Transcript National Science Foundation Division of Physics C. Denise Caldwell Division Director Presentation to the Plasma Science Committee, July 2014

National Science Foundation
Division of Physics
C. Denise Caldwell
Division Director
Presentation to the Plasma Science Committee, July 2014
Plasma Physics Program - Overview
 NSF/DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science & Engineering (solicitation NSF 13596)
 in existence since 1997, under interagency MOU
 combined funding level $2.1 M FY13 (new starts)
 NSF ( 7 programs), DOE BPS, & AFOSR
 12% of submissions funded
 NSF Career Awards
 5 yr grants, 8 awarded since 2005, young faculty
 Conference/Workshop grants
Scientific Focus
The Plasma Physics Program embraces the diversity and dynamism of the plasma physics field
Some key science questions for the field:
How does anti-matter behave?
Where are the new frontiers for plasmas in biology & medicine?
Where are we headed with plasma systems in nanoscale manufacturing?
Where will fundamental knowledge lead with plasmas for combustion, lighting & displays?
Why do some planets & stars have strong surface magnetic fields and others do not?
What is the origin of coronae and winds in virtually all stars, including the Sun?
How are magnetic fields generated in stars, galaxies, and clusters?
How does the addition of charged dust affect plasma behavior?
Can plasma processes lead to room sized high energy particle accelerators?
Current Plasma Physics Portfolio
• HED/LPI … 18 projects
• Low Temperature … 21
projects
• Turbulence, etc. … 20
projects
• Reconnection … 13
projects
• TOTAL … 72 projects
Recon
18%
Low Temp
29%
HED - LPI
25%
Turb
28%
Thru end of FY13
Plasma Program – research areas
 Basic Plasma Science Facility at UCLA was
renewed thru 2016 … shared funding between
DOE Office of Science & several NSF divisions
NSF – PHY 1036140 – Walter Gekelman, PI
Plasma Program – research areas
Simulations of Plasma Wake Field
Accelerator experiments at FACET*
Figure 1. Illustration plot of a twobunch PWFA in the "Blow-Out"
regime. This plot is a combination of
(a) the plot of cross-section of the
plasma electron density (three blue
plots on the walls), (b) three
dimensional contour surface of the
plasma electron density (green
surfaces which stand for the inside
and outside surfaces of the plasma
electron sheath around the bubble)
and (c) the beam particles (plotted as
colored dots
NSF – PHY 0936266 -- PI Chan Joshi; this work … University of California Los Angeles,
CA, USA, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, USA, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
CA, USA, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal
Plasma Program – research areas
Optical nonlinearity in Ar and N2 near the ionization
threshold … measured with 10 fs time resolution and
micron space resolution … impacts for example
propagation of intense laser pulses in gases
NSF – PHY 0904302 -- PI Howard Milchberg; this
work … University of Maryland, College Park MD
Plasma Program – research areas
“Assessment of Proton Deflectometry for Exploding Wire Experiments”
•Proton deflectometry has the potential to recover details of the B-field configuration vital to
accurate interpretation and simulation of these systems
NSF – PHY 0903876 -- PI Farhat Beg; Co-PIs Mingsheng Wei & Simon Bott;
University of California San Diego, CA, USA
Plasma Program – research areas
Three-Dimensional Onset and
Evolution of Spontaneous Reconnection
Figure based on a kinetic
simulation shows a typical
trajectory of a trapped
electron in anti-parallel
reconnection overlaid on
contours of constant |B|
NSF – PHY – 0844620 – Jan
Egedal-Pedersen, PI – MIT
Plasma Program – research areas
Evolution of shear induced melting in
dusty plasma
“Melting is a kind of disorder. We
measured disorder locally, in each
video frame. Then we prepared this
graph which shows how disorder
spreads. There is a melting front that
moves through the crystalline lattice.
Previously nobody knew whether it
would propagate at the speed of
transverse or longitudinal waves or not
at any fixed speed at all due to thermal
diffusion. We found it had the fixed
speed of the transverse wave.”
