Division of Physics. Division of Physics An Overview

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1 Division of Physics An Overview Joe Dehmer Division of Physics BPA April 27, 2007

2 TOPICS Strategic Goals Organization and Evolution Budget Trends Intellectual Health of Field Priorities Diversity Facilities 2

3 An Irreducible Set of Strategic Goals Intellectual Frontiers Broader Impacts Education Stewardship 3

4 Division of Physics AMOP Physics Theoretical Physics Gravitational Physics Elementary Particle Physics Part. & Nucl. Astrophysics Physics Front. Centers Nuclear Physics Biological Physics Inform. Front. Education & Interdisc. Res. Accelerator Phy. & Phy. Instrum.

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6 Budget sectors over time Core vs Centers vs Facilities core centers facilities % PHY Budget Fiscal Year 6

7 PHYSICS * FRONTIERS,, circa 2007 Bose-Einstein Condensates, Atom Lasers Dark Matter, Dark Energy,, Cosmology Gravitational Waves (GW), GW Astronomy New Fundamental Particles and Laws > TeV n physics and astrophysics String Theory, Branes,, Duality, Quantum Gravity Quark-Gluon Plasma, Supernova Dynamics Ultra-Fast, Ultra-Intense Laser Fields Cyberscience,, Quantum Information Science Biophysics of Single Molecules, Cells, Networks Complexity, Emergent Behavior * CMP in Division of Materials Research 7

8 PRIORITIES for FY Strong, flexible core programs (GDM, >50% of PHY budget) Physics of the Universe (10%/yr) Increase diversity (10%/yr) Strengthen theory (5%/yr) Stewardship of facilities Cultivate new opportunities, e.g., Biological Physics, Physics at the Information Frontier, DUSEL 8

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10 Research Grants with Female PIs 120 # Active Awards Fiscal Year PI PI or co-pi Research Grants

11 Active Awards with Minority PIs # Active awards PI PI or co-pi Fiscal Year Research Grants

12 % All Active Awards % of All Active Awards Women Minority New Fiscal Year

13 Facilities LIGO/AdvLIGO LHC IceCube RSVP (cancelled in 2005) DUSEL NSCL, CESR Midscale: ACT, Auger, CDMS, Borexino, HiRES, Milagro, Stacey, Veritas, MiniBoone, Numi/MINOS, RHIC-SPIN, university based NP accelerators 1

14 Important Fitness Indicators for Large Projects Dynamite science goals, vetted/prioritized by community Proven technology (1) Stable scope (2) Stable funding (3) Alignment at each level of government within agency(ies) and between branches, with science policy priorities (ACI, benefit to public), with relevant agency processes Stable partnerships among appropriate entities, with international scope above some cost threshold Strong managing partner Socialization with broader scientific community Adequate understanding and tacit support by public Generally favorable budget climate and some luck

15 LIGO

16 AdvLIGO is LIGO s 2nd phase: 10x in Sensitivity Extends Listening Volume By Factor of >1000 (!) AdvLIGO in FY 06 Pres. Request for FY 08 start

17 IceCube Neutrino Observatory South Pole Station 1450m to 2450m ê International project (272M$ TPC); joint OPP/MPS within NSF 1 km3 of ice instrumented with 4800 optical sensors detect h.e. neutrinos from galactic/extra galactic sources neutrinos interact in ice creating h.e. muons, which carry away original momentum, pointing precision of ½ degree Neutrino Astronomy : point sources, origins of h.e. cosmic rays, astrophysics of quasars, pulsars, gamma-ray bursters,

18 First String Installed at IceCube

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21 LHC GRID Computing Tier Structure University Regional Tier 2 Center PCs University New York Times : To users [at Universities], thousands of computers and millions of gigabytes of data will look like one single computing engine of unprecedented power.

22 DUSEL DUSEL = Deep Underground Science and Engineering Lab Interdisciplinary Scope: particle physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, geosciences, engineering, biosciences, industry, defense Physics would benefit from lowest cosmic ray flux possible anywhere Proton decay, neutrinoless double beta decay, dark matter detection, long-baseline neutrino experiments, solar and supersovae neutrinos, low-energy nuclear cross sections for nucleosynthesis research, etc. 2

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