Project Grant 2541628
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Pennsylvania State University received $206,550 in funding under a CAREER (Faculty Early-Career Development Program) award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research, awarded October 1, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2027. This Project Grant supports theoretical research and educational initiatives focused on nonequilibrium quantum dynamics in many-body quantum systems. The research component develops theoretical...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Pennsylvania State University received a $388,868 CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), awarded July 15, 2026, with completion scheduled for June 30, 2031. The award funds fundamental research into dislocation ensemble evolution in polycrystalline metallic alloys during plastic deformation. Primary research...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Pennsylvania State University received a $416,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), awarded September 15, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2028. The award supports theoretical and computational research to advance fundamental understanding of anyons—exotic particles that exhibit properties intermediate between fermions and bosons—within...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Pennsylvania State University received a $545,250 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to advance experimental quantum technologies and fundamental physics research. The award, dated August 1, 2026, and completing July 31, 2029, supports research into nonequilibrium dynamics, synchronization, and relaxation in designer dipolar Rydberg atom arrays. The...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Pennsylvania State University received a $650,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. This NSF-BSF (National Science Foundation-Binational Science Foundation) collaborative award funds research to create and detect three-dimensional (3D) cluster states of neutral atoms—a form of quantum entanglement that...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Pennsylvania State University received a $240,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), effective August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2027. This award supports fundamental research investigating the quantum nature of spacetime geometry through integrated theoretical and computational advances in quantum gravity and quantum information science. The...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Pennsylvania State University received a $625,090 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), awarded August 1, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2028. This research project investigates mechanical memory storage in amorphous solids—disordered materials including glass, sand, soil, and concentrated emulsions that do not reach equilibrium and whose properties depend on their...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Pennsylvania State University received a $592,663 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) awarded on September 15, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2029. The SPARK (Probing Atomic-Scale Quantum Light Sources in Two-Dimensional Semiconductor/Metal Hybrid Platforms) project develops materials and methodologies for generating single photons from atomic-scale defects in...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Pennsylvania received a $134,150 CAREER grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences (Federal Grant Program: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, CFDA 47.049) effective March 15, 2025. This project grant supports fundamental research in nonconvex optimization algorithms for statistical estimation and machine learning. The investigator will design and analyze iterative optimization methods capable of operating on...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), awarded a collaborative project grant of $408,933 to The Pennsylvania State University, with a performance period from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. This research initiative develops a predictive framework for controlling order-disorder phenomena in mixed-chalcogen semiconductors through integrated computer modeling,...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $284,914 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), effective July 15, 2026, with completion targeted for June 30, 2031. This project grant supports fundamental research into strain-tuning mechanisms of unconventional and topological superconductors, with the primary objective of advancing understanding of unconventional superconductivity to enable potential room-temperature superconductor applications. The research team will investigate the microscopic interactions underlying unconventional superconductivity and develop quantum control methods for topological superconductors, with particular emphasis on Majorana zero modes for quantum computing applications. In addition to research deliverables, the award includes substantial workforce development and educational outreach components conducted at Penn State's University Park, Pennsylvania location. The project will provide graduate and undergraduate student training through direct participation in research activities and newly developed university courses, deliver K-12 educational workshops to build the future quantum workforce, and engage the broader public through educational programming. The university will leverage internal logistical and institutional support to maximize research impact and educational reach across multiple educational levels and stakeholder groups.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $284.9k | 7/9/26 |