NSF: Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate (MPS)Directorate (MPS)

Luis Echegoyen

F b 17 2009 EPSC R P t RiFeb. 17, 2009, EPSCoR, Puerto Rico

NSF OrganizationNSF OrganizationNational Science

BoardDirector

Deputy Director

Computer & I f ti

Geo- Mathematical& Ph i l

Biological Social, B h i l &Information

Sci & Eng ($534M)

Engineering($683M)

Sciences($746M)

& PhysicalSciences($1,167B)

gSciences($612M)

Behavioral & EconomicSciences($215M)

Office ofBudget, Finance

Office ofInformation Resource

Office of Cyber-

infrastructure

Office of Polar

Programs

Office of Internation’l Sci & Engr

Office of Integrated ActivitiesFinance

& Award Management

Resource Management

infrastructure($185M)

Programs($442M)

Sci & Engr($41M)

Activities($219M)

Education & Human Resources ($726M)

Directorate forDirectorate forMathematical and Physical Sciences

Division ofMathematical

Sciences

Division ofChemistry

Division ofPhysics

Division ofMaterialsResearch

Division ofAstronomical

SciencesSciences

AST CHE DMR DMS PHY

Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (OMA)

Top 5 Things to Know About MPSTop 5 Things to Know About MPS

• Most extensive and diverse scientific portfolio• Most extensive and diverse scientific portfolio • Centered around the American Competitiveness

Initiative (ACI): fundamental discovery toInitiative (ACI): fundamental discovery to marketable technologies

• Largest budget: $1.25B FY08Largest budget: $1.25B FY08• Develops & supports major facilities• Diverse approaches: smaller individual PrincipalDiverse approaches: smaller individual Principal

Investigator (PI) grants to larger centers/institutes

Number of People Involved in MPS ActivitiesNumber of People Involved in MPS Activities

FY 2007 FY 2008 FY 2009Estimate Estimate Estimate

Senior Researchers 8,212 8,325 9,900 Other Professionals 2,000 2,025 2,400Post-Doctorates 2,171 2,200 2,600Graduate Students 7,720 7,800 9,300Undergraduate Students 6,091 6,150 7,300U de g aduate Stude ts 6,09 6, 50 ,300K - 12 Students 615 625 750K - 12 Teachers 478 485 550Total Number of People 27,287 27,610 32,800

MPS spends at least $300 million annually on Graduate and Postdoctoral training!

FY 2006 Annual Median Award Size and Mean Duration

$120 000

$140,000

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3.5

$100,000

$120,000

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3

yrs

$60,000

$80,000

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$40,000 1

$0

$20,000

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PHY AST DMS DMR CHE MPS NSF

Median Award Size Mean Duration

FY 2009 MPS Focus AreasFY 2009 MPS Focus Areas

• Quantum information sciences

• Life science interface• Life science interface

• Adaptive systems technology

• Science beyond “Moore’s Law”

ACI F ll P• ACI Fellows Program

• Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation

MPS Funding Rate for Competitive Awards -Competitive Research Grants

7000

8000

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100%

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80%

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60%

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Competitive Proposal Actions Competitive Awards Funding Rate

MPS Funding by DivisionMPS Funding by Division

Change over

FY 2007 Actual

Change over

FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2008

Actual Request Amount Percent

Astronomical Sciences $215.39 $217.86 $250.01 $32.15 14.8%

Chemistry 191.22 194.22 244.67 50.45 26.0%

M t i l R h 257 27 260 22 324 59 64 37 24 7%Materials Research 257.27 260.22 324.59 64.37 24.7%

Mathematical Sciences 205.74 211.79 245.70 33.91 16.0%

Physics 248.47 250.52 297.70 47.18 18.8%

Multidisciplinary Activities 32.64 32.70 40.00 7.30 22.3%

Total, MPS $1,150.73 $1,167.31 $1,402.67 $235.36 20.2%

Single PI and Group AwardsSingle PI and Group Awards

Di i i B d t F iliti ** C t /I t( PI /GDivision Budget($ million)

