Steiner Research Group Funding

National Science Foundation	NSF grant, AST 22-06322 Incorporate rapid r-process observations systematically into joint inference about NS population properties and the equation of state (EOS), allowing for alternatives, to assess the origin of r-process elements. This funding ends 11/30/2025.
National Science Foundation	NSF grant, PHY 21-16686 The Nuclear Physics of Multi-Messenger Mergers Focus Research Hub, which aims to understand the nuclear physics of neutron star mergers. Steiner is the PI of this $3.25M collaboration which maintains a separate website at np3m.org.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory	A Joint Faculty appointment with ORNL Equation of state constraints from neutron star mass and radius observations; Determination of the composition of accreted neutron star crusts using nuclear reaction networks
National Science Foundation	NSF grant, PHY 21-03680 MUSES, Modular Unified Solver of the Equation of State, which will create a new cyber infrastructure for the equation of state for nuclear astrophysics.
National Science Foundation	NSF grant, AST 19-09490 Constrain the nature of dense nuclear matter and to determine whether NS mergers alone explain the abundances of r-process elements. This funding ends 6/30/23.
Department of ENERGY	DOE SciDAC grant, DE-SC0018232 The SciDAC4 project entitled "Towards Exascale Astrophysics of Mergers and Supernovae (TEAMS)" is a collaboration among 8 universities and 4 national laboratories. For this grant, we are constructing new equation of state and neutrino opacity libraries for use in simulations of core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. For more information, visit the TEAMS web page. This funding ends 8/31/22 but a one year no cost extension is planned.
National Science Foundation	A NSF CAREER award, PHY 15-54876 The determination of the EOS and superfluid properties of dense matter from observations of isolated and accreting neutron stars using nucleon and hyperon degrees of freedom. This funding ends 6/30/22.

NSF Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment	XSEDE Allocation, PHY180052 Supported by an NSF XSEDE startup allocation of 70k SUs on Bridges at the PSC and 200k SUs on Comet at the SDSC during 2018.
Chandra X-ray Observatory	Chandra Theory Grant, Cycle 19 Studying the effect of exotic matter on thermal states of transiently accreting neutron stars (originally awarded to UTK postdoc Sophia Han)

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