The Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) awarded a $800,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Merced on February 1, 2025. The grant, titled "CHAOS, MIXING, AND ENERGY EXTRACTION IN ACTIVE NEMATIC", supports fundamental scientific research in areas such as quantum information science, advanced computing, and environmental science. The grant provides funding for the University of California, Merced to conduct experimental and...
This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Defense's Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630) provides $884,696.00 to the University of California, Merced to conduct research on electronic materials for integrated nanophotonics. The performance period for this award is from April 21, 2025 to April 20, 2029. As a Hispanic-serving institution, UC Merced will leverage its expertise in areas such as climate science, quantum computing, and...
This Project Grant award of $307,887 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will enable the University of California, Merced to advance the scientific understanding and technological applications of topological quantum matter at finite temperatures. The research project aims to utilize the power of quantum computers to systematically characterize the properties of topological quantum systems at finite...
This Project Grant award, titled "VENTURE FOR INNOVATION IN SELF-ASSEMBLY AND INTEGRATION OF OPTOELECTRONIC NANOSTRUCTURES (VISION)," is funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The $350,000 award, spanning September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, supports a partnership between the University of California, Merced (UC Merced) and the University of Washington to cultivate STEM potential among UC Merced's diverse student...
The University of Maryland, College Park received a $268,000 Project Grant award under the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to conduct fundamental algorithmic research toward quantum utility. The research project, titled "FAR-QU: Fundamental Algorithmic Research Toward Quantum Utility," will run from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. The university will leverage its extensive academic and research capabilities in quantum computing,...
This $250,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports research to develop new computational methods for studying quantum defects in solid materials and their potential applications in quantum technologies. The lead institution is the University of California, Merced, which is collaborating with the University of California, Santa Barbara and Florida Polytechnic University. Key research goals include extending the "spin-flip...
This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $883,545.00 in funding to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to conduct research on "HYDRODYNAMICS AS A PLATFORM TO HARNESS EMERGENT PROPERTIES OF QUANTUM MATERIALS". The award period is from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025. The research project aims to advance scientific understanding and technological capabilities in quantum materials by...
The University of California, Merced received a three-year $459,899 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant funds collaborative research enabling high performance multi-scale simulation on big memory platforms. Specifically, the University aims to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to accelerate discovery and innovation in...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, aims to support the development of a verifiable quantum compiler that integrates formal methods to enable fault-tolerant quantum computing. The $500,000 award, with a period of performance from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2028, will fund research to optimize the translation of quantum algorithms into fault-tolerant...
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...