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UPDATE on NSF & MPS

UPDATE on NSF & MPS. Presentation to MPSAC 22 April 2004. Michael S Turner Assistant Director for MPS. LEADERSHIP at NSF. Rita Colwell stepped down 20 Feb 2004 (Canon USA Lifesciences) “Great run”: budget +70% over 6-year term Arden Bement (Director of NIST) became Acting Director

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UPDATE on NSF & MPS

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  1. UPDATE on NSF & MPS Presentation to MPSAC 22 April 2004 Michael S Turner Assistant Director for MPS

  2. LEADERSHIP at NSF • Rita Colwell stepped down 20 Feb 2004 (Canon USA Lifesciences) • “Great run”: budget +70% over 6-year term • Arden Bement (Director of NIST) became Acting Director • Engineer with industrial (TRW), academic (Purdue, MIT) and national-lab (NIST) experience • Knows NSF culture (former NSB member), already very engaged at NSF (e.g., Director’s retreat) • “Term limit” (210 days) • According to Jack Marburger: “Aggressive search is under way (Feb 27, Senate Appropriations Subcmte) • Lots of rumors, election year, …

  3. BUDGETS • FY 2004 Enacted (late January) +5% • FY 2005 Submitted to Congress +3.0% • NIH +2.6% • DOE Office of Science -1% • NASA Space Science +1% • FY 2006 • MPS Retreat (January 2004) • AD Retreat (April 2004)

  4. NSF Funding: 1995 to 2005 +68% since 1998, but falling away from authorization levels

  5. MPS Funding History by Division

  6. MPS Budget Request FY 2005

  7. FY2004 Budget (began in 2002) 03 04 R 04 (after 0.5% recission) 187 183 197 AST 182 182 185 CHE 241 246 251 DMR 179 202 201 DMS 224 218 228 PHY 27 31 31 OMA ___ ___ ___ 1041 1061 1092 • Principles: • Meet or exceed President’s request • Satisfy Congressional language • Support Core

  8. MPS 2005 Budget Highlights • 24M$ Increase: MPS Initiatives (14M$) and Core (10M$) • Physics of the Universe (12M$ split between AST and PHY) • Physical processes that enable life from cells to the ecosystem (2M$ CHE) • Cyberscience (32M$ across MPS) • Mid-scale Instrumentation (ACT, Beam-line instrumentation, Design funds for LSST, GSMT) • RSVP construction funding requested • Two of five NSF Priority Areas are most relevant for MPS: • Nanoscale Science & Engineering • Mathematical Sciences

  9. BUDGET REALITIES • Congress has been vocal that +3% is not enough for NSF and that the imbalance between Physical and Lifesciences needs to be addressed • … but • Deficit of >520B$ • Other very important priorities: • Iraq, war on terrorism, homeland security, the economy • Election year • Continuing concern about MREFC Account

  10. OTHER NOTABLE ITEMS • Especially Relevant for MPSAC (more later on all) • ACTII • CHE Subcommittee • JSAC on UG Education • CyberScience Workshop • DMS COV • CHE COV • More Generally • Brinkman Report on Setting Priorities for Large Facility Projects Sponsored by the NSF" (more later) • First Annual Report of AAAC submitted to NSF, Congress (AST Break out) • Release of InterAgencyWorking Group Report on the Physics of the Universe • HEPAP Response to request to define goals of HEP: P. Drell Report, “Quantum Universe” • Launch of NRC Study Elementary Particle Physics in the 21st Century • Prioritize science, prioritize implementation plan • Non-EPP Chair, significant representation from other fields • MPS-led process for Underground Science • Theory

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