Project Grant 2513246
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $333,903 Project Grant to Princeton University from the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: AN EMPIRICAL BLUEPRINT FOR THE GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE BACKGROUND." The three-year award beginning August 15, 2021 will support research to advance understanding of major problems confronting the Nation through increasing the store of scientific knowledge and enhancing understanding of...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to The Trustees of Princeton University in the amount of $604,189.00. The award, effective from Jan 1, 2025 to Dec 31, 2027, supports research aimed at addressing fundamental questions in the physics of gravitational collapse, including the formation and stability of extreme black holes and the structure of associated spacetime singularities. The...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant award provides $180,000.00 to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The primary goal of the project is to develop novel numerical simulations and data-driven models to predict gravitational wave signals from mergers of black holes and neutron stars. This research will test Einstein's general relativity under extreme conditions and help maximize...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $280,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Illinois to develop ready-to-use models and artificial-intelligence-enhanced data analysis algorithms for gravitational wave astrophysics. The award will advance the scientific understanding of matter and gravity in extreme environments by improving the extraction of information from the growing catalog of over 300 gravitational wave...
- This $360,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support the development of a new framework for studying extreme astrophysical objects, such as neutron stars and black holes, using gravitational wave data from the NSF-supported LIGO observatories. The award will fund the creation of fast, flexible time-frequency analysis methods that can account for non-Gaussian and non-stationary noise in the LIGO...
- This federal Project Grant award of $200,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research on gravitational wave physics and astrophysics with the LIGO observatory. The project aims to develop methods for confidently identifying weak gravitational wave signals from astrophysical sources in the detector data, and to interpret the results for the scientific community. The project will be deeply involved in assembling...
- This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) supports research that leverages the recent detection of gravitational waves to provide new insights into black holes, neutron stars, and the expansion of the universe. The funded research aims to analyze the rapidly growing catalog of gravitational wave sources, which is expected to expand from the current 90 confirmed events to over 300 by 2027. By studying the population...
- 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...
- This $498,731 federal Project Grant was awarded on September 1, 2025 by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Colorado (CU) to conduct an astrometric approach to detecting and characterizing gravitational waves spanning a wide range of frequencies. The project aims to disentangle various motions in the universe, from the expansion and acceleration of the universe to the orbits of galaxies and the solar system, in...
- This federal Project Grant award, issued by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, will enhance existing search strategies and analysis capabilities for discovering and characterizing the coalescence of compact binary systems, such as black holes and neutron stars. The $200,000 award, with a performance period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will fund four key activities: (i) extending multi-messenger Bayesian inference...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to The Trustees of Princeton University. This award supports research to develop a novel Bayesian search method for detecting the cosmological stochastic gravitational-wave background in the presence of astrophysical foregrounds. The project aims to lay the groundwork for data analysis strategies needed for next-generation gravitational-wave detectors, facilitating the potential detection of this primordial gravitational-wave background that could provide insights into the early universe's history. The award period is from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2027 and includes training for students in data analysis and science communication, as well as outreach activities such as gravitational-wave open data workshops.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $100.0k | 8/20/25 |