The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a $200,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences on July 1, 2021 to complete work by June 30, 2024. The award falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing understanding of major problems. Specifically, the funding will support...
This $185,163 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports the development of scalable Gaussian process methods for spatial statistics and machine learning. The project aims to create a universal toolbox for highly accurate and computationally efficient Gaussian process modeling to enable improved data analysis, prediction, and uncertainty quantification across diverse applications like carbon monitoring,...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was awarded a $224,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop semi-parametric statistical techniques for integrating external data into primary studies across heterogeneous populations. The three-year award running from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026 will support research to build a suite of statistically sound methods allowing incorporation of information from one population into...
This $149,989 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will support research to develop statistical models and inference methods for analyzing random point processes. The research will provide tools for analyzing time series of point process data, with applications in fields such as national security, economics, neuroscience, and geosciences. Key activities include developing parameter estimation procedures,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded a $349,660 Project Grant to the University of Wisconsin - Madison (UW-Madison) under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund a three-year research project to develop novel probabilistic machine learning techniques, such as normalizing flows, to model cosmological data from upcoming galaxy surveys. The goal is to enable more precise measurements of fundamental physics...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $333,182 Project Grant through its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Wisconsin - Madison. This grant supports research at the interface of several complex variables, differential geometry, and dynamical systems. The project aims to study the smoothness of transformations on complex-valued function domains, analyze resonance phenomena and singularities, and investigate the stability of holomorphic...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a $276,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funding will support research related to averaging, spectral multipliers, sparse domination and subelliptic operators. As part of its mission to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences, the NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences program provides...
This $169,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports collaborative research at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to advance innovative nonparametric data analysis techniques. The project aims to conduct comprehensive statistical and computational analyses to push the boundaries of modern nonparametric statistical inference, with potential applications in areas like nonparametric latent...
The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Division of Mathematical Sciences, awarded a $225,000 Project Grant to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) to develop new algorithms for Bayesian computation. The grant, awarded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), aims to address challenges in Bayesian inference for complex statistical models, such as hidden Markov models with continuous variables and models with intractable likelihood...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a $250,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences on August 1, 2021. The award is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) and will support research on "Robust Persistence and Permanence in Biological Interaction Networks" through July 31, 2024. Under the award, UW-Madison researchers will investigate major problems confronting the nation by increasing...