D Meeting Agendas
FIRST MEETING NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WASHINGTON, D.C.
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Monday, June 24, 2002 |
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Closed Session |
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8:00 am |
Convene; introductions; review charge and discuss goals for the meeting |
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Committee composition and balance discussion |
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—Barry Barish, Chair |
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—Don Shapero, Director, Board on Physics and Astronomy |
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Open Session |
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9:30 am |
Welcome; public introductions, and study plan |
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—Barry Barish |
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Background and Charge |
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9:45 am |
Office of Science and Technology Policy views |
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—Patrick Looney, Assistant Director, Physical Sciences and Engineering, Office of Science and Technology Policy |
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10:15 am |
Break |
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10:30 am |
Department of Energy plans for neutrino physics |
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—Peter Rosen, Associate Director, DOE Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics |
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Opportunities with U.S. Underground Neutrino Facilities |
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11:00 am |
Scientific merits of proposed large U.S. underground neutrino facilities |
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Underground Science, Homestake, and an Introduction to San Jacinto |
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—Wick Haxton, University of Washington |
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12:15 pm |
Lunch |
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1:00 pm |
National Science Foundation views on the study and charge |
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—Joseph Bordogna, Deputy Director, National Science Foundation |
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1:45 pm |
Scientific merits of proposed large U.S. underground neutrino facilities (continued) |
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–Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Carlsbad, NM |
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—Todd Haines, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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Major Underground Neutrino Physics Topics |
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2:15 pm |
Double beta decay |
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—Steve Elliott, University of Washington/Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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3:15 pm |
Break |
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3:30 pm |
Solar neutrinos |
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—Andrew Hime, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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4:30 pm |
Long-baseline neutrino oscillations |
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—Stanley Wojcicki, Stanford University |
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5:00 pm |
Off-axis neutrino beam research and the Soudan experiment |
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—Earl Peterson, University of Minnesota |
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5:30 pm |
General discussion of the scientific opportunities |
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6:00 pm |
Adjourn for the day |
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Tuesday, June 25, 2002 |
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Open Session |
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8:00 am |
Reconvene |
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—Barry Barish |
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Opportunities with Foreign Underground Neutrino Facilities |
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8:00 am |
Large international underground neutrino physics efforts |
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—Yoichiro Suzuki, Kamioka Observatory, Japan |
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—Alessandro Bettini, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Europe |
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—David Sinclair, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory and Carleton University, Canada |
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9:30 am |
Break |
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Opportunities in High-Energy Neutrino Astrophysics |
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9:45 am |
Neutrino astrophysics and IceCube |
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—Per Olof Hulth, University of Stockholm |
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—Francis Halzen, University of Wisconsin |
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—Christian Spiering, Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) |
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—David Nygren, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
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11:15 am |
International high-energy neutrino astrophysics: ANTARES and NESTOR |
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—John Carr, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille |
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—Leonidas Resvanis, NESTOR Institute for Deep Sea Research, Technology, and Neutrino Astroparticle Physics |
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12:15 pm |
Working Lunch |
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Closed Session |
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1:15 pm |
Committee deliberations |
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—Barry Barish |
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5:00 pm |
Adjourn |
SECOND MEETING HILTON CHICAGO O’HARE AIRPORT CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
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Thursday, July 25, 2002 |
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Open Session |
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9:00 am |
Convene |
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—Barry Barish, Chair |
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9:00 am |
Dark-Matter Searches |
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—Rick Gaitskell, Brown University |
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10:00 am |
Proton Decay: Theory and Experiment |
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—Hitoshi Murayama, University of California, Berkeley |
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—Chang Kee Jung, State University of New York, Stony Brook |
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—Robert Svoboda, Louisiana State University |
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11:30 am |
Lunch |
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12:30 pm |
Scientific Potential of Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments |
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—William Marciano, Brookhaven National Laboratory |
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1:00 pm |
Scientific Potential of Bright Neutrino Beams for Underground Physics |
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—Thomas Roser, Brookhaven National Laboratory |
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—Deborah Harris, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
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2:00 pm |
Scientific Potential of a Neutrino Factory for Underground Physics |
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—Dan Kaplan, Illinois Institute of Technology |
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2:30 pm |
Alternate Development Plans for a National Underground Laboratory |
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—Alfred Mann, University of Pennsylvania |
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2:45 pm |
Break |
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Closed Session |
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3:00 pm |
Committee deliberations |
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—Barry Barish |
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5:00 pm |
Additional primer on high-energy sources |
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—Angela Olinto, University of Chicago |
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—Rene Ong, University of California, Los Angeles |
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6:30 pm |
Adjourn for the day |
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Friday, July 26, 2002 |
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Closed Session |
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8:00 am |
Reconvene |
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Committee deliberations |
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—Barry Barish |
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4:00 pm |
Adjourn |
THIRD MEETING CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
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Monday, September 30, 2002 |
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Open Session |
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8:30 am |
Convene |
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—Barry Barish, Chair |
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8:30 am |
Office of Science and Technology Policy views |
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—Patrick Looney, Assistant Director, Physical Sciences and Engineering, Office of Science and Technology Policy |
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Closed Session |
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9:00 am |
Committee deliberations and report drafting |
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—Barry Barish |
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6:00 pm |
Adjourn for the day |
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Tuesday, October 1, 2002 |
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Closed Session |
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8:30 am |
Reconvene |
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Committee deliberations and report drafting |
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—Barry Barish |
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Noon |
Adjourn |