Facilities**(%)

Centers/Inst((%)

PIs/Groups(%)

AST 217.9 55.8 1.5 42.6

CHE 194.2 7.8 6.9 85.3

DMR 260.2 15.4 27.2 57.4

DMS 211.8 - 9.4 90.6

PHY 250.5 32.4 2.6*( )

65.1( )(17.6) (50)

* Excludes PFCs (includes PFCs)** Includes Instrumentation Prog. for CHE

• Advanced Technology• Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST)

• Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL)

• Coherent X-ray LightCoherent X ray Light Source

• Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope (GSMT)Telescope (GSMT)

• Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)

• Square Kilometer Array (SKA)

Facilities in Development & Under ConstructionFacilities under Construction:

• ALMA: Atacama Large Millimeter Array, site construction• IceCube: neutrino telescope, operations initiated• LIGO: Laser-Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatoryy• LHC: Large Hadron Collider, coming online soon

Design and Development:• DUSEL: began formally in FY 2008.DUSEL: began formally in FY 2008.• GSMT: $5M R&D• LSST: $2-3M R&D• ATST: In “readiness” stage

Other Projects:• Light source: planning to convene panel on NSF role.• ILC: International Linear Collider

Astronomical Sciences (AST)( )• Astronomy and Astrophysics Grants

– Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology– 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• University Radio Observatories• Program for Research and Education with Small Telescopes• Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships

AST Centers and FacilitiesAST Centers and Facilities• Optical/Infrared Facilities

– Gemini Observatories– 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)• Atacama Large Millimeter Array (Chile)

– National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center• Arecibo Radio Telescope, Puerto Rico

Staff and Structure: Organization

7 Permanent Program Directors11 Rotating Program Officers

3 Science Assistants

Chemistry Core Programs(Individual Investigator Awards IIA)

M ki Thi

(Individual Investigator Awards- IIA)

Making Things• Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (OMC)

- Organic DynamicsOrganic Synthesis- Organic Synthesis

• Inorganic, Bioinorganic, & Organometallic Chemistry (IBO)

Measuring and Modeling

• Analytical & Surface Chemistry (ASC)Analytical & Surface Chemistry (ASC)

• Physical Chemistry (PC)-Theoretical & Computational ChemistryExperimental Physical Chemistry-Experimental Physical Chemistry

Integrative Chemistry Activities (ICA)Integrative Chemistry Activities (ICA)

• Chemical Bonding Centers (CBC) – Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI)

• Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities (CRIF)

• Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)• Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)

• Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)

• American Competitiveness in Chemistry-Fellowship (ACC-Fellows)

Chemistry, Materials Research, Mathematical Sciences SOLAR Initiative

• The Divisions of Chemistry, Materials Research and Mathematical Sciences are planning a collaborative solar energy initiativesolar energy initiative solicitation.

• The purpose of the ti i t d lanticipated solar energy

initiative is to support interdisciplinary efforts by groups of researchers to g paddress the scientific challenges of highly efficient harvesting, conversion and storage ofconversion and storage of solar energy.

Increasing Grand Challenge Research Through Centersg

• Support transformative basic chemical research on the “grand challenges” through the Centers for Chemical Innovation Program (CCI). The CCI program will hold centers to an accountable responsible rigorous assessment of progress to ensurecenters to an accountable, responsible, rigorous assessment of progress to ensure that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

• Thoughtfully balance the CHE research portfolio: Projects (individual investigator and collaborative) and Centersand collaborative) and Centers

Powering the PlanetgHarry Gray, Caltech

Center for Enabling New Technologies Through CatalysisKaren Goldberg, U Washington

Materials Research (DMR)Materials Research (DMR)• 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 and Technology Enabling Cluster– Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers – Materials Theory– Materials Theory– National Facilities and Instrumentation

