F. Fleming Crim Assistant Director for

Mathematical and Physical Sciences

February 2, 2015

FY 2016 Budget Request

National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences

NSF Core Mission: Fundamental Research

NSF Strategic Goals

Transform the Frontiers Innovate for Society

Perform as a Model Organization

The Excitement of Advancing Discovery

Chemistry Nobel Laureates

Moerner Betzig Hell

Most Recent Medal of Science Recipients Blackwell (posth.) Chorin Klinman Meinwald Richter

(DMS) (DMS) (CHE) (CHE) (PHY)

Super-Resolved Fluorescence Microscopy

*Estimated for FY 2016

Senior Researchers

30%

Other Professionals

11%

Postdoctoral Researchers

7%

Graduate Students

32%

Undergraduates

20%

28,400 People in MPS Activities*

People Do Science

NSF Supports Academic Basic Research

Source: NSF/ Center for National Science and Engineering Statistics, FY 2013

All Science and Engineering Fields Fraction of Federal Support

MPS Physical Sciences

Mathematics

Environmental Sciences

Engineering

Environmental Sciences

Biology (excluding NIH)

Computer Science

$0

$1,000

$2,000

$3,000

$4,000

$5,000

$6,000

$7,000

$8,000

$9,000

$10,000

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1990

1992

1994

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2014

Amou

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Fiscal Year

NSF Funding History

ARRA

1985 1995

1998 2004

*(Constant 2014$)

NSF $ 7172 M

R&RA $ 5808 M

FY 2014 FY 2015 (request)

$ 7255 M 1.2%

$ 5807 M --

FY 2015 (CROmnibus)

$ 7344 M 2.4%

$ 5934 M 2.2%

$0

$1,000

$2,000

$3,000

$4,000

$5,000

$6,000

$7,000

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$9,000

$10,000

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1984

1986

1988

1990

1992

1994

1996

1998

2000

2002

2004

2006

2008

2010

2012

2014

Amou

nt (M

illio

ns)*

Fiscal Year

*(Constant 2014$)

NSF Funding History

ARRA

1985 1995

1998 2004

$6,000

$6,200

$6,400

$6,600

$6,800

$7,000

$7,200

$7,400

$7,600

$7,800

$8,000

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Amou

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Fiscal Year

*(Constant 2014$)

NSF Funding History ARRA

$0

$50

$100

$150

$200

$250

$300

$350

Amou

nt (M

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ns)

FY13

AST CHE

FY14 FY15

DMR DMS PHY

MPS Budgets

$ 1250 M FY 2013 + 4.0% +2.8%

$ 1300 M FY 2014 $ 1337 M

FY 2015

(estimate)

NSF $ 7344M

R&RA $ 5934 M

FY 2015 FY 2016 (request)

$ 7724 M 5.2%

$ 6186 M 4.2%

FY 2015 Estimate

FY 2016 Request Change

Research & Related Activities $ 5934 $ 6186 4%

Education & Human Resources 866 963 11%

Major Research Equipment & Facilities Construction 201 200 -0.2%

Agency Operations & Award Management 325 355 9%

National Science Board 4 4 --

Office of Inspector General 14 15 5%

Total NSF $ 7344 $ 7724 5%

FY 2016 Budget Request NSF Budget by Appropriation

($ in millions)

$0

$50

$100

$150

$200

$250

$300

$350

Amou

nt (M

illio

ns)

FY13

AST CHE

FY14 FY15

DMR DMS PHY

MPS Budgets

FY16

$ 1250 M FY 2013 + 4.0% +2.8%

$ 1300 M FY 2014 $ 1337 M

FY 2015

(estimate)

+2.2% $ 1366 M

FY 2016

(request)

vs. FY14

3.4% 6.8% 4.7%

3.8% 6.0%

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5

10

15

20

25

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35

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45

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) Selected MPS Major Investments

*MPS only

FY 2015 FY 2016

$ 86 M

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10

15

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45

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) Selected MPS Major Investments

*MPS only

Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure

FY 2015 FY 2016

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

Amou

nt ($

Mill

ions

) Selected MPS Major Investments

*MPS only

Optics and Photonics

FY 2015 FY 2016

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

Amou

nt ($

Mill

ions

) Selected MPS Major Investments

*MPS only

Innovation at the Nexus of Food,

Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS)

Science, Engineering, and Education

for Sustainability (SEES)

FY 2015 FY 2016

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

Amou

nt ($

Mill

ions

) Selected MPS Major Investments

*MPS only

DMREF

Designing Materials to Engineer and Revolutionize Our Future (DMREF)

