1. May 15-16, 2003RHIC-AGS User Group Meeting NSF Nuclear Physics Budget Overview: FY2003, FY2004 NSF Initiatives Physics Division issues

2. May 15-16, 2003RHIC-AGS User Group Meeting NSF NP Program Facility: MSU Coupled Cyclotron Facility University Facilities: ND, FSU, SUNY-SB User Groups: RHIC, JLAB Collaborations: –LANSCE (UCNA, np  d  ); NIST –Solar neutrinos, double beta decay Individuals

3. May 15-16, 2003RHIC-AGS User Group Meeting Research Highlights Muon g-2 Neutron Monochromator at NIST

4. May 15-16, 2003RHIC-AGS User Group Meeting Research Highlights Search for Stable 16 Be Breakout from Hot CNO Cycle

5. May 15-16, 2003RHIC-AGS User Group Meeting Research Highlights Distribution of Proton Charge and Magnetism Dense Matter Equation of State

6. May 15-16, 2003RHIC-AGS User Group Meeting NSF/MPS FY2003 Budgets Budgets: FY2002FY2003FY2003 ($ millions)(Actual) (Request)(Final) NSF R&RA3,5993,7834,083 (+13.1%) MPS 920 942 1,041 (+13.1%) Physics 196 193 Notes: 0.65% overall reduction Physics Division –“low double digit” percentage increase –Advance guidance: PI programs get 5% boost

7. May 15-16, 2003RHIC-AGS User Group Meeting NSF/MPS FY2004 Budgets Budgets: FY2003FY2003FY2004 ($ millions) (Request)(Final)(Request) NSF R&RA3,7834,0834,106 (+8.5%,+0.6%) MPS 942 1,0411,061 (+12.7%,+1.9%) Physics 193 217 Note: % change over ??? yet to be resolved

8. May 15-16, 2003RHIC-AGS User Group Meeting NSF Initiatives MRI: deadline past, proposals under review –FY2002: $640K (BigBite, NP Astro) ITR –Deadline past, proposals under review –FY2004 is last planned year –FY2002: $500K for PHENIX/Globus

9. May 15-16, 2003RHIC-AGS User Group Meeting Physics Division Physics Frontiers Centers 4 funded in FY2001, 1 in FY2002 2 held over; anticipate funding –Plasma –JINA next competition begins August 2005 steady state –every 3 years on 6-year cycle –existing centers to be folded in to competition

10. May 15-16, 2003RHIC-AGS User Group Meeting Physics Division New programs Biological Physics Physics at the Information Frontier –Advanced computing –Networks –Quantum information science Accelerator Physics and Mid-Sized Instrumentation –NSF-wide concern –FY2005

11. May 15-16, 2003RHIC-AGS User Group Meeting NSAC Charges Nuclear Theory –Opportunities –People and Tools Fundamental Neutron Science –What is the present/future science context? Education –Where are we now? Where do we want to be? –How do we get there?