Project Grant FG5209NA29035

This three-year, $1,194,210 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support the development of empirical and physics-informed machine learning models of collisionless shock waves. The Johns Hopkins University will utilize over 10,000 crossings of Earth's bow shock from NASA spacecraft to create a parameterized, three-dimensional model of the global bow shock structure. Additionally, the researchers will develop a model for general collisionless...

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a $599,541 Project Grant to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 12.630). The grant funds the development of an ultra-high speed framing camera for shock and detonation studies. The camera will enable the awardee to capture high-resolution images of explosives and other energetic...

The University of California, Davis was awarded a $242,333 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports research to develop new analytical and geometric frameworks to describe the formation and propagation of shock waves in fluid dynamics. Specifically, the university will conduct collaborative research to better understand shock formation, shock...

The Project Grant award of $399,978 from the Department of Energy Office of Science will support METASURFACE-COUPLED AVALANCHE PHOTO DIODE research at Sivananthan Laboratories, Inc. in Bolingbrook, IL from June 2022 through June 2023. The award is being made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness through scientific discoveries and tools. Specifically, the...

This Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports collaborative research on microscale plasma processes in shock and turbulent environments. The $341,464 award to Columbia University, spanning August 2024 to July 2027, will focus on two key areas: 1) particle heating and acceleration in shocks, and 2) thermodynamics and transport driven by large-scale turbulence. The research aims to develop...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $490,337 to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) from August 15, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The primary objective of this project is to develop novel data-driven machine learning techniques to enhance the computational performance and accuracy of numerical simulations for modeling relativistic plasma flows in...

This $109,392 Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Science Mission Directorate's Science (CFDA 43.001) program will enable Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to investigate how enhanced concentrations of solar wind He++ (helium) affect ion heating at Earth's bow shock. The research will analyze in-situ measurements of ion distributions from NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission. This 12-month study, awarded on November 1, 2023...

This Project Grant award from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837), provides $343,203 to Cyion Technologies LLC to develop a novel in vitro electrophysiology system for high-throughput measurement of intracellular action potential (IAP) in human-derived cardiomyocytes. The system leverages a 3D nanoelectrode array (NEA) technology to enable scalable recordings of IAP signals from many individual cardiomyocytes. This...

Applied Diamond, Inc. was awarded a $206,380 project grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a diamond detector system for ion-beam diagnostics. The grant-funded project will support the design and testing of an innovative diamond-based detector that can be used to characterize the properties of ion beams with unprecedented resolution. This detector system aligns with the Office of Science's mission...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $184,466 Project Grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to acquire a cathodoluminescence detector for nanoscale defect and impurity analysis. The detector will be installed in a shared-user analytical facility at Georgia Tech accessible to academic researchers, small and large companies, and NSF-supported training activities. It will enable researchers to nondestructively...