Dark Energy R&D Grants FY 2008

In October 2007, the DOE Office of High Energy Physics solicited proposals for the FY08 dark energy program. The solicitation asked for proposals that "can deliver advances in key areas identified by the Dark Energy Task Force (DETF) report and are relevant to optimizing the development and design of proposed Stage III or Stage IV experiments". View the DETF report.

There were 69 proposals received requesting a total of approximately $15M. DOE plans to fund 22 of these proposals for a total of $3.793M.

Individual peer reviews were solicited for each proposal. A panel then reviewed the proposals and associated peer reviews and made funding recommendations. DOE generally followed the panel's recommendations in determining which proposals to fund.

The FY 2008 award winners are listed below:

Principal Investigator
Institution
Proposal Title
Ed Baron
University of Oklahoma
Spectroscopic Studies of SNe Ia: Finding the Right Model
Ed Brown
Michigan State University
Making the Standard Candle
Alan Calder
SUNY Stony Brook
Making the Standard Candle: A study of how the white dwarf progenitor modulates the peak luminosity of type Ia supernovae
Tom Diehl
Fermilab
R&D Proposal for Packaging and Testing SNAP CCD's in Space-Qualifiable Assemblies
Alex Filippenko
University of California at Berkeley
Discovering the Nature of Dark Energy: Towards Better Distances from Type Ia Supernovae
Eric Gawiser
Rutgers University
Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies at 2 < z < 3: Towards a Calibrated Probe of Dark Energy
Nickolay Gnedin
Fermilab
Towards Precision Cosmology in the Nonlinear Regime
Caryl Gronwall
Pennsylvania State University
Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies at 2 < z < 3: Towards a Calibrated Probe of Dark Energy
Salman Habib
Los Alamos National Lab
Going Nonlinear with Dark Energy
Saurabh Jha
Rutgers University
Discovering the Nature of Dark Energy: Towards Better Distances from Type Ia Supernovae
Steve Kahn
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Optimizing New Dark Energy Experiments
Steve Kent
Fermilab
R&D Proposal for Testing the Accuracy of the SNAP Internal Illumination System for Flat Fields and Filter Characterization
Michael Levi
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
SNAP Readiness Program
Wolfgang Lorenzon
University of Michigan
Precision Photometry to Study the Nature of Dark Energy
Stuart Mufson
University of Indiana
Response Functions for Logarithmically Spaced Interference Filters for the Accurate Calibration of Dark Energy Missions
Jeff Newman
University of Pittsburgh
Optimizing New Dark Energy Experiments
David Schlegel
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Design and Development for the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS)
Michael Strauss
Princeton University
Systematic Effects in Type-Ia Supernovae Surveys from Host Galaxy Spectra
Chris Stubbs
Harvard University
Attaining the Photometric Precision Required by Future Dark Energy Projects
Francis Timmes
Arizona State University
Making the Standard Candle: A study of how the progenitor white dwarf modulates the peak luminosity of type Ia supernovae
Tony Tyson
University of California at Davis
Optimizing New Dark Energy Experiments
Mel Ulmer
Northwestern University
Magnified Weak Lensing Cross Correlation Tomography with Massive Rich Clusters of Galaxies