Defense - MURI Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, including Collaborations with United Kingdom

Sponsor Deadline: 

Nov 15, 2016

Letter of Intent Deadline: 

Aug 1, 2016

Sponsor: 

DOD Defense Office of Naval Research ONR, Army Research Office ARO, Air Force Office of Scientific Research AFOSR

UI Contact: 

link to program   http://www.onr.navy.mil/~/media/Files/Funding-Announcements/BAA/2016/N00...

(p. 4 of PDF)

White papers and full proposals addressing the following topics should be submitted to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR):
Topic 1 (AFOSR): Foundations of Interactive Protocols for Quantum Computation and Communications
Topic 2 (AFOSR): Bioinspired Low-Energy Information Processing
Topic 3 (AFOSR): Autonomous Research Systems for Materials Development
Topic 4 (AFOSR): Beam/Wave Dynamics in Geometrically Complex Systems with Emitting Boundaries
Topic 5 (AFOSR): Atmospheric disturbances at high altitudes
Topic 6 (AFOSR): Revolutionary Advances in Computational Quantum Many Body Physics
Topic 7 (AFOSR): Melanin: Unique Biopolymers for Functional Precision Nanoscale Materials
Topic 8 (AFOSR): Adaptive Oxides for Biomimetic Synapse Design via Modulation of Internal States

White papers and full proposals addressing the following topics should be submitted to the Office of Naval Research (ONR):
Topic 9 (ONR): Physics, Chemistry and Mechanics of Polymer Dielectric Breakdown
Topic 10 (ONR): Percept formation and scene analysis in echolocating systems
 Topic 11 (ONR): Phase Change Materials for Photonics
Topic 12 (ONR): Event Representation and Episodic Memory Topic
13 (ONR): Nonlinear Phenomena and Interactions Induced by Short and Ultra-Short Pulsed Lasers in the Long-Wave Infrared Regime
Topic 14 (ONR): High-Fidelity Simulation Methodologies for Multi-Phase Flows
Topic 15 (ONR): Novel Approaches to Modeling Factions and Conflict 
Topic 16 (ONR): Assuring Composability and Correctness for Intelligent and Learning Systems that Interact with Unstructured Physical Environments

White papers and full proposals addressing the following topics should be submitted to the Army Research Office (ARO):
Topic 17 (ARO): Additive 3D Self-Assembly of Responsive Materials
Topic 18 (ARO): Anyons in 2D materials and cold Atomic gases
Topic 19 (ARO): Characterization of Information Content in Data for Multimodal Data Analysis
Topic 20 (ARO): Nutritional and Environmental Effects on the Gut Microbiome and Cognition
Topic 21 (ARO): Spectral Decomposition and Control of Strongly Coupled Nonlinear Interacting Systems
Topic 22 (ARO): Toward Room Temperature Exciton-Polaritonics
Topic 23 (ARO): Cyber Deception through Active Leverage of Adversaries’ Cognition Process

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