Edward SeidelActing Assistant Director

Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences

Mathematical and Physical Sciences Advisory Committee

1 April 2010

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Outline of Meeting AD Update

» FY 2009 ARRA, FY 2010, FY 2011 Budgets» Status of Searches» Discussion on Strategic Planning

– Budget oriented, but driven by science

MPSAC Working Group Reports» Thank You!! They are already having impact.

Divisional Breakout Sessions CEOSE Report, Energy and Data Workshop

Reports Input on FY 2012

Budget Context

The budget climate is complex» President, congress recognize basic

research and NSF’s central role– Still, need to make this case!

» Discretionary spending frozen– Science and NSF still priority– Assume doubling over next years

Priority areas of climate, energy will be reflected in budgets» MPS is fundamental to advances

MPS FY 2009 ARRA $490M total investment in MPS R&RA + $146M MREFC Research and Education grants - $402M

» Close to 400 new PIs» 85 CAREER awards» Major investments in GRF, REU, post-doc programs» Over 70 energy and over 25 climate awards

Facilities and Instrumentation support - $88M» 10 MPS-supported user facilities received funding, for operations,

maintenance, safety upgrades, saving jobs Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST)

» $146M in MREFC construction» Tremendous boost for solar astronomy

Selected Highlights since November 2009

LHC colliding protons at 7 Tev! CHESS/CESR award to Cornell

approved by NSB IceCube observatory nearing

completion; ops award approved Jim Ulvestad joined AST as DD! New DMS institute competition

coming to a close CHE/DMR “SciArt” solicitation Survived historic snowstorms

» CHE and DMS CoVs rescheduled

Conference call with AC

in June?

Conference call with AC

in June?

FY 2010 Current Plan by Division

FY 2010 Highlights• Core research programs, CAREER, GRF, Centers,

Facilities operations• CDI, Cyberinfrastructure, SEBML, Climate and Energy

research

NSF Budget:

$6.87 B, +8.0%

MPS request: $1.41B+ 4.3% (+ $58.07M)

MPS FY 2011 Budget Request

NSF overall budget request for FY 2011» $7.4B, 8.0% increase (+ $552M)

MPS Budget Request Reflects NSF Priorities: » Support innovation in healthy core programs» Advance a strong scientific and technical workforce

(CAREER, Postdoc, GRF, REU)» Invest in research addressing national priorities» Support center activity» Invest in facilities

MPS FY 2011 Budget Request

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FY00 FY01 FY02 FY03 FY04 FY05 FY06 FY07 FY08 FY09Total

FY10Estimate

FY11Request

MPS Subactivity Funding(Dollars in Millions)

AST

CHE

DMR

DMS

PHY

OMA

Discovery +6.7%

Average

annualized

increase 5%

Details discussed in divisional breakouts!Details discussed in divisional breakouts!

MPS Facilities

Adv. Tech. Solar Telescope (ATST) $2.00Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) 23.50

Cornell High Energy Synchr. Source (CHESS)/ Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR)

13.45

GEMINI Observatory 19.58IceCube Neutrino Observatory 2.50Large Hadron Collider (LHC) 18.00Laser Interfer. Grav. Wave Observatory (LIGO) 30.30Nat'l Astronomy and Ionosphere Ctr. (NAIC) 6.00Nat'l High Magnetic Field Laborary (NHMFL) 34.00Nat'l Nanotechnology Infra. Network (NNIN) 3.38Nat'l Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) 33.33Nat'l Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) 44.37National Solar Observatory (NSO) 9.51Nat'l Superconducting Cyclotron Lab (NSCL) 21.50Other MPS Facilities 7.65

$269.07

FY 2011Request

LIGO

MPS FY 2011 Investments in NSF-wide Activities

NSF-wide activities FY 2011» Science and Engineering Beyond Moore’s Law $32.18M» Science, Engineering, and Education for

Sustainability (SEES) $110.50M» Intersection of Biological & Math/physical sciences $5.57M

– New! Room for growth…

MPS-wide activities» CAREER

– MPS funds 25% of all CAREER $50.68M» Graduate Research Fellows

– Aiming to triple number of GRFs $6.62M

CAREER request:+ 5.8% (+$2.76M)

GRF request:+ 61% (+$2.51M)

SEBML request:+ 72.3% (+$13.5M)

SEES request:+ 27% (+$23M)

Status of Searches Director: Arden Bement stepping down June 1 Office of Assistant Director for MPS

» I am still here , process ongoing Division Directors

» Astronomical Sciences: Jim Ulvestad» Interviews completed

– Division of Chemistry– Division of Materials Research– Division of Mathematics

Deputy Division Directors» AST and DMR

Bottom line: in spite of

uncertainties we are doing

OK!

Bottom line: in spite of

uncertainties we are doing

OK!

White papers, divisional discussions

This AC meeting is a critical step!This AC meeting is a critical step!

