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Inviting requests which foster interest in the pursuit of studies in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences; and broaden participation of high school students who are in groups that have been traditionally underrepresented and under-served in STEM fields.
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.
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.
Invites proposals that will expand the frontier of measurement accuracy to improve our understanding of current models of physics to allow for the discovery of new fundamental physics.
Invites U.S.–France collaborative research proposals addressing the priorities of each of the following: the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche, NSF’s Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, and NSF’s Division of Physics.
Invites U.S.-Swiss collaborations at the intersection of the Swiss National Science Foundation’s three research divisions and participating NSF programs.
Invites supplemental funding requests from active Division of Physics awardees to provide research experiences for undergraduates and graduate students from historically underrepresented groups.
Encourages research proposals at the intersection of atomic, molecular and optical physics and elementary particle physics focused on developing new small-scale, high precision experiments that complement large-scale particle physics experiments.
Supports research that harnesses fundamental quantum properties to explore new scientific frontiers and develop new technologies at the interface of traditional scientific disciplines.
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 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 on the fundamental nature of matter, energy, space and time in the following areas: cosmic phenomena, underground physics and IceCube research support.
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.
Invites Research Advanced by Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering (RAISE) and EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) proposals to all NSF Directorates in the area of clean energy technologies.
Invites collaboration between U.S. and U.K. research communities. Proposals may be accepted into programs within the following NSF directorates: Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences and Computer and Information Science and Engineering.
This initiative supports fundamentally new approaches in molecular sciences to drive new directions in biotechnology, a critical and emerging technology of the 21st century. This is the third year of a campaign targeting broad themes to be pursued through collaborative...
Encourages supplemental funding requests by current Mathematical and Physical Sciences awardees to support an additional doctorate student. Applicants must be at institutions involved in the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate program.
Supports laboratory research that explores the fundamental building blocks of matter and their forces by probing, directly or indirectly, particle interactions.
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 instrumentation development at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, including instrument science, detector characterization, and the development of technologies for future generations of gravitational-wave detectors.
Invites proposals for Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) and conference/workshop proposals that leverage cyberinfrastructure to advance research data management and public access.
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 research and infrastructure activities focused on gravitation at large and small scales as well as data analysis for gravitational wave detectors.