Project Grant 2509989
- This $200,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research project led by the University of California, Berkeley to develop and harness quasi-one-dimensional topological materials for novel electronic, optoelectronic, and sensing functionalities. The project aims to overcome current limitations of topological insulators by focusing on quasi-1D materials, which have the potential to enable new...
- This $330,000 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the CFDA 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, is focused on the theory and application of Berry phase methods in solid materials. The key objectives are to: Further develop the formal theory of electronic structure properties dependent on geometric quantities like Berry phases and curvatures. Invent and disseminate computational methods for calculating materials...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) supports research by the University of California, Berkeley to investigate unconventional superconductivity in graphene-based materials. The $303,710 award, active from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2030, focuses on developing new tools to study this novel class of superconductors and elucidate the mechanisms underlying their unconventional superconducting properties. The research...
- This $493,231.00 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (CFDA 47.049) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports collaborative research to investigate correlated many-body physics in multilayer semiconducting moiré superlattices. The award aims to explore how different ways of stacking semiconductor layers and controlling electron flows can create new states of quantum matter, with potential applications in quantum electronics and optoelectronics. The project, led by...
- This $270,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports fundamental research in geometric representation theory and symplectic geometry at the University of California, Berkeley. The research aims to develop new tools and solve open problems in these mathematical fields, which draw inspiration from theoretical physics. Key research themes include investigating the cocenter of the affine Hecke category,...
- This $260,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at Harvard University on interacting topological bands in moire superlattices. The principal investigator aims to leverage recent advances in engineered moire materials to explore connections between the microscopic properties of individual electrons and the macroscopic behavior of interacting electron systems. The research seeks to establish...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $160,000 Project Grant through its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to support research on the mathematical modeling of "moiré materials" - novel 2D materials formed by stacking 2D layers with a relative twist. The project aims to develop advanced mathematical methods for predicting the emergent strongly correlated electronic phases in these materials, which hold...
- This Project Grant award of $416,387 from the National Science Foundation's (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) program supports a collaborative research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to investigate emergent phenomena and novel correlated phases of matter in a unique family of crystalline 2D semiconductor materials. The project aims to leverage the high material quality, electric gate tunability, and strongly interacting electrons within highly...
- This $318,775 National Science Foundation project grant supports theoretical and computational research and education activities at Lehigh University from May 2022 through April 2025. The award is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Specifically, the principal investigator and their team will develop advanced numerical techniques to model the properties of two-dimensional quantum...
- 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...
This $120,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to develop new mathematical tools for analyzing the electronic and physical properties of novel twisted two-dimensional semiconductor and graphene materials. The project aims to advance the semiclassical analysis of matrix-valued Schrödinger operators in these systems, which exhibit rich spectral and topological features, particularly at small twisting angles. The research seeks to contribute to the fundamental understanding of these quantum materials and support the design of future electronic and quantum devices, with potential applications in quantum information technology and materials science. The project is led by the University of California, Berkeley, and is expected to run from August 2025 to July 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $120.0k | 7/31/25 |