Project Grant 2606919
- The National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded Columbia University $271,229 on September 1, 2026, to conduct collaborative research on astronomy foundation models and their interpretability in the context of transient and variable star observations for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Columbia University and CUNY Hunter College will collaborate with the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Climate Artificial Intelligence (SKAI)...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded the Research Foundation of the City University of New York, doing business as RFCUNY – Queensborough Community College, $457,927 on May 1, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to operate a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site serving community college students in physics and astronomy. The site enrolls up to twelve undergraduate students per year from community colleges and...
- The National Science Foundation awarded the Research Foundation of The City University of New York $117,892 on November 1, 2025, to support research on the geometry of mapping class groups and surface bundles under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The research develops combinatorial techniques for studying the geometry of mapping class groups and Teichmüller spaces—mathematical structures that describe how surfaces can twist and deform. The project runs through...
- The Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) was awarded a $278,532 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support the "TUNING IN TO THE ECHOES OF BLACK HOLE SEEDS" project. The goal of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program is to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. Under this award, RFCUNY - Queensborough...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded New York University $150,000 on August 1, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop theoretical and computational tools for cosmological searches of dark matter-baryon interactions using observations of the cosmic microwave background. The project, led by Professor Ali-Haïmoud, will expand Boltzmann-Fokker-Planck methods and related approaches to enable higher-sensitivity cosmological probes...
- The Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) was awarded a $449,997 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research on strain engineering of exciton-polaritons in two-dimensional semiconductors at the City College of New York from September 2021 through August 2024. The NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports progress in...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $291,944 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Research Foundation for the State University of New York, operating as Stony Brook University. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, will fund a collaborative research project focused on three key science objectives: 1) Imaging the "cosmic web" of intergalactic gas, 2) Searching for ancient stellar nova shells, and 3) Obtaining deep...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded a $234,026 Project Grant to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York for the project "Intersections of String Phenomenology, Cosmology, and Astrophysics." This three-year award running from September 2021 through August 2024 will support research exploring the relationships between string theory, cosmology, and astrophysical observations. Specifically, the grantee will investigate theoretical predictions from...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary New York University received a $590,974 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) effective August 15, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2028. This award supports theoretical research and methodological development in cosmological studies focused on redshift-space galaxy clustering and gravitational structure formation. The primary deliverable...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $446,421 to improve modeling of gravitational wave detections through active galactic nuclei channels. The award to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York at Borough Manhattan Community College, from September 2022 to August 2025, will support rewriting and publicly releasing a Monte Carlo code developed to study compact object mergers in galactic...
The National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded $577,695 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (doing business as RFCUNY - Hunter College) on September 1, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for collaborative research on foundation model interpretability using transient and variable stars in preparation for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time. The research team at CUNY Hunter College and Columbia University will conduct formal generalizability and mechanistic interpretability analyses of astronomy foundation models in collaboration with the FM teams at the NSF-Simons AI Institute SKAI. The work tests whether cutting-edge astronomy foundation models outperform narrow, task-specific machine-learning models when processing large-scale data from LSST, and examines how these models learn to generalize. The team will participate in PROJECT BUILD, which provides tiered mentoring to support undergraduate researchers. This award is partially funded by a gift from Charles Simonyi to the NSF Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences Section of Astronomical Sciences. Performance occurs at the recipient's location in New York, NY 10065. The period of performance runs from September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2029. The assistance type is a Project Grant.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $577.7k | 8/6/26 |