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Supports research to advance the interoperability of studies using electromagnetic waves, high-energy particles including neutrinos and cosmic rays, and gravitational waves to realize integrated, multi-messenger astrophysical explorations of the universe.

The Division of Physics (PHY) supports physics research and the preparation of future scientists in the nation’s colleges and universities across a broad range of physics disciplines that span scales of space and time from the largest to the smallest...

The Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) program seeks to enable funding opportunities that are flexible and responsive to the evolving and emerging needs in cyberinfrastructure (CI). The program continues to emphasize integrated CI services, quantitative metrics with targets for...

Supports collaborative high-risk, high-reward projects to develop cutting-edge tools and methods that advance RNA biological research and biotechnology for applications across various sectors, including agriculture, energy and global health.

Supports interdisciplinary collaborative research to explore new computational technologies and accelerate scientific discovery.

Supports efforts to improve the adoption of cyberinfrastructure resources by the research community and integrate core literacy, skills in advanced cyberinfrastructure, and computational and data-driven methods into undergraduate and graduate education.

Supports the research of pre-tenure faculty in mathematical and physical sciences, with an emphasis on those at institutions that traditionally do not receive significant NSF funding, such as minority-serving, predominantly undergraduate or R2 institutions.

Supports translational research and workforce development at the interface of fundamental plasma science and technological innovation.

Supports research that uses new computational and data science approaches to advance knowledge and accelerate discovery in science and engineering.

Supports postdoctoral fellows performing impactful research in MPS fields while broadening the participation of groups that are underrepresented in the mathematical and physical sciences.

Supports research in fundamental plasma physics including study of magnetized plasmas, high-energy-density plasmas, low temperature plasmas, strongly coupled plasmas, non-neutral plasmas, and intense field-matter interaction in plasmas.

Supports research centers, institutes or large group efforts in any area of physics where the projects significantly advance the frontiers of physics and are best addressed by the collective efforts of a large group.

Supports partnerships between minority-serving institutions and Physics Frontiers Centers supported by the Division of Physics or eligible centers and institutes for the advancement of physics research and education.

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 research and infrastructure activities in classical and quantum gravity theory.

Supports interdisciplinary physics research; research experiences for undergraduates in physics; programs to broaden the participation of underrepresented groups in physics; and education and training of undergraduate and graduate physics students.

Supports research in theoretical cosmology, including standard Big-Bang cosmology and alternative cosmologies motivated by new ideas in particle physics. Also supports theoretical particle astrophysics, which tests ideas for physics beyond the Standard Model.

Supports projects that deepen the integration of cyberinfrastructure professionals’ services into research, while fostering education, training and recognition that address CI workforce development needs.

Supports research on fundamental theoretical aspects of nuclear physics, model building and applications to astrophysical phenomena and experimental programs at particle accelerator facilities.