NSF – PHY – 0903501 – John Goree, PI – this work was published in PRL with
co-authors Yan Feng , John Goree & Bin Liu – University of Iowa
Plasma Program – research areas
MPS Budgets
FY 2014 -0.3% FY 2015
–
4.5%
+4.0%
FY 2012
FY 2013
$ 1296 M
$ 1300 M
$ 1250 M
$ 1309 M
(estimate)
(request)
2.8%
Amount (Millions)
$300
$250
5.2%
1.6%
3.6%
vs. FY13
2.4%
$200
FY12
FY13
FY14
$150
$100
FY15
$50
$0
AST
CHE
DMR
DMS
PHY
FY 2014 Budget Estimate
Physics Division Estimate for FY 2014 is $266.3 M
Approximately 2% for Operations Panels, IPA Appointments, IPA Travel, M&S
Approximately 30% for M&O for Facilities –
ATLAS and CMS, IceCube, LIGO, NSCL
Approximately 8% for Physics Frontiers Centers – Competition Underway
Approximately 3% for Education and Broadening Participation –
REU Sites, LIGO Education Center, QuarkNet
Leaves 57% ($152 M) to Cover Major Areas of Physics –
Experimental and Theoretical
Base Programs Essentially Flat with Respect to FY 2013
FY 2015 NSF Budget Request to Congress
NSF Funding by Account
(Dollars in Millions)
Research & Related Activities
Education & Human Resources
Major Research Equipment & Facilities
Construction
Agency Operations & Award Management
National Science Board
Office of Inspector General1
Total, NSF
FY 2015 Request
Change Over
FY 2014 Estimate
FY 2013
Actual
$5,558.88
834.62
196.49
FY 2014
Estimate
$5,808.92
846.50
200.00
FY 2015
Request
$5,807.46
889.75
200.76
Amount
-$1.46
43.25
0.76
Percent
-0.03%
5.1%
0.4%
293.50
4.10
298.00
4.30
338.23
4.37
40.23
0.07
13.5%
1.6%
14.33
14.20
14.43
$6,901.91 $7,171.92 $7,255.00
0.23
$83.08
1.6%
1.2%
T otals may not add due to rounding.
1
FY 2013 Actual includes $1.16 million of obligations funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
of 2009 (ARRA).
R&RA – Research and Related Activities
(Direct Support for Research and Facilities Operations)
MPS is 22.3% of Total
R&RA Funding
(Dollars in Millions)
Change over
FY 2014 Estimate
FY 2013
Actual
$679.21
FY 2014
Estimate
$721.27
Computer & Information Science & Engineering
858.13
894.00
893.35
-0.65
-0.1%
Engineering
820.18
851.07
858.17
7.10
0.8%
Geosciences
1,273.77
1,303.03
1,304.39
1.36
0.1%
Mathematical & Physical Sciences
1,249.34
1,299.80
1,295.56
-4.24
-0.3%
Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences
242.62
256.85
272.20
15.35
6.0%
International and Integrative Activities
434.28
481.59
473.86
-7.73
-1.6%
1.39
1.30
1.41
0.11
8.1%
$5,558.88 $5,808.92 $5,807.46
-$1.46
Biological Sciences
U.S. Arctic Research Commission
Total, R&RA
T otals may not add due to rounding.
FY 2015
Request Amount
$708.52
-$12.75
Percent
-1.8%
-
FY 2015 MPS Budget Request to Congress
MPS Funding
(Dollars in Millions)
Change Over
FY 2014 Estimate
FY 2013
Actual
$232.17
FY 2014
Estimate
$239.06
FY 2015
Request
$236.24
Amount
-$2.82
Percent
-1.2%
Chemistry (CHE)
229.39
235.79
237.23
1.44
0.6%
Materials Research (DMR)
291.09
298.01
298.99
0.98
0.3%
Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
219.02
225.64
224.40
-1.24
-0.5%
Physics (PHY)
250.45
266.30
263.70
-2.60
-1.0%
27.22
35.00
35.00
-
-
Astronomical Sciences (AST)
Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (OMA)
Total, MPS
T otals may not add due to rounding.
$1,249.34 $1,299.80 $1,295.56
-$4.24
-0.3%
Reaching Out Across NSF
Benefit through MRI
e.g. MRI: Development of Magnetized Dusty Plasma Device
PHY-1126067, Auburn, Edward Thomas, PI
MRI: Consortium: Development of A Large Plasma Device for
Studies of Magnetic Reconnection and Related Phenomena
Key Player in CIF21 through CDS&E
Revamped Computational Physics to Focus on New Approaches
to Computation Driven by Science Questions
Stressed Overlap with Disciplinary Programs in Division
Worked Closely with Program in Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
e.g. SI2-SSI: Particle-in-cell and kinetic simulation center
ACI-1339893, UCLA, Warren Mori, PI
Launched New Program in Accelerator Science
University-Based Program with Focus on Education
Seeking New Paradigms
Currently Reviewing 50+ Proposals
Five Perspectives on the Frontiers of Physics
Controlling the Quantum World– Electromagnetic radiation in the non-classical limit,
Entanglement, Cavity QED, QIS, Optomechanics
Complex Systems and Collective Behavior – Living cells, biological systems,
ultracold fermions and bosons, quark-gluon liquid
Neutrinos and Beyond the Higgs – Neutrino mass, new particles, unification
of quantum mechanics and gravity, electron and neutron dipole moments
Origin and Structure of the Universe – Star formation and creation of the elements,
dark matter and dark energy, modeling of black holes, gravitational waves,
magnetic fields
Strongly-Interacting Systems– QCD computations, quark structure of baryons,
high-field laser-matter interactions, supernovae, strong gravity