Pomona College

POMONA COLLEGE INSTITUTIONAL

POMONA COLLEGE EMERGENCY FINANCIAL AID

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: RD/RA SUPPORT NETWORKS AT DIVERSIFIED RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS (SUNDRI) -PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS AT DIVERSE RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, WHICH INCLUDES EMERGING AND PRIMARILY UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTIONS, OFTEN FACE CHALLENGES IN SEEKING EXTERNAL FUNDING, PRODUCING COMPETITIVE RESEARCH PROPOSALS, AND MANAGING AWARDS. THE PROJECT?S AIM IS TO SHARPEN UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIQUE ASPECTS OF CURRENTLY LESS RESEARCH-INTENSIVE INSTITUTIONS AND HOW FUNDING AGENCIES AND INTERMEDIARIES CAN BEST SUPPORT THEM TO FLOURISH AND GROW THEIR RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS. CURRENT KNOWLEDGE IS BASED ON RELATIVELY SMALL NUMBERS OF CASE STUDIES AND ANECDOTES; MORE SYSTEMATIC DATA ARE NEEDED. THIS PROJECT WILL SURVEY RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION STAFF AT A NATIONAL RANDOM SAMPLE OF ROUGHLY ONE IN FOUR NOT-FOR-PROFIT FOUR-YEAR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AND USE THE RESULTS TO DEVELOP STRENGTHS-BASED AND DEFICIT-BASED MODELING OF NEEDS, CAPACITIES, AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROWTH, PROVIDING CLEAR AND CONCRETE EXPRESSION OF THEIR PERSPECTIVES, CHALLENGES, AND REQUIREMENTS. THE RESULTING FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS, AND BASELINE DATA FOR FURTHER STUDIES WILL PROVIDE VALUABLE NEW KNOWLEDGE AND ENHANCE NATIONAL NETWORKS OF EXPERTISE, COMMUNICATION, AND SERVICE TO DIVERSE RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS. AN INSTITUTIONALLY DISTRIBUTED SET OF RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT/RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION (RD/RA)-KNOWLEDGEABLE INVESTIGATORS AND EXPERT ADVISORS IN HIGHER EDUCATION CAPACITY-BUILDING WILL COLLABORATE TO BUILD A COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE OF HOW RD/RA FUNCTIONS ARE DISTRIBUTED AND PERFORMED AT FOUR-YEAR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. THE PI/COPIS AND TECHNICAL STAFF WILL FIRST DEVELOP AND REFINE A SURVEY INSTRUMENT BASED ON PRIOR SURVEYS AND A SERIES OF SITE VISITS, ADVISORY CONSULTATIONS, AND FOCUS GROUPS, TESTING AND PILOTING MEASURES TO DETERMINE HOW AND HOW WELL RD/RA ACTIVITY IS CURRENTLY CONDUCTED AND ASSESSING NEEDS AND RESOURCES FOR ENHANCEMENT. THE PROJECT WILL SEED THE SURVEY INSTRUMENT AND ASSOCIATED ANALYTIC FILES WITH DATA HARVESTED FROM IES AND NCSES INSTITUTIONAL CENSUSES SUCH AS IPEDS AND HERD. AN EIGHT-STRATUM RANDOM SAMPLE OF BACCALAUREATE, MASTERS, AND DOCTORAL INSTITUTIONS WILL BE DRAWN FROM THE IPEDS UNIVERSE, WITH OVERSAMPLES OF SELECTED SUBSETS SUCH AS HBCUS, WITH A TARGET COMPLETION RATE OF 70%+ AND TARGET N=500+. MEASURES WILL ASSESS VARIATIONS IN DEPTH, RESOURCE LEVELS, AND INTERPENETRATION OF DISTINCTIVE RD AND RA FUNCTIONS, STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE RD EFFORT; AND PERCEIVED NEEDS AND PRIORITIES FOR INTERNAL AND NETWORKED SUPPORT TO ENHANCE RD/RA QUALITY AND CAPACITY. STATISTICAL ANALYSES WILL PROBE UNIQUE AND COMMON ASPECTS OF THE RESEARCH SUPPORT ENTERPRISE AND RESULTS WILL BE BROADLY DISSEMINATED. 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 PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

MECHANISMS UNDERLYING LACK OF SENESCENCE AND INDUCIBLE SENESCENCE IN MEMBERS OF T

SMALL RNAS AND VIBRIO CHOLERAE ADAPTATION TO DIFFERENT CARBON SOURCES

CAREER: REMODELING THE EGG EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX AT FERTILIZATION

SULFUR-FLUORIDE EXCHANGE (SUFEX) REACTIONS TOWARD NITROGEN-BASED SULFUR(VI) COMPOUNDS

THE KECK GEOLOGY CONSORTIUM--PROVIDING COLLABORATIVE AND YEAR-LONG RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES

CCAO-CAM: A REMOTE-ACCESS DUAL-BAND (OPTICAL/NIR) ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEM FOR THE TABLE MOUNTAIN 1-METER TELESCOPE

THE KECK GEOLOGY CONSORTIUM: YEAR-LONG COLLABORATIVE AND COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES

POMONA RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICS EXPERIENCE

MRI: ACQUISITION OF A FIELD-EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE FOR A PRIMARILY UNDERGRADUATE CONSORTIUM

RUI: INVESTIGATING THE MECHANISMS OF SYNDECAN FUNCTION DURING NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT

COLLABORATIVE: EDGE PROGRAM

RUI: MECHANISMS OF MICROBIAL ELEMENTAL SULFUR REDUCTION AT THE COMMUNITY, CELLULAR AND ENZYMATIC LEVELS

RCN-UBE: RESEARCH EXPERIENCES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOR UNDERGRADUATE ECOLOGISTS NETWORK -THE RESEARCH EXPERIENCES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOR UNDERGRADUATE ECOLOGISTS NETWORK (RESCUE-NET) PROVIDES IMMERSIVE ECOLOGICAL TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERGRADUATES AND EQUIPS THEM WITH THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS NECESSARY TO TACKLE OUR SOCIETY?S UNPRECEDENTED ECOLOGICAL CHALLENGES. CLIMATE CHANGE, HABITAT MODIFICATION, INTRODUCED SPECIES AND FIRE ARE IMPACTING SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?S RICH BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES. WHILE TRAINING UNDERGRADUATES, RESCUE-NET RESEARCH IS FOCUSED ON PROVIDING CRITICAL ECOLOGICAL INFORMATION. RESCUE-NET RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES EMPHASIZE COLLABORATION AMONGST STUDENTS AND OFFERS NOVEL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ENTIRE SCIENTIFIC PROCESS FROM QUESTION/HYPOTHESIS DEVELOPMENT TO DATA ANALYSES AND MANUSCRIPT CONSTRUCTION. RESCUE-NET HAS BEEN INTENTIONALLY DESIGNED TO ENGAGE DIVERSE STUDENTS. FURTHERMORE, RESCUE-NET IS FOCUSED ON BOLSTERING ACROSS THE REGION COLLABORATIONS OF FACULTY FROM PRIMARILY UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTIONS (PUIS) AND COMMUNITY COLLEGES. RESCUE-NET IS A NETWORK OF FACULTY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WHO ARE DEDICATED TO TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF ECOLOGICAL LEADERS. RESCUE-NET INCLUDES THREE TYPES OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS: MULTI-SITE COLLABORATIVE CURES (COURSE-BASED UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCES), MULTI-SITE RESEARCH PROJECTS (MSRPS), AND MULTI-SITE MURES (MENTORED UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCES). CURES ARE AUTHENTIC RESEARCH ACTIVITIES THAT OCCUR AS PART OF COURSES. MSRPS ARE FACULTY-LED RESEARCH PROJECTS THAT INVOLVE STUDENTS FROM MULTIPLE CAMPUSES. MURES ARE GUIDED RESEARCH EXPERIENCES THAT ALLOW STUDENTS TO DESIGN AND CARRY OUT COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH. AT THE END OF EACH YEAR, FACULTY AND STUDENTS PRESENT THEIR WORK AT REGIONAL AND NATIONAL CONFERENCES. RESCUE-NET FACULTY ARE UNITED BY A PASSION TO MENTOR AND SUPPORT THE DIVERSE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UNDERGRADUATE POPULATION AND TO REMOVE BARRIERS THAT PRECLUDE PEER (PERSONS EXCLUDED BECAUSE OF THEIR ETHNICITY OR RACE), FIRST GENERATION, AND LOW-INCOME STUDENTS FROM PARTICIPATING IN ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH. THROUGH ITERATIVE ASSESSMENT, RESEARCHERS TRACK THE DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENT SCIENTIFIC IDENTITY AND SELF-EFFICACY. RESCUE-NET ADDRESSES CHALLENGES THAT LIMIT DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND PROVIDES KEY ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTS TO EMERGING ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES. THIS PROJECT IS BEING JOINTLY FUNDED BY THE DIRECTORATE FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, DIVISION OF BIOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, AND THE DIRECTORATE FOR EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES, DIVISION OF UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION AS PART OF THEIR EFFORTS TO ADDRESS THE CHALLENGES POSED IN VISION AND CHANGE IN UNDERGRADUATE BIOLOGY EDUCATION: A CALL TO ACTION (HTTP://VISIONANDCHANGE/FINALREPORT/). 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.

