Grants awarded by JSF
(updated on 17 February 2024)Research Grants
| Recipient's name and affiliation | Title of the grant | Awarded amount |
Date of approval |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victor Galitski Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland |
Quantizing Ergodic Theory: A Field-Theory Approach | 183,000 | 17 Feb 2024 |
| Lihong Wang California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA |
Multi-stage Stern–Gerlach Experiment | 175,000 | 06 Jan 2024 |
| Natalia Chepiga Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands |
Challenging the theory of Mott transitions | 123,000 | 28 Nov 2023 |
| Andreas Sinner University of Opole, Poland |
Effect of perturbations on superconductivity in twisted bylayer graphene | 27,000 | 17 Nov 2023 |
| Emil Kirilov Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austria |
A simulator for quantum magnetism with electro-magnetic dipolar gas | 220,000 | 27 Jul 2022 |
| Giuliano Benenti Insubria University, Como, Italy |
Ultimate bounds for quantum heat engines | 80,000 | 09 Jan 2022 |
| Chaowei Hu University of California, Los Angeles, CA |
Realizing high-temperature quantum anomalous Hall state via magnetic proximity effect | 6,500 | 26 Nov 2021 |
| Luigi Amico, Oliver Morsch Universities of Catania and Pisa, Italy |
Rydberg atomtronics | 230,000 | 06 Nov 2021 |
| Tatsu Takeuchi Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA |
Dark Matter and the Hubble Scale | 75,000 | 05 Nov 2021 |
| Dafei Jin Argonne National Lab and University of Chicago, IL |
Solid helium-neon heterogeneous interface as a new 2D quantum electronic platform | 120,000 | 05 Jul 2021 |
| Natalia Berloff University of Cambridge, UK |
A polariton graph simulator | 115,000 | 03 Jul 2021 |
| Charis Anastopoulos University of Patras, Greece |
Foundations of Relativistic Quantum Information Theory | 90,000 | 07 Feb 2021 |
| Mark G. Raizen University of Texas, Austin, TX |
Atomic and Molecular Camera III | 30,000 | 26 Apr 2020 |
| Mark G. Raizen University of Texas, Austin, TX |
Atomic and Molecular Camera II | 102,000 | 25 Jul 2019 |
| Guiseppe Pezzotti and Elia Marin University of Osaka, Japan |
Solving an open energy loop in materials fatigue with a newly developed stress nanoscope | 80,000 | 03 Jun 2019 |
| Andreas Sinner and Klaus Ziegler University of Augsburg, Germany |
Pair creation and transport in an electron gas with spectral degeneracies | 26,000 | 08 Jan 2019 |
| Alexander Bataller North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC |
Investigating contact electrification via operando ultrafast nonresonant spectroscopy | 145,000 | 01 Jan 2019 |
| Mark G. Raizen University of Texas, Austin, TX |
New Mechanisms for Efficient Field-Ionization and Development of an Atomic and Molecular Camera | 134,600 | 11 Dec 2017 |
| Karl David Stephan Texas State University, San Marcos, TX |
Precursor Investigation of Novel Propagation Modes in Plasma-Enclosed Waveguide | 50,000 | 11 Dec 2017 |
| Salvatore Butera and Iacopo Carussotto University of Trento, Italy |
Condensed-matter analog models of dynamical Casimir and Hawking effect | 70,000 | 21 Aug 2017 |
| Roberto Passante University of Palermo, Italy |
Dynamical Casimir and Casimir-Polder effect with Rydberg atoms II | 70,000 | 21 Aug 2017 |
| Djordje Minic Virigina Tech, Blacksburg, VA |
From modular quantum theory to quantum theory of gravity | 60,000 | 16 Apr 2017 |
| André Xuereb and Vittorio Peano University of Malta |
Topological Optomechanical Metamaterials | 90,000 | 16 Apr 2017 |
| Andreas Sinner and Klaus Ziegler University of Augsburg, Germany |
Emergent phenomena in systems of Fermions with band touching points | 26,000 | 15 Oct 2016 |
| Gary Williams University of California, Los Angeles, CA |
Superfluidity of Helium Films Adsorbed on Carbon Nanotubes | 70,000 | 17 Oct 2016 |
