Primary Recipient

TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE

Amount

$633,320.00

Award Date

9/01/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

This project will investigate the gas dynamics of protoplanetary disks, and the interaction of disks with planets. The work includes (1) studies of angular momentum transport by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in protoplanetary disks, (2) studies