MRI: ACQUISITION OF A STANDARDIZED INTEGRATED TOOLSET FOR PHOTOVOLTAICS FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION

HAIR CELL DEVELOPMENT OF ZEBRAFISH MUTANTS WITH DEFECTS IN THE MARGINAL ZONE

CAREER: RIBOSWITCH-BASED WHOLE-CELL BIOSENSORS TO DETECT SMALL ORGANIC MOLECULES: A COMBINED EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH PLAN

ALL INTERVENTION IS LOCAL: UNDERSTANDING GOVERNMENT RESPONSES TO INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION

NITROGEN ISOTOPIC (D15N) COMPOSITION OF CARBONATE-BOUND ORGANIC NITROGEN IN DEEP SEA CORALS: A NEW, HIGH RESOLUTION PROXY FOR N CYCLE STUDIES

XPS: EXPL: FP: SYMMETRIC QUERIES AS A BUILDING BLOCK FOR EFFICIENT PARALLEL QUERY EVALUATION

RUI: NEW FRONTIERS IN OPERATORS, FUNCTIONS, AND MATRICES -THIS PROJECT CONCERNS THE DYNAMIC INTERACTION BETWEEN OPERATOR THEORY (ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED TO PROVIDE A RIGOROUS FOUNDATION FOR QUANTUM MECHANICS), LINEAR ALGEBRA (THE LANGUAGE OF DATA SCIENCE), COMBINATORICS (A FIELD THAT OFTEN TREATS DISCRETE ENUMERATION PROBLEMS), AND PROBABILITY THEORY (THE STUDY OF CHANCE AND RANDOMNESS). MANY SUB-PROJECTS ARE SUITABLE FOR UNDERGRADUATE INVOLVEMENT. THE PI WILL RECRUIT A NUMBER OF STUDENTS TO TACKLE THESE PROBLEMS. IN RECENT WORK, THE PI AND HIS COLLABORATORS USED ANALYTIC TOOLS FAMILIAR IN OPERATOR THEORY, HARMONIC ANALYSIS, AND RANDOM MATRIX THEORY TO ANSWER VIRTUALLY ALL ASYMPTOTIC QUESTIONS ABOUT FACTORIZATION LENGTHS IN NUMERICAL SEMIGROUPS (STAPLE OBJECTS IN COMBINATORICS). NEW PROBABILISTIC REALIZATIONS OF CERTAIN SYMMETRIC MULTIVARIATE POLYNOMIALS PROVED CRUCIAL IN THIS WORK AND ALSO PROVIDED NOVEL PROOFS OF CLASSICAL POSITIVITY RESULTS WHILE REVEALING BROAD GENERALIZATIONS. IN TURN, THESE RESULTS PROMISE NEW APPLICATIONS IN OPERATOR THEORY AND OPERATOR ALGEBRAS. FOR EXAMPLE, OUR NEW COMBINATORIAL RESULTS SUGGEST A STATISTICAL TREATMENT OF CERTAIN FAMILIES OF APPROXIMATELY FINITE DIMENSIONAL ALGEBRAS. CERTAIN MULTIVARIATE SYMMETRIC POLYNOMIALS THAT ARISE IN THIS WORK GIVES RISE TO RANDOM VECTOR NORMS, WHICH CONNECT TRACES OF NONCOMMUTATIVE *-POLYNOMIALS TO COMBINATORICS AND PROBABILITY THEORY. CONTINUING THE COMBINATORIAL THEME, SYMMETRIZED TENSOR PRODUCTS OF CERTAIN NON-NORMAL OPERATORS PROVIDE AN EXCITING NEW SANDBOX FOR FUNCTION-THEORETIC OPERATOR THEORISTS. A NATURAL BYPRODUCT OF THESE INVESTIGATIONS IS A NEW GRAPH PRODUCT THAT SUGGESTS A HOST OF OPEN QUESTIONS. 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.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CONTRIBUTION OF ALLOCHTHONOUS DON TO BIOLOGICAL NITROGEN DEMAND IN THE SUBTROPICAL NORTH PACIFIC -VAST STRETCHES OF THE OCEAN, COVERING ALMOST 60% OF ITS SURFACE, ARE ?DESERTS' WHERE LIFE STRUGGLES TO SURVIVE DUE TO NUTRIENT SCARCITY. LOCATED IN THE CENTRAL GYRES OF THE SUBTROPICAL OCEAN, THESE REGIONS ARE TOO REMOTE TO RECEIVE SIGNIFICANT NUTRIENT INPUTS FROM LAND OR FROM DEEPER WATERS BY VERTICAL MIXING. THE LOW SUPPLY OF NUTRIENTS SHOULD RESULT IN REDUCED LEVELS OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND LESS COMPLEX FOOD WEBS. HOWEVER, OBSERVATIONS INSTEAD INDICATE THAT LIFE GROWS AT RATES SIMILAR TO REGIONS WHICH RECEIVE HIGHER NUTRIENT SUPPLIES. OUR PROJECT SEEKS TO DETERMINE WHAT THE MISSING SOURCES OF NUTRIENTS ARE THAT HELP SUSTAIN THESE ECOSYSTEMS. THIS WORK WILL FOCUS ON NITROGEN BOUND WITHIN DISSOLVED ORGANIC MOLECULES THAT ARE PRODUCED IN NUTRIENT-RICH REGIONS, INCLUDING COASTAL CALIFORNIA, AND THEN TRANSPORTED LATERALLY TO THE ?OCEAN DESERT? OF THE SUBTROPICAL NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. A ONE-MONTH RESEARCH EXPEDITION WILL LEAVE FROM SAN DIEGO, CA AND END IN HONOLULU, HI USA TO STUDY THE PRODUCTION, ACCUMULATION, CHEMICAL COMPOSITION, AND UTILIZATION OF DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN (DON) AND LINK IT TO PHOTOSYNTHESIS OCCURRING ACROSS THE NORTH PACIFIC. THE NEW KNOWLEDGE GAINED ABOUT THE ROLE OF DON IN SATISFYING THE NUTRIENT REQUIREMENTS OF THE SUBTROPICAL NORTH PACIFIC WILL BE USED TO CONSTRUCT COMPUTER MODELS THAT GAUGE THE GLOBAL IMPORTANCE OF THIS NUTRIENT SOURCE TO SUBTROPICAL OCEAN ECOSYSTEMS. ADDITIONAL NITROGEN (N) SOURCES BEYOND SUBSURFACE NITRATE (NO3-) AND N2 FIXATION FLUXES ARE REQUIRED TO EXPLAIN OBSERVED NET COMMUNITY PRODUCTION (NCP) WITHIN SUBTROPICAL OCEAN ECOSYSTEMS. NUMERICAL MODELS INDICATE THAT LATERALLY SUPPLIED ALLOCHTHONOUS DON MAY SUPPORT 10-60% OF NCP IN OLIGOTROPHIC SUBTROPICAL GYRES, BUT WITH LARGE UNCERTAINTIES. THE PROPOSED WORK WILL FIELD TEST HYPOTHESES CONCERNING THE BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION OF MARINE DON, AND WHETHER ALLOCHTHONOUS DON IS A SIGNIFICANT ORGANIC NUTRIENT SOURCE SUSTAINING NCP. A NORTH PACIFIC CRUISE WILL USE OBSERVATIONS OF DON CONCENTRATION, CHLOROPHYLL A CONCENTRATION, AND N ISOTOPES [DON'S 15N/14N RATIO, AND NO3-'S 15N/14N RATIO] TO IDENTIFY REGIONS OF NET DON PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION IN THE CONTEXT OF NET AND GROSS BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY ESTIMATED USING O2/AR AND TRIPLE OXYGEN ISOTOPIC MEASUREMENTS, RESPECTIVELY. NOVEL ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY TOOLS WILL BE USED TO IDENTIFY THE MOLECULAR COMPOSITION OF THE ALLOCHTHONOUS DON. THE INFLUENCE OF DEPTH ON DON CONSUMPTION WILL BE INVESTIGATED USING SHIP-BOARD INCUBATIONS THAT EXPOSE SURFACE DON COLLECTED ACROSS GRADIENTS IN SURFACE NO3- TO MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES FROM SEVERAL DEPTH INTERVALS. FINALLY, A NEW SEMI-LABILE DON TRACER WILL BE ENCODED IN A GLOBAL OCEAN BIOGEOCHEMISTRY MODEL, FASHIONED TO BEHAVE LIKE THE ALLOCHTHONOUS DON CHARACTERIZED FROM THE FIELD OBSERVATIONS. THE DON AND ISOTOPIC DATA SETS WILL SERVE TO CONSTRAIN MODEL PARAMETERIZATIONS OF SEMI-LABILE DON CYCLING. THE STATE-OF-THE-ART MODEL OF SEMI-LABILE DON CYCLING WILL BE USED TO QUANTITATIVELY ASSESS THE PORTION OF NCP SUSTAINED BY ALLOCHTHONOUS DON DELIVERY TO THE NORTH PACIFIC SUBTROPICAL GYRE AND EXTEND THIS ASSESSMENT ACROSS THE GLOBAL OCEAN. 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.

