Messages from Funding Agencies Business Session DAMOP-2016

AFOSR note

From Tatyana Curcic: There will be a new QIS program starting in FY17. Initially it will be part of AMO, but ultimately including other QIS.

Physics Budgets This Year• Still awaiting Congressional approval of

Operating Plan, which authorizes trickledown to Programs

• Expecting/Hoping Flat($28M Combined AMO-E, AMO-T, QIS)

• Presently assuming slight (few %) decrease

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15038/nsf15038.pdf

Directorate BrochureNSF 15038

News You Can Use

• People/Programs at NSF you should know

• Common Mistakes & New Rules

Advancing Communication Quantum Information Research in Engineering: ACQUIRE

Part the Engineering Division’s EFRI (Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation) Program

NSF Solicitation 16-502 (expect update for next FY by end of June)

Dominique Dagenais (coordinator)

Other QIS Programs at NSF

• Electronic and Photonic Materials (DMR) Tania Paskova Miriam Deutsch

• Electronics, Photonics, and Magnetic Devices Dominique Dagenais Mahmoud Fallahi

• Condensed Matter Physics (DMR) Paul Sokol Tomasz Durakiewicz

• Lab Astro Harshal Gupta (AST)

• Chemical Measurement and Imaging Kelsey Cook (CHE)

Other AMO/QIS Programs at NSF

(cold atoms simulating condensed matter)

Optics & PhotonicsStill no new $ (almost)

Common Mistakes & New Rules

(avoid having your proposal returned without review)

Broader Impacts

• Required in 3 places in proposal– Project Summary (box)– Project Description (two places):

• Prior Results• Proposed Work

Use Proper Section Headings!

What are “Broader Impacts” Anyway?

http://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/publications/Broader_Impacts.pdf

Division of Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Projects

NSF 16-566 (solicitation)

• Starting in FY15, proposals in all fields submitted to the Division of Physics have to submit to this solicitation!

• Exceptions:• CAREER, MRI, RUI and any other proposal

that pertains to an NSF-wide solicitation.

On Fastlane, choose solicitation NSF 16-566

Do NOT chooseNSF 16-1 GPG or anything else.Prop. will be returned w/o review!

Choose the Program in the next screen

FY14 example:

AMO-ExperimentAMO-Theoryshould now appear next to each other

Solicitation Adds Requirements Beyond the GPG

• Deadlines (5:00 PM local time) instead of Target Dates.• AMO-E and AMO-T: Oct 26, 2016 (always last Wed in Oct)• QIS: Dec. 1, 2016 (always first Thur in Dec)

• PIs who have or anticipate additional concurrent sources of supportshould clearly explain the differences between this proposal and theother awards (including ALL grants regardless of the agency oforigin)

– “The proposal review process will include an assessment of theproposers’ ability to carry out the proposed research in light of thesecommitments”

Some New Requirements in the GPG

• Letters of Collaboration should use the prescribed single-sentence. Letters of Support, endorsing the proposed, are not allowed.

• Collaborators & Other Affiliations (including thesis and postdoc advisors) should be in a “single-copy document” rather than in Biographical Sketch must be separate documents for each PI or co-PI; cannot be grouped

into one single file. Important for conflict of interest screening—to your advantage to have a

complete list of collaborators (past 48 months).

Annual ReportsYou should include a subsection labeled "Postdoc Mentoring" under the subsection labeled “What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?”e.g., roughly how often you met, what was discussed, were past goals met, new goals set, etc. Mention anything that was directed specifically to a particular postdoc (e.g., coaching them for a job interview, helping them prepare talks, guiding them on how to interact with students working with them, etc). It need not be lengthy, but it should be about what YOU did as their mentor, not what they learned from doing the research on their own.

Decadal Report on AMO Science

• It’s about that time• It could mean funding one less PI• We’d like to hear what you think

Volunteer to Review!• AMO-Experiment:

– John Gillaspy: jgillasp@nsf.gov• AMO-Theory

– Mike Cavagnero: mcavagne@nsf.gov• Quantum Information Science

– Alex Cronin: acronin@nsf.gov

Feel free to come talk to us during the conference.

See Mike’s talk at the TAMOC Business Meeting.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Sciences

Fundamental Interactions TeamChemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division

Basic Energy Sciences

Thomas.Settersten@science.doe.govscience.energy.gov/BES/

DAMOP Meeting 5/23/2016

AMOS: PIs and Institutions

AMOS AMOS Program Composition (by Funding)