# DOD Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI) #### calendar\_today Date and Time **September 13, 2019** All day **[DOD Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI)](https://www.grants.gov/search-grants.html?keywords=MURI)** **Sponsor Deadline for White Papers (encouraged): June 3, 2019FAS/OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submissionSponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: September 13, 2019Award Amount: The awards will be made at funding levels commensurate with the proposed research and in response to agency missions (see the BAA for recommended funding profiles for each topic area). Typical annual funding per grant is in the $1.25M to $1.5M range. Each individual award will be for a three-year base period with one two-year option period to bring the total maximum term of the award to five years.** The Department of Defense (DoD) Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI), one element of the University Research Initiative (URI), is sponsored by the DoD research offices: the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Army Research Office (ARO), and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). DOD's MURI program addresses high risk basic research and attempts to understand or achieve something that has never been done before. The MURI program supports basic research in science and engineering at U.S. institutions of higher education that is of potential interest to DoD. The program is focused on multidisciplinary research efforts where more than one traditional discipline interacts to provide rapid advances in scientific areas of interest to the DoD. Key to the program’s success is the close management of the MURI projects by Service program officers and their active role in providing research guidance. The FY 2020 MURI competition is for the following topics: **ONR:** Topic 1: Stimuli-Responsive Materials based on Triggered Polymer Depolymerization Topic 2: Quantum Benefits without Quantum Fragility: The Classical Entanglement of Light Topic 3: Mathematical Methods for Deep Learning Topic 4: Spin and Orbital Angular Momentum (SAM & OAM) Topic 5: Photonic High-Order Topological Insulators (PHOTIs) Topic 6: Active Topological Mechanical Metamaterials Topic 7: Harvesting Oxygen from the Ocean Topic 8: Exploring Oxidation and Surface Phenomena of Multi-Principal Element Alloys Topic 9: The Physics of High-Speed Multiphase-flow / Material Interactions Topic 10: Combining Disparate Environmental Data Into a Common Framework **ARO:** Topic 11: Adaptive and Adversarial Machine Learning Topic 12: Axion Electrodynamics beyond Maxwell's Equations Topic 13: Engineering Endosymbionts to Produce Novel Functional Materials Topic 14: Information Exchange Network Dynamics Topic 15: Mathematical Intelligence: Machines with More Fundamental Capabilities Topic 16: Quantum State Engineering for Enhanced Metrology Topic 17: Solution Electrochemistry without Electrodes Topic 18: Stimuli-Responsive Mechanical Metamaterials **AFOSR:** Topic 19: Machine Learning and Physics-Based Modeling and Simulation Topic 20: Fundamental Design Principles for Engineering Orthogonal Liquid-Liquid Phase Separations in Living Cells Topic 21: Modeling, Prediction, and Mitigation of Rare and Extreme Events in Complex Physical Systems Topic 22: Fundamental Limits of Controllable Waveform Diversity at High Power Topic 23: Full Quantum State Control at Single Molecule Levels Topic 24: Constructive Mathematics and Its Synthetic Concepts from Type Theory Topic 25: Weyl Fermion Optoelectronics Topic 26: Mechanisms of Ice Nucleation and Anti-Icing Constructs See also:- [ Grant Notifications and Deadlines ](/taxonomy/term/16141) - [ External Competitions ](/funding-competition-type/external-competitions) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://science.fas.harvard.edu/node/1160807/event-feed.ics) Copy link link