THE KECK GEOLOGY CONSORTIUM--PROVIDING COLLABORATIVE AND YEARLONG RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES

CAREER: PRECONDITIONING LARGE, SPARSE LINEAR SYSTEMS: THEORY AND PRACTICE

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DASS: EMPIRICALLY EVALUATING DATA FIDUCIARY PRIVACY LAWS -OVER 160 COUNTRIES HAVE DATA PRIVACY LAWS, YET THREATS TO DIGITAL PRIVACY REMAIN A MAJOR CONCERN. RESEARCH ON COMPUTERS, PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIETY, AND THE LAW VALIDATES THIS CONCERN, FINDING THAT MOST OF THESE LAWS TAKE THE SAME APPROACH OF OFFERING PEOPLE TRANSPARENCY AND SOME MEASURE OF CONTROL OVER THE USE OF THEIR PERSONAL DATA. UNFORTUNATELY, RESEARCH FINDS THAT THIS APPROACH FAILS TO PROTECT PRIVACY FOR MANY REASONS, INCLUDING PEOPLE'S LACK OF TIME AND EXPERTISE TO MANAGE PRIVACY ACROSS A VAST NUMBER OF ONLINE SERVICES AND THE WAYS THAT SERVICES UNDERMINE PRIVACY RULES AS THEY IMPLEMENT THEM. LEGAL SCHOLARS HAVE PROPOSED ALTERNATE APPROACHES TO PRIVACY LAW, BUT NONE OF THEM HAVE YET BEEN TESTED OR ENACTED BY LEGISLATURES. IN THIS PROJECT, THEREFORE, THE PROJECT TEAM IS STUDYING THESE PROPOSED ALTERNATIVE TYPES OF PRIVACY LAWS IN ORDER TO PREDICT HOW ONLINE SERVICES WOULD CHANGE AND, THUS, HOW THEY WOULD AFFECT PRIVACY, ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE MOST AT RISK OF PRIVACY VIOLATIONS. BY DOING SO, THE TEAM HOPES TO PROVIDE THE INFORMATION NEEDED TO MAKE LAWS THAT CAN UPHOLD OUR SOCIETAL VALUES OF PRIVACY. THE PROJECT TEAM IS EVALUATING THE IDEA OF DATA FIDUCIARIES AS A CASE STUDY OF HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO EMPIRICALLY ASSESS NEW PARADIGMS OF PRIVACY LAW PRIOR TO THEIR BEING ENACTED IN LAW. THE EVALUATION TAKES PLACE IN TWO PHASES: (1) QUALITATIVE METHODS TO EVOKE EXPERT PREDICTIONS OF HOW COMPANIES WOULD IMPLEMENT DATA FIDUCIARY LAWS IN SPECIFIC CONTEXTS, AND (2) USER INTERVIEWS AND SPECULATIVE DESIGN WORKSHOPS TO EVALUATE WHETHER THOSE PREDICTED IMPLEMENTATIONS WOULD MEET THE IN-CONTEXT BEST INTERESTS OF PRIVACY-VULNERABLE USERS. THESE METHODS WILL BE VALIDATED BY APPLYING THEM TO BOTH NEW AND EXISTING LAWS AND COMPARING RESULTS TO GROUND-TRUTH OBSERVATIONS OF THE EFFECTS OF THOSE LAWS IN THE WILD ACROSS JURISDICTIONS AND TIME, THUS RESULTING IN PROJECT OUTCOMES THAT INCLUDE BOTH NEW METHODS FOR EVALUATING PROSPECTIVE PRIVACY LAW PARADIGMS AND THE EVALUATION DATA FIDUCIARIES AS A CASE STUDY. 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.

THE BENTON MUSEUM OF ART AT POMONA COLLEGE WILL IMPROVE ACCESS TO ITS PERMANENT COLLECTION BY EXPANDING THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE FOR APPROXIMATELY 8,500 OBJECTS. PROJECT ACTIVITIES INCLUDE UPDATING COLLECTIONS RECORDS BY INCORPORATING PHOTOGRAPHY, BIBLIOGRAPHY, EXHIBITION HISTORY, PROVENANCE, AND CONSERVATION INFORMATION. THIS ADDED CONTENT WILL ALSO MAKE THE COLLECTIONS MORE DISCOVERABLE THROUGH THE RESULTING ADDITION OF KEYWORDS AND SEPARATE BUT LINKED EXHIBITION AND PUBLICATION RECORDS. IN ADDITION, SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS WILL IDENTIFY APPROXIMATELY 500 KEY WORKS TO RECEIVE ADDITIONAL INTERPRETATION, AS WELL AS DETAIL OR MULTI-VIEW PHOTOGRAPHY. THE ADDED CONTENT WILL MAKE THE COLLECTIONS MORE DISCOVERABLE AND ACCESSIBLE TO BROADER AUDIENCES AND ALLOW STAFF TO FULFILL THE MUSEUM'S STRATEGIC VISION TO ELEVATE ACCESS TO AND ENGAGEMENT WITH ITS PERMANENT COLLECTIONS.

RUI: OPERATOR THEORY AND ITS CONNECTIONS

WORLD WIDE VIEWS ON GLOBAL WARMING: PROCESS AND IMPACT

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: USE OF TRIPLE OXYGEN ISOTOPES AND O2/AR TO CONSTRAIN NET/GROSS OXYGEN PRODUCTION DURING UPWELLING AND NON-UPWELLING PERIODS I

ON-LINE SENTENCE PROCESSING IN OLDER AND YOUNGER ADULTS

ACROSS THE 7CS: ALL COLLEGES PROMOTING RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENT SUPPORT

THE MECHANISM OF FE2+ TRANSPORT BY THE BACTERIAL FERROUS IRON UPTAKE SYSTEM FEO

RUI: DETECTION AND ANALYSIS OF FUSED GENES IN EUKARYOTIC GENOMES.

