Alfred University

NEW COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT TITLED: ADVANCED MANUFACTURING AND CHARACTERIZATION RESEARCH OF HIGH TEMPERATURE MATERIALS

CARES HEERF FUNDS – INSTITUTIONAL PORTION

CARES ACT EMERGENCY AID – STUDENT RELIEF

ALFRED UNIVERSITY RURAL MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF PLANAR WAVEGUIDES FROM HIGHLY THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE CERAMICS FOR HIGH POWER LASER APPLICATIONS

PREPARATION OF LEADERSHIP PERSONNEL

ALFRED UNIVERSITY. NEW COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT. PROJECT TITLE: GLASS INNOVATIONS FOR FUTURE THERMAL SAVINGS (GIFTS) DE-FOA-0003488, GALVANIZING LEAPS IN ADVANCED SUPER INSULATING GLASS (GLASING) CONTROL NUMBER 3488-1512 THIS GRANT FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ENTITLED, ''GLASS INNOVATIONS FOR FUTURE THERMAL SAVINGS (GIFTS)'' IS AWARDED TO ALFRED UNIVERSITY UNDER ARPA-E FOA NUMBER DE-FOA-0003488, GALVANIZING LEAPS IN ADVANCED SUPER INSULATING GLASS (GLASING) AND CONTROL NUMBER: 3488-1512. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO MAKE VACUUM INSULATED GLAZING UNITS (VIGS) MORE AFFORDABLE AND WIDELY ADOPTED BY INNOVATING THEIR PRODUCTION PROCESS, SPECIFICALLY BY DEVELOPING NEW SEALING TECHNOLOGIES AND ELIMINATING THE NEED FOR INTERNAL SPACERS. THIS WILL ENABLE VIGS TO ACHIEVE HIGH THERMAL PERFORMANCE AND SIGNIFICANT ENERGY SAVINGS.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CERAMIC ENGINEERING READINESS THROUGH ACCESS TO MENTORSHIP, INTERNSHIPS, AND CAREERS -THIS PROJECT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE NATIONAL NEED FOR WELL-EDUCATED SCIENTISTS, MATHEMATICIANS, ENGINEERS, AND TECHNICIANS BY SUPPORTING THE RETENTION AND GRADUATION OF HIGH-ACHIEVING, LOW-INCOME STUDENTS WITH DEMONSTRATED FINANCIAL NEED AT ALFRED UNIVERSITY, COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES, AND MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. AN ESTIMATED 45 SCHOLARS PURSUING UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES IN CERAMIC ENGINEERING AND GLASS ENGINEERING WILL RECEIVE SCHOLARSHIPS OF UP TO $15,000 FOR UP TO FIVE YEARS. SCHOLARS WILL RECEIVE FACULTY, PEER, AND INDUSTRY MENTORING AND THE PROJECT WILL BUILD STRONG SCHOLAR COHORTS THROUGH AN INTENSIVE PAID SUMMER PROGRAM, VISITS TO INDUSTRY PARTNERS, AND PARTICIPATION IN STUDENT PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY CHAPTERS. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR SCHOLARS INCLUDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH, INTERNSHIPS, AND TRAVEL TO CONFERENCES. THE OVERALL GOAL OF THIS TRACK 3 SCHOLARSHIPS IN STEM PROJECT IS TO INCREASE STEM DEGREE COMPLETION OF ACADEMICALLY TALENTED, LOW-INCOME UNDERGRADUATES WITH DEMONSTRATED FINANCIAL NEED. THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT NATIONAL NEED TO GROW THE STEM WORKFORCE AND NURTURE KEY TALENT THAT WILL ENSURE ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS AND PROVIDE DOMESTIC LEADERSHIP ACROSS CRITICAL SECTORS. THERE ARE A SMALL NUMBER OF ACCREDITED CERAMIC AND GLASS ENGINEERING PROGRAMS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES. HOWEVER, PROFESSIONALS IN THESE DISCIPLINES ARE IMPORTANT THROUGHOUT THE STEM WORKFORCE, INCLUDING IN THE SEMICONDUCTOR, ENERGY, AND SPACE SECTORS, AS WELL AS OTHER KEY AREAS OF NATIONAL NEED. THE PROJECT WILL BE ASSESSED BY AN EXPERIENCED EVALUATOR THAT WILL EXAMINE THE PROJECT?S PROGRESS THROUGH SURVEYS, INTERVIEWS, FOCUS GROUPS, AND A REVIEW OF STUDENT ARTIFACTS. THE DATA GENERATED WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE KNOWLEDGE BASE REGARDING EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT TALENTED, LOW-INCOME STUDENTS IN STEM. THIS PROJECT IS FUNDED BY NSF?S SCHOLARSHIPS IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS PROGRAM, WHICH SEEKS TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF ACADEMICALLY TALENTED, LOW-INCOME STUDENTS WITH DEMONSTRATED FINANCIAL NEED WHO EARN DEGREES IN STEM FIELDS. IT ALSO AIMS TO IMPROVE THE EDUCATION OF FUTURE STEM WORKERS, AND TO GENERATE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ACADEMIC SUCCESS, RETENTION, TRANSFER, GRADUATION, AND ACADEMIC/CAREER PATHWAYS OF LOW-INCOME STUDENTS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

