This award is made as part of the FY 2021 Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships Program. Each of the fellowships supports a research and training project at a host institution in the mathematical sciences, including applications to other disciplines, under the mentorship of a sponsoring scientist.
The title of the project for this fellowship to Rita Teixeira da Costa is "The final state conjecture and the large-scale structure of spacetime." The host institution for the fellowship is Princeton University, and the sponsoring scientist is Igor Rodnianski.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.