Project Grant 2609534
- The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded the University of South Carolina $330,000 on August 1, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop theoretical tools clarifying the role of gluons within protons, neutrons, and nuclei. The project introduces a novel nonrelativistic effective field theory for scalar particles (SNR-EFT) to enable systematic treatments of pions, kaons, and other spin-0 states relevant to low-energy nuclear processes....
- The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded $100,000 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York on August 15, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to fund field theory research activities led by Professor Vladimir Rosenhaus at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The award supports development of analytic methods for quantum field theory in non-equilibrium states, with focus on turbulent energy cascades...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded the University of California, Los Angeles $480,000 on August 15, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research in quantum field theory, quantum gravity, and string theory. The award funds research activities of Professors Eric D'Hoker, Michael Gutperle, and Per Kraus focused on scattering amplitudes—the mathematical structures and methods underlying particle and string collisions. The...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded The Trustees of Princeton University $510,000 on August 15, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to fund theoretical physics research activities of Professors Igor Klebanov, Simone Giombi, and Herman Verlinde. The award supports research exploring quantum field theory, conformal field theory, and their applications to quantum models of black holes, cosmology, and quantum information theory. The...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded the University of South Carolina $152,832 on November 1, 2025, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to investigate quantum magnetic topological systems using external pressure as a tuning parameter to discover novel quantum phenomena and realize ideal magnetic Weyl states in real materials. The research employs synchrotron-based spectroscopy, scattering, and diffraction techniques alongside...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded New York University $320,000 on August 15, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support particle and quantum field theory research conducted by Professors Sergei Dubovsky and Massimo Porrati. The research addresses fundamental questions about forces binding elementary particles and the universe's evolution. Dubovsky will develop new methods for analyzing lattice field theory data, investigate...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of South Carolina received a $375,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028. This research initiative focuses on experimental studies of the three-dimensional structure of nucleons and nuclei using electron-scattering facilities at Jefferson Lab in Virginia. The principal investigator, in...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $108,448 project grant to the University of South Carolina under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The two-year award will support research from July 2021 through June 2023 to develop a new search technique for sterile neutrinos using key detectors. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through advancing knowledge and understanding of major problems...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $690,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Stony Brook University, effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. The award funds theoretical physics research activities led by Professors Maria Concepcion Gonzalez-Garcia, Patrick Meade, and Leonardo Rastelli. The research team will develop novel concepts in quantum field theory to understand matter and forces at the...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded the University of California, Berkeley $150,000 on August 1, 2026, for research activities in string theory under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Professor Mina Aganagic will investigate a six-dimensional quantum theory predicted by string theory, developing a description of the six-dimensional (2,0) superconformal field theory in terms of its self-dual strings and building on her prior work on little...
The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded the University of South Carolina $100,000 on August 15, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support theoretical quantum field theory research led by Professor Alexander Monin. The award funds investigation of strongly interacting quantum systems using large-charge and large-spin approaches to develop non-perturbative analytic methods. The research emphasizes conformal field theory, combining large-charge effective field theory with bootstrap methods to study spectra and correlation functions in fixed large-charge sectors, with particular focus on extending heavy-light bootstrap methods beyond scalar probes and clarifying the relationship between crossing-symmetric solutions and their effective-field-theory realizations. The work also addresses theories with large conserved charges and systems with large angular momentum. Performance occurs at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina, from the award date through July 31, 2028. The project will support training of a graduate student and contribute to dissemination of results through publications, scientific meetings, and educational activities.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $100.0k | 8/10/26 |