Project Grant DENA0001979

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) totaling $150,000 aims to advance understanding of strong-field and ultrafast processes in atomic systems through theoretical and computational modeling. Funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the award supports research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to describe interactions between intense coherent radiation and large quantum systems. Specific investigations include...

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities (IA) program aims to advance first-principles calculations of nuclear reactions. The project will leverage state-of-the-art mathematical techniques and high-performance computing capabilities to achieve unprecedented accuracy in describing nuclear reactions, with potential breakthroughs in nuclear science and astrophysics. The research endeavor, led by Louisiana State University, seeks...

Through a Project Grant award of $488,035 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, Purdue University is investigating ultrafast electronic and structural dynamics in metal chalcogenide nanoclusters and their assembled superatomic materials. The principal investigator, Hanzhe Liu, is using ultrashort extreme ultraviolet light pulses to observe real-time electronic and atomic motions within these superatomic solids. This technique...

This $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support theoretical research at Louisiana State University (LSU) on novel phases of confined cold atomic gases from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The research team at LSU will develop new predictions for possible collective states of trapped cold atomic gases, shedding light on emergent phenomena like superfluidity and magnetism. They will study implications of recent...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, totaling $704,826, supports research into many-particle systems with singular interactions at New York University from June 2023 through May 2026. The research focuses on rigorously deriving effective laws and theories for collective behavior in systems of particles interacting with singular forces like the Coulomb force. Specific aims include obtaining convergence results for...

This three-year, $354,239 National Science Foundation project grant supports theoretical research at Purdue University to advance understanding of universal few-body quantum systems and interactions. Specifically, the Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant will develop quantitative descriptions of three to five particle systems, such as atoms, molecules, nucleons or quarks, to extract new insights into universal behavior and predict phenomena. The effort will apply computational methods like...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $660,000 supports research into nuclear, particle, and weak interaction physics related to extreme conditions in the cosmos from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), key products include modeling how atomic nuclei and elementary particles behave in extreme temperatures and densities found in cosmic events like the Big Bang and stellar collapse. Insights gained will provide...

Summary: Computational Design of Solvated-Electron-Based Materials Auburn University received a $672,903 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028. Led by Professors Evangelos Miliordos, Marcelo Kuroda, and Konstantin Klyukin, the project delivers computational research and modeling services focused on solvated electron precursor electrides...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $300,000 to Clemson University to advance the capability of metal additive manufacturing (AM) technologies in developing radiation-tolerant single-phase concentrated solid-solution alloys (SP-CSAS). The research aims to generate new knowledge on SP-CSAS' radiation tolerance and their intrinsic compositions, structures, and defects through experimental and computational...

This $175,000 National Science Foundation project grant through the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will fund theoretical and modeling work to improve understanding of atomic processes in dense plasmas at the University of Nevada, Reno from September 2022 through August 2025. Specifically, the university researchers will develop formalism and non-local thermodynamic equilibrium modeling to describe X-ray emission spectra from exotic hollow ion states in low-to-mid atomic number...