Current Grants

Applied Mathematics

eMB: Mathematical Classification of Complexity in Population Dynamics

Yang Kuang - Principal Investigator; John Nagy - Co-Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
9/1/2023 to 8/31/2026
$500,000

Fundamental Studies of Vectorial EM Propagation Governed by the 3D Stochastic Maxwell Vector Wave Equation: Reconstruction of EM Fields using Sensors, Correlations and Physics Based Machine Learning

Alex Mahalov - Principal Investigator
Dept of Defense DOD-USAF-AFRL: Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
3/15/2023 to 3/14/2026
$799,777

NASA SMD Community of Practice for Education (SCoPE)

Katrina Bossert - Co-Principal Investigator (SoMSS/SESE); Meenakshi Wadhwa, Meenakshi - Principal Investigator (SESE); and others
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
1/1/2021 to 12/31/2025
$4,965,390

Opinion formation and graph dynamics: from modeling to empirical applications

Sebatien Motsch - Principal Investigator; Irakli Loladze - Co-PI
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Environmental Biol
9/1/22 to 8/31/25
$416,853

CAREER: Investigating the role of gravity instability and breakdown on subsequent gravity wave generation and coupling

Katrina Bossert - Principal Investigator (SoMSS/SESE)
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS)
8/1/2029 to 7/31/2025
$794,865

Collaborative Research: Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra forLarge Scale (joint) Inversion, Sparse PCA, and Applications

Rosemary Renaut - Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
8/1/2022 to 7/31/2025
$100,000

REU Site: Quantitative Research in the Life and Social Sciences: an interdisciplinary and intergenerational REU experience

Fabio Minler - Principal Investigator; John Nagy - Co-Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division Of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
3/1/22 to 2/28/2025
$388,799

Collaborative Research: Transport of model-virus through the lung liquid lining

Juan Lopez - Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF), Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys (CBET)
4/1/2022 to 3/31/2025
$214,373

Collaborative Research RoL The rules of life were made to be broken-Connecting physiology evolutionary ecology and mathematics to identify a Growth Rate Rule

Yang Kuang - Principal Investigator; Irakli Loladze - Co-PI
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Environmental Biology
11/15/19 to 10/31/24
$444,999

SaTC: CORE: Medium: Self-Adaptive Cyber Risk Management via Machine to Machine Economy Supported by Blockchain and Smart Contracts Technology

Nicolas Lanchier - Co-Principal Investigator; Petar Jevtic - Co-Principal Investigator; Dragan Boscovic - Principal Investigator (CIDSE)
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division Of Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
10/1/2020 to 9/30/24
$750,000

Implementing an Interdisciplinary Space Physics Program at Arizona State University

Al Boggess - Co-Principal Investigator; Katrina Bossert - Co-Principal Investigator (SoMSS/SESE); J Ramon Arrowsmith - Principal Investigator (SESE)
National Science Foundation (NSF), Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences (AGS)
10/1/2019 to 9/30/24
$1,488,347

DMS/NIGMS 1: Topological Dynamics Models of Protein Function

Eleni Pangiotou - Principal Investigator
National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
9/25/2023 to 8/31/24
$194,941

CRCNS: Visual Modulation of Panoramic Auditory Spatial Processing

Sharon Crook - Co-Principal Investigator; Yi Zhou - Principal Investigator (College of Health Solutions)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
7/1/2020 to 6/30/24
$1,484,453

Terrestrial Influences on Space Weather due to Gravity Waves in the Arctic

Katrina Bossert - Principal Investigator (SoMSS/SESE)
Dept of Defense DOD-USAF-AFRL: Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
5/1/21 to 4/30/24
$450,000

Collaborative Research: REU Site: Applied Mathematics and Computational Modeling in the Greater Phoenix Area

Wenbo Tang - Principal Investigator; Eric Kostelich - Co-Principal Investigator; Matthias Kawski, Yang Kuang, Alex Mahalov, Fabio Milner, Sebastien Motsch, Mohamed Moustaoui, Rodrigo Platte - Co-Principal Investigators
National Science Foundation (NSF), Dept of Defense (DOD)
5/1/18 to 4/30/24
$544,900

