UEC Report

1. UEC Report Users Meeting 11June 2014 Lee Roberts Department of Physics Boston University roberts @bu.eduhttp://physics.bu.edu/show/roberts Fermilab Users Meeting - B. Lee Roberts - Fermilab – 11 June 2014

2. UEC Members 2013 - 2014 Northern Illinois University Muons Inc Fermilab Users Meeting - B. Lee Roberts - Fermilab – 11 June 2014

3. Fermilab UEC Subcommittees 2013-2014 Chair Lee Roberts Secretary Craig Group Government Relations & Local Government Breese Quinn (Chair) Sandra Biedron (Deputy Chair) Nikos Varelas Tulika Bose Craig Group Greg Snow Marcelle Sores-Santos Andre de Gouvea Lee Roberts (ex-officio) Users’ Meeting Greg Snow (Chair) Vivian O’Dell (Deputy Chair) Marcelle Sores-Santos Nikos Varelas Andre de Gouvea Tulika Bose Mary Anne Cummings Craig Group Lee Roberts (ex-officio) Outreach Mandy Rominsky (Chair) Sandra Biedron Nikos Varelas Andre de Gouvea Tulika Bose Breese Quinn Mary Anne Cummings Bill Lee Lee Roberts (ex-officio) FSPA Officers Jesus Orduna Anne Norrick Michelle Medeiros Louise Suter David Martinez Quality of Life & Non-US Users Bill Lee (Chair) Mary Anne Cummings Mandy Rominsky Marcelle Sores-Santos Sandra Biedron Vivian O’Dell Lee Roberts (ex-officio)

4. Quality of Life: Bill Lee • Received reports that village internet was barely functional. Directorate informed and they are committed to improving the infrastructure. • Working with Argonne and University of Chicago on common issues. Met together to investigate holding a joint job fair. • Held a seminar for U o C physics students at Fermilab with presenters from the local graduate and Post-doc community. • Any Quality of Life issues or comments can be sent to UEC-QLC@fnal.gov Fermilab Users Meeting - B. Lee Roberts - Fermilab – 11 June 2014

5. Outreach: Mandy Rominsky • Worked on student profiles for Fermilab today • Coordinated with Quality of Life on career day along with U. Chicago and Argonne • Coordinating with Government Relations committee on August visits Fermilab Users Meeting - B. Lee Roberts - Fermilab – 11 June 2014

6. Government Relations: Breese Quinn: Chair Sandra Biedron: Deputy 48 trip members 21 UEC 20 USLUA 7 SLUO Fermilab Users Meeting - B. Lee Roberts - Fermilab – 11 June 2014

7. HEP Funding History • The Community response to the P5 report will play a major role in determining the future of this graph. • Necessary conditions: • have a plan (Moniz) • community support for the plan Fermilab Users Meeting - B. Lee Roberts - Fermilab – 11 June 2014

8. Who did we visit? • Office of Science and Technology Policy • Office of Management and Budget • DOE Headquarters – Pat Dehmer (Acting Director SC) • DOE Germantown – OHEP • NSF EPP, etc. • 350 Member Offices in the House and Senate • 5 Meetings with Committee Staff Fermilab Users Meeting - B. Lee Roberts - Fermilab – 11 June 2014

9. Executive Offices • OSTP – receptive, but there is resistance to getting specific mention of “basic science” into their policy memos, but rather “science and technology” • OMB – Role is to implement the Administration’s priorities. • They will make sure items follow mission of agency • DOE Headquarters – Pat Dehmer • Long meeting, emphasized numerous times how important the support from the community for the P5 plan will be to a change in the funding trends. Fermilab Users Meeting - B. Lee Roberts - Fermilab – 11 June 2014