XRF AS A TOOL FOR CURRICULAR ENHANCEMENT IN EARTH SYSTEMS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY

RUI: OPERATORS ON HILBERT SPACE

EMBRACE-EAR-SEED: MAGMATIC EVOLUTION AND TIMING OF THE INDEPENDENCE DIKE SWARM -LARGE DIKE SWARMS REPRESENT THE PLUMBING SYSTEM OF AREALLY VAST AND VOLUMETRICALLY LARGE MAGMATIC SYSTEMS AND ARE FOUND BOTH ON EARTH AND OTHER PLANETARY BODIES. THESE DIKE SWARMS ARE THE FEEDERS FOR VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IN A RANGE OF GEOLOGIC SETTINGS, AND THUS ARE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN MAGMAS THAT ARE GENERATED DEEP IN EARTH?S MANTLE AND THOSE THAT TRAVEL THROUGH THE CRUST TO BE ERUPTED AT THE SURFACE. SUCH DIKE SWARMS EXIST FROM THE DEEP GEOLOGIC PAST, IN AREAS WHERE THE VOLCANIC COVER HAS LONG SINCE BEEN REMOVED, THUS THEY CAN PROVIDE IMPORTANT EVIDENCE TO HELP RECONSTRUCT THE MAGMATIC HISTORY OF THESE REGIONS. THE INDEPENDENCE DIKE SWARM (IDS) EXTENDS OVER 600 KM OF EASTERN CALIFORNIA, FROM EAST OF THE SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS AND SOUTHWARD INTO THE MOJAVE DESERT. THESE DIKES HAVE A BROAD RANGE OF CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS, SUGGESTING MANY MAGMATIC PROCESSES ACTED UPON THE MAGMAS PRIOR TO THEIR ERUPTION; HOWEVER, PREVIOUS WORK HAS LARGELY FOCUSED ON AGE DETERMINATIONS AND THE PHYSICAL EMPLACEMENT OF THE DIKES, AND THUS LIMITED INFORMATION ON THE DETAILED CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS EXISTS. ASSESSING THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS OF SUCH DIKES ALLOWS FOR UNDERSTANDING THE MELTING PROCESSES THAT GENERATED THE MAGMAS, AS WELL AS LATER PROCESSES THAT CHANGED THE MAGMAS BEFORE THEY ERUPTED. THE IDS IS GENERALLY THOUGHT TO HAVE AN AGE OF 148 MEGA-ANNUM (MA), BUT DIKES FROM SOME STUDIED SECTIONS OF THE SWARM HAVE REVEALED OLDER AGES. THIS STUDY WILL FOCUS ON AGE DETERMINATIONS AND OBTAINING CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS OF DIKES FROM ACROSS THE SWARM, WHICH CAN HELP TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE IDS WAS EMPLACED AT 148 MA, OR IF THE MAGMATISM WAS PULSED AND EPISODIC OVER A LONGER TIME SPAN. THIS STUDY WILL ADD TO THE CURRENT UNDERSTANDING OF HOW SIERRAN NEVADA MAGMATISM CHANGED OVER TIME AND PAVES THE WAY FOR A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF OTHER LARGE DIKE SWARMS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. IN ADDITION TO ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE OF LARGE DIKE SWARMS, THIS STUDY WILL PROVIDE RESEARCH AND NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES FOR MANY EARTH SCIENCE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS, EXPAND THE ON-SITE RESEARCH CAPABILITIES OF AN UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTION, PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR AN EARLY CAREER GEOSCIENTIST AND VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LONG-TERM RESEARCH PROGRAM, AND SEEK TO EXPAND THE BRIDGE BETWEEN INDIGENOUS AND WESTERN SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE. THE INDEPENDENCE DIKE SWARM (IDS) IN EASTERN CALIFORNIA CONTAINS THE FULL RANGE OF MAGMATIC COMPOSITIONS, FROM MAFIC TO FELSIC ENDMEMBERS AND IN BETWEEN, AND THUS REPRESENTS A VAST RECORD OF THE PROCESSES THAT GENERATED AND DIFFERENTIATED THE MAGMAS FROM THE MANTLE SOURCE OF MELTING TO SUBSEQUENT ASCENT THROUGH THE CRUST. THE RANGE OF COMPOSITIONS PRESENT AND THE PARALLEL ORIENTATION OF THE DIKES OVER THE LENGTH OF THE SWARM MAKE THE IDS DISTINCTIVE FROM MANY OTHER GLOBAL AND PLANETARY LARGE DIKE SWARMS. THERE HAS BEEN MUCH PREVIOUS WORK ON STRUCTURAL EMPLACEMENT OF THE DIKES, BUT COMPOSITIONAL STUDIES ARE LARGELY LIMITED TO MAJOR ELEMENTS. GEOCHRONOLOGICAL WORK ON THE MAFIC COMPOSITIONS HAS BEEN HAMPERED BY A PAUCITY OF ZIRCONS AND IN SOME CASES, METAMORPHIC OVERPRINTING OF MINERAL PHASES. DUE TO A GENERAL LACK OF MAFIC DIKE AGES, MANY SEGMENTS OF THE IDS ARE POORLY CORRELATED WITH THE SWARM OVERALL AND ARE PRESENTLY CONSIDERED ?TENTATIVELY? ASSOCIATED, MAINLY THROUGH STRUCTURAL DATA. ADDITIONALLY, IN SOME SEGMENTS OF THE IDS THAT DO HAVE ABUNDANT AGE DATA, SOME AGES ARE MUCH OLDER THAN THE ACCEPTED 148 MA AGE OF THE SWARM, SUGGESTING THE DIKES MAY HAVE BEEN EMPLACED VIA MULTIPLE AND EARLIER PULSES OF MAGMATISM. TO RECONCILE THESE ISSUES, THIS RESEARCH WILL INCLUDE: 1) FIELD WORK TO SAMPLE AND CHARACTERIZE SEGMENTS OF THE IDS THAT ARE ONLY TENTATIVELY CORRELATED WITH THE SWARM, WHERE DATES ARE LIMITED BY LACK OF ZIRCONS OR METAMORPHISM IN MAFIC COMPOSITIONS, AND WHERE CONFLICTING AGES HAVE BEEN REPORTED; 2) METHOD DEVELOPMENT FOR WHOLE-ROCK RB-SR ISOCHRON DATING ON THE POMONA COLLEGE LA-ICP-MS, A TECHNIQUE THAT CAN BE UTILIZED ON MAFIC DIKES TO HELP SEE THROUGH METAMORPHIC EVENTS THAT MAY HAVE RESET MINERAL PHASES THEREIN; 3) WHOLE-ROCK COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS TO ASSESS MANTLE SOURCES AND THE CRUSTAL DIFFERENTIATION HISTORY THAT CONTRIBUTED TO GENERATING THE MAGMAS. THE DATA COLLECTED WILL BE COMBINED WITH PREVIOUS AGE, MAJOR ELEMENT, AND TECTONIC CONSTRAINTS TO GENERATE A COMPREHENSIVE MODEL OF THE MAGMATIC EVOLUTION OF THE IDS, DISTINGUISHING WHETHER DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE SWARM WERE EMPLACED SIMULTANEOUSLY OR EPISODICALLY, AND IF THEY ARE GENETICALLY RELATED THROUGH MELTING AND CRUSTAL DIFFERENTIATION MECHANISMS. THE FOCUS ON SAMPLING DIKES THAT ARE TENTATIVELY CORRELATED WITH THE IDS WILL HELP TO FURTHER ESTABLISH THE TRUE EXTENT OF THE SWARM. AN INTERPRETIVE MODEL FOR THE MAGMATIC EVOLUTION AND EMPLACEMENT TIMING OF THE IDS WILL FURTHER ELUCIDATE HOW SIERRAN ARC MAGMATISM CHANGED OVER TIME AND PAVES THE WAY FOR COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE EMPLACEMENT TIMING AND EVOLUTION OF OTHER LARGE DIKE SWARMS IN TECTONIC REGIMES WORLDWIDE. ADDITIONALLY, THIS WORK WILL EXPAND THE METHOD FOR RB-SR DATING VIA LA-ICP-MS TO WHOLE ROCK GLASSES. BROADER IMPACTS OF THIS WORK BEYOND PETROLOGIC AND GEOCHEMICAL KNOWLEDGE OF LARGE DIKE SWARMS INCLUDE: 1) PROVIDING RESEARCH AND NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ~10 EARTH SCIENCE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS; 2) EXPANDING THE ANALYTICAL CAPABILITIES OF IN-HOUSE RESEARCH AT A PRIMARILY UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTION (PUI); 3) SUPPORTING AN EARLY CAREER VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FOCUSED ON DEVELOPING A ROBUST RESEARCH PROGRAM AT A PUI; 4) EXPANSION OF THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR?S INDIGENOUS GEOLOGIC KNOWLEDGE THROUGH FIELD COLLABORATION WITH AN ARCHEOLOGIST AND RESEARCH INTO TRIBAL ORAL HISTORIES OF THE REGION, WHICH WILL INFORM FUTURE TEACHING AND INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH. 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.

SPATIAL GRAPHS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO COMPLEX MOLECULAR STRUCTURES

LEAPS-MPS: NONCOMMUTATIVE GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY OF QUANTUM METRICS -THIS PROJECT IN NONCOMMUTATIVE METRIC GEOMETRY FOCUSES ON THE THEME OF APPROXIMATION, A FUNDAMENTAL NOTION IN MATHEMATICS AND THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES, IN WHICH ONE SEEKS TO UNDERSTAND A COMPLEX OBJECT BY STUDYING ITS SIMPLER RELATIVES WHICH ARE ?NEARBY? ACCORDING TO SOME MEASURE OF DISTANCE. THE GROMOV-HAUSDORFF DISTANCE -- AN IMPORTANT TOOL FROM METRIC GEOMETRY WHICH MEASURES THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SUBSETS OF A SPACE, RATHER THAN JUST INDIVIDUAL ELEMENTS -- HAS SEEN MANY APPLICATIONS ACROSS THE MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES. THIS PROJECT WILL EMPLOY GENERALIZATIONS OF THE GROMOV-HAUSDORFF DISTANCE TO DEVELOP NEW APPROACHES TO THE APPROXIMATION OF INFINITE-DIMENSIONAL ALGEBRAS ARISING FROM QUANTUM MECHANICS (KNOWN AS C*-ALGEBRAS) BY THEIR FINITE-DIMENSIONAL COUNTERPARTS. THESE NEW METHODS WILL ADVANCE THE STATE OF THE ART IN NONCOMMUTATIVE METRIC GEOMETRY AND BUILD CONNECTIONS WITH THE STRUCTURE THEORY OF C*-ALGEBRAS AS WELL AS QUANTUM INFORMATION THEORY. THE PI WILL OFFER RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, WHO WILL PLAY A CENTRAL ROLE IN THE PROJECT. A DIVERSE GROUP OF STUDENTS WILL BE RECRUITED, WITH A FOCUS ON PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND A VIEW TOWARD BROADENING PARTICIPATION IN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE IN THE NEXT GENERATION. NONCOMMUTATIVE METRIC GEOMETRY (NCMG) WAS LARGELY MOTIVATED AND BUILT BY STRUCTURES ARISING FROM NONCOMMUTATIVE TOPOLOGY (NCT) AND NONCOMMUTATIVE GEOMETRY (NCG), AND THIS PROJECT AIMS TO PROVIDE FURTHER CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THESE THREE AREAS. THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS PURSUIT LIES IN THE FACT THAT THE CLASSICAL COUNTERPARTS OF METRIC GEOMETRY, TOPOLOGY, AND DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY HAVE MANY CONNECTIONS, AND FINDING ANALOGOUS RESULTS IN THE NONCOMMUTATIVE REALM TO RESULTS IN THE CLASSICAL REALM HAS PROVEN TO ADVANCE MATHEMATICS OVERALL. IN PARTICULAR, NCT AND THE CLASSIFICATION OF C*-ALGEBRAS RELY HEAVILY ON C*-ALGEBRAS ARISING AS INDUCTIVE/DIRECT LIMITS OF C*-ALGEBRAS, AND DUE TO QUANTUM VERSIONS OF THE GROMOV-HAUSDORFF DISTANCE PROVIDED BY NCMG, ONE CAN SHOW THAT THESE INDUCTIVE LIMITS ARE LIMITS IN A METRIC SENSE AND EVEN ESTABLISH METRIC CONVERGENCE OF SEQUENCES OF INDUCTIVE LIMITS. HOWEVER, IN VARIOUS CASES INCLUDING THE CASE OF APPROXIMATELY FINITE-DIMENSIONAL (AF) ALGEBRAS, CONVERGENCE OF CERTAIN SEQUENCES OF INDUCTIVE LIMITS HAS ONLY BEEN ATTAINED USING PURELY NCMG AND NCT STRUCTURE WITHOUT USING NATURAL STRUCTURES ARISING FROM NCG LIKE SPECTRAL TRIPLES. A PRIMARY GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO ENRICH THESE RESULTS WITH SPECTRAL TRIPLE DATA AND THUS PRODUCE A MISSING CONNECTION AMONG THESE AREAS IN THE NONCOMMUTATIVE REALM. THIS PROJECT WILL ALSO INVESTIGATE OTHER CLASSES OF INDUCTIVE LIMITS AND THEIR FINITE-DIMENSIONAL APPROXIMATIONS AS WELL AS FURTHER ASSOCIATED STRUCTURES SUCH AS HILBERT C*-MODULES. A FOCUSED LOOK AT SOME OF THE INDIVIDUAL QUANTUM METRIC SPACES ARISING FROM THESE INVESTIGATIONS YIELDS CONNECTIONS TO METRIC GEOMETRY AND QUANTUM INFORMATION THEORY. 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.

