Project Grant 2608128
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $360,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Central Florida (UCF) for a 3-year project entitled "Coherent Attosecond Ionization Dynamics in Laser-Dressed Atomic and Molecular Systems". The project will theoretically study the statistical properties and time evolution of localized charges created in organic molecules by the absorption of short pulses of ionizing...
- The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees received a $296,050 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry on August 15, 2021 to complete the project by July 31, 2024. The award will support collaborative research titled "Theoretical Description of Electron-Driven Chemical Processes and Related Reactions" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This program aims to promote progress in the mathematical and...
- The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees was awarded a $231,094 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics. The grant supports research into non-adiabatic photonic processes in molecular plasma under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This three-year project beginning September 1, 2021 aims to advance understanding of major problems in physics through investigations of light-matter interactions in molecular plasmas. The funding...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees $452,933 on September 1, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop a data-enabled hyperspectral imaging and artificial intelligence platform for advanced materials characterization. The project will create an integrated optical-computational-AI framework enabling real-time analysis of highly concentrated particle suspensions currently...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded Florida State University $544,501 on July 15, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop theoretical tools and software for simulating molecular properties strongly coupled to light within optical cavities. Dr. Eugene Deprince's research group will create cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) generalizations of standard electronic structure methods, focusing on coupled-cluster and density...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees received a $355,615 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), effective September 15, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2028. The project investigates the effect of lattice distortion on the electronic properties of kagome metals—a class of quantum materials with corner-sharing triangular crystal structures that exhibit distinctive...
- This $488,585 Project Grant, awarded September 1, 2025, through the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), funds computational research investigating ultrafast dynamics in symmetric molecules and their derivatives. The primary deliverables include advanced computational simulations modeling microscopic structural changes resulting from ultrafast processes driven by laser and matter-particle collisions, with particular...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded the University of New Mexico $600,000 on August 1, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop theoretical and computational methods for modeling ultrafast quantum dynamics in nanoscale materials and devices. The research team will create nonadiabatic molecular dynamics approaches implemented within real-time time-dependent density functional theory, with machine learning methods employed across...
- This $557,686 National Science Foundation award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) funds research at Temple University from September 2022 through August 2025 related to molecular quantum control and spectroscopy using light-dressed states. The principal investigators will utilize laser interactions with diatomic molecules to study transition strengths between energy states, investigate the electronic structure of dysprosium and erbium dimer molecules, and control...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded Kansas State University $490,771 on January 1, 2026, under the CAREER program (Mathematical and Physical Sciences, CFDA 47.049) to develop a table-top attosecond-pump attosecond-probe spectroscopy platform. The project, running through December 31, 2030, and performed in Manhattan, Kansas, will construct and characterize a compact, bright attosecond beamline capable of delivering isolated attosecond-duration pulses with sufficient...
The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees $270,390 on August 1, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop theoretical tools for tracking ultrafast charge migration in molecules using attosecond spectroscopy. The project applies AttoMESA, a first-principles, time-dependent quantum-chemistry method, to establish a predictive framework for understanding coherent electronic dynamics in halogen-containing carbon chains and mid-size biomolecules following strong-field and multiphoton ionization. The research addresses how electronic coherence is generated and propagates in multi-electron molecules, providing quantitative descriptions of charge density evolution with the accuracy demanded by attosecond spectroscopy. Computational tools developed under this work, including new capabilities within the AttoMESA framework, will be released through the AMOS Gateway to broaden access across the atomic, molecular, and optical physics community. The award supports fundamental understanding of ultrafast electron motion as a foundation for controlling chemical reactivity, charge transfer, and light-driven processes in photochemistry, molecular design, and attochemistry, with potential contributions to quantum information science applications. Performance occurs at the University of Central Florida's Alafaya, Florida location over the period August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2029.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $270.4k | 7/29/26 |