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Office of Special Programs
DMR's Office of Special Programs (OSP) coordinates and supports crosscutting activities in DMR and in conjunction with NSF-wide programs, including enhanced int...
Energy, Power, and Adaptive Systems
The Adaptive Systems (EPAS) program invests in the design and analysis of intelligent and adaptive engineering networks, including computational technologies fo...
Geometric Analysis
The program in Geometric Analysis supports research on differential geometry and its relation to partial differential equations and variational principles; aspe...
Ceramics
This program supports fundamental research including combined experiment and theory projects in ceramics ( and borides), glasses, ceramic-based composites and i...
Plant Genome Research Program
This program is a continuation of the Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP) that began in FY 1998 as part of the National Plant Genome Initiative (NPGI). A new f...
International Collaboration in Chemistry between US Investigators and their Counterparts Abroad
Partnering Foreign Agencies The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; German Research Foundation) of GermanyThe Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forsc...
CHE-DMR-DMS Solar Energy Initiative
The purpose of the CHE-DMR-DMS Solar Energy Initiative is to support interdisciplinary efforts by groups of researchers to address the scientific challenges of...
Discovery Research K-12
The Discovery Research K-12 (DR K-12) program seeks to enable significant advances in preK-12 student and teacher learning of the STEM disciplines through imple...
Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics
The particle and nuclear astrophysics program supports university research in many areas of particle astrophysics and nuclear astrophysics, including the study...
Biosensing
The Biosensing Program supports insightful investigations of fundamental problems with broad long term impact and applications that require novel use of bio-ins...
Cognitive Neuroscience
The Cognitive Neuroscience Program seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain su...
Engineering Research Centers
The goal of the Generation Three (Gen-3) Engineering Research Centers (ERC) Program is to create a culture in engineering research and education that links disc...
Crosscutting Activities in Materials Research
Crosscutting Activities in Materials Research (XC) coordinates and supports crosscutting activities within the Division of Materials Research (DMR) and more bro...
Improvements to Biological Research Collections
The Improvements to Biological Research Collections Program provides funds for improvements to organize established natural history collections for efficient ac...
Topology
Supports research on algebraic topology, including homotopy theory, ordinary and extraordinary homology and cohomology, cobordism theory, and K-theory; topologi...
Foundations
The program in Foundations supports research in mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics, including proof theory, recursion theory, model theory, s...
Algebra, Number Theory, and Combinatorics
Supports research in algebra, including algebraic structures, general algebra, and linear algebra; number theory, including algebraic, analytic number theory, a...
Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories
The Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories Cluster supports research in taxonomy and systematics that contributes to: 1) using phylogenetic methods to...
Analysis
The Analysis Program supports basic research in that area of mathematics whose roots can be traced to the calculus of Newton and Leibniz. Given its centuries-ol...
Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems
The Sensing-Systems (CCSS) program is intended to spur visionary systems-oriented activities in integrative research. CCSS supports systems research in hardware...
Ocean Drilling
IODP Operations IODP scientific objectives require a heavy vessel for drilling deep sedimentary and crustal holes, a lighter vessel to provide widely distribute...
Elementary Particle Physics
Particle physics plays an essential role in the broader enterprise of the physical sciences. It inspires students, attracts talent from around the world, and dr...
Applied Mathematics
Supports mathematics research motivated by or having an effect on problems arising in science and engineering. Mathematical merit and novelty, as well as breadt...
Innovation and Organizational Sciences
The Innovation and Organizational Sciences (IOS) program supports scientific research that advances our understanding of organizational phenomena, including inn...
Engineering Design and Innovation
The EDI program supports research leading to design theory and to tools and methods that enable implementation of the principles of design theory in the practic...