RUI: GALAXY ENCOUNTERS ON FIRE: DECODING INTERACTION-INDUCED STAR FORMATION IN THE LOCAL UNIVERSE

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ADDRESSING KNOWLEDGE AND CAPACITY SHORTFALLS TO ADVANCE CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND ACTION FOR ENDANGERED NATIVE HAWAIIAN LAND FLORA AND FAUNA. -ON AVERAGE, AN ESTIMATED 200 SPECIES OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS GO EXTINCT EACH DAY BECAUSE OF HABITAT DESTRUCTION, OVEREXPLOITATION, INVASIVE SPECIES, DISEASE, AND CLIMATE CHANGE. MANY OF THESE SPECIES EXISTED LONG BEFORE HUMANS. THEY EVOLVED TO FILL CRITICAL ROLES IN ECOSYSTEMS ON WHICH HUMANITY RELIES FOR FOOD, CLEAN AIR, CLEAN WATER, FERTILE SOILS, AND A HOST OF OTHER SERVICES THAT MAKE LIFE POSSIBLE AND COMFORTABLE ON THIS PLANET. FOR DECADES CONSERVATION EFFORTS HAVE FOCUSED PRIMARILY ON SAVING SELECT SPECIES. UNFORTUNATELY, SUCH APPROACHES DO NOT ENCOMPASS THE BULK OF BIODIVERSITY OR THE MORE COMPLEX INTERACTIONS AMONG SPECIES. THESE APPROACHES LEAVE GAPS IN SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING OF ECOSYSTEM LEVEL PROCESSES AND INTERACTIONS NEEDED TO IMPLEMENT EFFECTIVE CONSERVATION ACTIONS. THIS IS ESPECIALLY EVIDENT FOR HIGH DIVERSITY BUT POORLY STUDIED GROUPS LIKE SNAILS, WHICH ACCOUNT FOR THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF RECORDED EXTINCTIONS IN HUMAN HISTORY. HAWAIIAN ISLAND LAND SNAILS INCLUDE SOME OF THE MOST DIVERSE GROUPS OF SNAILS ON THE PLANET. THEY ARE ALSO AMONG THE MOST HEAVILY IMPACTED BY EXTINCTION, WITH MORE THAN HALF OF THE MORE THAN 750 KNOWN SPECIES ALREADY LOST. SAVING THE REMAINING SPECIES AND RESTORING THESE JEWELS OF THE HAWAIIAN FORESTS REQUIRES KNOWLEDGE OF SPECIES INTERACTIONS AND THEIR ECOLOGICAL REQUIREMENTS. UNDERSTANDING WHY LAND SNAILS LIVE WHERE THEY DO, WHAT THEY FEED ON, AND WHAT THEIR OTHER HABITAT REQUIREMENTS ARE IS CRITICAL TO SUCCESSFUL CAPTIVE REARING OF THE REMAINING SPECIES AND TO RETURNING THEM TO THE WILD IN PROTECTED AND RESTORED HABITATS. IN ADDITION, THIS PROJECT WILL HELP FILL THE HUMAN RESOURCE CAPACITY SHORTFALL BY PROVIDING CONSERVATION EXPERIENCES AND BROADENING PARTICIPATION OF GROUPS UNDERREPRESENTED IN SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION SPECIFICALLY. STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS WILL ENGAGE AND CONTRIBUTE TO A BROADER UNDERSTANDING OF ECOLOGY, APPLIED CONSERVATION, AND THE BIOLOGY OF LESSER-KNOWN GROUPS LIKE SNAILS. AT A DEEPER COMMUNITY LEVEL, THIS WILL EXPAND KNOWLEDGE AND ENGAGEMENT WITH INDIGENOUS PRACTICES AND WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING. HAWAIIAN LAND SNAILS HOLD DEEP CULTURAL PRESENCE AND HAWAIIANS HOLD GENERATIONS OF NATURAL HISTORY INSIGHTS ABOUT THE NATURAL WORLD. THIS PROJECT WILL HELP BRIDGE BIOCULTURAL LAND SNAIL KNOWLEDGE WITH PHYSICAL OBJECTS, NATURAL HISTORY DATA, AND GENOMICS. COLLECTIVELY, THIS WILL INCREASE STEWARDSHIP AND SUSTAINABILITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES, SUPPORT CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT EFFORTS THROUGH INDIGENOUS VALUE SYSTEMS, AND INSTILL APPRECIATION AND PROTECTION OF OUR PRECIOUS RESOURCES FOR GENERATIONS. RESEARCHERS WILL INCORPORATE STUDIES IN MICROBIAL GENOMICS, FIELD ECOLOGY, AND CAPTIVE REARING DIETS THAT ADDRESS THE MOST URGENT KNOWLEDGE GAPS IN HAWAIIAN LAND SNAIL ECOLOGY. BY EXAMINING RESOURCE PREFERENCES AND FEEDING ECOLOGY OF HAWAIIAN LANDS SNAILS THIS PROJECT WILL 1) DETERMINE SNAIL FEEDING PREFERENCES ON BACTERIA AND FUNGI THAT GROW ON THEIR NATIVE HOST PLANTS; 2) CHARACTERIZE THE MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES THAT LIKELY FORM KEY COMPONENTS OF SNAIL DIETS; AND 3) IDENTIFY PREFERRED PLANTS AND MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES THAT IMPROVE SNAIL SURVIVORSHIP AND BREEDING IN CAPTIVITY. THE DATA GATHERED WILL BE USED TO EXPAND CAPTIVE REARING CAPACITY, RESTORE DEGRADED HABITATS WITH PREFERRED PLANT RESOURCES, AND BUILD LONG TERM CAPACITY FOR EFFECTIVE LAND SNAIL CONSERVATION IN HAWAII. KNOWING WHICH MICROBIAL ASSEMBLAGES ENHANCE SNAIL SURVIVORSHIP, GROWTH, AND FECUNDITY WILL PROVIDE CONSERVATIONISTS WITH A POWERFUL TOOL TO ASSESS QUALITY OF SNAIL HABITAT. IT WILL ALSO ENABLE RESTORATION PRACTITIONERS TO CREATE HABITATS TO SUPPORT EXTANT POPULATIONS IN THE WILD. THIS PROJECT IS BEING SUPPORTED VIA A JOINT PROGRAM INVOLVING THE DIVISIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY AND INTEGRATIVE ORGANISMAL SYSTEMS AND THE PAUL G. ALLEN FAMILY FOUNDATION. 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.

