From geneb@hep.upenn.edu Thu Jul 29 10:44:12 2004 Status: RO X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil t nil nil] ["3144" "Thursday" "29" "July" "2004" "10:44:09" "-0400" "Gene Beier" "geneb@hep.upenn.edu" nil "66" "DUSEL working groups" "^Subject:" nil nil "7" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Return-path: Envelope-to: diwan@bnlku1.phy.bnl.gov Received: from smtpgateway.sec.bnl.local ([192.168.1.132] helo=smtpvip2.bnl.gov ident=foobar) by bnlku1 with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BqC8i-0000S2-00 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:44:12 -0400 Received: from higgs.hep.upenn.edu ([130.91.49.105]) by smtpvip2.bnl.gov with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 ) id 1BqC9H-00086S-00 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:44:47 -0400 Received: (from geneb@localhost) by higgs.hep.upenn.edu (8.8.8p2+Sun/8.8.8) id KAA16861; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:44:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <16649.3385.500270.917611@higgs.hep.upenn.edu> Subject: DUSEL working groups From: Gene Beier To: diwan@bnl.gov Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:44:09 -0400 X-Mailer: VM 7.14 under 21.4 (patch 14) "Reasonable Discussion" XEmacs Lucid X-BNL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ITD Service Desk for more information X-BNL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: geneb@hep.upenn.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi Milind, Thanks for agreeing to be a working group leader for the Solicitation 1 for DUSEL. The proposal for solicitation 1 is due September 15, and it is expected to result in an award within about three months. The working group then produces a report on science and infrastructure over the following four months (December - April) which will be used by NSF as benchmarks for the later stages of the process. I am attaching Bernard's description of the working group leaders responsibiilities - it looks pretty straight forward to me. -- Gene * For the proposal due September 15, each working group coordination team will write maybe three quarters of a page (first draft due August 20), with three paragraphs: a very brief summary of the scientific case so far (with reference to existing documents), a description open questions, and a description of the specific focus of the working group for the study. This will complement common sections describing the overall organization of the study and explaining the general approach: filling technical requirement matrix for generic experiments, development of self consistent scenarios for modules/lab infrastructure, estimation of the demand for space as a function of time etc. * The working group coordinators will lead these activities during the study proper (December-April reserving May for the external review) , through emails, websites and conference calls among the various scientists involved in the group and organization of discussions at workshops. In particular, it is important to prepare the Berkeley workshop discussions, by starting the discussion in the community, and get input from people who cannot attend. * They will work with other working group coordinators to identify "modules" (set of generic experiments with similar/compatible infrastructure requirement). * The working group coordinators will inform all the Solicitation 1 participants about conclusions as they are developed and coordinate with the PI team through regular phone meetings. * They will coordinate the writing by the members of the working group of the draft of the relevant portion of the final study report (typically 4-5 pages per subfield) + technical appendices (e.g. technical requirement matrices) and web based reference material. * Finally they will interact with the report writing team (who could include scientists and professional writer) to assure that the final report is faithful to the intention of the working group, and answer the questions that external reviewers may have. It is not necessary that the group coordinators can come to the Berkeley workshop, although it would be better if at least one were available to "jump start" the process. If none of them were available, they may want to organize some of the work with people who are going. (we will distribute a list of participants) -- Bernard Sadoulet Berkeley Cosmology Group Department of Physics University of California - Berkeley 94720-7304 Tel: 510 642 5719. Fax:510 642 1756 sadoulet@cosmology.berkeley.edu