This award funds the research activities of Professors Hitoshi Murayama and Lawrence J. Hall at University of California, Berkeley. Major advances are expected in understanding the laws of physics never probed before, with new data coming from the Large Hadron Collider in Europe (which is currently the highest-energy colliding beam facility in the world), from underground experiments in South Dakota, and from other laboratories around the world. Additional data is also expected from precision experiments at Fermilab (the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois), with additional insights coming from deepening connections to experiments in astrophysics and cosmology. Research in theory is needed to tie all of these results together into a coherent framework. In this project, Professors Murayama and Hall aim to uncover deep secrets that span the range from the smallest scales of particles and strings to the largest scales of the Universe. The scope of their research will include collider physics, dark matter, neutrinos, quark flavor, the phenomenology and theory of supersymmetry, observational cosmology, gravitational waves, strongly coupled quantum field theories, and the multiverse. It is also expected that new collaborations will emerge on these topics. Professors Murayama and Hall will also be active in public outreach and training the next generation of researchers as well as members of the general scientific workforce, thereby situating this work within the