ISS: Collaborative Research: Interfacial bioprocessing of pharmaceuticals via the Ring-Sheared Drop (RSD) module aboard ISS

Juan Lopez - Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET)
9/15/19 to 12/31/23
$199,994

Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL)

Mohamed Moustaoui - Co-Principal Investigator; David Sailor (SGSUP) - Principal Investigator; and others
Dept of Energy (DOE): Office of Science (OS)
12/15/2022 to 12/14/23
$17,750,000

Supporting the ARPA-E Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Challenge 3

Hans Mittelmann - Principal Investigator
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Dept of Energy (DOE)
Ends 9/30/23

Approximate singular value expansions and solutions of ill-posed problems

Rosemary Renaut - Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
7/1/19 to 6/30/23
$145,690

Mathematics

Collaboration on Problems in Algebraic Combinatorics

Susanna Fishel - Principal Investigator
ASU Foundation / Simons Foundation
9/1/20 to 8/31/25
$42,000

Curvature flows and parabolic PDE on manifolds
Brett Kotschwar - Principal Investigator
ASU Foundation / Simons Foundation
9/1/20 to 8/31/25
$42,000

Relating Special Values of L-functions with orders of Tate-Shafarevich groups
Florian Sprung - Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Mathematical Sciences
7/15/20 to 6/30/24
$152,976

Analytic and Algebraic Methods in Discrete Geometry

Zilin Jiang - Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Mathematical Sciences
1/1/21 to 5/31/24
$150,000

Graph hypergraphs and digraphs Extremal Problems and Algorithms  
Andrzej Czygrinow - Principal Investigator
ASU Foundation / Simons Foundation
9/2/17 to 8/31/22
$42,000

Collaboration on Problems in Algebraic Combinatorics
Susanna Fishel - Principal Investigator
ASU Foundation / Simons Foundation
9/1/15 to 8/31/21
$35,000

Geometric Flows and PDE on Manifolds 
Brett Kotschwar - Principal Investigator
ASU Foundation / Simons Foundation
9/1/15 to 8/31/21
$35,000

Conference on Complex Hyperbolic Geometry and Related Topics

Julien Paupert - Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
7/01/22 to 6/30/24
$35,000

Statistics

Extremes of random fields: critical points, excursion components and their statistical applications

Dan Cheng - Principal Investigator
Simons Foundation
9/1/2021 - 8/31/2026
$8,400

Dynamic Linear Modeling to Unlock New Tests of Directionality in Fossil Lineages

John Fricks - Co-Principal Investigator; Beckett Sterner - Principal Investigator (SOLS)
John Templeton Foundation
11/1/2021 - 7/31/2024
$249,375

Unifying Information- and Optimization-Theoretic Approaches for Modeling and Training Generative Adversarial Networks

Shiwei Lan - Co-Principal Investigator; Lalitha Sankar - Principal Investigator (SECEE); and others
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
10/01/21 to 9/30/24
$1,099,999

Actuarial Science

Matrix Variate Distributions as a Tool for Insurers and their Application to Natural Hazard Loss Modeling

Petar Jevtic - Principal Investigator
Society of Actuaries
7/8/21 to 7/7/24

New Fire Hazard Risk From Policy Responses to Climate Change
Petar Jevtic - Principal Investigator
Society of Actuaries
1/1/20 to 12/31/20
$9,200

Peer to Peer Insurance - Blockchain Implications
Petar Jevtic - Principal Investigator
Society of Actuaries
10/23/19 to 12/31/20
$52,457

Mathematics Education

Collaborative Research: ECR DBER DCL: Extending a Theoretical Model for Undergraduate Students’ Reflection and Abstraction of Proof Structures in Transition to Proofs Courses
Kyeong Hah Roh - Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
10/1/20 to 9/30/23
$369,473

Generating a Research-Informed Transition to a Mathematical Proof Curriculum

Kyeong Hah Roh - Co-Principal Investigator; Paul Dawkins - Principal Investigator (Texas State Univ - San Marcos)
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
7/1/22 to 6/30/25
$600,000

Pathways to Preparing Future Mathematics Faculty to Transform Undergraduate Mathematics Teaching and Learning
Marilyn Carlson - Principal Investigator; Al Boggess - Co-Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
9/1/13 to 2/28/21
$2,519,729