Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE

Amount

$228,612.00

Award Date

8/26/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

The search for ``first light'' is the search for the origin of structure in the universe, the epoch when galaxies formed in the darkness. These galaxies illuminated the neutral universe, ionizing the intergalactic medium. Recent breakthroughs in cosmolog