Project Grant N000142412499

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program ($300,909) supports collaborative research between Mississippi State University and Auburn University from June 2023 through May 2026. The award enables development of a novel optical trapping technique to precisely control and diagnose interactions between dust particles and plasma. Researchers will design an optical system to pin down and transport single dust grains in plasma, and employ...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $199,600 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the Illinois Institute of Technology for the period of July 15, 2021 to July 14, 2022. The grant funding will support research to understand the role of intragranular strain during deformation and processing of high-temperature structural metals. Specifically, the DURIP funding will be used to purchase an integrated Oxford...

This $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support the development of an online atomic data portal and open-access atomic modeling software by the University of Delaware. The portal and software aim to bridge the gap between atomic physics research codes and the user community's need for accurate atomic data and modeling capabilities. Over the three-year award period, the University of Delaware will develop a scalable and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $500,000 to the University of Maryland, College Park to develop techniques for directly measuring the intensity of ultra-high power laser light. The project aims to enable real-time, minimally intrusive measurement of laser focal spot characteristics, a critical capability for advancing high-powered laser research. This includes developing methodologies...

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...

This $350,546 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program supports fundamental research on quantum stereodynamics of cold molecular collisions. The project, led by researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), aims to gain a deeper understanding of atomic and molecular collision processes and explore methods to control the outcomes of chemical reactions through quantum mechanical techniques. Key focus...

This $572,067 National Science Foundation project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) funds the development of an event plane detector for the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Lehigh University is the primary awardee and will produce 15 calorimeter front-end modules, 8 transmitter modules, and 3 data collection modules to digitize and transmit signals from silicon photomultiplier detectors by July 2023. Columbia University serves as a...

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...

The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $999,532 Project Grant to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant, titled "(FY25 DURIP) DURIP: MULTI-FRAME X-RAY IMAGING OF IRREVERSIBLE ULTRAFAST PLASTICITY", will fund research focused on developing advanced multi-frame x-ray imaging capabilities to study irreversible ultrafast plasticity. This research aims to maintain technological...

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...