Funding Opportunities at the National Science Foundation

1. Funding Opportunities at the National Science Foundation Catherine Mavriplis Applied and Computational Mathematics Tenth Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods April 4th, 2001

2. DMS HOMEPAGE for all announcements, solicitations, deadlines http://www.nsf.gov/mps/dms Catherine Mavriplis cmavripl@nsf.gov 703-292-4859 Thomas Fogwell tfogwell@nsf.gov 703-292-8104 David Kopriva dkopriva@nsf.gov 703-292-4879 Michael Steuerwalt msteuerw@nsf.gov 703-292-4860

3. Directorate forMathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences Division of Chemistry Division of Materials Research Division of Mathematical Sciences Division of Physics Division of Astronomical Sciences Office of Multidisciplinary Activities MPS-1

4. Directorate Division Program CTS, CMS, ... Algebra & Number Theory Analysis ENG PHY Applied Math MPS CHE NSF DMS Computational Math GEO AST Geom. Analysis / Top. / Found. BIO DMR CISE Infrastructure SBE Statistics & Probability EHR . . . Advanced Scientific Computing

5. Individual Grants: MSPRF VIGRE postdoc CAREER Regular proposal IGMS REU supplements Group Grants: FRG VIGRE IGERT Research Institutes REU Sites NSF-Wide & Federal Initiatives Investments: Nanoscale Science & Eng. Biocomplexity Information Technology Workforce

6. Funding Opportunities • Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) (Deadline: July 2001) • Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MSPRF) (Deadline: October) • VIGRE Postdocs (recruited by institution) • “Regular” research proposal: target dates • November 15th: Applied Math • December 15th: Computational Math

7. NSF and Federal Initiatives FY 2001 • Nanoscale Science and Engineering • Biocomplexity in the Environment • Information Technology Research • 21st Century Workforce

8. Nanoscale Science and Engineering • Focus on five interrelated areas of nanoscale science and engineering • Multi-scale, multi-phenomena modeling and simulation at the nanoscale • Biosystems at the nanoscale • Nanoscale structures, novel phenomena and quantum control • Device and system architecture • Nanoscale processes in the environment

9. Mathematical Sciences Investments (MSI) Insuring Our Nation’s Future in Science and Technology

10. Why is the MSI important? • Advances in mathematics and statistics accelerate the pace of discovery and progress in science and engineering at an unprecedented pace. • Advances in fundamental mathematics and statistics are at the core of that process. • The need for mathematical and statistical skills is increasing, while the educational achievements in mathematics and science lag.

11. Storing and identifying the digitized version of millions of fingerprints is an almost inconceivably enormous task. Uncompressed, the FBI’s current fingerprint files would consist of 200 terabytes. A new piece of mathematics, wavelets, makes data compression fast, relatively routine, and much less expensive; so that storage is feasible and retrieval is fast.

12. Algorithmic Moore’s Law

13. Math is Broadly and Deeply Needed • Modeling and simulation: physical virtual • Organizing complexity: biology, nuclear phys finance • Representing extreme scales: sub-atomic galactic • Dealing with uncertainty: health, educn, social sc • Managing Large Systems: transp., env., climate

14. Why the MSI now? Assessment I (Odom report) Senior Assessment Panel of the International Assessment of the U.S. Mathematical Sciences, March 1998, at the NSF. The panel’s conclusion: “Based on present trends, it is unlikely that the U.S. will be able to maintain its world leadership in the mathematical sciences.”

15. Assessment II • Experiments in International Benchmarking of U.S. Research Fields, April 2000, COSEPUP, NRC. • The key issue is one of human resources, particularly the reliance on foreign talent. • The quality of U.S. mathematics research will be affected detrimentally by the sharp falloff in numbers of American students pursuing graduate-level mathematics.

16. Mathematical Sciences in the U.S. • Between 1992 and 1999, full-time graduate students in math dropped by 21%; U.S. citizens by 27%. • In 1997, only 12% of full-time math graduate students were supported by research assistantships. • Between 1992 and 1999, upper division math majors dropped by 23%. • In 1997 NSF provided 66.5% of federal academic research support in math, and approx. 70% in 2000.

20. Fundamental Mathematical Sciences • (Some examples - these are here for illustration) • Dynamical systems • - and their role in modeling geological, oceanic, or atmospheric systems • Advanced statistical methodologies • - and their application to prediction and risk in the economic and social sciences • Geometry and topology • - and their connections to physical, biological and engineering systems • ...

21. Connections to Other Sciences & Engineering • Initial Emphases: • Mathematical & statistical challenges posed by • large data sets • Managing and modeling uncertainty • Modeling complex interacting nonlinear systems

22. IMPLEMENTATION • Increase grant size and duration • Increase support for graduate students • and postdocs • Collaborative research groups and training • New mathematical sciences institutes • Interdisciplinary centers • Educational enhancements to research efforts

23. Focused Research Groups in the Mathematical Sciences Will support projects • with plans for making significant progress in areas of recognized or emerging importance to the mathematical sciences and • where the success of the project depends in a crucial way upon a group effort

24. Focused Research Groups in the Mathematical Sciences (continued) Deadlines: Letter of Intent: September 18, 2001 Full Proposals: October 18, 2001 The solicitation is available online. $150,000 < [award amount per year] < $350,000 FY 2000: 12 awards FY 2001: approx. 15 awards

25. Goals: • # students • broaden • integrate VIGRE Core components • graduate traineeships • postdoctoral fellowships • undergraduate research experiences Optional Components • curriculum/instructional materials development • outreach 26 projects currently funded Next deadline: July, 2001

26. Interdisciplinary Grants in the Mathematical Sciences (IGMS) • Allows mathematical scientists to expand knowledge into other disciplinary areas • PI must physically reside in other (non-math) department • Provide 50% support up to $100,000 • Anticipated Deadline: 2nd Friday in December

27. University-Industry Cooperative Research Programs in the Mathematical Sciences • Postdoctoral Research Fellowships • Senior Research Fellowships • Graduate Research Assistantships • Anticipated Deadline: mid-November

28. Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) • Support is provided for researchers at predominantly undergraduate institutions • Proposals are submitted to disciplinary programs • Usual merit review procedures used with special RUI instructions to reviewers • The target dates are the program target dates

29. Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) • Provides research opportunities for undergraduate students • Two types: • REU Sites: separate awards for a group (usually 6-12) of students • REU Supplements: supplements to existing awards for 1-2 students

30. Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeships (IGERT) • Supports innovative, research-based graduate education and training activities in critical, emerging areas • Must have multidisciplinary research theme • Awards: Up to $500K/year for up to 5 years • Preproposal Deadline: June 28, 2001 • Full Proposal Deadline: January 18, 2002

31. Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes • A new competition underway • We seek proposals for institutes that • will advance research in the mathematical sciences and/or the interface of the mathematical sciences and other disciplines, • address diverse challenges and opportunities facing the nation to which the mathematical sciences can contribute, and • promote the integration of research and education

32. Small Grants for ExploratoryResearch (SGER) • Novel Untested Ideas; New Research Areas; Urgency • Abbreviated Proposal; Limited Award Amount • Expedited Review PD-23

33. FastLane http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/ For list of awards abstracts of prior awards Requires Password - (obtain from your office of sponsored research) proposal submission proposal status annual and final project report submission Requires special PIN from Program Officer Proposal Review

34. DMS depends on the mathematical sciences community for its staffing In 2002 DMS will need new program directors in: Analysis Interdisciplinary Math (in particular, Math Biology) Applied Mathematics/Computational Mathematics Statistics and Probability We are interested in applications from researchers from all fields.