10. DC visit Score Card: Overall Fermilab Users Meeting - B. Lee Roberts - Fermilab – 11 June 2014

11. DC visit Score Card: Senate Fermilab Users Meeting - B. Lee Roberts - Fermilab – 11 June 2014

12. DC visit Score Card: House Fermilab Users Meeting - B. Lee Roberts - Fermilab – 11 June 2014

13. Summary of our visits • We got a good reception in most offices, but it was difficult since the P5 report was not yet out. • The individual offices were not very aware of the process but the Energy and Water Appropriations Committee staffers were very knowledgeable, and know all about us. • We promised to get back to them when the P5 result was out, and are in the midst of that execise • Contacted almost all E&W appropriations members prior to markup. • We should hear about markups within a few days. • August visits from every one of the 190 Institutions involved in HEP to all offices during the recess when they are at home Fermilab Users Meeting - B. Lee Roberts - Fermilab – 11 June 2014

14. DC Trip Participants UEC Sandra Biedron Mary Anne Cummings Andre de Gouvea Craig Group Tom Handler Bill Lee David Martinez Carrie McGivern Anne Norrick Vivian O'Dell Jesus Orduna Breese Quinn Brian Rebel Lee Roberts Mandy Rominsky Gregory Snow MarcelleSoares-Santos Louise Suter Nikos Varelas William Wester Herman White USLUO Darin Acosta Saptaparna Bhattacharya Kevin Black Yi Chen SridharaDasu Adam Davis Sarah Demers Andrew Hard Andrew Leister Chris Lester Dan Marlow Samuel Meehan HarisankarNamasivayam Harvey Newman Danny Noonan Saehanseul Oh Isobel Ojalvo NeetiParashar Jacob Searcy Mike Tuts SLUO Andrea Albert Gerard Andonian Chris Davis UshaMallik Devon Powell Michael Sokoloff Sam Totorica Fermilab Users Meeting - B. Lee Roberts - Fermilab – 11 June 2014

15. What are we doing about the P5 rollout? • A Committee has been set up by Ian Shipsey, DPF chair • Ian Shipsey, Nick Hadley, Bob Bernstein, Yuri Gershtein, Nikos Varelas, Sally Seidel, Robin Erbacher, Laura Reina, Mike Tuts, Harvey Newman, Michael Cooke, Nicola Omodei, Mike Sokoloff, Jim Brau, Chip Brock, Pushpa Bhat, Daniel Akerib Edward Blucher, Sally Dawson, JoAnne Hewett, Breese Quinn, Jonathan Rosner, Hendrik Weerts. • DPF Executive Committee • UEC Chairs • Breese Quinn, Mike Sokoloff, Pushpa Bhat • The website for signing the support letter is up and running. • Tomorrow morning I will send out an email requesting that you sign on. Fermilab Users Meeting - B. Lee Roberts - Fermilab – 11 June 2014

16. UEC Leadership in Rollout • The March letter originated from Sandra Biedron, Harvey Newman and me. • The May letter with the funding also came from us. • The joint testimony to Congress (from UEC, USLUA and SLUO) • prepared by me beginning with Nikos Varelas’ version, important suggestions from Harvey Newman, Mike Tuts, Mike Sokoloff and especially many good suggestions from David MacFarlane. • This is the first time that the field has ever submitted testimony from all three user groups Fermilab Users Meeting - B. Lee Roberts - Fermilab – 11 June 2014

17. Fermilab UEC, US LUA, SLUO Joint testimony to House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee UEC Meeting - B. Lee Roberts - Fermilab – 25 April 2014

18. UEC Meeting - B. Lee Roberts - Fermilab – 25 April 2014

19. Final Comments • It has been an exciting and eventful year for HEP, and I have appreciated this opportunity to serve our community. Thanks to: Nikos Varelas – for mentoring me as incoming chair All of my fellow UEC members and the FSPA members who have worked with me over the past year. The Subcommittee Chairs and their Deputies Special thanks to Barb Book, who has provided a huge amount of support to the UEC over the past year, and many years previous years. Fermilab Users Meeting - B. Lee Roberts - Fermilab – 11 June 2014

20. Please sign up to support the P5 report when you get my email tomorrow. Fermilab Users Meeting - B. Lee Roberts - Fermilab – 11 June 2014