This $750,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports the University of California, Irvine's (UC Irvine) leading role in the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) experiment in China. The grant aims to enable UC Irvine to play a key part in the production of JUNO's first scientific results, including determining the order of neutrino masses and measuring neutrino oscillation parameters with...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $525,000 Project Grant (CFDA 81.049 - Office of Science Financial Assistance Program) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to support research on "Robust Approximation Methods for Time-Dependent Many-Electron Systems." The one-year grant, effective from August 1, 2024, to July 31, 2025, will fund UC Irvine's work to develop advanced computational methods for modeling the complex behaviors of many-electron...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) program will provide $1,140,000 to the College of William and Mary to conduct precision studies of neutrino oscillations and interactions. The research aims to make detailed measurements of neutrino properties and behaviors, which could reveal new physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. The award will support the use of data from the NOvA and MINERvA experiments, as...
This federal Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports particle astrophysics research using the Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). The $500,000 award, effective from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, focuses on studying neutrinos from solar, supernova, and other cosmic sources, as well as reactor neutrinos. The research aims to advance particle physics...
The University of Chicago will receive $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct neutrino physics research from September 2022 through August 2025. The university will support the Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment to investigate neutrino properties and oscillations, probe for new physics beyond the Standard Model, and address anomalies...
The University of California Irvine received a $650,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to conduct collaborative research on FASER and FASERnu at the Large Hadron Collider from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. This award falls under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing understanding of major...
The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $809,466 Project Grant to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant, titled "IMPROVING REPRESENTATIONS OF CARBON EXPORT AND ITS CLIMATE SENSITIVITY IN E3SM-MARBL", aims to enhance the representation of carbon export and its climate sensitivity in the DOE's E3SM-MARBL climate model. The project will run from Sep 1, 2024 to Feb 28, 2026, with the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics awarded the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) a 3-year, $500,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research and development activities related to the Hyper-Kamiokande particle physics detector in Japan. The goal of the project is to optimize the triggering, calibration, and reconstruction of neutrino interactions detected by the Hyper-Kamiokande observatory, particularly...
The University of California Irvine will use this $640,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to conduct computational studies of frustrated and doped systems from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which supports research aimed at increasing understanding of major problems in these fields. Specifically, the university will leverage density matrix renormalization group...
This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science (CFDA 81.049 - Office of Science Financial Assistance Program) supports fundamental scientific research on "Few-Hadron Reactions from QCD" at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The grant, awarded on June 1, 2025, will fund advanced research and development in areas such as particle physics, quantum information science, and computational modeling, with a focus on advancing U.S....