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 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, …

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)

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

MPS Funding History by Division

MPS Budget Request FY 2005

FY2004 Budget (began in 2002) R 04 (after 0.5% recission) AST CHE DMR DMS PHY OMA ___ ___ ___ Principles: Meet or exceed President’s request Satisfy Congressional language Support Core

 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 MPS 2005 Budget Highlights

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

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 21 st Century  Prioritize science, prioritize implementation plan  Non-EPP Chair, significant representation from other fields MPS-led process for Underground Science Theory