MPS Planning

8/3/2019 MPS Planning

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MPS Planning

A Living Document


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MPS MISSIONSTATEMENT

To make discoveries about the Universe and the

laws that govern it; to create new knowledge,materials, and instruments which promote

progress across science and engineering; to

prepare the next generation of scientists through

research, and to share the excitement of exploringthe unknown with the nation.


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SCIENTIFIC THEMES Charting the evolution of the Universe from the Big Bang to habitable

planets and beyond

Understanding the fundamental nature of space, time, matter, andenergy

Creating the molecules and materials that will transform the 21stcentury

Developing tools for discovery and innovation throughout science andengineering

Understanding how microscopic processes enable and shape the

complex behavior of the living world Discovering mathematical structures and promoting new connections

between mathematics and the sciences

Conducting basic research that provides the foundation for ournational health, prosperity, and security


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Beyond the Scientific Themes

MPS Divisions and Priority Areas

Facilities and Mid-Scale Projects

Preparing the Next Generation

Cyberscience and Cyberinfrastructure

Connections


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Issues for Discussion Setting Priorities

Across scientific themes

Within scientific themes

Cross-cutting emphases

Modes Of Support: IIA, groups, centers, facilities, instrumentation,

workshops

Of Partnering: funding, co-funding, brokering

Appropriate attention to The details; the big picture

The near term; the long term

Connecting the above To the MPS division structure

To the NSF context


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Charting the Evolution of the Universe

From the Big Bang to Habitable

Planets and Beyond


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Where We Are

Science is at a critical point in the effort to understand how the Universe came to be andwhere the arrow of time points for its future. We have measured the fingerprint of theBig Bang left in the cosmic microwave background. We have begun to understand howthat fingerprint grew to the vast structures of todays Universe. We have found over 100planets orbiting other stars. Our study of stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis shows

that the chemical elements in the planets and in ourselves have a much simplerbeginning at the dawn of time itself. Yet the success of our quest has revealed profoundgaps in our basic understanding of the nature of matter and energy. The matter that wesee in the stars accounts for less than a quarter of the matter that must be present. Andthe evolution of the universe, and its ultimate destiny, are ruled not by mass, but by adark energy we cannot explain. To understand these puzzles we must unite astronomyand particle physics. We are now poised to search for the constituents of dark matter in

the quiet environment of deep underground laboratories; to follow the growth ofstructure through a cosmic census that will dwarf the output of all previous surveys; toconstruct telescopes that will trace the seeds of structure spawned by gravity waves lessthan 300,000 years after the Big Bang; and to undertake experiments that will probe themost elementary particles and the forces that rule them. We are poised to connect quarkswith the cosmos.


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Where We Are Going:

The Big Questions What is dark matter made of?

Why is the expansion of the Universe speeding up andwhat is the destiny of our Universe?

Did the Universe begin in a burst of inflationaryexpansion?

How and where did the chemical elements form and howhas the composition of the Universe evolved?

How did planetary systems form and how common arehabitable planets?

When and where did the first stars form, and what werethey like?

How did galaxies form and how are they evolving?


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Connections to the Broader Framework

Primary Divisions: AST, PHY

Relevant Priority Areas: ITR, Math

Facilities and Related Activities Current: ALMA, Adaptive Optics; LIGO

Future: LSST, ACT, GSMT, Underground Lab, AdvLIGO

Workforce Excites interest in science and engineering

Needs instrumentation, adaptive optics people

Cyberscience/Cyberinfrastructure Virtual observatory; remote observation

Imaging, pattern matching

Modeling and simulation

Connections NASA, DOE, International


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Issues

Most approaches to this area require major facilities

How do we take advantage of current facilities to do new types of

science?

What are our priorities for new facilities? How do we nurture R&D for future facilities?

How do we plan for operations in the future?

How can we best invest in these opportunities in the near

term, if the facilities do not come online for 5-10 years?

Right now, the relevant community is fairly small. Should

it grow? How?


