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DMS Budget & Opportunities

Discover opportunities for research funding in the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) and delve into the current budget status and FY 12 requests for the National Science Foundation. Uncover insights into supporting impactful research, enhancing visibility of mathematics and statistics, and promoting innovation to solve societal problems. Learn about the division's emphasis on thematic and multidisciplinary research, as well as education through integrated research initiatives. Explore how breakthroughs in basic research lead to technological advancements and deepen the understanding of fundamental principles in various disciplines.

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DMS Budget & Opportunities

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  1. DMS Budget & Opportunities National Science Foundation Sastry G. Pantula Division Director, DMS March 5, 2011

  2. Outline • Opportunities at DMS • Current Budget? • FY 12 Request • Q&A

  3. THRIVE… not just survive!!! • THematic (core) and multidisciplinary • Research is what we love to support • Impact and innovation in solving societal issues • Visibility of mathematics and statistics • Education through research- integrate research and training (not about K-12)

  4. Office of the Division Director Division of Mathematical Sciences FY 2011 Administrative Staff Onica Andrews Program Specialist Robert Cruz Program Assistant Antoinette Dedmon Program Technology Analyst Sastry Pantula Division Director Deborah Lockhart Deputy Division Director Patricia Page Program Support Manager Sharon Alston Operations Specialist Jennifer Connell Secretary Algebra and Number Theory Topology & Geometric Analysis Statistics Analysis Carmen Franceschi Program Assistant LaWanda Myers Lead Program Assistant Camelita Sellars-Wright Lead Program Assistant Haiyan Cai Program Director Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics Zongzhu Lin Program Director Kevin Clancey Program Director Joanna Kania Bartoszynska Program Director James Alexander Program Director Michael Steuerwalt Program Director Leland Jameson Program Director Thomas Russell Program Director Gabor Szekely Program Director Tie Luo Program Director Jane Gilman Program Director M. Helena Noronha Program Director Grace Yang Program Director Mary Ann Horn Program Director (also Math Biology) Henry Warchall Program Director Rosemary Renaut Program Director Tanya Vassilevska Program Director (also Math Biology) Andrew Pollington Program Director Joe Jenkins Program Director Yongwu Rong Program Director Probability, Combinatorics and Foundations Infrastructure AAAS Fellow Junping Wang Program Director Victor Roytburd Program Director Bruce Palka Program Director Christopher Stark Program Director Katherine Socha AAAS S&T Policy Fellow Dean EvasiusProgram Director Tomek Bartoszynski Program Director Darla Kremer Program Director

  5. Need NEW Program Officers • Analysis • Topology, Geometric Analysis • Statistics • Computational Mathematics • Applied Mathematics… • Good eye for quality, diversity, energetic, research active, and a team player • DDD

  6. Opportunities • “Innovation Agency” • Breakthroughs in basic research lead to significant advances in technology • Technological developments often yield new directions in basic research that result in a deeper understanding of the fundamentals.

  7. Opportunities • Health:  “Prioritize research investments in technologies that the potential to accelerate the pace of discovery in the life science, especially imaging, bioinformatics, and high-throughput biology.”  • compressed sensing, virtual screening, screening large data sets and a large number of proteins, developing clustering algorithms, algebraic statistics- Packard Fellow

  8. Dear Colleague Letter • Physical and chemical mechanisms and mathematical/statistical theories that underlie biological processes • The physical, chemical, mathematical and statistical basis of biology involving one or more levels of biological interaction or complexity • The physical, chemical, genetic, and epigenetic principles that constrain how living systems adapt to changing environments

  9. Opportunities • Sustainability:  “Support research on integrated ecosystems management approaches that bring together biological, physical, chemical and human... uses data into forecast models, assessments and decision support tools.” • Seize the opportunity on SEES!

