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Supports experimental research at the frontiers of nuclear physics in the following areas: nuclear astrophysics, structure and reactions; nuclear and hadron quantum chromodynamics; precision measurements of fundamental symmetries and constants.
Supports research across all domains of theoretical high-energy physics, including collider physics, Standard-Model physics, and physics beyond the Standard Model, including supersymmetry, extra dimensions, string phenomenology and string theory.
Supports experimental research on the fundamental quantitative understanding of atoms and molecules, their interactions with each other and their interaction with light, and the application of AMO methods to fundamental science in some other areas of physics.
Supports the development of science-driven cyberinfrastructure through computational advances focused on Big Data and high-performance computing convergence, algorithm development, and community-building activities for computational and data-enabled science.
Supports laboratory research that explores the fundamental building blocks of matter and their forces by probing, directly or indirectly, particle interactions.
Supports theoretical and computational studies of atomic and molecular structure; atomic and molecular interactions, including collisions and photoionization/photodetachment; quantum optics; quantum information and ultracold phenomena in Bose and Fermi gasses.
Supports theoretical and experimental research that explores the fundamental physical processes used by living systems, with a focus on basic physical principles that underlie biological function.
Dear Colleagues: Over the last 16 months, the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and the Japan Science and Technology Agency’s (JST) Big Data Priority Program have facilitated cross-agency research capacity-building in...
Invites EAGER proposals and supplemental funding requests from existing NSF awardees of the Engineering or Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorates to develop simulated and synthetic data on interdependent critical infrastructures.
Encourages applications for summer research internships for doctoral students in the mathematical sciences that focus on applications of mathematical or statistical theories outside of academia.
Supports crosscutting activities in the Division of Materials Research and across NSF that emphasize diversity and inclusion, international collaboration and education. Activities such as institutes, workshops and conferences may be supported.
Supports advanced wireless research platforms conceived by the academic and industrial wireless research community, enabling exploration of robust new wireless devices, communication techniques, networks and systems.
Supports research that harnesses fundamental quantum properties to explore new scientific frontiers and develop new technologies at the interface of traditional scientific disciplines.
Supports the establishment of a Network Coordination Office; Computational Modeling and Simulation Center; and Post-Disaster, Rapid Response Research Facility to provide research infrastructure and education to the natural hazards engineering community.
Provides supplemental funding for active SBIR/STTR Phase II awardees to partner with NSF-funded Engineering Research Centers on the development of their products and services.
Dear Colleagues: The NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) invites its grantees who do not already have Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) supplemental funding to submit requests for such funding pursuant to the guidelines specified in...
Over the past decade of its authorized award life, the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) has enabled major discoveries, innovations, and contributions to education and commerce by providing researchers from academia, small and large companies, and government with open access...
Supports researchers in quantum information science, mathematical and physical sciences, or computer and information science and engineering to pursue joint research through long-term visits to a host institution.
The Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) and Research Opportunity Awards (ROA) funding opportunities support research by faculty members at predominantly undergraduate institutions (PUIs). RUI proposals support PUI faculty in research that engages them in their professional field(s), builds capacity for...
Invites supplemental funding requests from current SBIR/STTR Phase II awardees to support active research participation by high school students, particularly those from groups underrepresented in STEM.
Supports interdisciplinary research in human-computer interaction to design technologies that amplify human capabilities and to study how human, technical and contextual aspects of computing and communication systems shape their benefits, effects and risks.
Supports computational and experimental research on the structure, dynamics and function of biomolecules, supermolecular assemblies and their interactions.
Supports research that employs systems biology or synthetic biology approaches to address compelling questions in molecular and cellular biology. Tool development to advance systems and synthetic biology is also supported.
Supports research on the fundamental mechanisms involved in the organization, dynamics, processing, expression, regulation and evolution of genetic and epigenetic information.