DNP organizing meeting

1. DNP organizing meeting Richard Seto Jan 23, 2011

2. Organizing committee • Richard Seto(UCRiverside) • Jutta Escher (LLNL)*, Calvin Johnson* (SDSU) • Nuclear Structure and Reactions, Nuclear Astrophysics • Brad Filippone (Caltech), Alan Poon* (LBNL) • Symmetries, neutrinos, Underground expts, nucleon structure(i.e. JLAB) • Ken Barish (UCRiverside), Manuel Calderon (UCDavis) • Heavy Ions(RHIC, LHC) , nucleon structure (i.e. spin @RHIC) • Richard Hollis* (UCR), Aneta* Iordanova (UCR) • Our worker bees • Maria* Simani : executive director: California Science project • Jim * Thomas (LLNL) • Together with Ben, our sages • Ben Gibson* (DNP/LANL) • Carol Kuc – our conference organizer

3. Agenda • Purpose of todays meeting – to get the ball rolling • Answer some basic questions • Get volunteers for things (delegate, delegate,…) • Get folks working on workshops • Talk about invited session • Action items • General information • Special events • poster/webpage – get volunteers • Discuss - After dinner speaker • Discuss - Teachers Day – kick it off (Rich/Maria) • Discuss Invited Session – volunteer to organize • Discuss and kick off Workshop organization

4. Hyatt Regency Newport Beach, CA • Nearby Hotels • Newport Beach Marriott Hotel & Spa • 900 Newport Center Drive, 0.5 mi E • Newport Dunes Waterfront Resort • 1131 Back Bay Drive, 0.4 mi W   • Island Hotel Newport Beach • 690 Newport Center Drive, 0.8 mi E • Balboa Island Hotel • 127 Agate Avenue, 0.9 mi SW • Carol - kuc • Airports • John Wayne Airport : Shuttle service Provided by Hotel • LAX, Long Beach, Ontario Airports: Commercial Shuttle, Taxi • General info • Beach, Fashion Island (15 min walk) wide range of restaurant prices and styles • Nearby attractions • Disneyland, knots berry farm (20 min) • OC performing arts center (10 min), • LA concert venues, (45 min depending on traffic) • SanDiego – 1.5 hrs • Golf , Pool, Tennis at hotel • 403 guestrooms ( booked 370) • Govt rate ( valid 3 days before and after meeting) • Parking, internet complimentary • Southern California “outdoor” layout • 2 large meeting rooms (up to 600) • 19 breakout rooms

5. Schedule • Special events • CEU – Warren Rogers – poster sessions and a special meeting room • Education Committee • Pizza and Beer for grad students (find a place) • Mentoring day (maybe) • Alternate Careers (maybe) • Collaboration meeting - • Meetings with Carol Kuc • Teachers day – we are responsible – Maria Simani • Physics Olympics (maybe) Con Beusang – for teams of high school students • Oct 24-27, 2012: Wed-Sat noon • Wed • Workshops-AM • 2 sessions (3 per session) • Plenary Session -PM • Reception Wed-Eve • Thursday, Friday • Four Sessions each • Saturday • Two sessions - AM • Ends at noon

6. Questions restaurants • Longer time for lunch? ~15 min walks 8:00am /6:30pm 2 slots in eve for collab meeting start time - 2 hrs for lunch • Is phone app useful? • yes (APS provides) • Person at APS ask ben • Worth several thousand dollars • Bulletins cost constructing them • Sessions 12 min before 2 hrs • Coffee available all the time. • 7:30 – 9 AM (to get people to session) Free coffee dependent on budget • Workshops

7. Poster/Webpage(need volunteers today) • Poster - check with APS - May to ben by April 29th, generate pdf - to Leanne Poteet • Volunteer? (I will help of course) • Critical dates – steer people to web page Keep it simple • I will do poster • Web page - richard • Volunteer? (again, I will help)

