Dr. Cvitanovic:

The NSF Physics Frontiers Centers (PFCs) program supports university-based 
centers and large groups in cases where this mode of research is required 
to make transformational advances in the most promising research areas. 
Proposals will be considered in areas within the purview of the Division of 
Physics, broadly interpreted, e.g., atomic, molecular, optical, plasma, 
elementary particle, nuclear, astro-, gravitational, interdisciplinary, and 
emerging areas of physics. Interdisciplinary physics is taken here to mean 
research at the interface between physics and other disciplines, e.g., 
biophysics, quantum information science, mathematical physics. The purpose 
of the PFC program is to enable major advances at the intellectual 
frontiers of physics by providing needed resources not usually available to 
individual investigators or small groups.  (Program solicitation can be 
found at http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf01112.)

Since this program solicitation places a limit of two pre-proposals from 
any one institution, pre-proposals need to be submitted to the Office of 
the Vice Provost for Research in order to select the two Georgia Tech 
pre-proposals.  Please submit your pre-proposal to my assistant, Kathy Mims 
(kathy.mims@carnegie.gatech.edu), by Wednesday, July 11, 2001.

Please pass this along to the appropriate people within your respective 
units.  We look forward to receiving your NSF PFC pre-proposals.

Charles L. Liotta
Vice Provost for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies


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