Planning for FY 2012 MPS AC Meeting

» Divisional Priorities» Cross-cutting initiatives» Discussions with Tom Kalil, OSTP

MPS Internal Discussions » Series of meetings with Divisions in April» Retreat in May; strategic plan later in year

NSF-wide and beyond» AD Retreat last month: SEES, CF21, Education (major

opportunities here)» FY 2012 Budget retreats, discussions with OSTP in May and June

Internal budget developed by summer end» Passback, president’s budget request

MPS Budget Challenges MPS is by far largest directorate

» $1.4B FY11 request, largest staff Five very different divisions

» Heterogeneous culture, programs, cultures, facilities Difficult to articulate “top few priorities”; find

common themes Core Science Programs for Innovation

» MPS spans the space of all science!» Specific drivers for “Core” include all WGs we will be

discussing– Some may lead to specific programs

Note: program not necessarily equated

with solicitation!

Note: program not necessarily equated

with solicitation!

Reports today; more discussion tomorrow; perhaps merge, continue as we decide.

Need help with these going forward

MPS/MPSAC Working Groups

Climate Energy Broadening Participation Computation Life Sciences SEBML/QIS Matter by Design Facilities Fundamental Science

Important All-NSF Activities for FY 2012 and beyond

Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES)

Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering

All NSF units participating in these activities These will be multi-year investments MPS can play a major role in each

» Working groups will help inform how MPS focuses its activities

SEES Major themes for SEES:

» Building an integrated knowledge base --- addressing key gaps– Understanding fundamental processes in change; pathways and

processes for energy; human decision making; computational modeling, data, experiments

» Generating innovating strategies --- expanding the frontier– Analyzing pathways/scenarios in face of projected change; building

sustainable energy economy; developing adaptation/mitigation strategies; building workforce

MPS critical at fundamental level of sustainability» Energy as a primary MPS theme: already $300M annually in MPS

– New materials, solar, plasma, fusion, new processes– New thinking, innovation as MPS strength

» Climate– Fundamental processes, atmospheric chemistry, etc

All Divisions can play: AST, PHY, DMS, CHE, DMR

FY11 SEES request:$110.50 M

“Towards a Science of Sustainability” • Workshop co-sponsored by MPS/DMS, BIO, CISE, ENG, GEO, SBE• Co-organized by Simon Levin (Princeton) and William Clark (Harvard)• Held at Airlie Center, November 30-December 2, 2009• Report published March 30, 2010

A Joint Initiative of the North American Mathematical Institutes: Climate Change, Sustainability and the Mathematical Sciences

Fourteen mathematical institutes throughout North America have joined together to address the issues of climate change and sustainability.

Simon Levin

William Clark

Sustainability

Remarks

SEES is likely to be a major multi-year effort» Dear Colleague Letter from all just released» New programs just being formulated; much to do still!

Many MPS strengths are critical to it; can grow» Climate, energy, matter-by-design» Computation, mathematical approaches» EaSM Solicitation just released

– ALL MPS divisions participating!– Opportunities in Mathematical and Physical Sciences Earth System Modeling

May want to consider continuing some working groups merged into a broader SEES group» Climate, energy?» Other?

CF21: Cyberinfrastructure Framework…

High-end computation, data, visualization for transformative science; sustainability, extensibility.» Centers as hubs of innovation

MREFCs and collaborations including large-scale NSF collaborative facilities, international partners

Software, tools, science applications, and VOs critical to science, integrally connected to instruments

Campuses fundamentally linked end-to-end; grids, clouds, loosely coupled campus services, policy to support

People. Comprehensive approach workforce development for 21st century science and engineering 19

Looking to build cross-NSF, linked programs in all areas; MPS can

leverage these investments.

Examples: SI2 software program; computational science postdoc

program.

Joint DCL from all NSF units in December, 2009.

Looking to build cross-NSF, linked programs in all areas; MPS can

leverage these investments.

Examples: SI2 software program; computational science postdoc

program.

Joint DCL from all NSF units in December, 2009.

Remarks Data-enabled science workshop

» Ideas resonate across entire Directorate» Will be exploring potential programs» Note: changes in NSF data policy under consideration

Computational Science working group» Recommendations at MPS-level very important also for CF21» Envision hierarchy of activities

– NSF-wide; Directorate-wide, Divisional

» Any new programs, e.g., “SBE&S” will be able to leverage CF21 Feed into core programs

» SEBML/QIS, PIF, Computational Mathematics, … Now and longer term: MPS can be a major driver of major

science activities (e.g., Grand Challenges) on top of complex, integrated Cyberinfrastructure investments

Thoughts on going forward

Ongoing process towards FY 2012 and beyond

Organize joint activities with other ACs?» SEES: ERE, GEO, BIO, ENG, SBE» Life-sciences/MPS: BIO, CISE?» Computational/Data-enabled science: ACCI» Etc…

Workshops and further development of whitepapers?

What I Hope We Achieve Here

Good input to allow us to develop what is needed Programs and budget

Decisions on future activities Which working groups continue Possible merging of groups that remain active New groups on facilities and fundamental science case

Tomorrow is flexible to accommodate discussions we need to have Breakouts, common discussion, etc

Good understanding with OSTP on priorities

ENDThanks for bearing with us

with conferencing technology, especially if you

are remote. Feedback welcome

Thanks for bearing with us with conferencing

technology, especially if you are remote. Feedback

welcome