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Appendix C: Basic Data about the U.S. Mathematical Sciences
Appendix C: Basic Data about the U.S. Mathematical Sciences
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Researchers who perform mathematical sciences work in private corporations may not be labeled as "mathematician" or "statistician," so it is difficult to characterize the magnitude of that component of the mathematical sciences research enterprise. This report does not attempt to do so, but estimates do exist.1 Federal Funding for the Mathematical Sciences Federal extramural funding for the mathematical sciences has increased in recent years.
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Private Sector Mathematical Sciences Funding The Simons Foundation is a relatively new source of funding for the mathematical sciences and is becoming a major source of support. The Simons Foundation Program for Mathematics and the Physical Sciences f ocuses on "the theoretical sciences radiating from Mathematics: in particular, the fields of Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science and Theoretical Physics."2 In 2009, the Simons Foundation launched a program to provide an estimated $40 million annually for research in mathematics and theoretical aspects of physical science that relate to mathematics.
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Other amounts in this table are extramural funds. This compilation does not capture some mathematical sciences research carried out in the Department of Commerce at the Census Bureau and the National Institute of Technology.
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The goal of AIM is to expand the frontiers of mathematical knowledge through focused research projects, sponsored conferences, and the development of an online mathematics library.4 SOURCES OF FEDERAL FINANCIAL SUPPORT National Science Foundation The NSF is the primary federal funder of mathematical sciences research and the only one that provides significant extramural support for core fields. The focal point in NSF for the mathematical sciences is the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
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The majority of AFOSR support for the mathematical sciences comes from the Mathematics, Information, and Life Sciences directorate. Mathematical science areas of particular interest to this directorate are collective behavior and sociocultural modeling; complex networks; computational mathematics; dynamics and control; science of information, computation, and fusion; information operations and security; mathematical modeling of cognition and decision; optimization and discrete mathematics; robust computational intelligence; and systems and software.
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NSA has a very large in-house program in mathematical sciences research. Its extramural program is small but important because it is one of the few non-NSF sources of funding for areas of core mathematics, offering grants for unclassified research in algebra, number theory, discrete mathematics, probability, and statistics.
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In addition, ASCR's SciDAC program supports development of mathematical methodologies, algorithms, libraries, and software for achieving portability and interoperability to accelerate the use of high-performance computing for DOE science. National Institutes of Health Several of the 27 institutes and centers (ICs)
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Finally, Figures C-4, C-5, and C-6 present basic data about the ethnic composition of mathematical science students at various postsecondary levels. 6 American Mathematical Society, 2010, Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (AMS ASA-IMS-MAA-SIAM)
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Maxwell, and C Rose, 2012, Report on the 2010-2011 new doctoral recipients.
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500 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 * The increase shown in Group VI is due in part to the increase in response rate FIGURE C-2 Number and percentage of doctoral degrees awarded by department grouping in the mathematical sciences.
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Figure C-4 White Non-resident alien 45% 38% Two or more races 1% Black American Indian/ Asian/Pacific 3% Hispanic Alaska NaƟve Islander 4% 0% 9% FIGURE C-5 Master's degrees in mathematics and statistics conferred by degreegranting institutions, by race/ethnicity, 2010-2011, SOURCE: Available at http:// Figure C-5 nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d12/tables/dt12_304.asp, Table 304.
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174 APPENDIX C White Non-resident 43% alien 47% Two or more races Black 0% 2% American Indian/ Alaska NaƟve 0% Hispanic Asian/Pacific 2% Islander 6% FIGURE C-6 Doctorates in mathematics and statistics conferred by degree-granting institutions, by race/ethnicity, 2010-2011. SOURCE: Available at http://nces.ed.gov/ Figure C-6 programs/digest/d12/tables/dt12_307.asp,Table 307.
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