The long-range goal of the DMS Workforce Program is to increase the number of well-prepared U.S. citizens, nationals, and permanent residents who successfully pursue careers in the mathematical sciences and in other NSF-supported disciplines. Among intermediate goals to this end are improvements in recruitment, retention, education, and placement of trainees in the mathematical sciences.
The program has an annual submission window for unsolicited proposals of May 15 through June 15. The Workforce Program also administers several more structured training activities, proposals for which are submitted in response to specific solicitations:
- Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences (RTG)
- Mentoring through Critical Transition Points in the Mathematical Sciences (MCTP)
- Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MSPRF)
- Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sites (REU)
- Expeditions in Training, Research, and Education for Mathematics and Statistics through Quantitative Explorations of Data (EXTREEMS-QED)