RUI: THE CHENGJIANG SCIENTIFIC DRILLING PROJECT AND AN INTEGRATED MODEL FOR UNDERSTANDING BURGESS SHALE-TYPE DEPOSITS

TOPOLOGICAL SYMMETRIES AND INTRINSIC PROPERTIES OF GRAPHS EMBEDDED IN 3-SPACE

RUI: OPPORTUNITIES IN OPERATOR THEORY

COLLABORATIVE PROPOSAL: EDGE PROGRAM

RUI: COMPLEX SYMMETRIC OPERATORS - THEORY AND APPLICATIONS

YANG-BAXTER EQUATIONS, SUPER QUANTUM GROUPS AND GENERALIZED HOPF ALGEBRAS

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: THE EFFICACY OF SUPPORT STRUCTURES FOR LEGAL MOBILIZATION

JAMES JOYCE'S "ULYSSES": TEXT AND CONTEXTS

FOR THE PAST HALF DECADE WE HAVE BEEN USING AXISYMMETRIC NUMERICAL MODELS TO STUDY THE MECHANICS OF MAGMA RESERVOIR INFLATION IN AN EFFORT TO UNDERS

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MOLECULAR PLATFORMS FOR STUDIES OF PARITY NON-CONSERVATION AND NOVEL BONDING MECHANISMS -WITH SUPPORT FROM THE CHEMICAL STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS (CSD) PROGRAM IN THE DIVISION OF CHEMISTRY, PROFESSOR MICHAEL HEAVEN AT EMORY UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSOR RICHARD MAWHORTER AT POMONA COLLEGE ARE CONDUCTING GAS PHASE HIGH-RESOLUTION MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY MEASUREMENTS OF CANDIDATE MOLECULES TO PROBE THEIR POTENTIAL TO ADVANCE THE SEARCH FOR PHYSICS BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL (BSM). THE REMARKABLY SUCCESSFUL STANDARD MODEL CANNOT EXPLAIN THE IMBALANCE OF MATTER AND ANTI-MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE. VIOLATIONS OF MOLECULAR SYMMETRY PROPERTIES, DETECTED BY PRECISION SPECTROSCOPIC MEASUREMENTS, CAN PROVIDE CRITICAL TESTS OF PROPOSED BSM THEORIES. ONE CHALLENGE FOR THIS APPROACH IS THAT THE MOLECULES MUST BE COOLED TO NEARLY ABSOLUTE ZERO (ULTRACOLD) TO ACHIEVE THE REQUIRED MEASUREMENT ACCURACY. A SECOND CHALLENGE IS THAT THE BSM EFFECTS WILL BE LARGEST FOR MOLECULES THAT INCLUDE A HEAVY ATOM. SUCH MOLECULES USUALLY EXHIBIT CONGESTED AND COMPLICATED SPECTRA. CONSEQUENTLY, MANY THEORETICALLY PROMISING MOLECULES HAVE NOT BEEN CHARACTERIZED IN LABORATORY STUDIES. PROFESSORS HEAVEN, MAWHORTER AND THEIR STUDENTS WILL CARRY OUT EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF THREE CLASSES OF HEAVY ELEMENT-CONTAINING MOLECULES. THE OBJECTIVES ARE TO IDENTIFY THE MOST PROMISING CANDIDATES FOR BSM MEASUREMENTS AND TO OBTAIN THE SPECTROSCOPIC DATA NEEDED FOR THE DESIGN OF THE EXPERIMENTS AS WELL AS TO DETERMINE HOW TO ACCOMPLISH THE COOLING, STATE PREPARATION AND STATE READ-OUT. THE EDUCATIONAL IMPACT OF THIS PROGRAM IS THAT IT PROVIDES EXCELLENT TRAINING FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS, AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS. THE EXPERIMENTS INVOLVE ADVANCED INSTRUMENTATION, AND INTERPRETATION OF THE RESULTS REQUIRES THE APPLICATION OF HIGH-LEVEL THEORETICAL METHODS. SEVERAL LASER-BASED SPECTROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS WILL BE APPLIED. THE AVAILABLE TECHNIQUES INCLUDE LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE, DISPERSED LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE, TWO-PHOTON IONIZATION AND ANION PHOTODETACHMENT. THE FIRST GROUP OF MOLECULES TO BE EXAMINED IS YBNH2, YBCH3 AND YBSH. PRELIMINARY DATA FOR YBNH2 AND YBCH3, AND CALCULATIONS FOR YBSH INDICATE THAT THEY ARE PROMISING FOR DIRECT LASER COOLING. ELECTRONIC TRANSITION ENERGIES, FLUORESCENCE BRANCHING RATIOS AND LOW ENERGY METASTABLE STATES WILL BE CHARACTERIZED. THE SECOND GROUP OF MOLECULES, YBF- AND THE GROUP IIA OXYFLUORIDE ANIONS (OMF-) MAY BE COOLED USING EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELDS AND THEN CONVERTED TO NEUTRAL MOLECULES BY MEANS OF PHOTODETACHMENT. FOR THIS SCHEME THE BOND DISSOCIATION ENERGY OF THE ANION MUST EXCEED THE ELECTRON AFFINITY OF THE NEUTRAL. TESTS FOR THIS CONDITION WILL BE CONDUCTED USING ANION PHOTODETACHMENT SPECTROSCOPY. LASTLY, DIATOMIC MOLECULES CONSISTING OF CU, AG OR AU BOUND TO YB WILL BE EXAMINED. THESE MOLECULES MAY BE FORMED AT ULTRACOLD TEMPERATURES BY PHOTOASSOCIATION. THE SPECTROSCOPIC DATA NEEDED FOR THE DESIGN OF SUCH ULTRACOLD SYNTHESIS EXPERIMENTS WILL BE SOUGHT USING LASER ABLATION TECHNIQUES TO GENERATE THE TARGET MOLECULES AT HIGHER TEMPERATURES (5-20 K). 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.

RUI: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: REFINING THE USE OF SCLERACTINIAN COLD-WATER CORAL SKELETON-BOUND D15N AS A PROXY FOR MARINE N CYCLING

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: A REMARKABLE NEW FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE FROM THE BURGESS SHALE AT MARBLE CANYON, KOOTENAY NATIONAL PARK

RUI: ADDING SPIN TO A GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTOR SIMULATOR

RUI: MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF CHROMOSOME ORGANIZATION AND SEGREGATION IN BACTERIA

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: PREDICTING THE RELEASE KINETICS OF MATRIX TABLETS

CRII: CHS: RUI: GAZE SHARING TO SUPPORT REMOTE COLLABORATION

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF VERIFICATION PROCEDURES FOR QUANTIFIED STATEMENTS

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: HALOGEN BEHAVIOR IN THE PLUTON-TO-VOLCANIC ARC SYSTEM -HALOGEN ELEMENTS (FLUORINE, CHLORINE, BROMINE, AND IODINE) ARE ABUNDANT, HIGHLY REACTIVE ELEMENTS IN THE ATMOSPHERE, OCEANS, AND LITHOSPHERE. HALOGENS WITHIN EARTH?S CRUST CAN AFFECT MAGMATIC PROPERTIES AND CARRY ELEMENTS TO FORM ECONOMIC MINERAL DEPOSITS. WITHIN VOLCANIC ARC SYSTEMS, HALOGEN ELEMENTS ARE CARRIED TO DEPTH BY SUBDUCTING CRUST AND CAN TRAVEL WITHIN MELTS THROUGH THE OVERRIDING CRUST AND OUT AT VOLCANOES. ESTIMATES OF HALOGEN INPUTS AT SUBDUCTION ZONES AND OUTPUTS THROUGH VOLCANIC GASES SHOW A DEFICIT THAT SUGGEST A PORTION OF HALOGENS ARE TRAPPED DEEP WITHIN THE EARTH. THERE ARE MULTIPLE POSSIBLE RESERVOIRS TO HOST HALOGENS THAT ARE NOT WELL CHARACTERIZED BECAUSE THEY ARE TOO DIFFICULT TO ACCESS AND SAMPLE. ONE EXAMPLE IS THE MAGMATIC SYSTEM UNDER VOLCANOES WHERE CONCENTRATIONS OF HALOGENS IN SUBSURFACE MAGMA CHAMBERS AND ERUPTED VOLCANIC ROCKS ARE NOT WELL KNOWN. THIS TEAM WILL MEASURE THE FULL HALOGEN SUITE IN INTRUSIVE PLUTONIC ROCKS AND EXTRUSIVE VOLCANIC ROCKS FROM THE SAME ANCIENT ARC SYSTEM NOW EXPOSED IN THE SIERRA NEVADA, CALIFORNIA. THIS WILL ALLOW THEM TO ADDRESS KEY OPEN QUESTIONS INCLUDING: WHETHER HALOGENS ARE ENRICHED IN THE PLUTONIC MAGMA CHAMBER OR ERUPTED VOLCANIC ROCK; WHERE HALOGENS ARE HOSTED WITHIN THE ROCKS; AND WHAT IMPACT HALOGENS HAVE ON MAGMATIC PROCESSES AND MINERAL DEPOSITS AT VOLCANIC ARCS. THROUGH THIS RESEARCH, THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS AND GRADUATE STUDENTS WILL DESIGN AN UNDERGRADUATE MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY CLASS WITH ACCESSIBILITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION PRINCIPLES AND ENGAGE IN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN RESEARCH AND SAFE, INCLUSIVE FIELD EXPERIENCES. A SUBSET OF THE SAMPLES USED FOR THIS STUDY COME FROM AN HISTORIC COLLECTION. THESE SAMPLES WILL BE DIGITIZED USING 3D TECHNOLOGY AND CREATED INTO AN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE HOSTED ON THE VIRTUAL MICROSCOPE PUBLIC WEBSITE. HALOGEN MOVEMENT AND RESERVOIRS WITHIN THE DEEP EARTH ARE HIGHLY UNCERTAIN DUE TO THE LACK OF DATA FROM KEY RESERVOIRS, NAMELY, THE FORE-ARC, DEEPLY SUBDUCTED SLAB RESIDUES, SUBCONTINENTAL MANTLE, AND ? THE FOCUS OF THIS STUDY ? CONTINENTAL CRUST. GIVEN HALOGEN INCOMPATIBILITY IN THE MANTLE AND AFFINITY TOWARDS MORE EVOLVED MELTS, CONTINENTAL CRUST IS A POTENTIALLY IMPORTANT RESERVOIR; HOWEVER, BULK ROCK COMPOSITIONS OF PLUTONIC AND VOLCANIC ARC ROCKS ARE RELEGATED TO A HANDFUL OF STUDIES. THIS RESEARCH WILL CHARACTERIZE THE FULL HALOGEN (FL, CL, BR, I) COMPOSITION AND BEHAVIOR WITHIN AN ARC MAGMATIC SYSTEM BY ANALYZING A SUITE OF SPATIALLY-RELATED PLUTONIC AND VOLCANIC ROCKS THAT SHARE SIMILAR CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND AGE FROM THE SIERRA NEVADA ARC. SPECIFICALLY, THIS TEAM WILL MEASURE BULK ROCK HALOGEN (CL, F, BR, I) CONCENTRATIONS, IN-SITU MINERAL CONCENTRATIONS (F, CL), AND O AND H-ISOTOPES ON A SUITE OF GEOCHEMICALLY WELL-CHARACTERIZED SAMPLES. THIS SAMPLE SUITE WILL BE USED TO 1) DETERMINE WHETHER HALOGENS ARE CONCENTRATED IN THE PLUTONIC OR VOLCANIC SECTION WITHIN A SINGLE ARC SYSTEM, 2) IDENTIFY WHERE HALOGENS ARE HOSTED (I.E., IN MINERALS OR OTHER SITES), AND 3) ASSESS THE ROLE OF HALOGENS IN MAGMATIC PROCESSES DURING THE FORMATION OF CONTINENTAL CRUST. IN ORDER TO INTERPRET THE ROLE OF PROCESSES, SUCH AS ASSIMILATION AND HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION, ON HALOGEN BEHAVIOR, THEY ALSO PROPOSE TO ANALYZE A COMPLIMENTARY SUITE THAT INCLUDES LOWER CRUSTAL XENOLITHS, HOST WALL ROCKS (E.G., SCHISTS, MARBLES), HYDROTHERMALLY ALTERED ROCKS AND ASSOCIATED VEINS, AND MORE MAFIC LITHOLOGIES (E.G., GABBROS) TO STRENGTHEN OUR INTERPRETATIONS. THE DATASET WILL SIGNIFICANTLY CONTRIBUTE TO WHAT IS KNOWN OF BULK ROCK HALOGEN COMPOSITIONS FOR CONTINENTAL ARC CRUST, AND BE USED WITH MAJOR ELEMENT, TRACE ELEMENT, AND ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS TO EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF PRIMARY MAGMATIC PROCESSES (E.G., CRUSTAL ASSIMILATION, FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION) ON THE HALOGEN RECORD AND INTERPRET OVERALL HALOGEN SYSTEMATICS THROUGH THE ARC MAGMATIC SYSTEM. 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.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CONTRIBUTION OF MAFIC MAGMATISM TO UPPER CRUSTAL BATHOLITHS: A CASE STUDY OF THE SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH

