Project Grant DESC0026237
- This federal Project Grant award of $827,250.00 from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports fundamental scientific research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on quantum measurement and control of milligram-scale masses for gravity experiments. The award has a performance period from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025. The research aims to advance the understanding of complex physical systems and develop...
- This federal Project Grant award, totaling $450,000.00, was provided by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on August 15, 2025. The purpose of this grant is to support research on "Spin Polarized Tunneling in Symmetry-Breaking Antiferromagnets." MIT, as a premier private research university, will leverage its expertise in quantum computing, materials science, and advanced...
- This federal Project Grant award of $875,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on September 15, 2025. The grant supports research to develop "HIERARCHICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF COMPLEX PHYSICAL SYSTEMS WITH EUCLIDEAN NEURAL NETWORKS" over a project period ending on September 14, 2026. As a leading research institution, MIT leverages its expertise in areas such...
- This Project Grant award of $975,000.00, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), supports fundamental scientific research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from September 15, 2025 to September 14, 2026. The research, titled "ROADMAP: RANDOMIZED OPTIMAL ACQUISITION OF HETEROGENEOUS DATA IN MISSPECIFIED PROBLEMS", will explore the frontiers of science by investigating the most fundamental questions...
- This federal Project Grant award of $698,547.00 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001) supports the development of high-performance broadband large-area monolithic CMOS X-ray sensors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The award has a performance period from November 7, 2024 to November 6, 2027. As a leading federal contractor and grantee, MIT will leverage its extensive expertise in areas such as quantum computing,...
- This $699,000.00 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports fundamental scientific research on penetration-capacitance measurements and noise spectroscopies of rhombohedral multilayer and twisted bilayer graphene conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The award, with a performance period from August 15, 2025 to February 14, 2027, will enable MIT to advance the scientific understanding of...
- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $875,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to conduct research on "Open Heavy-Flavor Photoproduction at the LHC and EIC for a Scale-Dependent Characterization of Nuclear Matter." This grant, with a performance period from July 1, 2025 to October 31, 2026, supports fundamental scientific research aimed at advancing the...
- This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $1,900,000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the project "Laser Cooling of Molecules with Octupole-Deformed Nuclei for Fundamental Physics." The award period runs from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. Through this grant, MIT will conduct fundamental scientific research on laser cooling techniques for molecules with specific...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics awarded a $341,896 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund the development of the "DARKQUEST" experiment, which will upgrade the existing SPINQUEST spectrometer at Fermilab's 120 GeV Main Injector to enable a new search for dark matter particles in the mega-electron volt to giga-electron volt mass range. Key...
- This $742,474 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports research by the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) to develop low mass dark matter detection capabilities using sapphire substrate qubits. The project will be carried out over a 1-year period from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025. The research aims to advance fundamental scientific understanding and technological innovation in areas such as...
This federal Project Grant award of $696,800.00, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), is funding the "DEVELOPMENT OF LARGE AREA SNSPD SYSTEMS: DARK MATTER PATHFINDER EXPERIMENTS AND BEYOND" research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The award, effective from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025, supports MIT's work on advancing the development of large-area superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) systems for dark matter detection experiments and other applications. As a leading research institution, MIT will leverage its expertise in quantum computing, materials science, and advanced engineering to drive progress in this critical area of scientific research with potential national security and technological innovation implications.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $696.8k | 9/27/25 |