TAS::89 0321::TAS CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY RESEARCH

COMBINED PRIORITY FOR PERSONNEL PREPARATION

COORDINATING COUNTY SERVICES FOR FAMILIES AND YOUTH

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NANO-ENGINEERED MATERIALS FOR MULTIMODE GUIDANCE SYSTEM OF HYPERSONIC VEHICLES

ELECTROCHEMICAL INTERCALATION IN DEFECTIVE OXIDE NANOSHEETS

E-LEAD: ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT

CAREER: MECHANISM FOR CONTROLLING IONIC VALENCES IN TRANSITION METAL DOPED LASER MATERIALS

MRI: ACQUISITION OF A FOCUSED ION BEAM SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE

RUI: EXAMINING THE DISCREPANCY BETWEEN STRESS AND ENTHALPY RELAXATION IN BOROSILICATE GLASSES: AN EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL STUDY -NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY. GLASS RELAXATION IS THE PROCESS OF GLASS (AN UNSTABLE MATERIAL) TRYING TO REACH STABILITY. THIS PROCESS HAS BEEN INVESTIGATED FOR A LONG TIME BUT REMAINS LARGELY A MYSTERY AND A CHALLENGE, AS ADVANCED GLASSES THAT MAKE UP THE BACKBONE OF OUR DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE ARE STRONGLY INFLUENCED BY RELAXATION. TO UNCOVER THE ORIGINS OF GLASS RELAXATION, A JOINT EXPERIMENTAL AND SIMULATION APPROACH IS PURSUED. THE EXPERIMENTS WILL LEVERAGE ALFRED UNIVERSITY?S UNIQUE EXPERTISE IN HIGH-TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS TO SYSTEMATICALLY EVALUATE THE RATE OF RELAXATION. THE FINDINGS MADE VIA EXPERIMENTS WILL BE REINFORCED BY ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS TO ELUCIDATE THE STRUCTURAL ORIGINS. A KEY PART OF THIS WORK IS TO FOCUS ON DEVELOPING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS WHO WILL WORK IN A TECHNICAL CAPACITY ON THE PROJECT. RECENTLY, THE PI CREATED THE UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM AT ALFRED UNIVERSITY AND THIS WORK WILL HELP EXPAND THE PROGRAM BY PROVIDING ADDITIONAL RESEARCH POSITIONS FOR MORE STUDENTS. UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE PROGRAM ALSO PARTICIPATE IN WEEKLY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINARS, TAKE TOURS OF LARGE-SCALE MANUFACTURING SITES WITH OUR INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS, AND PRESENT THEIR RESEARCH AT THE END-OF SUMMER POSTER COMPETITION. ULTIMATELY, THIS WORK WILL CREATE NEW KNOWLEDGE ABOUT GLASS RELAXATION AND PROPEL THE FIELD OF TECHNICAL GLASS DESIGN WHILE TRAINING UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS FOR CAREERS IN CERAMICS AND GLASS SCIENCE. TECHNICAL SUMMARY. GLASS RELAXATION IS CHALLENGING TO MODEL AND UNDERSTAND DUE TO A WIDE RANGE OF CHEMISTRIES AND THERMAL HYSTERESIS. THE VOLUME CONTRACTION ASSOCIATED WITH RELAXATION OCCURS WITH THE SAME FUNCTIONAL FORM IN COMMERCIAL SILICATE GLASSES AS IN SMALL-SCALE CHALCOGENIDE SAMPLES. IN ALL GLASSES, HOWEVER, RELAXATION BECOMES A LIMITING FACTOR ON DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS AND VOLUME WHICH IN TURN INFLUENCE THE MECHANICAL STRENGTH, THE OPTICAL TRANSPARENCY, AND THE DENSITY. THESE PROPERTIES ARE CRITICAL FOR HIGH-TECH APPLICATIONS SUCH AS OPTICAL FIBER, DISPLAY MATERIALS, AND EMERGING SOLID-STATE