Project Grant 2606920
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded Columbia University $799,801 on September 1, 2026, to conduct laboratory measurements of carbon monoxide reacting with H3+ isotopologues for improved astrochemical models under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The research team will measure accurate outgoing-channel-specific integral cross sections for CO reacting with H3+ and its deuterated isotopologues using a dual-source, ion-neutral,...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $270,893 Project Grant to Columbia University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: WOU-MMA: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN FLUID AND PLASMA SCALES IN AGN JETS." The three-year award, issued September 1, 2021 with a completion date of August 31, 2024, will support collaborative research between Columbia University and other institutions to advance understanding of the major...
- The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University) was awarded a three-year, $527,708 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds global kinetic modeling and particle-in-cell simulations by Columbia University researchers to better understand the intrabinary shock in "spider pulsars," which are rapidly rotating neutron stars in...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences awarded Columbia University a $483,459 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support the "ILLUMINATING GALAXY FORMATION WITH THE ATACAMA COSMOLOGY TELESCOPE" research project. This three-year award, made on September 1, 2021 and concluding on August 31, 2024, will fund Columbia University's use of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope to advance understanding of major problems in...
- This three-year, $292,265 National Science Foundation project grant funds research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CDS & E: COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPHYSICS WITH MACHINE LEARNING SIMULATIONS (CAMELS) TO MAXIMIZE THE SCIENCE RETURN OF NEXT GENERATION COSMOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS" through the agency's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The Trustees of Columbia University in New York will utilize machine learning techniques to conduct cosmological simulations that support...
- Columbia University was awarded a $120,929 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund collaborative research on statistical inference methods for high-dimensional spatial-temporal process models from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program's goal of advancing scientific knowledge and understanding of national...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $652,708 Project Grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This 3-year grant supports advanced computer simulations that model the acceleration of particles at the microscopic level to study the processes that can accelerate ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) in active galactic...
- Columbia University will receive $173,161 from the National Science Foundation over two years under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Project Grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support the Center for Backyard Astrophysics' monitoring of cataclysmic variable stars. Led by Principal Investigator Joseph Patterson, the Center coordinates a worldwide collaboration of amateur and professional astronomers to precisely measure orbital and disk precession periods for approximately 120 cataclysmic...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $280,576 Project Grant to Princeton University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant will support collaborative research on "COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPHYSICS WITH MACHINE LEARNING SIMULATIONS (CAMELS) TO MAXIMIZE THE SCIENCE RETURN OF NEXT-GENERATION COSMOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS." Specifically, Princeton University will leverage machine learning techniques...
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) foundation model teams to conduct formal generalizability and mechanistic interpretability analyses of cutting-edge astronomy foundation models adopted by the astrophysics community. The research will assess whether these models outperform narrow, task-specific machine-learning models in the era of large-scale survey data and advance understanding of how these models learn astronomical concepts. The team will participate in Project BUILD, a tiered mentoring system providing undergraduate research support. The project is funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), with partial support from a gift from Charles Simonyi to the NSF Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences Section of Astronomical Sciences. Work is performed in New York, New York, with a period of performance extending from September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2029.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $271.2k | 8/6/26 |