  10. Sustainability Workshop @ DIMACS • Stochastic optimization of complex, dynamics systems like storage, R&D portfolio optimization, grids, generators, users • Methods for optimization problems in very high dimensional space (MCMC is an example) • Incomplete economic models and stochastic games, e.g. GHG emissions, power generation policies • Models for functions, graphs, images, or subsystems etc in a complex structure • Design of monitoring and measurement networks, efficient and optimal sampling methods

  11. Sustainability Workshop @ DIMACS • Inverse problems for PDE’s and SPDE’s for the design of new materials, e.g. energy production, storage, transmission and conversion • Modeling and simulation of multi-scale and multi-physics systems, e.g. downscaling of fluid mechanics equations for wind turbines, thin films, nanoscale materials • Methodology for data integration and meta-analysis, design and analysis of computer experiments • Optimal sampling for estimation of climate change impact, e.g. market response to price

  12. Investments • Disciplinary/Interdisciplinary research • Multi-disciplinary research • Institutes • Infrastructure • Postdoctoral Fellows • Other

  13. FY 2010 (~ $241M)

  14. Inter/Disciplinary Research • Algebra, Number Theory, Combinatorics, Analysis,Foundations, Topology and Geometric Analysis • Probability • Applied Math, Computational Math, Math Bio • Statistics (Applied, Computational, Theoretical, Methodological, Bio)

  15. Multidisciplinary Programs • Within MPS • With other NSF directorates • NSF-wide cross-cutting activities • Interagency • 10% to 15% of DMS budget

  16. Multidisciplinary/Infrastructure • Foundations of Data and Visual Analytics (CISE, DHS) • Algorithms for Threat Detection (DOD/DTRA) • Collaboration in Mathematical Geoscience (GEO) • CHE-DMR-DMS Solar Energy Initiative (MPS) • Joint Initiative in Mathematical Biology (NIH/NIGMS) • Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (NSF), etc. • Conferences (CBMS, SIAM, AMS, etc.) • Instrumentation • One-of-a-kind proposals, etc.

  17. Algorithms for Threat Detection (DTRA) • Interagency partner: Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) • Mathematical/statistical algorithm development for analysis of information from sensors that detect chemical/biological weapons • First competition in FY09 via Dear Colleague Letter • FY09: 33 proposals, 10 awards • FY09 DMS: $1.15 million • FY09 DTRA: $3.5 million

  18. Collaborations in Mathematical Geosciences (CMG) • Partners: GEO directorate (AGS, EAR, OCE divisions), OPP • Since 2002; legacy of Math Sciences Priority Area (MSPA) • Collaborative teams: ≥ 1 math scientist, ≥ 1 geoscientist • Themes: complex geosystems, uncertainty, large data sets, global change, sustainability • FY07: $6M DMS, $6M GEO/OPP, 77 proposals, 18 awards • FY08: no competition; $2.85M DMS in out-year commitments and supplements; 31 ad hoc DMS/GEO co-funded proposals • FY09: $8.1M DMS, $9.1M GEO/OPP, 111 proposals, 25 awards

  19. Joint Initiative to Support Research in the Area of Mathematical Biology (NIGMS) • Partner: NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) • Encourage new collaborations at the interface of the mathematical and biological sciences • Since 2002, about 15 awards per year, about $20 million • NIGMS commitment 1.5 to 2 times DMS commitment • FY07 DMS: $7.18 million • FY08 DMS: $7.10 million • FY09 DMS: $8.00 million

  20. Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) • NSF-wide cross-cutting activity starting in 2008 • Potentially transformative multidisciplinary projects that advance or use computation • Themes: Data to Knowledge, Complexity, Virtual Organizations • FY08 NSF: 1,200+ pre-proposals, 200 full proposals, 36 awards, $40 million ($48M including non-solicitation) • FY08 DMS: contributed to 13 awards, $6.4 million ($6.9M including non-solicitation) • FY09 NSF: 800+ pre-proposals, 280 full proposals, 57 awards, $69 million ($80M including non-solicitation) • FY09 DMS: contributed to 18 awards, $5.0 million ($5.2M)

  21. Institutes • American Institute of Mathematics* • Institute for Advanced Study* • Institute for Computational and Experimental Mathematics • Institute for Mathematics and its Applications • Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics • Mathematical Biosciences Institute • Mathematical Sciences Research Institute • Statistical & Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute • Banff International Research Station** • Institute des Hautes Études Scientifiques** • Mathematisches Forshungsinstitut Oberwolfach**

  22. Workforce • Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MSPRF, aka “NSF Post-docs”) • Enhancing the Mathematical Sciences Workforce for the 21st Century (EMSW21) - unsolicited, RTG, MCTP • Interdisciplinary Training for Undergraduates • Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) • Others

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