ELECTROLYTES. THE CRITICALITY AND UNIVERSALITY OF RELAXATION HAVE MOTIVATED THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MYRIAD OF THEORIES, WITH VERY FEW QUANTITATIVE COMPARISONS OFFERED IN THE LITERATURE. RECENTLY, UNDERSTANDING THE PHYSICS OF RELAXATION HAS BECOME MORE COMPLICATED, SINCE RELAXATION HAS BEEN SHOWN TO OCCUR AT DIFFERENT RATES FOR THE EVOLUTION OF ENTHALPY VERSUS THE MITIGATION OF STRESS. THIS PROJECT, SUPPORTED BY THE CERAMICS PROGRAM IN THE DIVISION OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AT NSF, ADDRESSES THREE MAJOR OBJECTIVES IN FURTHERING THE UNDERSTANDING OF RELAXATION IN GLASSES. THESE INCLUDE: 1) DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPREHENSIVE SELF-CONSISTENT RELAXATION DATABASE FOR BOTH STRESS AND ENTHALPY RELAXATION IN HIGH-HOMOGENEITY BOROSILICATE GLASSES, AS WELL AS THE STRUCTURES THEREOF; 2) USE THIS DATABASE TO COMPARE ALL QUANTITATIVE MODELS FOR RELAXATION PROPOSED IN THE LITERATURE AND TO QUANTIFY THE PRECISION AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SAID MODELS; 3) USE THE COLLECTED DATA IN PARALLEL WITH CLASSICAL SIMULATIONS, TO ELUCIDATE THE ATOMIC MECHANISMS ASSOCIATED WITH RELAXATION. THE WORK WILL BE CARRIED OUT BY A TEAM OF UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS, WITH UNDERGRADUATES PARTICIPATING IN ALFRED UNIVERSITY?S SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM. STUDENTS WILL GAIN FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCE WITH SPECTROSCOPY EQUIPMENT, MATERIAL FABRICATION, AND DATA ANALYSIS. IN THE PI?S GROUP, UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS WORK ON INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH PROJECTS WITH THE GOAL OF PUBLISHING THEIR OWN FIRST-AUTHORED RESEARCH ARTICLES. ADDITIONALLY, THE PI ORGANIZES THE ANNUAL ALFRED UNIVERSITY END-OF-SUMMER POSTER CONTEST SO THAT STUDENTS CAN INTERACT DIRECTLY WITH INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS. THE CUMULATIVE EFFORT OF THESE GOALS WILL RESULT IN UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS GAINING FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCE IN DEVELOPING INSIGHTS INTO GLASS RELAXATION. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

TAS::89 0222::TAS NEW; COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF THE MOLECULAR SCALE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF GEOLOGICALLY IMPORTANT FLUIDS

INSTRUMENTATION FOR STUDYING FIELD-ASSISTED SINTERING MECHANISMS UNDER SYNERGETIC EFFECTS

NUCLEAR ENERGY UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS - GENERAL SCIENTIFIC INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT THE PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAM IS TO UPGRADE AND IMPROVE THE U.S. UNIVERSITY NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND TRAINING REACTORS AND TO CONTRIBUTE TO STRENGTHEN THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY'S NUCLEAR ENGINEERING INFRASTRUCTURE.

"VISCOUS GLASS/COMPOSITE SOFC SEALANTS"

MRI: ACQUISITION OF AN IN-SITU/OPERANDO RAMAN SPECTROMETER

TAS::57 3600::TAS "STUDY OF CONVERSION FROM RARE-EARTH DOPED SR5 (PO4) 3F TRANSPARENT CERAMICS INTO SINGLE-CRYSTAL MATERIALS"