8. After Banquet Speech ideas:(we don’t have to finalize this today) • BahramMobasher (UCR) • “What Do We Know About the History of the Universe?” • Robert Lang – budget $700 • The Mathematics and Science of Origami • JPL – MARS Rover mission – someone else from JPL • Science comunication – center for communicating science SUNY, Alan Alda – Jutta • David Saltzburg – Big Bang theory UCLA • Jennifer Outlette – please follow up on it. • Other Ideas? • if you have the contact – please be in charge

9. Teachers Day(kick off thinking) • Maria Simani • To do • We can get help from Andrea Palounek <aptp@lanl.gov>. – email • Contact school districts to find best day • Anything else to begin planning? • Breakfast and lunch – make it free • Saturday • 2010 ¾ day • DNP provided breakfast and lunch • Materials

10. Invited Session (we are responsible) *related invited talk and workshop (invited talk is not a summary of workshop) • Invited Session (3 talks) • Nuclear Physics in “Southern” California: Possible talks include • 13 (first results available ?) – will be new results from Korea – Double chooz and Daya bay – invite someone to give a review of theta – talk • Send a feeler to expts – Alan Poon • New measurements testing SM* • LHC/RHIC results and comparisons *- does energy scale make a difference? - (Post QM 2012, there will be many new results. PC may want a dedicated heavy ion session) • Discuss with Jim • Nuclear physics and the Stars • laser accel • homeland security – Steve Koonin (caltech) – get brad fillipones • Steve Rabinowitz – institute for defense analysis • Any better/other ideas? • Volunteer to be in charge

11. Workshops (we are responsible – coordinate with program committee) • 3 workshops/session – 2 sessions =6 total • 1.5 hrseach(e.g. 3 speakers) ( speakers each with a coffee break 25+5) • Previously (choose three or 2 + 2 with one session) • Status and Future Prospects of Underground Physics (Brad Filippone (Caltech), Alan Poon (LBNL) • Goals: Deep underground laboratories are unique venues for experiments that require minimal influence from cosmic muons. The aims of this workshop are to survey the exciting experimental and theoretical programs that address far-reaching problems in nuclear physics and beyond at such facilities. Topics in neutrino physics, nuclear astrophysics and related experiments at underground laboratories will be explored.  • Probing the New Standard Model Brad Filippone (Caltech), Alan Poon (LBNL) • Goals: Nuclear physics will play important roles in defining the new Standard Model. Precision measurements of electroweak phenomena, searches for electric dipole moments and neutrinoless double-beta decay, and studies of fundamental symmetries are crucial elements in this endeavor. The aims of this workshop are to review the present status and future prospects of these measurements and their impacts to the new Standard Model. • And Here be Dragons: Understanding the Nature of Unstable Isotopes (JuttaEscher (LLNL), Calvin Johnson (SDSU)) • Goals of the workshop: Summarize key activities of ongoing low-energy nuclear structure and reactions research aimed at elucidating the nature of unstable nuclei. Highlight the overarching questions to be addressed by this research and issues to be resolved in the context of this work. Both theory and experiment will be covered. • Heavy Ions - post QM 2012 (K. Barish (UCRiverside), M. Calderon (UCDavis) Ri.Hollis(UCR), A.Iordanova(UCR) J. Thomas (LLNL) • Heavy Ions (will be many new results) • Jets, quarkonia, heavy flavor, energy scan • Theory • RHIC/Spin • Longitudinal - primarily results from 500GeV run: A_L (W)  and A_LL for DeltaG. • Transverse (500 and 200GeV) - STAR FMS, PHENIX MPC results • Possibly also pQCD theory talk. Global analysis and/or transverse phenomena • Choose leads (i.e. the person I bother)

12. Calendar • Feb newsletter (Rich – in a few days) • April meeting: March 31-April 3, 2012 • Workshops/Invited sessions finalized • Coordinate these with Program Committee • Poster – to Ben (Aneta) – 4 colors • Ask ben who printing person at APS • A week rich details. ready to print form by April 29th • May newsletter - program finalized? • The meeting: Oct 24-27 • Later things to do – e.g. get session chairs, secretarial help • Next meeting • how often to meet? – biweekly with lots of emails? • use whenisgood