June 1-5, 2009 June 8-10, 2009 Nuclear Physics at NSF NP Experiment –Structure –Heavy Ions –Symmetries –Hadrons and QCD NP Theory Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics –Astrophysics (Notre Dame, FSU) –Neutrinos (Borexino, ββ, ϑ 13 ) Frontier Center (Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics) NSCL FY2008 total: $45M

June 1-5, 2009 June 8-10, 2009 Additional Funding Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) –small (<$1M); large ($1-4M) –annual average about $1.6M –awards to university labs & user groups at national labs Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) –5-year initiative begun FY2008 –plan: +$50M/year, totaling $750M –1 NP-related award in FY08 (U Washington) Petascale Applications DHS Domestic Nuclear Detection Office –multi-year initiative begun FY2007 –2 NP-related awards

June 1-5, 2009 June 8-10, 2009 NSF-GPRA Interface merit review process Committee of Visitors –every 3 years –evaluation includes proposal decision process program balance degree of risk taking –January 2009 –report and response available: highlights

June 1-5, 2009 June 8-10, 2009 Highlights Overview neutron charge distribution polarized e vs. 2-photon exchange short-range correlations in nuclei handedness in nuclei archaeometry applications Monte Carlo studies of dense matter gluon component of proton spin pion decay constants magic numbers for neutron-rich nuclei production of 96 Cd shape transitions in neutron-rich nuclei symmetries and lattice QCD hadron spectra

June 1-5, 2009 June 8-10, 2009 FY Summary FY2008 R&RA: $4.827B FY2009 R&RA request: $5.594B Recovery Act: $3B; op. plan approved –$2.5B R&RA, including $0.3B MRI $0.2B ARI FY2009 R&RA conference: $5.183B (+7%); op. plan approved FY2010 (total) request: $7B (FY08+16%) –… to $9.7B in FY2014

June 1-5, 2009 June 8-10, 2009 FY2009 Summary appropriations: NP experiment: up 0.5% NP theory: up 4.5% NSCL: $19.5M … $20.5M (toward optimal ops) Recovery Act: NP (theory + experiment): about $12M

June 1-5, 2009 June 8-10, 2009 FY2009 Recovery Act investigator programs –increase success rate –“standard” multi-year awards –priority to new PIs –cannot mix with program funds implementation –make some “standard” awards with program funds –frees up out-year commitments –spreads out positive impact of Recovery Act funds –can only work long-term with increased appropriations

June 1-5, 2009 June 8-10, 2009 FY2009 Recovery Act 2 new solicitations: –MRI-R 2 August 10, 2009 $200M (same as MRI-1) awards up to $6M quota of 3/university cost sharing exempted for all but top 100 R&D universities –ARI-R 2 (Academic Research Infrastructure) LOI July 1; full proposal August 24, 2009 $200M awards up to $10M quota of 1/university cost sharing not required

June 1-5, 2009 June 8-10, 2009 FY2010 R&RA Budget Request

June 1-5, 2009 June 8-10, 2009 FY2010 MPS Budget Request

June 1-5, 2009 June 8-10, 2009 FY2010 Physics Division Budget Request

June 1-5, 2009 June 8-10, 2009 DUSEL NSF review Jan Solicitation S4 –proposals to develop project plans for potential candidates for the initial suite of experiments –anticipate $15M: $5M over 3 years –proposals under review –expect awards in summer DUSEL R&D: supplanted by S4

June 1-5, 2009 June 8-10, 2009 People NSF Director: Arden Bement NSF Deputy Director: Cora Marrett (acting) MPS Assistant Director: T. Chan [search begun] Physics Division Director: Joe Dehmer Nuclear Physics: –BDK (expt and theory) –Allena Opper(and astro, underground lab)

June 1-5, 2009 June 8-10, 2009 Backup Slides

June 1-5, 2009 June 8-10, 2009 Nuclear Physics FY2009 NSCL operations: restore trajectory toward optimal operations Nuclear Theory and Experiment: –success rate higher for FY2009 –funds freed up for use in FY2010/11 Move forward with DOE on partnered funding plan for neutron EDM