| Robert Mettin Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany |
Low-Frequency Sonochemistry II | 37,500 | 04 Oct 2016 |
| Peter Tsang Brown University, Providence, RI |
Analytic, Non-Perturbative, Gauge-Invariant, Finite and Exact QCD | 25,000 | 04 Oct 2016 |
| Humphrey Maris Brown University, Providence, RI |
Cavitation from exotic ions in superfluid helium | 85,000 | 15 Oct 2015 |
| Karoly Holczer University of California, Los Angeles, CA |
Tunable Energy Focusing with Laser | 25,000 | 13 Sep 2015 |
| Mauro Paternostro Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK |
Out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics of the Dynamical Casimir effect | 74,000 | 13 Sep 2015 |
| Daniel P. Lathrop University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
Granular Electricity – II | 80,000 | 04 May 2015 |
| Steven Garrett Penn State University, State College, PA |
Equipment Grant for Vibrational Stabilization of Thermal Convection | 15,000 | 10 Feb 2015 |
| Mauro Antezza Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France |
Casimir-Lifshitz force out of thermal equilibrium – IV | 80,000 | 23 Dec 2014 |
| Kimball A. Milton The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
New Directions in Casimir Physics | 50,000 | 11 Nov 2014 |
| Julia Schneider and Robert Mettin Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany |
Low-Frequency Sonochemistry | 70,000 | 25 Aug 2014 |
| Kimball Milton The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
Applications of the Quantum Vacuum – III | 25,000 | 01 Dec 2013 |
| Mauro Antezza Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France |
Casimir-Lifshitz force out of thermal equilibrium – III | 70,000 | 01 Dec 2013 |
| Herbert M. Fried Brown University, Providence, RI |
Applications of Modern Functional Quantum Field Theory | 111,000 | 21 Oct 2013 |
| Daniel P. Lathrop University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
Granular Electricity | 85,000 | 27 Jul 2013 |
| Jirohta Kasagi Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan |
Liquid Li Cavitation | 40,000 | 19 Jul 2013 |
| Kimball Milton The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
Applications of the Quantum Vacuum – II | 50,000 | 25 Oct 2012 |
| Alagu Thilagam University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia |
Non-hermitian dynamics of open quantum systems applications | 32,000 | 25 Oct 2012 |
| Mauro Antezza Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France |
Casimir-Lifshitz force out of thermal equilibrium – II | 70,000 | 25 Oct 2012 |
| Roberto Passante Universita' di Palermo, Palermo, Italy |
Dynamical Casimir and Casimir-Polder effect with Rydberg atoms | 50,000 | 04 Jul 2012 |
| Kimball Milton The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
Applications of the Quantum Vacuum – I | 50,000 | 10 Oct 2011 |
| Mauro Antezza Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France |
Casimir-Lifshitz force out of thermal equilibrium – I | 67,000 | 01 Sep 2011 |
| Anton Kibalnik University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC |
A New Approach to Classical Electrodynamics | 4,000 | 22 Oct 2009 |
| Ara Ioannisyan Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia |
The Axial Vector Current in the External Field | 27,000 | 22 Oct 2009 |
| Thomas Erber and Sidney A. Guralnick Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL |
Piezomagnetism and Fatigue – II | 35,000 | 26 Jul 2009 |
| Gerald Guralnik Brown University, Providence, RI |
Problems in Quantum Field Theory | 29,255 | 02 Jun 2009 |
| Dolores Bozovic University of California, Los Angeles, CA |
Energy focusing in the Inner Ear | 25,000 | 25 Oct 2008 |
| Roberto Onofrio Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH |
Astrophysics of Quantum Vacuum | 2,100 | 17 Sep 2008 |
| Giovanni Carugno Padova University, Padova, Italy |
