Please consult the Submission Guidelines before beginning your grant application.

Principal investigators should be prepared to input basic contact and proposal information into the system screens. Be aware that you must be prepared to enter all of the basic information requested on the application screens the first time that you go through them because the system is not currently set up to allow you to enter back into the screens to revise or add information. If that is a problem for you, please contact Dana Chyung at the AMS at dxc@ams.org or 1-800-321-4267 x4170).

Also, be aware that in order to save the information inputted into the fields on the screens, you are required to upload at least the main body of the proposal (Description of Research). Additionally, the system will not ask you to create a user account; however, you will be able to enter the system again as many times as you wish up until the deadline and upload either documents which you may not have submitted in the first submission or revised documents (This is done through a secured link embedded in the confirmation e-mail that you will receive once you have successfully submitted all or some parts of your proposal; therefore, it is important that you save your confirmation e-mail). Once you are done uploading all documents or their revisions, you should click the "Complete" button, but only do so when you are satisfied that all documents are the version that you wish the reviewers to see. The reviewers will only be able to view the most recently submitted documents.

The items that you will be asked to provide in the screens are the following (all items are required, unless labeled as "optional":

Title of Proposed Research: The title of the proposed research should be brief but properly descriptive and should use keywords suitable for indexing and retrieval. It should use alphabetical letters, and avoid symbols and mathematical or scientific notation.

Mathematics Subject Classification code(s): Enter at least one 5-digit MSC code that corresponds to the proposed research. You will be allowed to enter up to five 5-digit MSC codes, indicating the primary area of your proposed research, and up to five 5-digit MSC codes, indicating the secondary area of proposed research (only one 5-digit code is required).

Number of PIs: Enter the number of PIs working on the proposed research. Please be aware that if you are doing the proposed research with a co-PI from a different institution, then each PI will have to apply and submit his/her proposal separately. If you are submitting a proposal with PIs from the same institution, then only one of the PIs needs to apply and submit the proposal. You will be asked to designate one PI as the corresponding PI.

PI first name, middle name, last name: Enter the following for all PIs involved in your research project: first name (given name), middle name (not required) and last name (surname).

PI Contact Information: Enter your e-mail address and office phone (both are required); entering your home phone is optional (home phone numbers for the Principal Investigator(s) are very useful when the terms of the grant must be negotiated.); enter your Institution name, Department name, and the mailing address of your department.

Primary Area of Proposed Research: >From the drop-down menu, choose one of the five research areas (you may choose only one area, so please choose the one that is most applicable to your proposed research): Algebra, Discrete Mathematics, Number Theory, Probability, Statistics. Secondary Area of Proposed Research: This is optional - if applicable, choose a secondary subject area (this will help both to assign your proposal to the correct panel for evaluation and find appropriate reviewers).

Type of Proposal: From the drop-down menu, choose one of the types of grant for which you are applying: Standard Grant; Young Investigator's Grant; Senior Investigator's Grant; Conferences and Workshops; Research Experience for Undergraduates; Other (these last three choices fall under the grant type: "Conferences, Workshops and Special Situations").

Starting Date and End Date of Proposed Research: The length of time for which support is requested should not exceed two years. The NSA MSP projects its budget to be approved between October and December 2010. Therefore, it is anticipated that grant awards will begin after January 2011. For those proposals that fall under the "Conferences, Workshops and Special Situations" category, the NSA MSP is aware that a few proposals will ask for funding in the Spring 2010. This is to notify the PI that the NSA MSP will make every attempt to have your proposal reviewed in a timely manner; however, this does not guarantee that your proposal will be reviewed in time to fund your conference.

PhD Advisors (optional)

Post-Doctoral Mentors (optional)

Post-Doctoral Advisees (optional)

Research Collaborators with the past 48 months (optional)

Suggested Reviewers/Suggested Non-reviewers: The investigator may list up to five potential reviewers and non-reviewers (optional). Every attempt will be made to conform to the requests if these instructions have been followed.

Organizational Endorsement and Approval Section: The investigator will be asked to provide the full name, e-mail address, postal address, office phone and FAX numbers for the official authorized to endorse and approve proposals for your institution. Please note that organizational endorsement and approval is not required before the deadline because of the way the new system obtains the endorsement. Organizational endorsement and approval is obtained in the following way: when you are satisfied that the proposal is in the final version that will be seen by reviewers, and you have clicked on the "Complete" button, an e-mail with a secured link to your proposal is sent to the e-mail address that you provided for your SPO officer. The secured link will allow your SPO officer to view your entire proposal and provide approval (if there is a problem and approval is not given, then you will be notified and allowed to make the necessary changes).

PIs should be prepared to submit PDF files of each separate part of the proposal listed below. Please note that only one file can be uploaded for each section, so for cases in which you have more than one PDF document for a section (for example, a budget page and a budget explanation page), you will need to create a single PDF document out of them for uploading. For specific information on the content of each part, please consult the Submission Guidelines:

Summary

Description of Proposed Research