EQUIPMENT: MRI: ACQUISITION OF AN IN-SITU INFRARED SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETER -THIS AWARD SUPPORTS THE ACQUISITION OF A STATE-OF-THE-ART IN-SITU INFRARED SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY SYSTEM THAT UTILIZES REAL-TIME DATA COLLECTION TO CHARACTERIZE TARGET SPECIMENS? REFRACTIVE INDEX DISPERSION ACROSS AN ULTRA-WIDE THERMAL-SPECTRAL WINDOW. THE INSTRUMENT MEETS A CRITICAL NEED TO SUPPORT MULTI-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS INCLUDING CERAMIC ENGINEERING, GLASS SCIENCE, MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING, BIOMATERIALS ENGINEERING, AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT ALFRED UNIVERSITY AS WELL AS THE GREATER WESTERN NEW YORK STATE REGION. THE RESEARCH PROJECTS ENABLED BY THIS INSTRUMENT HAVE POTENTIALLY MAJOR TECHNOLOGICAL IMPACTS ON CORE INTERESTS OF FACULTY AND THEIR COLLABORATORS, INCLUDING GLASS PHOTONICS, FUNDAMENTAL GLASS PHYSICS, ELECTRO AND HIGH TEMPERATURE CERAMICS, BIOMEDICAL SENSORS, AND ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING. ACQUISITION OF THIS OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION CAPABILITY WILL PROMOTE NEW AND DEEPER CONNECTIONS TO REGIONAL AND NATIONAL INDUSTRIES AND ACADEMIES. EDUCATION ON CAMPUS WILL BE STRENGTHENED BY INCORPORATING THE INSTRUMENT, DATA ANALYSIS, AND INTERPRETATION INTO UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE COURSES, THUS PROVIDING AN AUTHENTIC HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE. THE IN-SITU INFRARED SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETER, WHEN COMBINED WITH AN EXISTING VISIBLE-NEAR-INFRARED MODEL AT ALFRED UNIVERSITY, WOULD ENABLE A FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND VERSATILE SYSTEM WITH AN ULTRA-WIDE THERMAL-SPECTRAL MEASUREMENT WINDOW OF -70 TO +600? AND 293NM TO 30?M, RESPECTIVELY. UPON ACQUISITION OF THE INFRARED SYSTEM AND INTEGRATION INTO OUR EXISTING ONE, ALFRED UNIVERSITY WILL BE THE ONLY INSTITUTION IN WESTERN NEW YORK STATE WITH SUCH UNIQUE VERSATILITY ON TEMPERATURE-WAVELENGTH MEASUREMENT DOMAIN, THUS EXPECTING TO HAVE GREAT IMPACT ON ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS AND INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS. DATA COLLECTED FROM ELLIPSOMETRY WILL BE CROSS CORRELATED TO A VARIETY OF OTHER IN-SITU METROLOGY TOOLS AT ALFRED UNIVERSITY INCLUDING X-RAY DIFFRACTOMETERS, RAMAN SPECTROMETER, FOURIER-TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROMETER, AND TRANSMISSION AND SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPES. THEY ANTICIPATE THAT THE SYSTEM WILL BECOME A CENTERPIECE IN MAKING TRANSFORMATIONAL PROGRESS IN OUR RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST. THROUGH ALFRED UNIVERSITY?S LONG-STANDING NEW YORK STATE FUNDED CENTER FOR ADVANCED CERAMIC TECHNOLOGY AND NEW STATE-FUNDED ADVANCED MANUFACTURING CENTER, ACQUISITION OF THIS OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION CAPABILITY WILL ALLOW THEM TO FURTHER ENHANCE INDUSTRIAL INTERACTIONS. WITH INTEGRATION INTO THE INSTITUTIONS? MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE, THE INSTRUMENT WILL BE MARKETED FOR USE BY INDUSTRY AND IS EXPECTED TO DRAW ADDITIONAL CORPORATE USERS. THEIR STRONG HISTORY OF INDUSTRIALLY FUNDED RESEARCH INCLUDES COLLABORATIONS WITH 50 COMPANIES, AND THESE RELATIONSHIPS ARE EXPECTED TO DRAW A CONTINUOUS STREAM OF CORPORATE USERS. THE INSTRUMENT WILL ALSO BE INCLUDED INTO THEIR CAMPUS TOURS AND OUTREACH EFFORTS, WHERE THE STATE-OF-THE-ART INSTRUMENT MAY HELP ATTRACT YOUNG PEOPLE?S INTEREST IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DURING HIGH SCHOOL VISITS AND SIMILAR ON-CAMPUS ENGINEERING EVENTS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

