Project Grant 2608967
- The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded a $2 million cooperative agreement to Harvard University's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center on September 1, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The award funds research in soft materials science, including organometallics, proteins, hydrogels, and vesicles, organized within two interdisciplinary research groups. The first group develops machine learning models and...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded $225,000 to President and Fellows of Harvard College on August 15, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for collaborative research on hidden components in complex data using mathematical frameworks such as non-negative matrices and tensors. The project develops innovative methods to uncover hidden patterns in relational datasets including health records, social networks, and ranking...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded President and Fellows of Harvard College $243,639 on August 15, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct research on algorithmic spin glass theory and computational phase transitions. The recipient will develop mathematical frameworks explaining when high-dimensional optimization and sampling landscapes can be navigated efficiently by algorithms and when intrinsic barriers prevent...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded $200,000 to Harvard College on August 1, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to fund research on special varieties in algebraic dynamics. The project investigates mathematical structures governing dynamical systems defined by repeated application of algebraic rules, with focus on identifying when such systems exhibit hidden geometric structure rather than generic chaotic behavior....
- The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded Massachusetts Institute of Technology $600,000 on July 1, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop data-driven materials-by-design strategies for organic mixed ionic-electronic conductive polymers and devices. The project integrates molecular design, advanced characterization, device engineering, and artificial intelligence across U.S. and Canadian research institutions to...
- This $250,000 National Science Foundation project grant will support research at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the University of California-Santa Barbara to advance machine learning techniques for predicting the behavior of dynamic materials. Jason Green of UMass Boston and Igor Mezic of UC Santa Barbara will combine machine learning and physical theory methods to create new approaches for designing functional materials with tailored optical, mechanical, or photonic properties on...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded $1.369 million to Harvard College on August 15, 2026, to acquire a thermal laser epitaxy system for synthesis of next-generation quantum materials in thin film form under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083). The thermal laser epitaxy system enables deposition of elemental constituents on substrates using CO2 lasers to directly heat source material and target substrate, reaching temperatures above 2,000...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded $300,000 to President and Fellows of Harvard College on July 1, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research in complex dynamics and moduli spaces. The project, running through June 30, 2029, aims to study moduli spaces—mathematical structures that classify the variety of shapes a recognized type can assume—from perspectives of analysis, algebra, geometry, and dynamics...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded $500,000 to President and Fellows of Harvard College on February 1, 2026, under the Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer Our Future (DMREF) program, a collaborative research initiative to develop quantitative metrics of entanglement in complex fibrous materials such as polymer networks, textiles, and steel-cable structures. The award funds research to correlate entanglement geometries with mechanical properties...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded Brown University $390,000 on July 1, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop a high-throughput experimental platform for studying how ions direct the assembly of polymers into multiscale organized networks. The research team will use automated material handling and imaging to rapidly explore thousands of material combinations, quantitatively assess how different ingredients...
The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded $300,000 to Harvard College on August 1, 2026, to develop and sustain open cyberinfrastructure for training and deploying neural equivariant machine-learned interatomic potentials and materials foundation models under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The project will expand the NEQUIP and ALLEGRO ecosystem to enable researchers to simulate complex materials with near-quantum-mechanical accuracy at reduced computational cost. The resulting tools will lower barriers to advanced atomistic simulation for academic, national laboratory, and industrial users working in energy storage, catalysis, manufacturing, electronics, and molecular science. Harvard will develop infrastructure to make machine-learned models of atomic interactions accurate, fast, reliable, and practical for broad use, while providing tutorials, documentation, reusable models, and community support to expand accessibility across materials science, chemistry, physics, computer science, and machine learning communities. The project also includes education and workforce development components to train students and researchers at the intersection of these disciplines. Performance occurs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a period of performance from August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2029. The award is structured as a Project Grant.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $300.0k | 7/26/26 |