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Understanding the Fundamental

Nature of

Space, Time, Matter, and Energy


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Where We Are

A central goal of human inquiry has been to understand the fundamental constituents of

the physical world around us, and the basic physical forces and laws that govern our

lives. Over the last century, a monumental intellectual synthesis has produced the

standard model of particle physics, with its quarks, leptons, bosons, and so on. Yet we

know that the present picture is seriously flawed. For example, astronomers have nowconvinced us that it does not account for the vast majority of the mass and energy of the

universe. A number of new theories have been put forward to enable us to close the

chapter on the Standard Model and to open a new chapter that revolutionizes our

understanding of the fundamental nature of space, time, matter, and energy. Concepts

like dark matter, dark energy, extra spatial dimensions, and supersymmetry challenge

the limits of our understanding. A host of discovery experiments are being deployed to

provide solid evidence of the new physics. These include searches for new fundamentalparticles and laws in high energy particle colliders, gravitational wave detectors, dark

matter searches, measurements of rare processes in new sensitivity regimes, cosmic ray

observatories, and more. A radically new fundamental picture of the universe and the

nature of space, time, matter, and energy lies just ahead.


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Where We Are Going:

The Big Questions

Did Einstein have the final word on gravity?

What is the full set of natures building blocks?

How many space-time dimensions are there and did they

emerge from something more fundamental?

What are the emergent phenomena in matter at thequantum level?

Is there a single, unified force and how is it described?

What happens to space time when two black holes collide? What are Natures highest energy particles and how were

they accelerated?

What are the yet, undiscovered phases of matter?


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Primary Divisions: PHY, AST

Relevant Priority Areas: ITR, MATH, NANO

Facilities and Related Activities

Current: LIGO Future: LHC, ICECUBE, RSVP, Advanced LIGO, Underground Lab

Workforce

Excites interest in science

Large collaborations can involve students at many levels, but may takeyears to obtain results

Cyberscience/Cyberinfrastructure

GRID Technology

Detecting rare events in mountains of data


Connections: DOE, NASA, International


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Issues

Most approaches to this area require majorfacilities How do we take advantage of current facilities to do

new types of science?

What are our priorities for new facilities?

How do we nurture R&D for future facilities?


How can we best invest in these opportunities in the nearterm, if the facilities do not come online for 5-10 years?

How do we ensure that young people in this area can makeappropriate progress toward degrees?


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Creating Molecules and Materials that

will Transform the 21st

Century

Perhaps what is most significant about materials

research throughout its history is that it tended to be a

major limiting factor in determining the rate at which

civilization could advance

- Frederick Seitz


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Where We Are

How can we create new molecules and materials, and understand, predict and control theassociated electronic, magnetic, optical, chemical and mechanical properties andbehavior that make them useful? Today, unprecedented computational capability isconverging with the development of sophisticated instruments for atomic and molecularmanipulation and control, and with increasingly precise and effective techniques for

fabrication and characterization of molecules and materials, to provide uniqueopportunities and challenges for answering this question. We are beginning to learnfrom and mimic nature so as to introduce new levels of hierarchical complexity thatproduce fundamentally different materials properties on the macro-scale. We arebeginning to develop bottom-up processes through self-assembly or guided assembly tobuild functional molecules and materials reliably from the atomic and molecular levelon up. And we see the importance of understanding and exploiting emergent

phenomena in complex systems ranging from superconductors to electronic andphotonic materials, catalysts, biological structures and soft-matter systems. Attackingthese and similar fundamental challenges will also stimulate rapid technological change,with the potential for profound impact on society. The results will ultimately be criticalto better health care, improved computers and communications, efficient manufacturing,sustainable civil infrastructure and transportation, affordable energy, effectiveenvironmental protection and remediation, and increased national security.


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Where We Are Going:

The Big Questions What new materials can we create by learning from and

imitating nature?

How do we design and build new materials and molecules

atom by atom? How can we bridge across length and time scales from

atoms and molecules to complex structures and devices?

How do we design and produce functional molecules and

materials from first principles? What are the keys to predictive understanding and control

of weak molecular interactions?

Can we build molecular electronics and other devices tokeep Moore's law valid?


