Chairing the Mathematical Sciences Department of the 1990s Proceedings of a Colloquium October 27-28, 1989 Arlington, Virginia (1990) / Chapter Skim
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3 Funding Opportunities
3 Funding Opportunities
Pages 25-36
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, State University of New York, Stony Brook OUTSIDE FUNDING Daniel Goren~tein, Rutgers University DEVEEOPMENT GRANTS Calvin C Moore, University of California 25
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A third ingredient of a good proposal is political support. For example, there may be a technology transfer component to the proposal.
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· What are the areas of mathematical strength in your department? What are the potential applications of these areas?
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in connection with unusual grants that often have programmatic funding limitations. My own feeling is that, in the end, such incentives normally play only a marginal role in who seeks external funding and who gets support.
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With four distinct partners, each in its own geographical location and each with its own rules of operations and organization (and with the Center's independent of lice space still a few months off) , this has not been easy to achieve.
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In applied mathematics, especially in interdisciplinary areas, the difficulties are compounded, for one can't even go on the assumption that the reviewer is, in fact, an expert in the field. NSF has much more trouble finding appropriate referees in such areas than in well-established clear-cut fields such as "classical harmonic analysis" or "group theory." So a great deal of thought has to go into this aspect of the proposal.
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of specific problems that have been solved on NSF grants. For example, last year's mathematics request to Congress referred specifically to Sims and Leon's construction of the "baby monster." 4.
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I call these, for lack of a better term, development grants. This kind of proposal would have a number of components, including graduate student support, postdoctoral support, and considerable attention to undergraduate programs to increase the flow of students into graduate school.
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The proposals I am discussing would be for human resource development at all levels. Precedents for this exist in the National Science Foundation, in the Computer Sciences Division and in the Biological and Behavioral Sciences Division.
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PARTICIPANT: Technology transfer has happened more in statistics than in core mathematics. One of the reasons is that, historically, statistics has recruited into graduate programs students with undergraduate careers in application areas.
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So one mustexamine the way in which a university operates vis-a-vis the department. PARTICIPANT: I know that in hiring senior faculty members, particularly in the physical sciences, it is becoming more common for administrations to agree to return a fraction of grant overhead generated by that person as start-up costs.
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