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The Division of Mathematical Sciences is a unit of the National Science Foundation whose mission is to promote the health of academic mathematical sciences and to enable research and education in the mathematical sciences at the highest possible, professional, research, technical, and creative levels. Modes of grant support range from awards to individual investigators; awards to focused research groups of investigators; awards to departments of mathematical sciences for curriculum reform, undergraduate and graduate education, and postdoctoral training; awards of postdoctoral fellowships; awards for shared research equipment; support for national institutes; awards for conferences and workshops; and, other investments that assist the U.S. academic mathematical sciences.

The Division of Mathematical Sciences consists of subdisciplinary programs and activities, including Algebra, Number Theory, and Combinatorics; Analysis; Applied Mathematics; Computational Mathematics (which includes Biomathematics); Topology, Geometric Analysis, and Foundations; Probability and Statistics; and, Infrastructure. Infrastructure provides crosscutting support for postdoctoral fellowships, equipment, education reform efforts, national institutes, and other non-disciplinary focused activities.

For Fiscal Year 2001, the Division of Mathematical Sciences had a budget of about $122M. The Division provides over 60% of the Federal academic research support for the U.S. mathematical sciences enterprise. The 21st Century mathematical sciences (1) underpin and enable research advances in mathematics, science, engineering, and technology and (2) are fundamental to the education of the nation�s future scientific workforce. The accelerating "mathematization" of science reaches beyond the physical and informational sciences to embrace the bio-, geo-, and environmental sciences, as well as the social, behavioral, risk, and economic sciences.

The Division continues its support of world-class disciplinary research. Throughout the 1990�s the Division has restructured and repositioned itself to address the new national challenges in the mathematical sciences, science, engineering, and technology:

A program (VIGRE) assists departments of mathematical sciences in systemic undergraduate and graduate curriculum reform, postdoctoral training, graduate student education, and undergraduate research experiences.

A program (IGMS) enables mathematical scientists to pursue sabbatical-type activities in other academic science and engineering departments.

The GOALI activity encourages mathematical scientists to develop links with industry.

The Division�s National Institutes create cutting-edge research environments. With the recent creation of an additional new national institute, the Division�s three institutes are unique in that they do not focus on a single discovery theme stretched over many years. Instead, in rapid response to research opportunities, they offer yearlong focused activities on new science and engineering research. For example, the Institute in Pure and Applied Mathematics programs offered Functional Genomics (2000) and Financial Mathematics (2001) and the Institute in Mathematics and Its Applications offered Mathematics of Multimedia (2000).

Focused Research Groups (FRG) of mathematical, statistical and other scientists provide multiyear efforts to attack scientific and engineering challenges.

The recent DMS/DARPA partnership provided multidisciplinary research teams on thin films for etching and computer-aided design of silicon chips.


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	DMS is... The Division of Mathematical Sciences is a unit of the National Science Foundation whose mission is to promote the health of academic mathematical sciences and to enable research and education in the mathematical sciences at the highest possible, professional, research, technical, and creative levels. Modes of grant support range from awards to individual investigators; awards to focused research groups of investigators; awards to departments of mathematical sciences for curriculum reform, undergraduate and graduate education, and postdoctoral training; awards of postdoctoral fellowships; awards for shared research equipment; support for national institutes; awards for conferences and workshops; and, other investments that assist the U.S. academic mathematical sciences. The Division of Mathematical Sciences consists of subdisciplinary programs and activities, including Algebra, Number Theory, and Combinatorics; Analysis; Applied Mathematics; Computational Mathematics (which includes Biomathematics); Topology, Geometric Analysis, and Foundations; Probability and Statistics; and, Infrastructure. Infrastructure provides crosscutting support for postdoctoral fellowships, equipment, education reform efforts, national institutes, and other non-disciplinary focused activities. For Fiscal Year 2001, the Division of Mathematical Sciences had a budget of about $122M. The Division provides over 60% of the Federal academic research support for the U.S. mathematical sciences enterprise. The 21st Century mathematical sciences (1) underpin and enable research advances in mathematics, science, engineering, and technology and (2) are fundamental to the education of the nation�s future scientific workforce. The accelerating "mathematization" of science reaches beyond the physical and informational sciences to embrace the bio-, geo-, and environmental sciences, as well as the social, behavioral, risk, and economic sciences. The Division continues its support of world-class disciplinary research. Throughout the 1990�s the Division has restructured and repositioned itself to address the new national challenges in the mathematical sciences, science, engineering, and technology: A program (VIGRE) assists departments of mathematical sciences in systemic undergraduate and graduate curriculum reform, postdoctoral training, graduate student education, and undergraduate research experiences. A program (IGMS) enables mathematical scientists to pursue sabbatical-type activities in other academic science and engineering departments. The GOALI activity encourages mathematical scientists to develop links with industry. The Division�s National Institutes create cutting-edge research environments. With the recent creation of an additional new national institute, the Division�s three institutes are unique in that they do not focus on a single discovery theme stretched over many years. Instead, in rapid response to research opportunities, they offer yearlong focused activities on new science and engineering research. For example, the Institute in Pure and Applied Mathematics programs offered Functional Genomics (2000) and Financial Mathematics (2001) and the Institute in Mathematics and Its Applications offered Mathematics of Multimedia (2000). Focused Research Groups (FRG) of mathematical, statistical and other scientists provide multiyear efforts to attack scientific and engineering challenges. The recent DMS/DARPA partnership provided multidisciplinary research teams on thin films for etching and computer-aided design of silicon chips.

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