Project Grant 2543506
- Federal Project Grant Summary Under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), the National Science Foundation awarded $700,000 to the University of California, Berkeley to support a five-year research project (March 15, 2025 – February 28, 2030) led by Professor Hendrik Utzat. This CAREER award, administered through the Chemical Structure and Dynamics program in the Division of Chemistry, delivers fundamental research and development services focused on...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of California, Santa Barbara received a CAREER Project Grant of $288,497 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), effective June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2030. This award supports theoretical research aimed at discovering and characterizing new phases of quantum matter that emerge from the intersection of quantum information theory and quantum many-body...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a five-year CAREER grant totaling $269,180 to the University of California, Berkeley, effective September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2031, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The award funds fundamental research in algebraic geometry focused on developing novel intersection theory tools to advance understanding of the moduli spaces of algebraic...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded $304,917 to the University of California, Berkeley under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) effective November 1, 2025, with completion scheduled for June 30, 2026. This Focused Research Group (FRG) collaborative project supports the development and refinement of non-perturbative mathematical methods for analyzing multi-dimensional quasiperiodic systems, with...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a $275,000 project grant to the University of California, Davis, effective August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2027, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This award supports fundamental research on quantum states of matter, topological invariants, and spectral gaps—investigating the mathematical and physical properties of specially entangled quantum systems that...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a five-year CAREER grant totaling $360,000 to the University of California, San Diego, effective February 1, 2026 through January 31, 2031, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This award funds research and educational initiatives focused on understanding emergent quantum phenomena in moire materials—specifically the appearance of anyons (quasiparticles carrying...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded $150,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of California, Berkeley for research in combinatorial representation theory. The award, effective August 15, 2025 through July 31, 2028, funds research aimed at advancing understanding of two fundamental problems at the intersection of representation theory and algebraic...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CFDA 47.070 – Computer and Information Science and Engineering) awarded $364,815 to The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley on April 15, 2026, for a CAREER project extending through March 31, 2031. This project will establish rigorous theoretical and algorithmic frameworks for nonconvex nonsmooth optimization problems—mathematical tools essential for solving real-world...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded $133,285 to the University of California, Berkeley under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) on June 1, 2026, with completion scheduled for May 31, 2029. This collaborative research project develops calibrated hypothesis testing methodologies to ensure that statistical error rates reported in scientific findings accurately reflect true error probabilities. The...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded $698,003 to the University of California, Santa Cruz on July 15, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support a CAREER award led by Professor Xiao Wang. The primary deliverable is the development of a comprehensive suite of wavefunction-based ab initio quantum electrodynamics (QED) computational methods for modeling strong light-matter coupling in...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a CAREER grant totaling $296,354 to the University of California, Berkeley, effective July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2031, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This project grant funds the development of quantum-inspired relaxation and embedding frameworks for scalable scientific computing in high-dimensional systems. The research addresses computational challenges across quantum materials, molecular systems, statistical mechanics, imaging, and global optimization by creating mathematical algorithms that leverage concepts from quantum physics, optimization, probability, and numerical linear algebra. Primary deliverables include fast solvers for entropy-regularized semidefinite programming relaxations, implementations utilizing convex duality, mirror ascent methods, optimal transport subproblems, and matrix-free computational techniques for many-particle optimization and inference problems. The award supports both research advancement and workforce development in high-dimensional scientific computing. Educational and dissemination products include undergraduate research opportunities, graduate mentorship programs, new course materials, open-source software, public lectures, and community-building activities. The project contributes to national priorities in quantum science and artificial intelligence by establishing computational foundations applicable to quantum simulation, scientific inference, and materials modeling with relevance to health, energy, and national technological capacity. UC Berkeley serves as the prime awardee and place of performance in Berkeley, California.Federal Project Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $296.4k | 6/25/26 |