Focused Research Groups (FRG) in the Mathematical Sciences

The mathematical sciences thrive on collaborative work, and certain research projects are best carried out by teams of investigators. The NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) supports such research teams through the Focused Research Group (FRG) activity. Projects supported through FRG are scientifically highly focused, timely, and substantial in both scope and impact. Supported projects are essentially collaborative in nature, their success dependent on interaction of a group of researchers. Groups may (but need not) include, in addition to mathematical scientists, researchers from other scientific and engineering disciplines. Groups may (but need not) include researchers from several institutions. Award size is from $150,000 to $350,000 per year for up to three years duration. For more information, see the DMS FRG solicitation.

The FRG solicitation for Fiscal Year 2003 can be found at http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf02129

DMS Focused Research Group (FRG) Awards in FY 2002

• Approximation of Lyapunov Exponents

0139895	Dieci, Luca	Georgia Institute of Technology
0139874	Jolly, Michael	Indiana University
0139824	Van Vleck, Erik	University of Kansas

• Multiscale Geometric Analysis – Theory, Tools, Applications

0140698	Donoho, David	Stanford University
0140540	Candes, Emanuel	California Institute of Technology
0140587	Huo, Xiaoming	Georgia Institute of Technology
0140623	Jones, Peter	Yale University

• The Geometry of Superstrings

0139799

Donagi, Ron

University of Pennsylvania

• Differential Algebraic Inequalities and their Applications in Engineering

0139701	Potra, Florian	University of Maryland, Baltimore County
0139747	Kumar, Vijay	University of Pennsylvania
0139715	Pang, Jong-Shi	Johns Hopkins University
0139708	Stewart, David	University of Iowa

• The Weak Temperature Gradient Equations for Tropical Atmosphere Dynamics

0139830	Sobel, Adam	Columbia University
0139918	Majda, Andrew	New York University
0139794	Bretherton, Christopher	University of Washington
0139666	Neelin, J. David	University of California, Los Angeles

• Minimal Surfaces, Moduli Spaces, and Computation

0139887	Wolf, Michael	Rice University
0139410	Hoffman, David	Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
0139476	Weber, Matthias	Indiana University

• Focused Research on Wavelets, Frames, and Operator Theory

0139759	Benedetto, John	University of Maryland, College Park
0139740	Aldroubi, Akram	Vanderbilt University
0139366	Baggett, Lawrence	University of Colorado at Boulder
0139261	Heil, Christopher	Georgia Institute of Technology
0139473	Jorgensen, Palle	University of Iowa
0139783	Olafsson, Gestur	Louisiana State University
0139386	Larson, David	Texas A&M; University

• Stochastic Methods for Fractional Partial Differential Equations

0139927	Meerschaert, Michael	University Nevada, Reno
0139943	Benson, David	Desert Research Institute

• Statistical Analysis of Uncertainty in Climate Change

0139897	Berliner, L. Mark	Ohio State University
0139903	Wikle, Christopher	University of Missouri
0139948	Levine, Richard	University of California, Davis

• The Mathematics of Financial Risk Management

0139911

Shreve, Steven

Carnegie Mellon University

• Class numbers, hyperbolic manifolds and dynamical systems

0139875	Reid, Alan	University of Texas, Austin
0139772	Long, Darren	University of California, Santa Barbara
0139816	Chinburg, Ted	University of Pennsylvania

• The Dynamics of Growing Biogels

0139926

Fogelson, Aaron

University of Utah

• Fully Nonlinear, Three-Dimensional, Surface Water Waves in Arbitrary Depth

0139847	Henderson, Diane	Pennsylvania State University
0139771	Carter, John	Seattle University
0139093	Deconinck, Bernard	Colorado State University
0139822	Nicholls, David	University of Notre Dame
0139742	Segur, Harvey	University of Colorado

• Mathematical Tools for Non-invasive Spectroscopic Monitoring of Blood Chemistry

0139914

Coifman, Ronald

Yale University