Funds will be used for supporting the development and maintenance of the open-source Bmad ecosystem of programs and software.

Bmad is used for the simulation of charged particle beams and X-rays in storage rings and accelerators. Bmad is used for the design and simulation of a number of high energy machines around the world including machines like the LHC at CERN which probe the fundamental nature of matter to machines for X-ray generation to power the next generation of chip manufacturing factories.