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Primary Divisions: DMR, CHE, PHY

Relevant Priority Areas: NANO, ITR, MATH

Facilities and Related Activities Current: NHMFL, Beam Lines

Future: Neutron beam lines; Xray sources

Workforce Requires interdisciplinary training approaches

Instrumentation, measurement expertise

Broadly supportive of S&E workforce development Cyberscience/Cyberinfrastructure


National Nanofabrication Network

Connections: ENG, BIO, CISE, DOE, NASA, Defense,

NIST, international


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Issues

What is the role of facilities and midscale infrastructure? How do we take advantage of current capabilities to do new types

of science?

What are our priorities for new infrastructure? How do we nurture R&D for future capabilities?


How do we strengthen and broaden the workforce in orderto make the connection between basic research and

national need? How do we set priorities within the portfolio?

What is the role of NANO relative to other activities in theportfolio?


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Developing Tools for Discovery and

Innovation throughout

Science and Engineering


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Where We Are How do we see what is too small, too faint, or out of view of our human senses? How

do we take in the very large or the very small in space or time when we have no point ofreference? How do we measure strength, toughness, resiliency and other characteristicsof materials? MPS fosters development of tools ranging from the bench top to multi-user facilities serving hundreds or thousands of researchers. These instruments opennew windows into the universe, and they probe the fundamental particles of matter and

the molecules and materials of modern technology. Tools developed through MPSsupport provide the capability for measurements of unprecedented sensitivity and range.New microscopes, light sources and neutron sources, high magnetic fields and novelspectroscopies, lasers that make it possible to manipulate individual atoms, a newgeneration of telescopes and instrumentation that allows astronomers to look outward inspace and backward in time to the earliest epochs of galaxy formation these areexamples of the cutting edge. In addition, scientists are poised to detect gravitationalwaves, and U.S. physicists will participate in international particle physics experiments

at the highest energy frontier with detectors they developed.

Two key areas provide new opportunities. The massive amounts of data generated fromtelescopes and detectors provide impetus for development ofcyberinfrastructure andsoftware such as grid computing and virtual observatories. At the other end of the scale,miniaturization will enable new approaches for biological and robotic applications andthe exploration of new phenomena in materials.


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Where We Are Going:

The Big Questions How do we image and control individual atoms

and molecules in 3 dimensions

How do we develop coherent x-ray light sources? What are the limits to miniaturizing sensors andother detectors?

How do we create self-assembling systems at the

nano-scale? How do we build detectors for new regimes --

high energy, short distances, ultra weak forces,rare events, and short time scales?


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Primary Divisions: AST, CHE, DMR, PHY

Relevant Priority Areas: ITR, NANO, BE

Facilities and Related Activities Facilities made up of tools

New tools may trigger new facilities

Workforce Broad need for experts in measurement and instrumentation

development, but generally not viewed as high priority atinstitutions, in disciplines

Need for support personnel to keep tools working

Cyberscience/Cyberinfrastructure Tool for advancing MPS and other S&E disciplines

Connections: Everywhere


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Issues

Increasing cost for development of tools competes withactive research programs

Frequently, biggest beneficiaries are not in field where the

tool is developed or maintained How do we turn the need for experts in measurement and

instrumentation into an action plan for generating them?

Shaping the portfolio

Role of major facilities Role of mid-scale activities

Reducing instrument costs for individual investigators and smallgroups

Enabling broad use of instrumentation in education


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Understanding How Microscopic

Processes Enable and Shape the

Complex Processes of the Living World


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Where We Are

Mathematical and physical scientists are critical to understanding the origins of life andthe processes that enable our continued existence. What are plausible scenarios forspontaneous organization of a mixture of chemicals into ordered, self-replicatingsystems such as living cells? How do physiological processes such as breathing andthinking emerge out of complex, coupled arrays of individual reactions? Through the

tools of the physical sciences, we now know answers to some of the what questions the sequence of genomes, the constituents of cells, the sectors of the brains neuralpathways that fire in particular circumstances, and many others. With new capabilitiesat the micro- and nanoscales, we are now poised to make progress on the physical andchemical bases for how and why. We can explore the 3-dimensional properties ofindividual molecules (including protein folding), how numerous individually-weakbonds affect interactions, the spatial distribution of intracellular proteins, the

dependence on the physical and chemical environment in the aggregation of cells, andthe role of dynamics in function. We can now make the measurements of manydynamic functions simultaneously in a non-intrusive manner, enabling directobservation of physical and chemical processes. We have the tools for modeling,visualization, and comparison that are critical to understanding biological systems wellenough to build predictive capabilities. Mastery of the dynamics of molecularcomplexity in living systems will enable us to answer fundamental questions and createfunctional systems and technologies with great societal impact.