NEXT-GENERATION COMPOSITE SOFC ANODES

ACQUISITION OF A XENON-ARC IMAGE FURNACE FOR THE SYNTHESIS AND STUDY OF MATERIALS IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS

MATERIALS WORLD NETWORK: TRANSPORT PHENOMENA IN TRIVALENT ION TUNGSTATES AND RELATED SYSTEMS

GYROTRON FOR RAPID EXTREME THERMAL PROCESSING OF MATERIALS FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY

CONTROLLABLE SINTERING OF SULFIDE-BASED INFRARED NANOCERAMICS

EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF LOCAL CATION ENVIRONMENTS IN OXIDE PHOTOCATALYSTS

ERI: VARIATIONAL QUANTUM ALGORITHM FOR POWER SYSTEM SIMULATION -THIS AWARD IS FUNDED IN WHOLE OR IN PART UNDER THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT OF 2021 (PUBLIC LAW 117-2) QUANTUM COMPUTING HAS BEEN PROVEN TO HAVE AN EXPONENTIAL ADVANTAGE OVER CLASSICAL COMPUTERS IN SOLVING MANY PROBLEMS. REALIZING THE EXPONENTIAL ADVANTAGE USING ONLY A QUANTUM COMPUTER WILL POTENTIALLY TAKE DECADES OF RESEARCH AS IT NEEDS A UNIVERSAL FAULT-TOLERANT QUANTUM COMPUTER WITH THOUSANDS OF QUBITS AND LONG COHERENCE TIME. VARIATIONAL QUANTUM ALGORITHMS (VQAS), AS HYBRID QUANTUM AND CLASSICAL ALGORITHMS, HAVE SHOWN AN EXPONENTIAL ADVANTAGE OVER CLASSICAL ALGORITHMS FOR VARIOUS PROBLEMS. ENHANCING THE SECURITY AND RELIABILITY OF BULK POWER SYSTEMS CAN SAVE BILLIONS OF ECONOMIC LOSSES. TO ENSURE POWER SYSTEM RELIABILITY AND SECURITY, TRANSIENT STABILITY SIMULATION AND CONTINGENCY ANALYSIS ARE ESSENTIAL TASKS THAT ARE EXECUTED VERY FREQUENTLY (EVEN IN REAL TIME, I.E., A SOLUTION NEEDS TO BE PRODUCED IN LESS THAN ONE MINUTE) AT UTILITIES AND INDEPENDENT SYSTEM OPERATORS. TRANSIENT STABILITY SIMULATION AND CONTINGENCY ANALYSIS FOR A LARGE POWER SYSTEM WITH MANY GENERATORS, TRANSFORMERS, AND TRANSMISSION LINES ARE EXTREMELY CHALLENGING PROBLEMS DUE TO THE VERY-HIGH DIMENSIONALITY. EXISTING TOOLS BASED ON CLASSICAL COMPUTERS HAVE GREAT DIFFICULTY IN PERFORMING SUCH CONTINGENCY ANALYSIS FOR A LARGE POWER SYSTEM, ESPECIALLY WHEN CONSIDERING THE SIMULTANEOUS FAILURE OF MULTIPLE COMPONENTS. THE DIFFICULTY IS FURTHER COMPLICATED BY THE SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN DIMENSIONALITY CAUSED BY THE INTERDEPENDENCY BETWEEN POWER, GAS, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND BY THE FACT THAT A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF RENEWABLE GENERATORS ARE BEING INTEGRATED INTO POWER SYSTEMS. TRANSIENT STABILITY SIMULATION AND CONTINGENCY ANALYSIS ARE ESSENTIALLY MODELED AS DIFFERENTIAL ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS (DAES) WHICH ALSO CAN REPRESENT MANY OTHER ENGINEERING PROBLEMS. IN GENERAL, CLASSICAL ALGORITHMS HAVE AN INTRACTABLE COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN FOR SOLVING VERY-HIGH-DIMENSIONAL DAES. THIS PROJECT PROPOSES NEW VQAS TO SOLVE DAES AS A NEW PARADIGM. BROADER IMPACT ACTIVITIES INCLUDE (A) DISSEMINATING RESEARCH RESULTS TO INSPIRE THE POWER AND ENERGY COMMUNITY TO ACCELERATE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN QUANTUM COMPUTING FOR CHALLENGING ENGINEERING PROBLEMS, (B) CURRICULUM ENHANCEMENT ON QUANTUM COMPUTING AND POWER SYSTEMS AT ALFRED UNIVERSITY, (C) INVOLVING STUDENTS FROM UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS AND UNDERGRADUATES IN RESEARCH, AND (D) EDUCATING THE PUBLIC AND K-12 THROUGH OUTREACH ACTIVITIES. THE GOAL OF THE PROPOSED WORK IS TO DEVELOP NEW VQAS THAT CAN EFFICIENTLY SOLVE TIME-DEPENDENT NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS FOR VERY-HIGH-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATION PROBLEMS (E.G., TRANSIENT STABILITY AND N-K CONTINGENCY ANALYSIS) OF LARGE-SCALE POWER SYSTEMS WITH RENEWABLES, WHICH WILL BE THE FIRST OF ITS KIND. THE APPROACH IS TO: 1) DEVELOP VQAS FOR GENERAL TIME-DEPENDENT NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS, WHERE TWO CORE COMPONENTS (VARIATIONAL ANSATZ AND OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM) OF A VQA WILL BE COMPREHENSIVELY INVESTIGATED, 2) DEVELOP HAMILTONIAN AND QUANTUM NONLINEAR PROCESSING UNIT (QNPU) FOR POWER SYSTEM TRANSIENT STABILITY SIMULATION, WHERE QNPU IS THE THIRD CORE COMPONENT OF THE VQA, 3) DEVELOP VQAS FOR N-K CONTINGENCY ANALYSIS OF POWER SYSTEMS WITH HIGH-PENETRATION RENEWABLES. WHEN NOISY INTERMEDIATE-SCALE QUANTUM COMPUTERS WITH A FEW HUNDRED QUBITS ARE AVAILABLE IN SEVERAL YEARS, THE VQAS DEVELOPED FROM THIS PROJECT ARE EXPECTED TO REALIZE EXPONENTIAL ADVANTAGE OVER PURE CLASSICAL ALGORITHMS TO SOLVE TRANSIENT STABILITY SIMULATION AND N-K CONTINGENCY ANALYSIS PROBLEMS OF REMARKABLE SIGNIFICANCE. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

