FY 2007 Dark Energy R&D GRants Awarded
In early 2007, DOE Office of High Energy Physics (OHEP) solicited proposals for dark energy R&D. The solicitation asked for proposals that "can deliver advances in key areas identified by the DETF report and can be integrated with proposed Stage III or Stage IV experiments to help optimize their design". This can include work directly on Stage III or Stage IV experiments as well as precursor experimental and theoretical studies leading towards those experiments. The Dark Energy Task Force (DETF) report can be found online.
For FY 2007, there were 32 proposals received requesting a total of $18M. The OHEP had $3M available for the program. Funding is expected to be available for this program in FY 2008.
Individual peer reviews were solicited and a panel review was held. The panel reviewed each proposal and for those that it recommended funding, they specifically identified the items that they felt were most important or relevant. In many cases this was only a small fraction of the work proposed. DOE generally followed the panel’s recommendations in determining which proposals to fund.
DOE plans to fund 21 proposals with a mix of types of studies that include ground and space. These will split as follows:
| Stage II (current experiments) | $450K |
| Stage III (mid-term experiments) | $1,250K |
| Stage IV (longer-term experiments) | $1,000K |
| Theory | $300K |
| TOTAL | $3,000K |
The award winners are listed below:
| Charles Baltay | Yale University |
| Ed Baron | University of Oklahoma |
| Dominic Benford | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Charles Bennett | Johns Hopkins University |
| Alan Calder | SUNY at Stony Brook |
| Persis Drell | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
| Brenna Flaugher | Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory |
| Wendy Freedman | Carnegie Institute of Washington |
| Salman Habib | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Steve Kahn | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
| Mary Elizabeth Kaiser | Johns Hopkins University |
| Tod Lauer | National Optical Astronomy Observatory |
| Michael Levi | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| William Oegerle | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| David Schlegel | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Michael Strauss | Princeton University |
| Christopher Stubbs | Harvard University |
| Francis Timmes | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Anthony Tyson | University of California at Davis |
| Bruce Woodgate | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Thomas Vestrand | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
