Project Grant 2510926
- This $421,946 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports a team of scientists from Southern Methodist University (SMU) in developing a framework to simulate observed galaxies, galaxy clusters, and their gravitational lensing signals self-consistently. The goal is to compare these simulated observations directly with data from the Dark Energy Survey to better infer the evolution of cosmic structure, providing a new paradigm...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $497,792 Project Grant to the University of Arizona (doing business as the Arizona Board of Regents) to support research under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant aims to develop advanced machine learning techniques to extract cosmological information from mass maps generated by observing the gravitational lensing effects of dark matter. This research will enable more...
- This $395,272 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to significantly increase the sample size of known gravitational lenses and improve constraints on dark matter properties. Specifically, the University of California, Los Angeles will collaborate with other institutions to discover quadruple the current number of strong gravitational lenses, enhancing understanding of dark matter's nature. The research...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $498,731 to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) to support an astrometric approach to detecting and characterizing gravitational waves across a wide frequency range. The project will leverage advancements in astrometry to disentangle various cosmic motions and measure the low-frequency stochastic gravitational wave background. As part of the effort,...
- This $286,400 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund research to significantly increase the sample size of known gravitational lenses. The University of California, Merced will leverage quadrupled strong gravitational lenses to provide new measurements of dark matter properties and test various theoretically motivated dark matter models. Specifically, the research aims...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $400,000 CAREER: Investigating Matter and Spacetime Using Gravitational Waves Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant, with a performance period from December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2029, will support the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia in developing data analysis methods and performing theoretical calculations to search for undiscovered predictions of general relativity and...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $150,000.00 in funding to Montclair State University and Bar-Ilan University (Israel) for a collaborative research project. The primary objective is to design, test, and deploy a low-latency alert infrastructure to address the needs of the upcoming fifth observing run for the international gravitational-wave network. This award facilitates multi-messenger...
- This $100,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research to develop a novel method for detecting the primordial cosmological stochastic gravitational-wave background in the presence of astrophysical foregrounds. The award, effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2027, will lay the groundwork for the data analysis strategies needed for the source-rich data expected from next-generation gravitational-wave...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $337,029 Project Grant to Northwestern University for the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: WOU-MMA: SEARCHES AFTER GRAVITATIONAL-WAVES USING ARIZONA'S OBSERVATORIES (SAGUARO)" project. The grant, which runs from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026, supports an electromagnetic observing campaign associated with gravitational wave detector observations. Key activities include comprehensive...
- This $210,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) supports research by the University of Virginia to advance gravitational wave physics and astrophysics. The key goals are to: (i) Compute persistent gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers using new conservation law models, and assess their detection prospects. (ii) Improve modeling of the gravitational wave memory effect to better understand its...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $528,007 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to a team of scientists at Southern Methodist University (SMU) and Arizona State University (ASU). The grant, with a performance period from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2027, will fund two distinct research efforts: 1) Extending methods used to search for gravitational lensing to also search for gravitational waves, the ripples in spacetime produced by cosmic events, and 2) Developing a new technique to measure the effects of gravitational lensing on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to yield new insights into the distribution and makeup of dark matter. As part of this project, the team will also launch a new astronomy-focused outreach program at SMU and develop interactive educational materials for online astrophysics and cosmology courses at ASU.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $528.0k | 8/19/25 |