Science of DMSAdvances in science and engineering, driven in part
by increasingly sophisticated and readily available computing environments, have
lifted the mathematical sciences to the forefront of science and engineering,
reshaping modern discovery through quantitative predictions, modeling, visualization,
computational algorithms, and optimization methods. Science and engineering are
becoming more mathematical and statistical, not only in the physical, engineering
and informational sciences, but also the biological, geophysical, environmental,
social, behavioral, and economic sciences.
The Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) has a crucial role in the support of academic research in the mathematical
sciences, providing over 60% of all federal academic research support. NSF-supported
research involves a broader range of infrastructure, fundamental research, and
multidisciplinary research topics than that sponsored by other federal agencies
that support academic mathematical sciences research. Research supported includes
areas such as analysis, geometry, topology, foundations, algebra, number theory,
combinatorics, applied mathematics, statistics, probability, biomathematics, and
computational mathematics. Awards in these areas support a variety of research
projects, multidisciplinary projects, and Focused Research Groups, with some grants
including funding for graduate and postdoctoral students as well as for workshops,
computing equipment and other research needs.
Also, the DMS provides infrastructure
support for the mathematical sciences, including research institutes; postdoctoral
research fellowships; graduate educational reform; career broadening experiences
for researchers; opportunities that increase participation in the nation's research
personnel base; research conferences and workshops; shared scientific computing
research equipment; and, undergraduate activities such as research experiences
for undergraduates.
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