FY 2015 FY 2016

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

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Mill

ions

) Selected MPS Major Investments

*MPS only

Understanding the Brain

(UtB)

Biological, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences

(BioMaPS)

FY 2015 FY 2016

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

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ions

) Selected MPS Major Investments

FY 2015

*MPS only

FY 2016

Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21)

Computational- and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E)

MPS Participation in NSF-Wide Initiatives

6.4% of MPS Budget

• Cyber-Enabled Materials, Manufacturing, and Smart Systems • Cyberinfrastructure Framework for the 21st Century • Innovation Corps • INCLUDES • Innovation at the Nexus of Food, Energy, Water Systems • Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability • Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace • Understanding the Brain

CEMMSS, CIF21, I-Corps, INCLUDES, INFEWS, SEES, SaTC, UtB

$87.3M

Chemistry (CHE)

Materials Research

(DMR)

Mathematical Sciences

(DMS)

Astronomical Sciences

(AST)

Physics (PHY)

IIA, Small Teams

63% 30%

Facilities IIA, Small Teams

55% 20%

Facilities

IIA, Small Teams

59%

23%

Facilities

$ 244M $ 244M $ 307M $ 232M $ 275M

FY 2015 Estimate: $ 1337M

82%

IIA, Small Teams

76%

IIA, Small Teams

Astronomy (AST)

Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST (ATST))

National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)

Arecibo Observatory Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)

Gemini Observatory Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) National Solar Observatory (NSO) Physics (PHY)

Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL)

Materials Research (DMR) Cornell High Energy

Synchrotron Source (CHESS) National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering (CHRNS)

59%

20%

30%

LIGO

IceCube

NHMFL

DKIST

ALMA

Examples of MPS-Supported Multi-user Facilities

Gemini

NOAO

Two Different Budget Lines for Facilities

NSF FY 2016 Request ($ in millions)

FY 2016 Request

Research & Related Activities $ 6186

Education & Human Resources 963

Major Research Equipment & Facilities Construction 200

Agency Operations & Award Management 355

National Science Board 4

Office of Inspector General 15

Total NSF $ 7,724

30%

Two Different Budget Lines for Facilities

AST

PHY

DMR

Operations (R&RA)

ALMA

IceCube

Major Research Equipment and

Facilities Construction (MREFC)

DKIST LSST

59%

20%

Building the STEM Pipeline Through MPS Research

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Undergraduate Research Programs

FY 2014 Estimate

FY2015 Request

MPS $ 21.2M $ 20.8M

NSF $ 73.2M $ 77.6M

CAREER Young Teacher-Scholars

FY 2015 Estimate

FY2016 Request

MPS $ 67M $ 70M

NSF $ 223M $ 232M 30% of CAREER funding from MPS

27% of REU funding from MPS

Building the STEM Pipeline Through MPS Research

Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Supplements to support under-represented graduate students

FY 2012: 27 FY 2013: 39 FY 2014: 42

MPS Graduate Research Supplements for Veterans (MPS-GRSV) FY 2015 Dear Colleague Letter (NSF 15-024)

Fundamental Research in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Advancing Discovery

Building Blocks for Innovation

Forefront Facilities

Inspiring the Next Generation

Photo Credits

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2014/press.html http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2014/betzig-facts.html http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2014/hell-facts.html http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2014/moerner-facts.html http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=112173&org=NSF http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/07/15/blackwell/ http://www.cespr.fsu.edu/lighthill/chorin.html http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/articles/2014/11/conversations-national-medal-science-winners http://chemistry.cornell.edu/faculty/detail.cfm?netid=jm63 https://news.slac.stanford.edu/features/obama-honors-burton-richter-prestigious-enrico-fermi-award User “Ahinks” for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacama_Cosmology_Telescope Gregory Boebinger, NHMFL, 2014 NationalMagLab.org SPIETV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls7R_MH9Dsk http://www.whitehouse.gov/share/brain-initiative LeEllen Phelps, DKIST, NSO www.nso.edu http://icecube.wisc.edu/news/view/88 http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/mediacenter/factsheets/imagelibrary/ LIGO http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/ LSST Project Office, 2012 http://www.lsst.org/lsst/about/team http://www.nsfagep.org/ Nicola A Spalding, Materials Theory, ETH Zurich http://theory.mat.ethz.ch Karl Rubin, University of California, Irvine http://www.math.uci.edu/~krubin/ Elena Aprile, Columbia University, Physics Department, 2013