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10.30.03
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The Drop Tube at Marshall Space Flight Center is One of NASA's Research Facilities
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NASA has selected 15 researchers to receive grants totaling more than $6.4 million over four years, to conduct
space fundamental physics research. This research is expected to expand our understanding of space, time and matter.
Sponsored by NASA's Office of Biological and Physical Research, the research offers investigators the advantage of a
low-gravity and space environment to enhance understanding of physical and chemical processes associated with fundamental
physics.
Researchers will be able to use NASA's microgravity research facilities such as drop-tubes, drop-towers, aircraft and
sounding rockets. All 15 grants are for ground-based research. Four are to continue work currently being funded by NASA,
while the remaining 11 represent new research efforts.
NASA received 29 proposals in response to this research announcement. The proposals were peer-reviewed by scientific
and technical experts from academia and government.
Awardees (by state), their institutions and research titles:
California
Barmatz, Martin Bruce
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA
Finite Size Scaling of the Isothermal Susceptibility Near the 3He Critical Point
Williams, Gary
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Simultaneous Superfluid Density and Casimir Thinning Measurements in Thick Films of 4He Near the Lambda Point
Williams, James G.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA
Improving Lunar Laser Ranging Tests of Gravitational Theory
Turyshev, Slava G.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA
Laser Astrometric Test of Relativity (LATOR) Mission Studies
Zhong, Fang
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA
AC Heat Capacity Measurement Using Gravity Cancellation Approach
Colorado
Jin, Deborah
University of Colorado, Boulder
Boulder, CO
A Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas of Atoms
Ye, Jun
University of Colorado, Boulder
Boulder, CO
Simultaneous Time Keeping and Laser Ranging with an Ultrastable Short Pulse Laser
Georgia
Kuzmich, Alex
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
Entangled Atomic Clock
Landau, David P.
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
Computer Simulations of Confined Quantum Systems in Microgravity
You, Li
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
Theoretical Studies of the Generation, Detection, and Applications of Massively Entangled States of Bose Condensed Atoms
Massachusetts
Reasenberg, Robert D.
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Cambridge, MA
A Galilean Laboratory Test of the Equivalence Principle Leading to a Space Station Experiment
Weichman, Peter
Alphatech, Inc.
Burlington, MA
Theoretical Investigations of Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Superfluid Dynamics with Application to Future Ground-based and Microgravity Experiments
New Jersey
Romalis, Michael
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Test of Lorentz and CPT Symmetry with an Ultra-sensitive Atomic Magnetometer
Washington
Gundlach, Jens H.
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Preparation for Space: Torsion Balances and Equivalence Principle Tests for NASA
Nagourney, Warren
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Ultrahigh Resolution Optical Frequency Standards using Trapped Atoms and Single Ions
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