This grant from the Division of Physics supports university-based centers enabling transformational advances and major breakthroughs at the intellectual frontiers of physics. It provides resources like diverse talents, skills, and specialized infrastructure, which are typically unavailable to individual researchers. The program covers all physics sub-fields, including interdisciplinary projects at their interfaces with other disciplines. Successful proposals must demonstrate profound advance potential, include substantive activities for education, diversity, and public outreach, ensure broader societal impacts, and justify a synergistic center- or institute-like approach for collective progress and student education.
Opportunity ID: 54040
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | 10-560 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Physics Frontiers Centers |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 7 |
| Assistance Listings: | 47.049 — Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Apr 26, 2010 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jan 25, 2011 Preliminary Proposal Due Date(s) (required) (due by 5 p.m. proposer’s local time): August 11, 2010 Full Proposal Deadline(s): January 25, 2011 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jan 25, 2011 Preliminary Proposal Due Date(s) (required) (due by 5 p.m. proposer’s local time): August 11, 2010 Full Proposal Deadline(s): January 25, 2011 |
| Archive Date: | – |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $15,000,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $5,000,000 |
| Award Floor: | $1,000,000 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | *Organization Limit: Proposals may only be submitted by the following: -Universities and Colleges – Universities and two- and four-year colleges (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members. Such organizations also are referred to as academic institutions. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | U.S. National Science Foundation |
| 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, e.g. biology, quantum information science, mathematical physics, condensed matter physics, and emerging areas of physics are also included. 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. |
| Link to Additional Information: | NSF Publication 10-560 |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
NSF grants.gov support
grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov Email:grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov |
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Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | NSF grants.gov support grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov Email: grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47.049 | PKG00018567 | Apr 26, 2010 | Jan 25, 2011 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
54040 RR_SF424_1_2-1.2.pdf
54040 PerformanceSite_1_2-1.2.pdf
54040 RR_OtherProjectInfo_1_2-1.2.pdf
54040 RR_KeyPersonExpanded_1_2-1.2.pdf
54040 RR_PersonalData_1_2-1.2.pdf
54040 RR_Budget-1.1.pdf
54040 NSF_CoverPage_1_3-1.3.pdf
Optional forms
54040 RR_SubawardBudget-1.2.pdf
54040 NSF_DeviationAuthorization-1.1.pdf
54040 NSF_SuggestedReviewers-1.1.pdf
54040 NSF_Registration_1_3-1.3.pdf
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