New CMSN Proposals
Those interested in forming a new CMSN Cooperative Research Team (CRT) should send a two-three page preproposal (white paper) to the CMSN Coordinators, which addresses the Criteria for CMSN Preproposals, Proposals and their Review. In brief, the purpose is to develop and pursue a research plan which addresses a focused theoretical computational materials science problem poised to have significant and broad impact with well-defined scientific challenges. The primary focus is to be in theory and computation, but some teams have involved experimental advisors. CMSN funds are to facilitate the collaborative aspects of the effort, augmenting existing funding for the scientific effort. Typical CRTs consist of about 10-15 participants from several institutions, with 1-3 team leaders who act as the principal investigators. Individual participation in a CRT is determined by self-selection of the group of collaborators and is open to anyone who can contribute to the success of the team, including scientists from DOE labs, other U. S. government labs, universities, and industry. Teams will be funded for a specific time (typically three years) and are not renewed - although a team may reconstitute itself and propose a closely related problem. Explicitly, this means that while the new proposal may be related to the old, the deliverables will be different. This will most likely entail taking on new people with expertise in the area of the new problem, as well as people whose interests are elsewhere dropping out.
Preproposals should be submitted to the address below (see Submission Information). Prospective teams whose preproposals are judged promising will then further develop and present their plans to the Scientific Oversight Committee, who may choose to offer suggestions before suggesting a full proposal. Those invited to prepare a full proposal should prepare a reviewable document detailing the project and especially the operating plans and send it by Email to the acting DOE Program Manager for review. This document should contain no formal budget but the plans should anticipate funds of $280K available per team. The Cooperative Research Team proposals are peer reviewed by the program manager and external reviewers selected by the program manager.
Because of the special and diverse character of CMSN funding, successful CRTs will have funds available, but not committed, until requisite funding documentation is in place. These funds are to facilitate the collaborative aspects and may be used for such things as shared junior researchers, travel between CRT member institutions, holding team coordination meetings, or other items that will enable the team to work together. The team leaders will annually formulate a spending plan, which they provide to both the CMSN administration and to the DOE program manager. It is then incumbent on the proposed recipients to work with the program manager to establish the appropriate funding request since the proposed recipient must initiate the request.
Submission Information
Preproposals, in PDF, Postscript, or MSWord format, are to be emailed directly to the CMSN Coordinators
at cmsn AT phys DOT washington DOT edu
List of Previous Preproposals
The following is a list of preproposals (some successful, others not) submitted previously.
- Gary Grest: Polymers at Interfaces
- Chuck Henager: Fracture: Understanding Ductile and Brittle Behavior
- Joseph H. Simmons and Samuel B. Trickey: Scale-parity Multi-scale Simulation of Chemo-mechanical Processes
- A.D. (Tony) Rollett & David J. Srolovitz: Microstructural Evolution Based on Fundamental Interfacial Properties
- Malcolm Stocks: Magnetic Materials: Bridging Basic and Applied Science
- M. A. Van Hove and Giulia Galli: Modeling Oxidation Processes at Surfaces and Interfaces: Metal-Oxide and Metal-Water Interactions
- Dieter Wolf & Richard LeSar: Microstructural Effects on the Mechanics of Materials
- John J. Rehr & Steven G. Louie: Excited-State Electronic Structure and Response Functions