OPP-PRF: A WELL-CONSTRAINED HOSING EXPERIMENT FOR INTERROGATING ARCTIC PRECIPITATION CHANGES IN THE YOUNGER DRYAS -IN THE NEXT CENTURY, CHANGES TO PRECIPITATION WILL BE AMONG THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS OF ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE. AN IMPORTANT TOOL FOR PREDICTING FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE IS UNDERSTANDING HOW CLIMATE HAS CHANGED IN THE PAST. ABOUT 12,000 YEARS AGO, A SIGNIFICANT VOLUME OF COLD, FRESH WATER WAS ADDED TO THE NORTH ATLANTIC. THIS FRESH WATER IS BELIEVED TO HAVE SLOWED THE ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION, AN OCEAN CURRENT THAT IS IMPORTANT TO THE STABILITY OF THE PLANET?S CLIMATE. USING THE RESULTS OF HIGH-RESOLUTION COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF ICEBERG PATHS THROUGH THE OCEAN, THIS RESEARCH WILL TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT ICEBERGS WERE THE PRIMARY CONTRIBUTOR OF FRESH WATER TO THE ATLANTIC DURING THE YOUNGER DRYAS. THIS HYPOTHESIS WILL BE TESTED AGAINST THE IDEA THAT THE FRESH WATER WAS SOURCED FROM A CATASTROPHIC OUTBURST FLOOD ON LAND, AS WELL AS AGAINST A MORE TRADITIONAL, LOW-RESOLUTION MODEL OF FRESH WATER FORCING. THESE SIMULATIONS WILL BE COMPARED TO EACH OTHER AND TO RECORDS OF ARCTIC PRECIPITATION CHANGE DURING THE YOUNGER DRYAS, ADVANCING UNDERSTANDING OF BOTH PAST AND PRESENT CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE ARCTIC. THIS RESEARCH INVESTIGATES THE YOUNGER DRYAS, AN INTERVAL OF ABRUPT GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE THAT OCCURRED ABOUT 12,000 YEARS AGO. THE YOUNGER DRYAS IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY THE ADDITION OF COLD, FRESH WATER TO THE NORTH ATLANTIC, WHICH SLOWED ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION, THOUGH THE EXACT NATURE OF THIS FORCING IS NOT WELL UNDERSTOOD. THIS WORK INVOLVES SENSITIVITY EXPERIMENTS USING AN ISOTOPE-ENABLED GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL, ICESM, WITH NEW CONSTRAINTS ON THE LOCATION OF FRESH WATER. THE PI HYPOTHESIZES THESE MORE REALISTIC CONSTRAINTS WILL PRODUCE A CLIMATE RESPONSE MORE COMPARABLE TO THE GEOLOGIC RECORD THAN PAST WORKS. THESE EXPERIMENTS WILL INVESTIGATE THE INITIATION AND DURATION OF THESE EVENTS IN ORDER TO GENERATE A MORE COMPLETE NARRATIVE OF ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE YOUNGER DRYAS. THE RESULTS OF THIS MODELING WILL THEN BE COMPARED TO PROXY RECORDS FROM ARCTIC LAKES, INTERPRETED THROUGH FORWARD-MODELING OF THE SYSTEMS RECORDING THE PROXIES, OR PROXY SYSTEM MODELING. THIS APPROACH, INVOLVING GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELING, PROXY RECORDS, AND PROXY SYSTEM MODELING OF THE SAME EVENT WILL PRODUCE A NARRATIVE OF YOUNGER DRYAS CLIMATE DYNAMICS AND LINK THOSE EVENTS TO SEDIMENTS FROM ARCTIC LAKES. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF N00014-14-1-0546 - CONTROLLABLE SINTERING OF SULFIDE-BASED INFRARED NANOCERAMICS