REU SITE: PURDUE RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICS EXPERIENCE (PRIME)

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DECIPHERING SIERRAN MAGMA SOURCES AND MODES OF DIVERSIFICATION USING TRACE ELEMENT O AND HF ISOTOPIC ANALYSES OF ZIRCON

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DEPTH-DEPENDENT DECARBONATION IN A CONTINENTAL ARC, SIERRA NEVADA, CALIFORNIA -WHEN HOT MAGMA INTERACTS WITH EARTH?S CRUST, IT CHANGES THE MINERALS AND TEXTURES OF PRE-EXISTING ROCKS BY THE PROCESS OF METAMORPHISM. CONDITIONS OF METAMORPHISM DEPEND ON THE PRESSURE, TEMPERATURE, AND THE KINDS OF FLUIDS PRESENT IN MAGMAS AND THE CRUST. THESE PROCESSES CAN ALSO CHANGE ROCK CHEMISTRY BY DRIVING THE RELEASE OF ELEMENTS INCLUDING CARBON WHICH MAY BE LIBERATED FROM THE ROCK BY DECARBONATION. THE PROCESS OF DECARBONATION IS IMPORTANT IN EARTH?S LONG-TERM NATURAL GEOCHEMICAL CYCLES. DECARBONATION ALSO PRODUCES RESIDUAL ROCKS CALLED SKARNS. SKARN DEPOSITS ARE OFTEN ENRICHED IN BASE (W, CU, PB, ZN) AND PRECIOUS (AG, AU) METALS; THUS, A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF THESE PROCESSES PROMOTES OUR UNDERSTANDING OF ECONOMICALLY VALUABLE MINERAL DEPOSITS WITH BROAD SOCIETAL VALUE. THROUGH THEIR WORK ON THE PROJECT, STUDENTS WILL BE PREPARED FOR VITAL ROLES IN THE GEOSCIENCE WORKFORCE. IN PARTICULAR, THEY WILL GAIN SKILLS IN QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS AND NUMERICAL MODELING TO ASSESS THE TEMPO AND MODE OF METAMORPHIC PROCESSES THAT TRANSPORT ENERGY, FLUIDS, AND METALS AS MAGMAS INTRUDE AND CRYSTALLIZE IN EARTH'S CRUST. GIVEN THE CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH CRITICAL MINERALS, THE WORK AND STUDENT TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES CONSTITUTE A FRONT-LINE EFFORT TO SUSTAIN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF RESOURCES THAT ARE IMPORTANT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND ADVANCEMENT OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY OF THE UNITED STATES. ON-THE-GROUND PUBLIC OUTREACH EFFORTS INCLUDE ENGAGING COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL SETTINGS IN FLORIDA?S LEON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXHIBIT OF ORE-MINERALS FROM THE HISTORIC MINERAL KING DISTRICT IN SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK. THIS EXHIBIT WILL BE HOUSED IN THE THREE RIVERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM, NEAR THE ENTRANCE TO THE NATIONAL PARK, WHERE THOUSANDS OF PUBLIC VISITORS MAY POTENTIALLY SEE IT EACH YEAR. THIS WORK FOCUSES ON HIGH-PRESSURE AND HIGH-TEMPERATURE DECARBONATION OF MARBLE AND CALC-SILICATE ROCKS THAT HAVE BEEN EXPOSED BY EROSION INTO THE DEEP LOWER CRUST OF THE SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA. TO UNDERSTAND THE INFLUENCE THAT METAMORPHIC PRESSURE, TEMPERATURE, AND FLUID AVAILABILITY HAVE ON DECARBONATION AND MINERALIZATION, THE INVESTIGATORS COMBINE TOOLS FROM FIELD WORK, LABORATORY STUDY OF MINERAL TEXTURES AND CHEMISTRY, AND NUMERICAL MODELING. FIELD STUDIES, BOTH ONGOING AND PLANNED, WILL FOCUS ON KEY SKARN OCCURRENCES. TEXTURAL ANALYSES BY BOTH POLARIZING AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPES WILL HELP IDENTIFY CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES IN SKARN MINERALS THAT FORMED DURING METAMORPHISM. GEOCHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS, INCLUDING X-RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETRY (XRF), ELECTRON PROBE MICRO-ANALYSIS (EPMA), AND FOCUSED ION BEAM SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (FIB-SEM), WILL PROVIDE COMPOSITIONAL INSIGHTS AT DIFFERENT SCALES?FROM WHOLE-ROCK CHEMISTRY (XRF) DOWN TO MICRON-LEVEL DETAILS. NUMERICAL MODELING WILL FURTHER EXPLORE ELEMENT AND VOLATILE MIGRATION IN THESE LOWER CRUSTAL METAMORPHIC SETTINGS, INCLUDING CARBON MOBILITY AND THE GEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES CONTROLLING ENDOWMENT OF METALS INTO ORE DEPOSITS. 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.

