Physics Frontiers Centers

Post Date

May 1st 2013

Application Due Date

January 27th 2014

Preliminary Proposal Due Date(s) (required) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): August 05, 2013 Full Proposal Deadline(s): January 27, 2014

Funding Opportunity Number

13-559

CFDA Number(s)

47.049

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Number of Awards

7

Eligibility Categories

Other

*See Solicitation for additional information.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $10000000

• Award Range:

  $1000000 - $5000000

Grant Description

The Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC) program supports university-based centers and institutes where the collective efforts of a larger group of individuals can enable transformational advances in the most promising research areas. The program is designed to foster major breakthroughs at the intellectual frontiers of physics by providing needed resources such as combinations of talents, skills, disciplines, and/or specialized infrastructure, not usually available to individual investigators or small groups, in an environment in which the collective efforts of the larger group can be shown to be seminal to promoting significant progress in the science and the education of students. Activities supported through the program are in all sub-fields of physics within the purview of the Division of Physics: atomic, molecular, optical, plasma, elementary particle, nuclear, astro-, gravitational, and biological physics. Interdisciplinary projects at the interface between these physics areas and other disciplines and physics sub-fields are also included, although the bulk of the effort should fall within one of those areas within the purview of the Physics Division. The successful PFC activity will demonstrate: (1) the potential for a profound advance in physics; (2) creative, substantive activities aimed at enhancing education, diversity, and public outreach; (3) potential for broader impacts, e.g., impacts on other field(s) and benefits to society; (4) a synergy or value-added rationale that justifies a center- or institute-like approach.

Contact Information

• Agency

  National Science Foundation

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• More Information:

  NSF Publication 13-559