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   * Demographics Committee member: Angela Olinto (UChicago)   * Demographics Committee member: Angela Olinto (UChicago)
   * Contacts: Jim Whitmore (NSF-PHYS-PA)   * Contacts: Jim Whitmore (NSF-PHYS-PA)
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 ==== Funding Policies and Philosophy ==== ==== Funding Policies and Philosophy ====
 +The PHY division has recently issued a solicitation (14-576): This division-wide solicitation replaces an annual Dear Colleague Letter (the most recent version is NSF12-068). The solicitation follows most of the requirements in the Grant Proposal Guide, but has additional requirements listed below. These relate primarily to proposers who anticipate having multiple sources of support, and proposals involving significant instrumentation development. This solicitation also has deadlines instead of target dates. All proposals submitted to the Physics Division that are not governed by another solicitation (such as CAREER) should be submitted to this solicitation; otherwise they will be returned without review.
 +===Eligibility Information===
 +== Who May Submit Proposals==
 +The categories of proposers eligible to submit proposals to the National Science Foundation are identified in the Grant Proposal Guide, Chapter I, Section E.
 +==Who May Serve as PI==
 +There are no restrictions or limits.
 +==Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization==
 +There are no restrictions or limits.
 +==Limit on Number of Proposals per PI or Co-PI==
 +None. However, the Physics Division strongly encourages single proposal submission for possible co-review rather than multiple submissions of proposals with slight differences to several programs.
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 +  * For each proposal received, the Particle Astrophysics (PA) Program selects a number of adhoc reviewers and then convenes a (FACA) Panel which considers the adhoc reviews and provides a ranked list of proposals that serves as advice to the program. As noted above, if a proposal contains both PA and non-PA projects, the program shares the proposal with another program and co-reviews it in both the PA Panel and the other Program’s panel.
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 ==== RFP and Proposal structure and frequency ==== ==== RFP and Proposal structure and frequency ====
 +Annually, with a deadline of the last Wednesday in October for the PA Program. Other programs in PHY may have a different deadline (see NSF 14-576).
 ==== Selected Questions and Available Data ==== ==== Selected Questions and Available Data ====
- +    * Information to questions provided by J. Whitmore, but tables and details cannot easily be wikified, so please click on this {{:aaac:nsf_phys_particle_astrophysicsv2.pdf|pdf file}}  for the complete information    (P. Cushman 1/24/15)
-* Who is writing the proposals? +
-PI position: e.g. postdoc, assist. Prof, assoc. Prof, tenured faculty, research faculty, Gender, race/ethnicity, geographical location, size of institution  +
- +
-//Could get it but probably take some time to collect from each proposal// +
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-* How many proposals submitted by same PI - broken down by PI category  +
-//Mostly one, a few PIs may submit 2, not counting supplemental request +
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-* Number of senior researchers on proposal per year, per category of PI, per funding requested  +
-//Could get it but probably take some time to collect from each proposal +
- +
-* Compare success rates of different sorts of proposals per PI category, per number of senior researchers, per number of proposals submitted in the last 5 years, per funding requested +
-//**Huge amount of work** +
- +
-* Years between proposals cross correlate to success rate, PI category, # of senior researcher +
-// Will be mostly every 3 years since most of our awards are 3-year awards +
- +
-* Do younger researchers rise through the ranks (are researcher on proposal and then become PI later)?  +
-Number of years between first appearance as senior researcher on a proposal to PI +
-// Could get it but probably take some time to collect from each proposal +
- +
-* What number or fraction of the community is supported by soft money? +
- +
-//**Need to define community**  +
- +
-* What number or fraction of the community is supported by research projects/missions? +
-* What number or fraction of the community is support by institutions? +
-* What number or fraction of the community can or does serve as PI? +
-* What number or fraction of the community is part of a smaller groups (1-3) vs larger groups? +
-* Are there other sources of scientific support for the community? +
-* How much of the science support for the community comes through missions or other stable sources relative to competed 3-year proposals?  +
-* What fraction of the money for competed research is distributed to various types of institution (labs, universities, centers, industry)?  +
- +
-// Essentially all goes to Universities – there may be some subawards to labs, industry +
- +
-* Individual support questions +
-* How many grants of typical size are required to support an individual investigator?  +
-* How many sources of support does the typical investigator (PI, CoI, student) rely upon?  +
- +
-// Don’t know how to answer these two  +
-* How many investigators/students participate in the average proposal?  +
- +
-//I could answer this for the awards we make – not too hard +
- +
-*Career questions +
-* How many awards have gone to first-time PIs?  +
-* How much of the typical award supports the PI? CoIs? Students? +
-* What is the age (in career) distribution of PIs? Proposers? +
-* What is the age (in career) distribution of the relevant community? +
- +
-// Could get it but probably take some time to collect from each proposal +
- +
-* Competition Questions +
-* What is the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable success rates? +
-* What factors determine what the acceptable boundary is? (program staff, reviewers, community, fairness, etc.) +
- +
-//Don’t know how to answer these three  +
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-* Does the success rate/number of proposals make any difference in program allocations by agencies? +
-Question for Program Managers +
-* How many proposals have been reviewed annually for the last 10 years?  +
-* How many proposals have been selected annually for the last 10 year?  +
-* How much money has been awarded annually in the last 10 years for competed research grants?  +
-* What fraction of the total program budget each year has gone to support competed grants?  +
- +
-// I could answer these questions for the awards we make – not too hard +
- +
-* Questions about Impact on People +
-* What anecdotal evidence do we have about the impact of funding rates? +
-* What quantitative information can we find about people entering or leaving the field? +
-* What are the off-ramps (retirement, leaving the field, working part time, etc.) for each discipline and how many are using them? +
-* What are the on-ramps (students, from other fields, shifting research focus, etc.) for each discipline and how many are using them? +
- +
-// Don’t know how to answer these +
  
 ==== Links to Existing talks, trending graphs, relevant information ==== ==== Links to Existing talks, trending graphs, relevant information ====
  
   * Click on **[[AAAC:nsf particle astrophysics:resources|Resources]]**    * Click on **[[AAAC:nsf particle astrophysics:resources|Resources]]** 
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