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The Big Questions How do proteins fold and membranes work? What are the fundamental chemical processes that underlie

environmental and climate change?

How does nature make proteins?

What are the molecular origins of the emergent behaviorthat underlies life processes from heartbeats and circadianrhythms to neurological activity?

How can we make chemistry greener?

How do biological systems assemble themselves? How did the first biologically relevant molecules form andhow did they organize into self-replicating cells?

What can the laboratory of the living world tell us aboutemergent behavior in complex systems?


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Primary Divisions: CHE, DMR, DMS, PHY Relevant Priority Areas: BE, MATH, NANO

Facilities and Related Activities Current: NHMFL, CHESS

Future: ERL, XFEL, SNS Beam Lines Workforce

Requires training in interdisciplinary areas

Potential for major impact on undergraduate science and ondiversity because of number of students in life sciences

Cyberscience/Cyberinfrastructure Modeling and simulation of complex processes

Databases for proteins, genomes, etc.

Imaging, pattern matching, etc.

Connections: BIO, CISE, ENG, DOE, NIH, international


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Issues How do we ensure that there is synergy?

Physical sciences use living world as laboratory.

Life sciences benefit from ideas, tools, trained people in MPSfields.

How do we partner effectively? NSF/BIO has limited scope

NIH funding swamps NSF funding and could distort efforts inphysical sciences

What is the potential impact on MPS disciplines of the

large number of undergraduates in the life sciences To influence the nature of introductory courses

To influence the nature of advanced courses

To generate undergraduate research opportunities

To enhance numbers of majors in MPS disciplines


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Discovering Mathematical Structures

and Promoting New Connections

between Mathematics and the Sciences


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Where We Are

The physical world as we know it is a messy place. The road to making discoveriesabout that world and the laws that govern it passes through a process of abstractionmaking simplifying assumptions and developing theories. Mathematics is the languageof science and our foundation for developing the theories that lead to understandingnature. Deep relationships between the abstract structures of mathematics often reveal

new connections in the physical world. Conversely, theories of the physical world cansometimes suggest unexpected relationships between abstract mathematical structures inalgebraic, geometric, analytic, and probabilistic or statistical realms. This synergybetween the physical and the abstract is central to the relationship between themathematical sciences and other disciplines. For example, seemingly disconnectedissues such as structures in string theory and patterns in high dimensional data lead tosimilar questions about computing the topology and geometry of spaces based on

limited information. Computational capabilities have provided the mathematicalsciences with new opportunities to experiment and to find sometimes-elegant ways todescribe very messy behavior. We are now able to approach questions related tocomplex nonlinear phenomena, multiscale systems, and uncertainty, stochasticity anderror propagation critical to making progress both in describing abstract mathematicalstructures and in linking such structures to physical problems.


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Where We Are Going:

The Big Questions How can uncertainty be quantified and controlled?

How does complexity emerge in systems governed bysimple rules?

Which mathematical structures best describe multi-scalephenomena?

How can we describe self-organizing systemsmathematically?

How can large, heterogeneous datasets be mined forinformation?

What is the connection between simple questions about theintegers and complex behavior in physical andcomputational systems?


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Primary Divisions: DMS, theoretical aspects of all others

Relevant Priority Areas: MATH, all others

Facilities: Seldom an issue

Workforce Mathematics is a key underpinning for work in all areas of science

and engineering

Opportunity to reach a very broad range of students

Cyberscience/Cyberinfrastructure

Underpinning for modeling and simulation

Estimates of uncertainty

Algorithm development

Pattern matching, data mining

Connections: all NSF; NIH, DOE, DARPA


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Issues

Connection with the MATH priority area

Conveying the excitement of discovering newmathematical structures

Extent to which undergraduate education inmathematical sciences conveys a sense of whatmathematicians do

Balance between new discovery in mathematicsand partnering with other disciplines