RCN-UBE INCUBATOR: DEVELOPING A FACULTY NETWORK IN A BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT: THE RESEARCH EXPERIENCES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOR UNDERGRADUATE ECOLOGISTS NETWORK

CONFERENCE ON STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY IN RESEARCH MATHEMATICS -THE CONFERENCE ON STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY IN RESEARCH MATHEMATICS WILL TAKE PLACE FEBRUARY 17-18, 2023 IN CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA. THE CONFERENCE WILL STRENGTHEN THE MATHEMATICAL RESEARCH COMMUNITY BY GATHERING RESEARCHERS IN CUTTING-EDGE MATHEMATICS, HIGHLIGHTING THE STRATEGIC ROLE AND IMPORTANCE OF OUR PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, AND BY DISSEMINATING SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES TO ENABLE MATHEMATICIANS FROM TRADITIONALLY UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS TO FLOURISH. THE CONFERENCE WILL NOT ONLY ENHANCE THE FLOW OF TALENT INTO THE MATHEMATICS RESEARCH COMMUNITY BUT ALSO HELP UPGRADE THE DEMOGRAPHIC REACH AND CAPABILITIES OF THE ENTIRE STEM PIPELINE. THE CONFERENCE WILL ACHIEVE ITS GOALS IN SEVERAL WAYS. GENERAL AUDIENCE RESEARCH TALKS WILL BE IN THE CORE FIELDS OF NUMBER THEORY AND ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY AND WILL BE DESIGNED TO FACILITATE FUTURE COLLABORATIONS WHILE PROVIDING A SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR YOUNG MATHEMATICIANS FROM UNDERSERVED BACKGROUNDS TO EXPERIENCE THE BEAUTY AND POWER OF NUMBER THEORY AND ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY. WE WILL ALSO ADDRESS RELEVANT QUESTIONS THAT UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS HAVE ABOUT THE PROFESSION WITH TALKS AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS ON THE GRADUATE SCHOOL ADMISSION AND MATRICULATION PROCESS, NAVIGATING THE MATHEMATICAL DISCIPLINE AS A MEMBER OF A CURRENTLY UNDERREPRESENTED GROUP, THE MULTITUDE OF CAREER OPPORTUNITIES THAT ONE CAN PURSUE WITH A GRADUATE DEGREE IN MATHEMATICS, AND MANAGING ACADEMIC AND NONACADEMIC JOB LADDERS. FACULTY WILL IN TURN PARTICIPATE IN TALKS AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS THAT ADDRESS MENTORING STUDENTS FROM UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS AND HOW TO ENGAGE UNDERGRADUATES IN THEIR RESEARCH. FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT THE CONFERENCE WEB-PAGE HTTPS://WWW.POMONA.EDU/ACADEMICS/DEPARTMENTS/MATHEMATICS-STATISTICS/EVENTS-COLLOQUIA/CONFERENCE-STRENGTHENING-COMMUNITY-RESEARCH-MATHEMATICS. 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.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: STRUCTURE AND TONE IN LUYIA

COMPLEX SYMMETRIC OPERATORS AND FUNCTION THEORY

SELECTIVE METAL OXIDE SENSORS PREPARED BY CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION: USING PRECURSOR CHEMISTRY TO CONTROL FILM MICROSTRUCTURE

CONFERENCE: 23RD ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE NSF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS -THE 23RD ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE NSF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS (AAPF) WILL BE HELD ON 11?12 JANUARY 2025 ALONGSIDE THE 245TH MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY (AAS) IN NATIONAL HARBOR, MD, NEAR WASHINGTON, DC. THE NSF AAPF PROGRAM AIMS TO PREPARE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS FOR THEIR FUTURE SCIENTIFIC CAREERS BY INTEGRATING RESEARCH AND TEACHING/OUTREACH. THE ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM PROVIDES: (1) A PLATFORM FOR FELLOWS TO DISCUSS THEIR RESEARCH AND BROADER IMPACTS PROJECTS, (2) EXPOSURE FOR THE FELLOWS AND THE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM WITHIN THE ASTRONOMICAL COMMUNITY, AND (3) AN OPEN DISCUSSION OF ISSUES THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO ASTRONOMERS AS THEY BEGIN THEIR CAREERS. THE SYMPOSIUM WILL ACHIEVE BROADER IMPACTS BY FACILITATING COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN NSF AAPF FELLOWS ON BOTH RESEARCH AND EDUCATION, AND BY INCREASING THE EXPOSURE OF THE FELLOWS AND THE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM WITHIN THE ASTRONOMICAL COMMUNITY. THE AAPF SYMPOSIUM WILL CONSIST OF (1) TALKS BY CURRENT NSF AAPF FELLOWS ON THEIR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PROJECTS, (2) A KEYNOTE SCIENCE TALK FOCUSED ON THE EFFORTS TO DEAL WITH THE INFLUX OF BIG DATA FROM MODERN LARGE SURVEYS IN ASTRONOMY, (3) A KEYNOTE OUTREACH TALK ON STARTING AND BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL OUTREACH PROGRAM. (4) A WORKSHOP ON NAVIGATING THE ACADEMIC JOB MARKET, (5) A WORKSHOP ON CRAFTING AN ENGAGING STORY THAT COMMUNICATES SCIENTIFIC RESULTS, AND (6) OPPORTUNITIES FOR OPEN DISCUSSION BETWEEN CURRENT NSF AAPF FELLOWS AND THE BROADER ASTRONOMICAL COMMUNITY TO FOSTER OPPORTUNITIES FOR MENTORING AND NEW COLLABORATIONS. 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.

CHARACTERIZING THE FUNCTION OF SYNDECAN DURING CNS DEVELOPMENT

THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF OUR UNDERSTANDING OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS THE MOST ENERGETIC KNOWN EVENTS IN THE UNIVERSE HAS BEEN ENABLED BY THE UNPRECEDENTE

THE GAME AND INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE SCHOLARSHIP TOOLKIT: EXPANDING SOFTWARE CITATION AND REFERENCE [THE GAME AND INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE SCHOLARSHIP TOOLKIT (GISST) IS A PLATFORM FOR MANAGING THE CITATION AND REFERENCE OF SOFTWARE OBJECTS, THEIR RUN-TIME STATES, AND PERFORMANCES OF THEIR FUNCTIONALITY BY USERS. GISST IS DESIGNED TO LOWER THE TECHNICAL BURDEN FOR SCHOLARS INTERESTED IN INTERPRETING HISTORICAL SOFTWARE BY MAKING EMULATED SYSTEMS MORE ACCESSIBLE, SEARCHABLE, AND SHAREABLE.]

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ICELAND FLEXURE ZONES: ANALOGS FOR MID-OCEAN RIDGE SPREADING CENTERS

U.S.-NEW ZEALAND SEMINAR: APPLICATION OF MATHEMATICS TO BIOMEDICAL PROBLEMS

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: COMMONSENSE COMPUTING: WHAT STUDENTS KNOW BEFORE WE TEACH

ENHANCING DIVERSITY IN GRADUATE EDUCATION: RESEARCH RESULTS FROM TWENTY YEARS OF EMPOWERING WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS

PLANNING PROPOSAL: STRENGHTENING RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES AT THE ROBERT J. BERNARD FIELD STATION

NEH ENDURING QUESTIONS COURSE ON THE AIMS AND VALUE OF EDUCATION

CONFERENCE: WEST COAST OPERATOR ALGEBRAS SYMPOSIUM 2025 -THIS AWARD SUPPORTS THE 2025 EDITION OF THE WEST COAST OPERATOR ALGEBRAS SYMPOSIUM (WCOAS), TO BE HELD AT POMONA COLLEGE IN CLAREMONT, CA DECEMBER 6-7, 2025. THE FIELD OF OPERATOR ALGEBRAS BEGAN WITH THE WORK OF MURRAY AND VON NEUMANN AS A MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORK FOR QUANTUM MECHANICS AND HAS SINCE GROWN INTO AN ESTABLISHED SUBFIELD OF MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS, WITH APPLICATIONS AND CONNECTIONS TO MANY AREAS OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES. THIS YEAR?S CONFERENCE WILL SHOWCASE CURRENT TRENDS IN OPERATOR ALGEBRA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS TO OTHER FIELDS, INCLUDING ERGODIC THEORY, NUMBER THEORY, REPRESENTATION THEORY, AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS. THE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE WILL FEATURE PLENARY TALKS BY LEADING RESEARCHERS AND EARLY-CAREER MATHEMATICIANS, AS WELL AS NUMEROUS OPPORTUNITIES FOR DISCUSSION AND NETWORKING. MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND ON THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE HTTPS://AGUILAR.SITES.POMONA.EDU/WCOAS25/WCOAS25.HTML. LIKE PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF THE CONFERENCE SERIES, WCOAS 2025 WILL CONTRIBUTE TO SUSTAINING VIGOROUS RESEARCH ACTIVITY IN OPERATOR THEORY AND OPERATOR ALGEBRAS, AND THEIR APPLICATIONS TO OTHER FIELDS. PLENARY SPEAKERS WILL SURVEY RECENT ADVANCES AND CURRENT TRENDS, ENABLING PARTICIPANTS TO KEEP ABREAST OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN A VAST AND RAPIDLY EXPANDING SUBJECT. IN ADDITION TO LEADING RESEARCHERS AND VETERAN PARTICIPANTS, THE CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS WILL INVITE GRADUATE STUDENTS, POSTDOCS, AND PRE-TENURE FACULTY MEMBERS TO PARTICIPATE TO HELP SHOWCASE NEW PEOPLE IN THE FIELD, AND TO FOSTER PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING AND COLLABORATION ACROSS CAREER STAGES. MATHEMATICAL THEMES WILL TOUCH ON CORE TOPICS IN C*-ALGEBRAS, VON NEUMANN ALGEBRAS, AND NONCOMMUTATIVE GEOMETRY, AS WELL AS CONNECTIONS TO MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, RING THEORY, CATEGORY THEORY, MODEL THEORY, QUANTUM TOPOLOGY, AND QUANTUM INFORMATION THEORY. 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.

2014 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BIOMATHEMATICS AND ECOLOGY: EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

2021 EDGE SUMMER SYMPOSIUM

TO SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH "CHINA INSIGHTS " AN EXHIBITION IN THE POMONA COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART.

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