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Meeting Agendas

FIRST MEETING

WASHINGTON, D.C.
DECEMBER 14-15, 2010

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

9:00 a.m. Welcome Andy Lankford, Chair
 
  Perspectives from the National Science Foundation (NSF)/Division of Physics Joe Dehmer, NSF
 
9:30 Break  
 
9:45 Perspectives from the NSF/Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS) Ed Seidel, NSF
 
10:15 Perspectives from the Department of Energy (DOE)/Office of High-Energy Physics (HEP) Dennis Kovar, DOE
 
10:45 Discussion with support agencies  
 
11:00 DUSEL project overview Kevin Lesko, University of California at Berkeley (UCB)
 
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Meeting Agendas." National Research Council. 2012. An Assessment of the Science Proposed for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13204.
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12:15 p.m. Lunch break  
 
1:00 Science Presentations, long-baseline neutrinos Bill Marciano, Brookhaven National Laboratory
 
1:40 Science Presentations, PDK and other physics Bob Svoboda, University of California at Davis
 
2:20 Science Presentations, dark matter Bernard Sadoulet, UCB (via audio/video)
 
3:05 Break  
 
3:20 Science Presentations, biology T.C. Onstott, Princeton University
 
3:50 Science Presentations, geoscience and engineering Derek Elsworth, Penn State University
 
4:40 Science Presentations, nuclear astrophysics Michael Wiescher, University of Notre Dame
 
5:10 Science Presentations, double-beta decay Steve Elliott, Los Alamos National Laboratory
 
5:55 Meeting closes  

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

8:00 a.m. Welcome Andy Lankford, Chair
 
8:00 Perspectives from the DUSEL Program Advisory Committee (PAC), physics Mike Witherell, University of California at Santa Barbara
 
8:30 Perspectives from PAC, biosciences, geosciences, and engineering Mark Zoback, Stanford University
 
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Meeting Agendas." National Research Council. 2012. An Assessment of the Science Proposed for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13204.
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9:00 Perspectives from Fermilab Pier Oddone, Fermilab
 
9:45 Break  
 
10:00 Perspectives from the National Science Board Barry Barish, California Institute of Technology

SECOND MEETING

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA
FEBRUARY 3-4, 2011

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Closed Session

Open Session

9:00 a.m. Welcome Andy Lankford, Chair
 
9:00 International aspects Eugenio Coccia, University of Rome Tor Vergata
 
10:00 Break  
 
10:15 Neutrino target, beam-line issues Vaia Papadimitriou, Fermilab
 
11:00 LBNE technical challenges Jim Strait, Fermilab
 
11:30 Questions and answers on LBNE  
 
Noon Lunch break  
 
12:45 p.m. Science Presentations, geoscience/geoengineering, dewatering, and DUSEL Research Association (DuRA) Larry Murdoch, Clemson University
 
1:30 Science Presentations, geoscience/geoengineering, faulting studies Leonid Germanovich, Georgia Tech University
 
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Meeting Agendas." National Research Council. 2012. An Assessment of the Science Proposed for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13204.
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2:15 Questions and answers on geoscience/geoengineering  
 
2:45 Break  
 

Close Session

Friday, February 4, 2011

Close Session

THIRD MEETING

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA
MARCH 25-27, 2011

Friday, March 25, 2011, through Sunday, March 27, 2011

Close Session

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Meeting Agendas." National Research Council. 2012. An Assessment of the Science Proposed for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13204.
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According to the big bang theory, our Universe began in a state of unimaginably high energy and density, contained in a space of subatomic dimensions. At that time, unlike today, the fundamental forces of nature were presumably unified and the particles present were interacting at energies not attainable by present-day accelerators. Underground laboratories provide the conditions to investigate processes involving rare phenomena in matter and to detect the weak effects of highly elusive particles by replicating similar environments to those once harnessed during the earliest states of the Earth. These laboratories now appear to be the gateway to understanding the physics of the grand unification of the forces of nature.

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