Development of a Frequency Locking System | 20,000 | 17 Sep 2008 |
| Herbert M. Fried Brown University, Providence, RI |
Analytic, Non-Perturbative, Almost-Exact Gauge Theory | 10,000 | 23 Oct 2008 |
| Thomas Erber and Sidney A. Guralnick Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL |
Piezomagnetism and Fatigue – I | 25,000 | 21 Nov 2007 |
| Karl Stephan Texas State University, San Marcos, TX |
Experimental Investigation of Ball Lightning Formation Mechanisms | 25,000 | 20 Dec 2007 |
| Thomas Dombeck and Donald. D. Koetke University of Hawaii, Hilo, HI |
Study of Neutron Schwinger Scattering in Silicon | 20,000 | 28 Jun 2007 |
Support for young participants of conferences, workshops, or schools
| Recipient's name and affiliation | Title of the grant | Awarded amount |
Date of approval |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antonio Ferreiro Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime (QFTCST III) | 10,000 | 17 Feb 2024 |
| Joseph Price U of Liverpool, UK |
The magnetic dipole moment of the muon at the Fermilab g-2 experiment | 10,000 | 26 Jun 2023 |
| Francesco Calisto LMU/TUM, Munich, Germany |
IAIFI summer workshop attendance | 2,500 | 22 Jun 2023 |
| Maxime Jacquet LKB, Sorbonne University, France |
Analogue Gravity Workshop | 15,000 | 06 Feb 2023 |
| Yasser Omar Portuguese Quantum Institute, Lisbon |
QCMC - Int. Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing | 15,000 | 22 May 2022 |
| Elisabetta Paladino University of Catania, Italy |
OneOverF2020 | 10,000 | 30 Jun 2022 |
| Marco Incagli INFN, Pisa, Italy |
Student support for g-2 physics week | 3,500 | 03 May 2019 |
| Robert Bennett University of Glasgow, UK |
Workshop on Interatomic Coulombic Decay in External Environments (ICD-X) | 8,000 | 25 Feb 2019 |
| Simone Montangero University of Padova, Italy |
Workshop on New trends in complex systems dynamics | 10,000 | 25 Feb 2019 |
| Elisabetta Paladino University of Catania, Italy |
Italian Quantum Information Science Conference 2018 (IQIS18) | 10,000 | 19 May 2018 |
| Kimball A. Milton The University of Oklahoma Norman, OK |
Summer School and Workshop an Casimir Effect: Theory and Applications | 10,000 | 20 Mar 2018 |
| Ho Bun Chan Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong |
Workshop on progress and prospects in Casimir interactions | 15,000 | 08 Feb 2016 |
| Michael Good Nazarbayev Universtity, Astana, Kazakhstan |
Workshop on Gravitation and Astrophysics | 18,000 | 25 Mar 2016 |
| Laura Mersini-Houghton University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC |
Workshop on Hawking Radiation | 15,000 | 22 May 2015 |
| Kimball A. Milton The University of Oklahoma Norman, OK |
Les Houches Workshop on Casimir Physics | 10,000 | 26 Jan 2014 |
| Hubert de Guise Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada |
Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Quantum Tomography | 10,000 | 25 Oct 2012 |
| Thomas Kephart Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN |
Quantized Flux in Tightly Knotted and Linked Systems | 12,000 | 04 Jul 2012 |
| Noureddine Mebarki Mentouri University, Constantine, Algeria |
Participation in an International Conference | 2,500 | 13 Dec 2008 |
| Thomas Curtright University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL |
Miami 2008 | 10,000 | 13 Dec 2008 |
| Shaaban Khalil Zewail City of Science and Technology, Giza, Egypt |
4th International Workshop on the Dark Side of the Universe | 10,000 | 19 May 2008 |
| F. Bary Malik Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL |
XXXI International Workshop on Condensed Matter Theories | 10,000 | 22 Aug 2007 |
| Qaisar Shafi University of Delaware, Newark, DE |
BCSPIN Summer School on High Energy Physics & Cosmology, Beijing | 10,000 | 21 Mar 2007 |
| Thomas Curtright University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL |
Miami 2006 | 10,000 | 08 Oct 2006 |