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2 Response to the 1984 National Plan
2 Response to the 1984 National Plan
Pages 21-38
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Nearly two years before its 1984 Report was published, the Ad Hoc Committee on Resources for the Mathematical Sciences had gathered comprehensive data comparing federal support of mathematical sciences research with support for related fields. These data were used as part of the research briefing on mathematics given in October 1982 to George A
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Following the June 1984 publication of the National Plan in the 1984 Report, a strong NSF response was sustained. In November 1984, the National Science Board, the governing body of the NSF, passed a resolution calling on all federal science agencies to join with NSF in remedying the marked imbalance in support that the report had pointed out.
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Acronym key: AFOSR = Air Force Office of Scientific Research, ARO = Army Research Office, 0NR = Office of Naval Research, DARPA = Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, NSA = National Security Agency, NSF = National Science Foundation, DMS = Division of Mathematical Sciences.
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An undesired side effect is that, because of funding limitations, no progress has been made on another important part of the plan: increasing the number of principal investigators supported. It should also be noted that, although the profile of grants in the Division of Mathematical Sciences has changed for the better because of the consistent application of these priorities, balance within the grants to the extent recommended by the 1984 National Plan has not yet been attained.
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The building of both formal and informal bonds with the mathematical sciences community is also a significant benefit. Department of Energy The Department of Energy (DOE)
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Clearly, a good infrastructure for support of this initiative has been established. Federal Progress Toward Achieving Quantitative Goals of the 1984 National Plan The goals for federal support set forth in the 1984 Report are the quantitative elements of its National Plan for renewal.
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C1984 National Plan goal adjusted for inflation using Higher Education Price Index; revised National Plan goal is $250 million. din 1989 dollars, using Higher Education Price Index.
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These counts omit summer postdoctoral positions and other grants that do not reflect the spirit of the 1984 National Plan's recommendations. The absolute numbers of federally supported graduate research assistants and postdoctorate in the matheTABLE 2.3 Selected Ph.D.
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Clearly, researchers in training in the mathematical sciences still have a difficult time gaining the depth and breadth of experience common among researchers in other sciences. The number of federally supported individual investigators in mathematics, estimated as under 1800 in 1984,8 stood at about 1900 in 1989 (Table 2.5~.
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abased on discussions with cognizant federal program officers, this Committee conservatively estimates that at least 480 investigators appear on more than one federal grant. Acronym key: AFOSR = Air Force Office of Scientific Research, ARO = Army Research Office, 0NR = Office of Naval Research, DARPA = Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, NSA = National Security Agency, NSF = National Science Foundation.
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The evolving needs of the infrastructure are addressed by the second thrust of the 1984 National Plan as summarized in Chapter 1. Apropos of balance with other fields of science, the fraction of scientists engaged in R&D in educational institutions who receive federal support remains significantly lower in the mathematical sciences than in chemistry or physics and astronomy.
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They stimulated the development of a postdoctoral program and two new research institutes supported by NSF funding. They mobilized the professional societies in mathematics and enlisted the aid of the NRC in analyzing the forces undermining the infrastructures of mathematics research and education, for the purpose of developing national plans to reverse the trends of declining Ph.D.
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The comprehensive assessment that these actions set in motion will continue throughout the l990s and is generating in successive steps the plans and organizational mechanisms needed at the national level to renew and continuously maintain the vitality of this country's broader mathematical sciences enterprise. In 1990 the mathematical sciences community will have before it for widespread discussion organizational plans for its many future roles—in research, in precollege education, in college and university education, and in relating its work to various other communities.
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1985 The Mathematical Sciences Education Board At the urging of the mathematical sciences community, the NRC establishes in October 1985 the Mathematical Sciences Education Board (MSEB) to provide "a continuing national assessment capability for mathematics education" from kindergarten through college.
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1987 Department of Defense advisory panels—The BMS advisory panel to the AFOSR releases a report assessing the AFOSR mathe matical sciences program. The BMS Panel on Applied Mathe matics Research Alternatives for the Navy (PAMRAN)
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What is seen in university mathematical sciences departments is that the percentage of high-quality mathematicians with federal support is lower than the corresponding percentage in other fields of science and that the number of principal investigators supported has remained 36
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This concern is most prevalent among investigators doing research in pure mathematics, the group for which the largest gap exists between the number of highly qualified researchers and the number with federal support. NOTES tWhat is now the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the NSF grew out of the former Division of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, which was divided in 1983.
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