David H. Auston, Case Western Reserve University, Chair

Janet S. Fender, Air Force Research Laboratory, Vice Chair

Anthony J. Berejka, Consultant, Huntington, New York

Gary C. Bjorklund, Bjorklund Consulting, Inc.

D. Keith Bowen, Bede Scientific Incorporated

Shirley Chiang, University of California, Davis

Gregory R. Choppin, Florida State University

Leonard S. Cutler, Agilent Technologies

Ronald O. Daubach, OSRAM SYLVANIA Development, Inc.

Paul M. DeLuca, Jr., University of Wisconsin Medical School

Jay M. Eastman, Lucid, Inc.

Stephen D. Fantone, Optikos Corporation

Thomas F. Gallagher, University of Virginia

Daniel J. Larson, Pennsylvania State University

David S. Leckrone, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Neville V. Smith, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Submitted for the panel by its Chair, David H. Auston, and its Vice Chair, Janet S. Fender, this assessment of the fiscal year 2000 activities of the Physics Laboratory is based on site visits by individual panel members, a formal meeting of the panel on March 13-14, 2000, in Gaithersburg, Md., and on documents provided by the laboratory.¹