The New Frontiers of Sound Science and Technology Center is funded by the National Science Foundation and is based at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Center Director Professor Pierre A. Deymier leads a collaboration of 29 faculty members representing 10 U.S. universities and colleges. The center leadership also includes an Education and Broadening Impact Director and a Knowledge Transfer Director at from the University of Arizona. The project also involves three co-PIs from Caltech, Colorado University-Boulder, and City University of New York. The mission of NewFoS is to unite a diverse and inclusive community who reveals the full realm of possibilities for topological acoustics (TA) and create unprecedented acoustic technologies for US competitiveness and positive societal impacts.
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NewFoS mission statement takes the form of value propositions:
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NewFoS integrates teams of researchers, educators and stakeholders to accelerate the scientific, technological and educational promises of TA and its applications in information science, telecom, sensing.
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NewFoS provides the 10-year perspective to fully realize the discoveries, technological innovations and societal impact of TA.
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NewFoS educates and trains the workforce with scale necessary to grow a new economy based on TA science and technologies.
Legacies—technological and societal impacts. NewFoS will have the breadth, depth, and integration for intellectual, infrastructure, technology, human, economic, and academic legacies. NewFoS’ intellectual legacy will be an established, executable common scientific and technical language critical for productive transdisciplinary advances in the TA field and societal applications.