(CLOSED) 2022 Mathematical Multifaceted Integrated Capability Centers (MMICCs) (DE-FOA-0002704)

Sponsor Name: 
DOE Office of Science
Description of the Award: 

SUMMARY
The DOE SC program in Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) hereby invites applications for basic research that address fundamental challenges within DOE’s mission areas of energy (as detailed by the Energy Earthshots Initiative [1]), environment, and security, and from a perspective that requires new integrated efforts across multiple mathematical, statistical, and computational disciplines. This FOA invites applications for new Mathematical Multifaceted Integrated Capability Centers (MMICCs) to enable greatly enhanced scientific discovery, design, optimization or decision-support capabilities for the increasingly complex systems, processes, and problems that arise in science and energy research. Proposed research tightly focused on the solution of a particular science or engineering problem are outside the scope of this solicitation.

These MMICCs will enable applied mathematics researchers to work together in large, collaborative teams to develop the mathematics needed to address significant scientific computing research challenges. The MMICCs allow researchers to take a broader view of the problem as a whole, and devise solution strategies that attack the problem in its entirety by building fundamental, multidisciplinary mathematical capabilities and tools cognizant of both existing and emerging computing paradigms. The MMICCs teams will have the flexibility and technical expertise to consider all aspects of the problem-solving process simultaneously ⎼ ranging from the mathematical formulation to the development, analysis, integration of appropriate models and methods, and demonstration of results and capabilities.

More specific information is included under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION in the full FOA.

Program Objective
This FOA seeks to support mathematical advances that address the increasingly complex challenges that arise in science and energy research, and that require new integrated processes across multiple computational and statistical disciplines. Such Mathematical Multifaceted Integrated Capability Centers (MMICCs) will enable greatly enhanced scientific discovery, design, optimization, or decision-support capabilities. These MMICCs will enable applied mathematics researchers to work together in large, collaborative teams to address grand challenge problems more effectively and from a mathematical perspective taken much earlier in the problem-solving process. The MMICCs allow researchers to take a broader view of the problem as a whole, and devise solution strategies that attack the problem in its entirety by building fundamental, multidisciplinary mathematical capabilities and tools. The MMICCs will have the scale and technical expertise to simultaneously consider all aspects of the problem-solving process ⎼ ranging from the mathematical formulation to the development, analysis, integration of appropriate data, models and mathematical methods, and demonstration of results and capabilities. These Centers will help serve as entry points for applied mathematicians and scientific computing researchers to more readily understand the barriers to addressing our nation’s science and energy challenges.

Limit (Number of applicants permitted per institution): 
2
Sponsor LOI Deadline: 
May 17, 2022
Sponsor Final Deadline: 
Jun 28, 2022
OSVPR Application or NOI Instructions: 

If you intend to submit complete the notification form to provide your contact information and the title and brief description of your project.

To be considered as a Penn State institutional nominee, please submit a notice of intent by the date provided directly below.
Penn State OSVPR NOI Deadline: 
Monday, April 25, 2022 - 4:00pm
This limited submission is in downselect: 
Penn State may only submit a specific number of proposals to this funding opportunity. The number of NOIs received require that an internal competition take place, thus, a downselect process has commenced. No Penn State researchers may apply to this opportunity outside of this downselect process. To apply for this limited submission, please use this link:
For help or questions: 

Questions concerning the limited submissions process may be submitted to limitedsubs@psu.edu.

Notes: 
John Harlim (ECoS); PSU is eligible to submit one additional pre-application to DOE, contact limitedsubs@psu.edu if interested.