Limited Submission Proposals

-        Preliminary proposals (required):  *August 7, 2013*

-        Full proposals:  *January 27, 2014*

*If you are interested in submitting a preliminary proposal, you must indicate your intent to apply via e-mail to Anissa Myers at admyers@andrew.cmu.edu by *June 3, 2013*.

*A three page abstract will be due on *June 10, 2013.* An abstract submitted for consideration should include:

-        Working Title

-        Principal Investigator and contact information

-        Co-Principal Investigators

-        Is this a new submission or a resubmission?

-        Projected one page budget

-        Two page project description (11 pt font minimum)

You or a designated representative must be able to attend the review committee meeting tentatively scheduled the week of *June 27, 2013.* (Please look for a future e-mail to confirm the location.)

The full solicitation can be found at:

http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf1355

The program is described as:

The Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC) program supports university-based centers and institutes where the collective efforts of a larger group of individuals can enable transformational advances in the most promising research areas. The program is designed to foster major breakthroughs at the intellectual frontiers of physics by providing needed resources such as combinations of talents, skills, disciplines, and/or specialized infrastructure, not usually available to individual investigators or small groups, in an environment in which the collective efforts of the larger group can be shown to be seminal to promoting significant progress in the science and the education of students. Activities supported through the program are in all sub-fields of physics within the purview of the Division of Physics: atomic, molecular, optical, plasma, elementary particle, nuclear, astro-, gravitational, and biological physics. Interdisciplinary projects at the interface between these physics areas and other disciplines and physics sub-fields are also included, although the bulk of the effort should fall within one of those areas within the purview of the Physics Division. The successful PFC activity will demonstrate: (1) the potential for a profound advance in physics; (2) creative, substantive activities aimed at enhancing education, diversity, and public outreach; (3)potential for broader impacts, e.g., impacts on other field(s) and benefits to society; (4) a synergy or value-added rationale that justifies a center- or institute-like approach.

Additional eligibility info:

Interested academic institutions in the United States with research and education programs in the areas of physics outlined in the Introduction in Section I must submit preliminary proposals. In order to guarantee a review of these complex projects that is sufficiently informative to guide the decision-making process and free of conflicts, given the breadth of the science covered and the large numbers of investigators involved as senior participants, the Swill accept full proposals for PFC funding by invitation only, based on the results of the preliminary proposal evaluation. No more than two preliminary proposals may be submitted by any one institution. While more than one institution may participate in a single proposal or preliminary proposal, a single institution must accept overall management responsibility for the PFC. Although collaborations between institutions are strongly encouraged, the proposal must be submitted by only one institution with funding provided to the other institutions through subawards; use of separately submitted collaborative proposals is not permitted. Any one individual may be the Principal Investigator (PI) or co-Principal Investigator (co-PI) for only one preliminary proposal. The same limitations apply to full proposals. Individuals may be listed as participating senior investigators on more than one proposal.