and most mysterious component of galaxies. The $313,105 award, spanning September 2025 to August 2028, will fund a team of researchers from the University of North Carolina, University of Pennsylvania, and Northwestern University to conduct advanced computer simulations of galaxy formation and stellar...
- This $508,212 five-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports the creation of an ambitious simulation suite that will uniformly cover an unprecedented range of dark matter and gravity models. The goal is to enable detailed comparisons between these simulations and observational survey data, potentially ruling out certain models of dark matter and gravity. The simulations will be publicly available to enable...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) Project Grant award provides $251,928 to the University of Chicago to conduct collaborative research on combining galaxy and cosmic microwave background surveys to obtain precise and robust constraints on cosmology - the distribution of matter throughout the universe. The research team will analyze complementary measurements of galaxy positions, gravitational lensing of galaxies, gravitational lensing...
- This National Science Foundation award provides $345,251 to the University of Maryland, College Park under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to develop a framework for interpreting panchromatic observations of galaxy cluster halos. Working with the University of California, Santa Cruz, the awardees will use large cosmological simulations and machine learning techniques to understand the complex covariances of dark matter halo properties as traced by...
- This Project Grant award of $552,880.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support a research project at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor that aims to shed light on the nature of dark matter. The project will run computational simulations to understand how the underlying dark matter distribution affects the observed properties of globular cluster streams - long, thin trails of stars pulled from dense star clusters as...
- The University of Connecticut received a $598,336 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop advanced computer simulations that will lead to a better understanding of galaxies, supermassive black holes, and the evolution of the universe. The 5-year research project, which began on September 1, 2025, will focus on two key areas: (1) advancing physically predictive models of galaxies at sub-parsec resolution, and...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences provides $269,690 to support research and education activities under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). A collaboration between the University of Nevada, University of California Los Angeles, and Arizona State University will develop advanced galaxy modeling tools and conduct cross-correlation analyses to maximize scientific return from upcoming telescopes studying the epoch of...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) will support a collaborative research project at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) to reconstruct primordial density fluctuations using near-field cosmology. The key product of this $419,979 award, with a performance period from December 1, 2024 to October 31, 2027, will be an efficient and accurate model for predicting the Milky...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $438,078 Project Grant to New York University (NYU) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports the development of a new statistical method to quantify the relationship between dark matter and the observable galaxies in the universe. The researchers will apply this technique to analyze data from the Bright Galaxy Survey of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)....
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $421,946 to Southern Methodist University (SMU) to develop a framework for simulating observed galaxies, galaxy clusters, and their gravitational lensing signals. The goal is to compare these simulated universes directly with observations from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) in order to infer the evolution of cosmic structure. This approach aims to overcome systematic biases in current optical cluster cosmology analyses and provide a new paradigm for future analyses of galaxy clusters for cosmological studies. As part of the project, SMU will also lead educational outreach efforts through their QuarkNet Center, organizing yearly summer workshops for high school teachers and providing educational materials related to large-scale structure and cosmology.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $421.9k | 8/1/25 |