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Dear Colleague Letter - Deputy Division Director, Division of Physics (PHY) Employment Opportunity

Appointment of Dr. C. Denise Caldwell as Division Director, Division of Physics (PHY)

Physical and Mathematical Principles of Brain Structure and Function

NSF Budget Request FY 2014

Mathematical & Physical Science FY 2014 Budget Presentation

Mathematical & Physical Science Budget Request FY 2014

Dear Colleague Letter - Division Director, Division of Astronomical Sciences (AST) Employment Opportunity

MPS Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate - Graduate Research Supplements (AGEP-GRS) Dear Colleague Letter (NSF 13-071)

Appointment of Dr. Patricia M. Knezek as Deputy Division Director, Division of Astronomical Sciences (AST)

Appointment of Dr. Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague as Division Director, Division of Chemistry (CHE)

MPS Rotator and Reviewer Opportunities

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Science Behind The News

Science Behind The News is a relatively new, fast-paced video series supported by NSF that explores the science, technology, engineering and mathematics behind current events. Each video features at least one interview with an NSF-funded scientist or researcher.

The five new videos highlight work funded by NSF's Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences. The scope of scientific and educational activity supported in the directorate is enormous, ranging from phenomena at cosmological distances, to environmental science on the human scale, through quantum mechanical processes in atomic and subatomic physics, to phenomena of the unimaginably small.

The five episodes are:

Quantum Computing
Imagine if engineers could build a computer to be millions of times faster than anything that exists today, yet so small it’s microscopic. John Preskill, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology, explains the science behind quantum computing, the next great frontier in computer science.

Predictive Policing
The LAPD is using a new tactic in their fight against crime called “predictive policing.” It’s a computer program that was originally developed by a team at UCLA, including mathematician Andrea Bertozzi and anthropologist Jeff Brantingham.

Impacts on Jupiter
The impact of comets on the surface of Jupiter are a fairly common experience. At the University of Central Florida, astronomers Joseph Harrington and Csaba Palotai are leading a project that studies precisely how these impacts happen, and also provides valuable information about what might happen if such a comet struck Earth.

Drug-Resistant Bacteria
As disease-causing bacteria becomes increasingly resistant to antibiotics, scientists like Erin Carlson from Indiana University are turning to naturalsources to find new medicines.

Bio-Inspired Materials
In the search for the next groundbreaking tough material, scientists like David Kisailus from the University of California, Riverside, are looking to nature for inspiration,including under the sea where one little crustacean packs a walloping punch – the peacock mantis shrimp.
MPS 2012-2013 Distinguished Lecture Series
NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences  2012-2013 Distinguished Lecture Series
DataWay

NSF seeks community input for the development of integrated data management infrastructures across the sciences and engineering. NSF recognizes the need to facilitate the emergence of tools and methods for the use and dissemination of data across disciplines, techniques, and communities. To meet this need, NSF will partner with other Federal agencies and the broader scientific community.

For more information Click Here.

Computational & Data-Enabled Sci. & Eng.

Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E) is a new program.  The program will be collaborative with relevant disciplinary programs in other NSF directorates and offices. CDS&E is now clearly recognizable as a distinct intellectual and technological discipline lying at the intersection of applied mathematics, statistics, computer science, core science and engineering disciplines. It is dedicated to the development and use of computational methods and data mining and management systems to enable scientific discovery and engineering innovation. For more information on the CDS&E Program Click Here.

Recently Announced Funding Opportunities See All

Physics Frontiers Centers
(NSF  13-559) Posted April 19, 2013

LIGO Research Support
(PD  13-1252) Posted April 18, 2013

Online Resource Center for Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
(NSF  13-558) Posted April 17, 2013

Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers
(NSF  13-556) Posted April 15, 2013

Domestic Nuclear Detection Office-National Science Foundation Academic Research Initiative
(NSF  13-554) Posted April 12, 2013

Upcoming Due Dates See All

Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education
(NSF  13-518) Full Proposal: May 29, 2013, Director's INSPIRE Awards Full Proposals

Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education
(NSF  13-518) Full Proposal: May 29, 2013, INSPIRE Track 1 Full Proposals

CISE-MPS Interdisciplinary Faculty Program in Quantum Information Science
(NSF  12-540) Full Proposal: June 3, 2013

Scalable Nanomanufacturing
(NSF  13-545) Full Proposal: June 3, 2013

Mentoring Through Critical Transition Points in the Mathematical Sciences
(NSF  11-542) Full Proposal: June 4, 2013

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News See All
artist's conception of SS Cygni double-star system Accurate Distance Measurement Resolves Major Astronomical Mystery
Released May 23, 2013
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image of a toroidal droplet Soft Matter Offers Ways to Study Arrangement of Ordered Materials in Non-spherical Spaces
Released May 20, 2013
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Released May 16, 2013
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image of a drop of water World's Smallest Droplets
Released May 16, 2013
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image of the MIT research group Stacking 2-D Materials Produces Surprising Results
Released May 16, 2013
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Impact of FY 2013 Sequestration Order on NSF Awards
Large Facilities Manual, January 4, 2013
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