New modes in support of mathematical discovery


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Conducting Basic Research that Provides

the Foundation for Our

National Health, Prosperity, & Security


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Where We Are

Homeland security, combating terrorism, cybersecurity, information technology,

networking, environmental sensors and monitoring, imaging, medical devices, nanoscale

devices, efficient processes for manufacturing and delivery of materials and

pharmaceuticalsthese are among the many foci of the nations health, prosperity, and

security. MPS-supported basic research has the potential to speak to the needs of all

these aspects of our national interest, as well as many others that affect our daily

lives. MPS works to see that the potential is reached by participating in government-

wide activities such as the Networking and Information Technology Research and

Development program and the National Nanotechnology Initiative; by partnering with

other agencies and other directorates in interdisciplinary activities that speak to national

needs; and by asking all participants in MPS programs to articulate the potential broader

impacts of their work. Most importantly, MPS investments nurture a talented, diverse,internationally competitive and globally engaged workforce that will ensure sustained

technical progress and contribute to our future quality of life. MPS programs and

grantees operate in an awareness of the outstanding questions related to national health,

prosperity, and security, and contribute daily to their resolution.


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Where We Are Going:

The Big Questions How do we push the present performance limits of

engineering materials?

How do we go beyond silicon electronics?

Can we produce a quantum computer? Can we develop a compact sustainable energy

source for widespread application?

Can we understand and control high-temperaturesuperconductivity?

Can we develop the fundamental understandingneeded to move from a fossil-fuel-based economyto a sustainable one?


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Primary Divisions: all Relevant Priority Areas: all

Facilities: To the extent facilities push the technology envelop, all address

national interests Facilities support the basic research, rather than the national

interest application

Workforce MPS workforce key to enhancing security, prosperity, health of

nation Need well-trained citizenry that appreciates benefits of science and

technology

Cyberscience/Cyberinfrastructure Eases connection from basic research to national interest

Connections: NSF-wide, federal govt, private sector


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Issues

Maintaining the balance between basic science and

potential national interest

Appropriate role for MPS/NSF vis a vis other agencies

Identifying the most effective partnering modes

Funding, co-funding, brokering, workshops

Opportunities

For students to participate in projects of national interest

For technology transfer

Exploring effective modes of funding

Centers, groups, individual investigators


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The CORE

The Heart of What We Do


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WHAT IS THE CORE?

Perspectives by Division: Individual investigators - unsolicited proposals (yes, all divisions)

Groups (mostly yes)

Centers (mixed)

Facilities (mixed) Priority areas (mixed by division and specific PAgenerally no for

fenced funding)

Size: 50%-95% of divisional budget

Other definitions: What program officers control

Unfettered, discovery-driven research

What pumps the whole system

Outreach mechanismshow we grow

What the community wants us to protect


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WHAT ARE THE ELEMENTS OF A

HEALTHY CORE?

Intellectual ferment and creativityproduction of new results

and breakthroughs

Strong community (students through senior investigators),

influx of new talent, diversity

Ability and flexibility to respond to new and unexpected

directions & to encourage emerging areas

Diversity & balance of portfolio

Encouragement of risk/involves judgment of staff

To achieve the above may require new mechanisms or modalities


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TYPES OF GRANTS AND SIZES

NEEDED FOR A HEALTHY CORE

One size does NOT fit all!

Small grants up to facilities (>$50M)

Dependent on needs, quality, and type of project, e.g.,

facility vs center vs group vs individual senior vs junior investigator

superstar vs star vs regular

theory vs experimentissue of support personnel

sizes may be discrete or a continuum, but grant sizes will be highly

variable

Type and level of graduate and postdoc support varies

Typical ideal award levels varied by division


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ISSUES

Relationship with priority areas that may Represent or advance what were already doing in the core

Help to push us in new directions

Change the way a community operates (more collaboration, more

centers/facilities) Distort balance within the core

Modes of support for core activities

Role of facilities and mid-scale projects

Partnering in interdisciplinary areas

Balancing risk and likely pay-off


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MPS Facilities and Related

Mid-Scale ProjectsInstruments taking us to the frontiers

of knowledge


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EXISTING FACILITIES - Large

NRAO ($55M/yr) VLA

Green Bank

VLBI NOAO ($41M/yr)

