NSF information request

Stream: Equational

[Terence Tao]

I just realized that as a byproduct of filing a progress report for my NSF grant, all of my collaborators (including multiple people here) will have received an email asking to confirm your participation in the project. Sorry for the hassle, this is a bureaucratic reporting requirement that has been implemented by the NSF in recent years.

In my reporting I may have reported your affiliation / support information inaccurately; feel free to correct it as appropriate.

[Shreyas Srinivas]

So far I haven’t received a request and there is a fairly high chance my institute’s email spam detection will block it before I ever get that email

[Shreyas Srinivas]

Speak of the devil. I just got it.

[Shreyas Srinivas]

It asks for basic demographic information. Affiliations are not mentioned

[Douglas McNeil]

Project Title: Structure theory for measure-preserving systems, additive combinatorics, and correlations of multiplicative functions

:thinking:

[Terence Tao]

Yeah, that's the title of my NSF grant, awarded two years ago. The connection to Equational Theories is very tangential, to put it mildly, but I did technically work on ETP while receiving NSF support, so I felt obligated to report it.

[Cody Roux]

We'll have to formalize the connection in subsequent work :)

[Jose Brox]

Terence Tao ha dicho:

all of my collaborators (including multiple people here) will have received an email asking to confirm your participation in the project

I haven't received the email (nor in the spam folder). Just saying in case we need to do something about it.

[Terence Tao]

I don't think it is mandatory; NSF is interested in self-reported demographic data but as far as I know this is not a prerequisite for funding.