[Gpdtc] Time for call and FOA

[David Richards]

Dear all,

That you for completing the “when2meet” poll, though realize some are still on travel and probably not in email contact.  The time that seems to have the best overlap with everyones schedules is

THURSDAY JAN 13 at 9am

Jose, you are the only one who is listed as unavailable.  Any chance perhaps of rescheduling?  The other time is Wednesday at 5pm, when Jianwei is unavailable.

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The second issue is that the FOA is now out, at https://science.osti.gov/np/-/media/grants/pdf/foas/2022/SC_FOA_0002643.pdf.

The deadline for LOI is Feb 28, with a response of March 16.  Deadline for full proposal: May 18.

I’m loathe to say it is a “relaxed” timeline, but it is perhaps more generous than we had anticipated.

Probably the most important task, in particular in view of Feng’s email, is to come up with a list of milestones (by year) across the various topics we identified, and also “teams”, ie which of us, will contribute to those milestones. I’ll make a start on that in the overleaf document over the next few days to give us a starting point for the discussion.

Finally, a few of my quick takeaways from a cursory read below.

Regards,
David


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I guess this is the meat.  Firstly, there seems to be an emphasis on bringing together hubs of small teams on a temporary basis.   I guess the interpretation here is that you need a well-defined goal(s), rather than trying to initiate a long-term collaboration.  One requirement - “providing a mechanism for placing new researchers in permanent positions in nuclear theory”.

It provides a list of topics at least one of which must be addressed in responsive proposals.  So in our case these are (and probably the only ones):
c) Phenomenology for semi-inclusive/exclusive electron scattering
d) Partonic and spin structure of hadrons.

If I look at the overall topics, I reckon they can broadly be grouped into:
1) Spectroscopy
2) Structure
3) Hot QCD
4) Nuclear interactions
5) Nuclear Astrophysics
6) BSM/neutrino physics

With 4/5 possibly combined. Small-x physics?

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Proposals must have lead institution, with other participants as sub recipients.  Leads can be universities, DOE labs, etc. but details I haven’t gone through.  Max of two submissions per institution.

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Five-year awards, likely 3-5 awards in range 350K - 600K per year, with minimum and maximum of 250K and 650K respectively.  Note there are 5/6 broad topics above.

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Do need to submit an LOI, but LOI doesn’t lock teams/funding/title in stone - though clearly would be good to be as close to final as possible.

Pg. 21
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The review criteria….  …need to peruse carefully, but milestones are clearly important.

Lots of details of the precise form of the application, much of which I guess will be familiar.





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