Kitt Peak

CTIO

NSO

NAIC (10.6M/yr)

GEMINI ($13M/yr)

LIGO ($33M/yr)

NSCL ($15M/yr)

CESR/CHESS ($23.5M/yr) CESR (through 2008)

CHESS

NHMFL ($25M/yr)


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Current MPS Facilities and

Related Mid-Scale ProjectsFACILITIES NRAO ($55M/yr)

VLA, Green Bank; Green

Bank, VLBA NOAO ($41M/yr)

Kitt Peak,CTIO, US Gemini,NSO

NAIC ($10.6M/yr)

GEMINI ($13M/yr)

LIGO ($33M/yr) NSCL ($16M/yr)

CESR/CHESS ($23.5M/yr)

NHMFL ($25M/yr)

Mid-Scale Projects SupportingMultiple Investigators

(~$23M/year total)

CHRNS

SRC NNIN (MPS portion)

Spectroscopy Lab

ChemMatCars

BIMA/OVRO/CSO/ FCRAO

LAPD MiniBoone

Milagro

HiRes

CDMS II

Facilities are us!


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APPROVED OR UNDER CONSTRUCTION

FACILITIES

ALMA Start 2003; end 2011; $276M

construction; est. $23M Ops

LHC Start 1998; $ end 2003;

construction complete 2008; $81Mconstruction; Ops ramp to $25M

ICECUBE Start 2004; end 2010; $250M

construction; $10M MPS Ops RSVP

Start planned for 2005; end 2010;$144M construction; $12M Ops

Mid-Scale Projects Supporting

Multiple Investigators

BOREXINO ACT

AUGER

VERITAS

SZ-ARRAY

SPT

LENS


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Possible New FacilitiesMREFC Scale

Advanced LIGO $140M; 2006 eeps*

Underground Lab ~$300M; 2008 eeps*

Energy Recovery Linac R&D $40M; eeps* 2006

Const. $400M; eeps* 2011

X-ray-FEL R&D $15M; eeps* 2006

Const. $300M; eeps* 2009

* eeps = estimated earliest possible

start

Advanced Tech. SolarTelescope (ATST) $160M; 2006 eeps*

Large Synoptic Survey

Telescope (LSST) R&D $14M; eeps* 2005 Const. $140M; eeps* 2008

Giant Segmented MirrorTelescope (GSMT) R&D $40M; eeps* 2006

Const $900M; eeps* 2012 EVLA-II

$120M; eeps* 2012

Square Kilometer Array (SKA) R&D $25M; eeps* 2006

Const. $1B; eeps* 2015


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Decision Criteria

Scientific Excellence Transformational; cutting Edge

Enabling Large community/interdisciplinary; essential scientific

function

Readiness Technological, managerial, leadership, etc.

NSF Role Partners, world leadership, community taps NSF,

preparing the next generation, Congressional interest


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ISSUES

Supporting R&D to get to readiness

Impact of facility operations & research on otheractivities

Retiring or transitioning current facilities Accurate assessment of life cycle costs

Addressing mid-scale needs

Prioritizing within divisions, across MPS, acrossNSF, and in the interagency and internationalcontexts using consistent criteria and taking otherneeds into account


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Preparing the Next Generation


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Critical Workforce Issues for MPS

Need to increase the number of undergraduate

students in MPS disciplines, with special

attention to increasing the number of US

nationals.

Retention along career paths, with particular

attention to transition points

MPS students and scientists should reflect moreclosely the demographic realities of the nation.


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Domestic S&E Workforce Diversity:

Survival not Political Correctness

UC Physics Faculty, 2000 Face of the America, 2004

Chemistry Research Group

The number of bright foreigners inscience & engineering coming to

the US is dropping (visa problems,less welcoming atmosphere, good

opportunities elsewhere)


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Proposed Workforce Goals for MPS

Double the number of undergraduate students who have aresearch experience in MPS disciplines

Attract talented middle and high school students and

engage them in MPS discovery and learning activities, andto inspire them to pursue careers in MPS disciplines.

Extend the RET activities to engage more K-12 teachers.

