Project Grant DESC0021050

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics Project Grant award of $340,000 supports collaborative research between Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison to advance the understanding of microscale plasma processes in shock and turbulent environments. The project aims to develop physics-based models of kinetic, non-equilibrium processes in astrophysical plasmas, focusing on particle heating/acceleration in shocks and thermodynamics/transport driven by...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), provides $276,489 to Cornell University to study the physics of turbulent plasma in a laboratory setting. The research program will develop a new platform for producing magnetized plasma turbulence and use advanced diagnostics, such as Faraday rotation imaging and Thomson scattering, to characterize the transition from laminar to turbulent plasma. The project...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support the development and testing of a laser-based detector capable of efficiently capturing and selectively identifying magnesium atoms produced by the neon-22 + helium-4 nuclear reaction. The $350,000 award, granted on August 15, 2024, will fund a three-year project at Michigan State University to study the atom capture and laser detection process and perform a...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $550,000 Project Grant to the University of Rochester under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct a laboratory-based study of astrophysical plasma turbulence. The 3-year award supports a collaboration between the University of Rochester and the University of Oxford, known as the TDYNO (Turbulent Dynamo) project, which aims to recreate and model astrophysically relevant magnetized plasmas in the laboratory using...

This $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics supports an effort to develop a comprehensive database of plasma photoionization processes with practical applications in fields such as combustion and high-speed aerodynamics. The "ECLIPSE: EXPLORING PHYSICS OF MULTIPHOTON IONIZATION USING THOMSON COHERENT MICROWAVE SCATTERING" project will utilize a novel Thomson in-phase coherent microwave scattering (TMS) technique to precisely...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $200,000.00 to Xantho Technologies LLC to develop a physics-informed neural network and magnetic field sensor system for real-time determination of plasma magnetic field. The project aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries in areas such as fusion energy sciences. The award has a...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $390,000 supports computational research into self-generated coronal magnetic fields in high energy density plasmas. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the University of Rochester will investigate new instability mechanisms that can generate sufficiently strong magnetic fields to explain observations in laboratory and astrophysical plasma systems. Specifically, the awardee will theoretically analyze and...

This three-year, $345,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support collaborative research between the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and Marquette University to advance understanding of novel plasma physics processes in antimatter experiments. The researchers will develop new kinetic theory and molecular dynamics simulations to study electron and positron compression, antiproton cooling, and mixing/recombination of antiprotons...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science has awarded a $627,387 Project Grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2025. The funding will support a research project titled "Alfven Wave Propagation in Inhomogeneous Plasmas to Improve our Understanding of the Solar Corona" under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). This hypothesis-driven, innovative research project aims to...

This $450,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics will fund the development of machine learning-augmented density functional theory (DFT) tools to enable faster and more accurate quantum simulations of warm dense plasmas. Under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the University of Rochester will receive funding from August 15, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The project aims to advance finite-temperature exchange-correlation functionals...