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Report of the Committee of Visitors Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering Office of Basic Energy Sciences U.S. Department of Energy to the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee Review of Fiscal Years 2009, 2010, 2011 Oral Summary Presentation to BESAC by Matthew Tirrell July 27, 2012

A Committee of Visitors (COV), under the guidance of the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC), reviewed the programs of the Materials Science and Engineering Division within the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Basic Energy Sciences over the fiscal years 2009, 2010 and Thirty-three members of the committee met at the Germantown headquarters of BES on 22 May – 24 May The COV was chaired by Professor Matthew Tirrell and the format of the review was similar to that used in the prior COVs. The COV Panels reviewed the 3 programmatic teams (Scattering and Instrumentation Sciences; Materials Discovery, Design and Synthesis; Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) within the MSE Division plus the DOE Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research program.

The COV membership was selected by the COV chair, Professor Matthew Tirrell, in consultation with the chair of BESAC and the Division leadership. The members were chosen to represent a cross- section of experts in scientific fields relevant to the activities supported by the MSE Division. A balance was achieved between researchers who currently receive funding from BES and those that do not (22 and 10, respectively), between academic (24), national laboratory (4) and industrial researchers (3), between those who have previously served on a COV and those who have not (7 and 25, respectively), and also including representatives from EPSCoR states (5). The following COV members served as the leaders for the Panels: Margaret Murnane (Scattering and Instrumentation Sciences), Juan de Pablo (Materials Discovery, Design and Synthesis), Max Lagally (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics), John Sarrao (EPSCoR)

COV Members and Contact Information

Major Findings of the COV The work supported by this Division is of outstanding quality and meets a very high national and international standard. Research supported has an excellent balance of superb scientific quality and investment in high-risk, high-reward research. The Division staff and program managers work with demonstrable skill, dedication, professionalism and scientific judgment. The proposal review processes are rigorous and executed with care and consistency. Sufficient reviews were obtained in every case examined and the final decisions are generally thoroughly documented. The program managers use the peer review system that is in place very effectively, with appropriate judgment and flexibility in reaching funding decisions. The Division of Materials Science and Engineering plays a distinctive, and indeed uniquely important, role in the spectrum of agencies supporting materials research in the US. The ability and commitment of DMSE to support research programs over a substantial period of time is very important to maintaining the vibrancy and competitiveness of the field. At the same time, the portfolio of the Division is dynamic and able to launch new initiatives. There is considerably more untapped research potential worthy of financial support in the materials science community, if more funding were available. As an example, but not limited to this example, increased support for small and mid- scale instrumentation would be beneficial. There were no data provided on the gender or racial diversity of the PIs or postdocs and graduate students supported by the Division. There is a disparity in the style of presentation of information provided to the COV process on the proposals for university grants and for laboratory programs with multiple FWPs, which leads to different degrees of attention to these categories of programs in the reviews.

Major Findings continued The increased use of white papers, which is laudable, leads to several interesting observations and findings: – The appropriate discouragement of an unsuitable idea proffered in a white paper is a form of declination, not reflected in statistics. Therefore, statistics in use now may not accurately reflect the full proposal pressure on the Division. – Tracking white paper submissions, and keeping them in files where the white paper leads to a proposal submission, may provide a useful additional source of information on the content and trends of the Division’s programs. – When white papers are submitted in response to an FOA for a new initiative, the volume of white papers is sometimes so large that the individual documents may not receive adequate attention.

Major Recommendations of the COV Given the untapped potential for additional, BES mission-relevant research, increased research funding to support rising costs and new ideas is strongly recommended. Increased travel funding for program managers is an imperative, in order for them to maintain contact with leading science and to promote our international competitiveness. Support for small/midscale instrumentation is a critical need. Maintain a good functional balance between the scales of scientific funding and funding of facilities; the advent of major facilities necessitates enhanced science funding in newly emerging areas. Continue to advance the implementation of PAMS aggressively. Compile and maintain an up-to-date database on gender and racial demographics of PIs and of postdocs and graduate students supported by the Division.

Major Recommendations continued Though time-to-decision statistics are improving, give further attention to this metric, particularly, in contacting and documenting contact with applicants whose proposals are being declined for funding. Given the increased use of white papers, encouraged in the last COV report, track and record them in a more thorough manner, both to aid the COV review process and to document a higher level of proposal pressure than shows up statistically. Consider making more use of rebuttals in the proposal review process both to shape close decisions in either direction and to help calibrate reviewers. Provide future COV reviewers a more comprehensive perspective on review processes and oversight mechanisms for Laboratory programs to facilitate an evaluation comparable to that performed on single PI folders. Comment: This last recommendation stems from the different appearance to the COV of the documentation for laboratory reviews, several of which, owing to their size, were provided on DVDs rather than on paper. This point was discussed at the out- briefing and any misconceptions about the documentation of lab reviews was clarified there and in a follow-up from DMSE Director Horton.

EPSCOR (partial) Findings: Given the stated goal of EPSCOR to foster broader opportunities, the overall renewal rate should be lower than in the DMSE core program and the current limitation of only one renewal for each implementation grant is a positive. Similarly, EPSCOR should promote turn over in PIs and strive to avoid repeat performers. Recommendations: Develop quantitative metrics based on longitudinal PI funding (from DOE and other research agencies) to assess success of DOE EPSCOR program. Explore other metrics to track EPSCOR progress.

Overall, very strong performance by DMSE Strong scientific portfolio Excellent, understandable review and decision- making processes