{"id":2805,"date":"2010-03-12T10:59:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2010-03-18T16:20:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T20:20:07","slug":"hepap-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2805","title":{"rendered":"HEPAP Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HEPAP is now meeting in Washington, presentations available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.er.doe.gov\/hep\/agendas\/HEPAPAgendaMarch2010.shtml\">here<\/a>.  Like the rest of science, HEP has been doing very well in the federal budget, including a temporary increase due to the stimulus program.  Excluding stimulus money, the president&#8217;s FY2011 request has total DOE HEP funding up 2.3% (theory is up 3.8%) over FY2010.  This is about 10% over the FY2007 level.  At the NSF, the proposal is for a 2.8% increase in physics research spending in FY2011, up 20% since FY 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The NSF will be funding several &#8220;Physics Frontier Centers&#8221;, with five-year renewable awards of 1-5.5 million $.  Pre-proposals are due in August.<\/p>\n<p>The DOE has been emphasizing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.er.doe.gov\/hep\/files\/pdfs\/DOEEarlyCareer.pdf\">Early Career Programs<\/a>, with 14 &#8220;Early Career Awards&#8221; to tenure-track physicists made in HEP in FY1010.  Six of these went to HEP theorists, pretty much all in phenomenology, with funding for string theorists not popular these days it seems. <\/p>\n<p>With the particle theory job market a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2707\">complete disaster<\/a>, particle theorists somehow managed to convince the DOE that the answer to the problem is to produce more particle theory Ph.Ds.  There is a new program of HEP Theory Fellowships funding (with two-year fellowships) an additional five students this year, five more each year in the future.  So I guess, steady-state, the idea is to add 10 more theory Ph.D.s\/year,  into a job market where the total number of permanent jobs\/year is about 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  Science magazine has a story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/327\/5972\/1438-a\">here<\/a> about budgetary problems of the DUSEL project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HEPAP is now meeting in Washington, presentations available here. Like the rest of science, HEP has been doing very well in the federal budget, including a temporary increase due to the stimulus program. Excluding stimulus money, the president&#8217;s FY2011 request &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2805\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experimental-hep-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}