THE ALFRED UNIVERSITY CALCULUS INITIATIVE

SNM: SCALABLE MANUFACTURING OF UNIQUE HEXABORIDE NANOMATERIALS FOR ADVANCED ENERGY GENERATION AND GAS STORAGE APPLICATIONS

CAREER: SCALED-UP MANUFACTURING OF NANOSTRUCTURED REFRACTORY CERAMICS FOR HIGH-TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS

NEUP- FELLOWSHIP AND SCHOLARSHIP

CAREER: REMOTE OPERATION OF A SYNCHROTRON RADIATION BEAM DYNAMICS LABORATORY

"VISCOUS GLASS/COMPOSITE SOFC SEALANTS"

GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

ENABLING PARTICIPATION OF HISPANIC STUDENTS IN SHPE 2011 GRADUATE ACTIVITIES

ENABLING PARTICIPATION OF HISPANIC STUDENTS IN SHPE 2010 GRADUATE ACTIVITIES

ALFRED UNIVERSITY-LEA R. POWELL INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES

NUCLEAR ENERGY UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS - SCIENTIFIC INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT - ALFRED UNIVERSITY GSI-21-25206

CONFERENCE SUPPORT TO ENABLE PARTICIPATION OF HISPANIC STUDENTS IN SOCIETY OF HISPANIC ENGINEERS (SHPE) 2009 ANNUAL MEETING; WASHINGTON, DC; OCTOBER

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF INTERACTIVE VIDEO VIGNETTE MODULES FOR BIOLOGY TEACHING

SELECTIVE METALLOTHERMAL REACTIONS FOR CERAMIC MATRIX NANOCOMPOSITES

ENABLING PARTICIPATION OF HISPANIC STUDENTS IN SHPE 2012 GRADUATE ACTIVITIES; FORT WORTH, TEXAS; NOVEMBER 14 - 18, 2012

PURPOSE: TO SUPPORT AN ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM AT THE INSTITUTE FOR ELECTRONIC ARTS.

PURPOSE: TO SUPPORT AN ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM AT THE INSTITUTE FOR ELECTRONIC ARTS.

PURPOSE: TO SUPPORT AN ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITYS INSTITUTE FOR ELECTRONIC ARTS. 

TO SUPPORT THE INSTITUTE FOR ELECTRONIC ARTS' EXPERIMENTAL PROJECTS RESIDENCY (EPR).

TO SUPPORT AN ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM THROUGH THE INSTITUTE FOR ELECTRONIC ARTS.

NIST SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (SURF) PROGRAM - GAITHERSBURG

ENABLING PARTICIPATION OF HISPANIC STUDENTS IN SHPE 2012 GRADUATE ACTIVITIES

ULTRA-HIGH TEMPERATURE OXIDATION RESISTANT NANOCRYSTALLINE OXIDES STABILIZED BY CARBON NETWORKS

AWARD AS A RESULT OF FOA NUMBER DE-FOA-0002265, INTEGRATED UNIVERSITY PROGRAM - SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP SUPPORT.