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 |
