Overview of the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences

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Overview of the Directorate for Mathematical and
Physical Sciences

• Illinois State University
• October 25, 2005
• Tyrone D. Mitchell
• Program Director, Division of Chemistry

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The NSF Vision

• Enabling the nations future
• through discovery, learning
• and innovation

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NSFs Strategic Goals

• People - A diverse, internationally competitive
  and globally-engaged workforce
• Ideas - Discovery across frontiers and
  connections in service to society
• Tools - Accessible, state-of-the-art information
  bases and shared tools

www.nsf.gov Award Abstracts Database
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NSFs Review Criteria

• Scientific Merit
• how good is the stuff?
• Broader Impacts
• so what?

NSF invests in the best ideas from the most
capable people, determined by competitivemerit
review http//www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf022/bicexa
mples.pdf
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Directorate forMathematical and PhysicalSciences
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Number of People Involved in MPS Activities
FY 2003
FY 2004
FY 2005
Estimate
Estimate
Estimate
Senior Researchers
6,063
6,000
5,900
Other Professionals
2,403
2,300
2,350
Post-Doctorates
2,406
2,440
2,450
Graduate Students
7,124
7,200
7,100
Undergraduate Students
5,614
6,000
5,800
K - 12 Students
310
320
320
K - 12 Teachers
449
600
650
Total Number of People
24,369
24,860
24,570
MPS spends at least 300 million annually on
Graduate and Post-doctoral training!
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FY 2005 Allocations

• MPS 1,148.5
• Physics 226.8
• Astronomical Sciences 244.9
• Mathematical Sciences 198.4
• Materials Research 249.8
• Chemistry 189.6
• (Includes Major Research Instrumentation
  dollars)

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FY 2004 Annual Median Award Size and Mean Duration
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Astronomical Sciences

• Astronomy and Astrophysics Grants
• Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology
• Galactic Astronomy
• Planetary Astronomy
• Stellar Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Education and Special Programs
• Electromagnetic Spectrum Management
• Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation
• Major Research Instrumentation
• University Radio Observatories
• Program for Research and Education with Small
  Telescopes
• Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral
  Fellowships

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Centers and Facilities

• Optical/IR Facilities
• Gemini Observatories
• National Optical Astronomy Observatory
• National Solar Observatory
• Radio Facilities
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory
• Very Large Array, New Mexico
• Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, West
  Virginia
• Very Long Baseline Array (U.S. Possessions)
• Atacama Large Millimeter Array (Chile)
• National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center
• Arecibo Radio Telescope, Puerto Rico

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World Class Capabilities
Gemini 8-m Telescopes
Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope
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New Horizons
Atacama Large Millimeter Array(under
construction)
Advanced Technology Solar Telescope
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Thirty Meter Telescope
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Chemistry
Core Programs
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Multi-Investigator Opportunities

• Chemical Bonding Centers (CBC)
• Address big challenges in the chemical sciences
  with the potential to be transformative and
  engage the public
• Collaborative Research in Chemistry (CRC)
• Tackle frontier chemical research requiring teams
  of three or more PIs with complementary expertise
• Environmental Molecular Science Institutes (EMSI)
• Focus on chemistry-centric interdisciplinary
  research challenges related to the environment

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Broadening Participation Undergraduate
Research Centers (URCs) Research for
1st and 2nd Year College Students

Planning grant sites Full grant site
NSF 05-539
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Discovery Corps Fellowships
Service-oriented projects that leverage research
expertise Postdoctoral
Fellowships Within two years of the
PhD Two-year awards Senior
Fellowships At least ten years after
PhD/postdoctoral training One-year award
NSF 04-591
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Materials Research

• Advanced Materials and Processing Cluster
• Metals, Ceramics and Electronic Materials
• Base Science Cluster
• Condensed Matter Physics
• Solid-Sate Chemistry and Polymers
• Materials Research and Technology Enabling
  Cluster
• Materials Research Science and Engineering
  Centers
• Materials Theory
• National Facilities and Instrumentation
• Office of Special Programs

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Centers and Institutes

• Science and Technology Centers
• Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers
• Materials Research Science and Engineering
  Centers
• International Materials Institutes
• Partnerships for Research and Education in
  Materials

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Facilities

• National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
• Cornell High-Energy Synchrotron Source
• Synchrotron Radiation Center
• Center for High-Resolution Neutron Scattering
• National Nanofrabrication Infrastructure Network
• http//www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id53
  59orgDMRfromhome

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Materials World Network

• Funds the US researchers in an International
  Collaboration
• Foreign researchers are funded by their
  respective agencies
• Countries and Agencies involved
• Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil,
  Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech
  Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, European Commission,
  European Science Foundation, Finland, France,
  Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland,
  Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Luxembourg,
  Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Norway,
  Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Rwanda,
  Senegal, Singapore, Slovak Republic, South
  Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan,
  Trinidad Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda,
  United Kingdom, Ukraine, and Zimbabwe

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Mathematical Sciences

• Analysis
• Applied Mathematics
• Algebra, Number Theory Combinatorics
• Computational Mathematics
• Geometric Analysis
• Statistics and Probability
• Topology and Foundations
• Infrastructure

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Mathematical Sciences Institutes

• Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)
  Berkeley, CA
• Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications
  (IMA) U of Minnesota
• Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)
  UCLA
• Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences
  Institute (SAMSI) Duke U, NC State U, U North
  Carolina, NISS
• Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) Ohio
  State U
• Partial support provided for
• American Institute of Mathematics (AIM)
• Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)