Office of Special Programs– Office of Special Programs

Centers and Institutes

• Science and Technology CentersScience and Technology Centers• Nanoscale Science and Engineering

CentersCenters• Materials Research Science and

Engineering CentersEngineering Centers• International Materials Institutes• Partnerships for Research and• Partnerships for Research and

Education in Materials

DMR Facilities• National High Magnetic Field Laboratory• Cornell High-Energy Synchrotron SourceCornell High Energy Synchrotron Source• Synchrotron Radiation Center

C t f Hi h R l ti N t S tt i• Center for High-Resolution Neutron Scattering• National Nanofrabrication Infrastructure

Network

Materials World Network• Funds the US researchers in an International

C ll b tiCollaboration• Foreign researchers are funded by their respective

agenciesagencies• 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 NigeriaJamaica, 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, U i d Ki d Uk i d Zi b bUnited Kingdom, Ukraine, and Zimbabwe

Mathematical Sciences (DMS)

• “Core business”: single investigator and group proposals through targeted solicitations Covers the entire mathematical spectrum

Institutes: 5 NSF-initiated, support for 3 others– Visitors to long term programs, workshopsWorkforce: responding to a major challenge.

Advancing theFrontier

74%

Workforce16%

Institutes/– Enhancing the Mathematical Sciences

Workforce in the 21st Century (EMSW21) training grants

– Postdoctoral fellowshipsResearch for Undergraduates

74%Institutes/Centers

10%

– Research for Undergraduates

Mathematical SciencesMathematical Sciences

Anal sis• Analysis• Applied Mathematics

Al b N b Th C bi t i• Algebra, Number Theory, Combinatorics, and FoundationsC t ti l M th ti• Computational Mathematics

• Geometric Analysis and TopologySt ti ti d P b bilit• Statistics and Probability

• Infrastructure

Mathematical Sciences InstitutesMathematical 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)Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) – Duke U, NC State U, U North Carolina, NISS

Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) – Ohio State UMathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) Ohio State U

Partial support provided for:

American Institute of Mathematics (AIM)Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)

Physics (PHY)y ( )

Facilities: C /

Education/Workforce

LHC, LIGO, IceCube, NSCL, CESR

Programs:Atomic Molec lar Optical and Plasma

Facilities/Instrumentation

35%

Centers/Institutes

4%

3%

Atomic, Molecular, Optical, and Plasma Physics

Biological PhysicsElementary Particle PhysicsElementary Particle PhysicsGravitational PhysicsNuclear PhysicsParticle and Nuclear AstrophysicsParticle and Nuclear AstrophysicsPhysics at the Information FrontierPhysics Frontiers CentersTheoretical Physics Advancing the FrontierTheoretical PhysicsEducation and Interdisciplinary Programs

Advancing the Frontier58%

Physics Frontiers CentersPhysics Frontiers Centers

Kavli Center for Cosmological Physics – Chicago - Meyer

FOCUS: Frontiers in Optical Coherent and Ultrafast ScienceMichigan/Texas - Bucksbaum

Center for the Study of the Origin and Structure of MatterHampton - Baker

Center for Theoretical Biological Physics – UCSD - Onuchic

Physics Frontiers Centers (cont’d)Physics Frontiers Centers (cont’d)

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 - KleppnerCenter for Ultracold Atoms MIT/Harvard Kleppner

JILA (Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics)– Colorado/NIST - Wieman

Physics Division Facilities Major facilities ops 35% of budget

• LIGO (Caltech) gravity wave observatoryNSCL (Mi hi St t ) di ti i b• NSCL (Michigan State) radioactive ion beams

• CESR e+e- Collider (Cornell) phaseout path• U.S. LHC [ATLAS, CMS] (CERN) 1st beam 2007 physics 2008U.S. LHC [ATLAS, CMS] (CERN) 1st beam 2007, physics 2008• Others in construction or planning stages: IceCube,

LIGO, ERL, DUSELLaser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory Large Hadron Collider ATLAS Detector