Develop and implement an integrated research model for

MPS undergraduate education Bring MPS research to 2-year institutions through content

enrichment to develop and sustain interest in science and

mathematics among this diverse student population.


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Actions

Ready for immediate action Enhanced undergraduate research experience

Preliminary work neededpilot programs or

change in current approach Talented middle and high school students

Extend RET activities

New activities; need to design approaches

Integrated research model for MPS undergraduateeducationa systems approach

2-year institutions


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Implementation Considerations

Integration of efforts

With communities and institutions MPS serves

With types of activities MPS supports Broadening participation

Extending beyond current communities and institutions

to reach underrepresented groups

Effective partnering With Education and Human Resources directorate


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Cyberscience and

Cyberinfrastructure

Developing an integrated system of hardware and

software resources and services that, driven by

science,enables scientists and engineers to

explore important opportunities that would not

otherwise be possible.


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The MPS Approach:

Put Science First Identify scientific breakthroughs that are enabled (or

critical science questions that could be answered) by

dramatically raising capabilities in cyberinfrastructure. What kinds of investments in cyberinfrastructure are

needed to achieve these opportunities (be as specific as

possible)?

Which of these investments are best made in MPS and

which are best made collaboratively across NSF or withother agencies?

Consult with the community through a workshop of experts.


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Examples of the Science

Modeling

Supernovae in 3 dimensions

Space-time when 2 black holes collide

Emergent behavior in physical and biological systems

Nanoelectronic silicon devices

Chemical reaction rates for experiments we cannot do

in the laboratory Identifying patterns in large data sets

Higgs supersymmetry


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Cyberinfrastructure consists of

Computational engines (supercomputers, clusters,workstations, small processors, )

Mass storage (disk drives, tapes, )

Networking (including wireless, distributed, ubiquitous)

Digital libraries/data bases

Sensors/effectors

Software (operating systems, middleware, domain specifictools/platforms for building applications, visualization)

Services (education, training, consulting, user assistance) All working together in an integrated fashion.

I t t d CI S t


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Hardware

Integrated CI System

meeting the needs of a community of communities

Grid Services& Middleware

DevelopmentTools & Libraries

Applications Virtual Observatory High Energy Physics Protein databanks

Domain-specific

Cybertools(software)

SharedCybertools(software)

DistributedResources

(computation,communication

storage, etc.)EducationandTraining

Discov

ery&I

nnovation


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Issues

Keeping science first when paying for infrastructure

Integrating cyberscience and cyberinfrastructure with coreactivities

Embracing cyberscience and associated expenses in researchprograms

Providing appropriate cyberinfrastructure for facilities

Connecting communities

Preparing the next generation

Partnering Within NSF

Across federal government

Internationally


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Challenges & Future Work


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The Science Themes

Within each theme What are our current investments?

What are the priorities for new investment?

What is the plan of action?

Across themes What are potential synergies across themes?

What is the context for integrating cross-cutting ideas?

What is the collective plan of action? MPS-wide and by division

In the context of NSF activities

Under various fiscal scenarios

Developing the FY06 Budget


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p g g

(& Beyond)

Workforce/Diversity Goal and Plan to achieve it Nurturing the Core

Connecting to NSF-wide priorities

Next Start

AdvLIGO (at the NSB), ATST (almost ready) ????

Which Projects Should Receive D&D Money UG Lab?

GSMT?

LSST?

ERL?

Mid-scale projects

Cyber

What should OSCI be investing in for us?

What should domain-CI should we be investing?

What CyberScience should we be investing in?


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Implementing through the Budget

Scenario planning

Fiscal scenarios tied to current environment

Describing reasonable alternatives

Mechanisms to support new directions

New funding

Reorientation within existing fundsCombination approaches


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EXISTING FACILITIES - Large

NRAO ($55M/yr) VLA

Green Bank

VLBI NOAO ($41M/yr)

Kitt Peak

CTIO

NSO

NAIC (10.6M/yr)

GEMINI ($13M/yr)

LIGO ($33M/yr)

NSCL ($15M/yr)

CESR/CHESS ($23.5M/yr) CESR (through 2008)

CHESS

NHMFL ($25M/yr)

Documents

MPS Planning