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Enhancing the Mathematical Sciences Workforce in
the 21st Century (EMSW21)

• EMSW21 has three components for increasing the
  number of U.S. students trained for and pursuing
  careers in the mathematical sciences
• VIGRE (departmentally-based)
• Research Training Groups (RTG)
• Mentoring through Critical Transition Points
  (MCTP)
• Solicitation NSF 05-595

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Conferences, Workshops, and Special Meetings in
the Mathematical Sciences

• Support of regular conferences workshops
• Support of special meetings
• Longer or larger-scale activities
• Examples Special research years or semesters,
  multi-institutional regional meetings, summer
  or winter schools
• Awards 50-150K per year up to 3 years
• Next Deadlines October 18, 2005, August 24, 2006
• Solicitation NSF 05-540

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Physics

• Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics
• Biological Physics
• Elementary Particle Physics
• Gravitational Physics
• Nuclear Physics
• Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics
• Theoretical Physics
• Education and Interdisciplinary Research
• Physics Frontiers Centers

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Physics Frontiers Centers
Kavli Center for Cosmological Physics Chicago -
Meyer
FOCUS Frontiers in Optical Coherent and
Ultrafast Science Michigan/Texas - Bucksbaum
Center for Gravitational Wave Physics Penn
State Finn
Center for the Study of the Origin and Structure
of Matter Hampton - Baker
Center for Theoretical Biological Physics UCSD
- Onuchic
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Physics Frontiers Centers (contd)
Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics Notre
Dame - Wiescher
Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in
Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas
Wisconsin - Prager
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics UCSB -
Gross
Center for Ultracold Atoms MIT/Harvard -
Kleppner
JILA Colorado - Wieman
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Physics Division Facilities
Major facilities ops 35 of budget

• LIGO (Caltech) gravity wave observatory
• NSCL (Michigan State) radioactive ion beams
• CESR ee- Collider (Cornell) phaseout path
• U.S. LHC ATLAS, CMS (CERN) 1st beam 2007,
  physics 2008
• Others in construction or planning stages
  IceCube, Adv.LIGO, ERL, DUSEL

Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave
Observatory
Large Hadron Collider ATLAS Detector
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IceCube Neutrino Observatory
South Pole Station
1450m to 2450m ?

• International project (272M TPC) joint OPP/MPS
  within NSF
• 1 km3 of ice instrumented with 4800 optical
  sensors detect
• h.e. neutrinos from galactic/extragalactic
  sources
• neutrinos interact in ice creating h.e. muons,
  which carry
• away original momentum, pointing precision of
  ½ degree
• Neutrino Astronomy point sources, origins of
  h.e. cosmic
• rays, astrophysics of quasars, pulsars,
  gamma-ray bursters,
• Construction FY 2002-2010 initial ops 2007

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Office of Multidisciplinary Activities

• Roles
• Supports excellence and creativity of the MPS
  community more effectively
• Works as an investment capital resource and
  partner to MPS Divisions to support joint
  ventures across organizational boundaries
• Facilitates support of research and education
  projects not readily accommodates by existing MPS
  structures

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Office of Multidisciplinary Activities

• Strategy Enable and Facilitate
• Multidisciplinary, crosscutting projects
• Partnerships
• Diverse and globally competitive workforce
• Innovative models for education
• Broadly enabling infrastructure
• New research support modalities
• Integration of research and education

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Office of Multidisciplinary Activities

• Characteristics
• Not a traditional program function
• Does not receive/evaluate external proposals
• Co-invests with MPS Divisions, other NSF
  Directorates, and external partners
• Advice/guidance from MPS DDs
• One year budget basis no continuing commitments

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Research Experience for Teachers (RET)

• K-12 teachers in the research laboratory
• Brings research frontiers to the classroom
• Enriches disciplinary content
• Builds educational capacity
• Develops intellectual resource network
• Catalyzes diversification of STEM workforce
• Builds and sustains interest in STEM
• Builds long-term collaborative K-12 research
  community relationships

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Internships in Public Science Education (IPSE)

• Leveraging the MPS research investment
  conveying MPS science to the public
• Academic museum/science center partnerships
• MPS-supported facilities, centers, institutes
• Graduate students, undergraduate majors and
  non-majors, K-12 teachers
• Museum/science centers academic collaborations
  for enhanced programming
• Students training and experience in PSE
• K-12 teachers enriched classroom activities
• MPS researchers opportunities to bring research
  results directly to the public

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MPS GRADUATE EDUCATION

• Support of graduate students on grants
• - ca. 355M investment in salaries, tuition,
  etc.
• - 7,200 students in FY2004
• Traineeships
• 8.76 M co-funding of IGERT in 2004
• 25.78 M funding for VIGRE/EMS-21 in 2004
• Fellowships
• 2.40 M for GK-12 in 2004

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MPS UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

• Research Experiences for Undergraduates
• - ca. 200 sites, 2200 students
• - 15.5 M in sites and supplements
• Undergraduates on grants
• - 9.5 M, 3800 students
• Undergraduate Center for Learning and Teaching
  1.00M

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MPS Focus Areas

• MPS Core Research
• Research Instrumentation
• Training and Education
• NSF Priority Areas Biocomplexity, Nanoscience
  Engineering, Mathematical Sciences and Human and
  Social Dynamics

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LOOK US UP

• For information on a particular division and
  program, go to the following Web address and pick
  a division http//www.nsf.gov/home/mps/
• See also MPS Directory and Staff on MPS
  home page