This grant from the Physics Division is designed to support university-based centers and institutes, fostering transformational advances and major breakthroughs at the intellectual frontiers of physics. It provides crucial resources—combining diverse talents, skills, disciplines, and specialized infrastructure—that are typically unavailable to individual researchers. The program encourages collective efforts to drive significant progress across all sub-fields of physics, including interdisciplinary projects. Successful proposals must demonstrate potential for profound scientific advances, robust activities for education, diversity, and public outreach, and clear broader impacts. This initiative aims to leverage a collaborative center- or institute-like approach to achieve synergistic and high-impact research outcomes.
Opportunity ID: 232634
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | 13-559 |
| 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: | May 01, 2013 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jan 27, 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 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jan 27, 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 |
| Archive Date: | Feb 27, 2014 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $10,000,000 |
| 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: | *See Solicitation for additional information. |
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 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. |
| Link to Additional Information: | NSF Publication 13-559 |
| 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 |
Version History
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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 | PKG00175916 | May 01, 2013 | Jan 27, 2014 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
232634 RR_SF424_1_2-1.2.pdf
232634 PerformanceSite_1_4-1.4.pdf
232634 RR_OtherProjectInfo_1_3-1.3.pdf
232634 RR_KeyPersonExpanded_1_2-1.2.pdf
232634 RR_PersonalData_1_2-1.2.pdf
232634 RR_Budget-1.1.pdf
232634 NSF_CoverPage_1_3-1.3.pdf
Optional forms
232634 RR_SubawardBudget-1.2.pdf
232634 NSF_DeviationAuthorization-1.1.pdf
232634 NSF_SuggestedReviewers-1.1.pdf
232634 NSF_Registration_1_3-1.3.pdf
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