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Tuesday, January
4 Benson
Geology Bldg., Atrium | |||
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6:00 - 8:00 P.M. |
Registration and Welcome Reception |
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Wednesday, January
5 Benson
Geology Bldg, Atrium & Conference Rm |
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7:30 - 8:30 A.M. |
Registration and Breakfast |
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| 8:30 - 8:35 A.M. | Welcoming words by Provost & Vice Chancellor Phil Distefano, U. Colorado-Boulder | ||
| Chair: James
Tiedje Reports on status: Progress made at Berkeley & Blacksburg Wksps |
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| 8:35 - 9:00 A.M. | Introduction:
DUSEL Process (Solicitation 1) (html) (.ppt) Focus of the workshop: Improvement of statements on science, infrastructure, international aspects |
Bernard Sadoulet | U.Calif., Berkeley |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Geomicrobiology (html) (.ppt) | Tom Kieft | New Mexico Tech |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Earth Sciences (html) (.ppt) | Eric Sonnenthal | LBNL |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Applications | Jean-Claude Roegiers | Univ. of Oklahoma |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | BREAK | ||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Physics Perspectives (pdf) | Eugene Beier | Univ. of Pennsylvania |
Biological opportunities |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 P.M. | The underground life of a geomicrobiologist (html) (.ppt) | T.C. Onstott | Princeton |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Evolutionary questions (html) (.ppt) | Nancy Moran | Univ. of Arizona |
| 12:30 - 1:30 | LUNCH (at University Memorial Union) | ||
Plenary session, Chair: Eugene Beier |
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| 1:30 - 2:00 P.M. | Infrastructure and technical requirements (html) (.ppt) | Lee Petersen | CNA Engineering |
Working groups (preliminary list): |
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| 2:00 - 4:00 P.M. |
• Biology: evolutionary question • Large detectors: proton decay and long baselines (depth, distance from accelerators, other uses, infrastructure): David Cline (UCLA) pdf • Low background experiments: double beta, dark matter, solar neutrinos (depth, size, infrastructure needs) • Comlementary aspects of various rocks: hard rock, sedimentary, salt (depth needs for earth sciences and engineering • DUSEL and climatology: cloud chamber, paleoclimate |
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| 4:00 - 4:30 | BREAK | ||
Working groups cont'd |
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| 4:30 - 6:30 P.M. |
• Biology: sampling issues and infrastructure • Neutrino imaging of the earth • Low background experiments: counting facilities • Other physics applications: n-nbar, laboratory astrophysics, gravitational waves Y. Kamyshkov (.ppt) • Designing the 1 km^3 sandbox • Solid earth: tectonics, seismology |
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| 6:30 - 8:30 | DINNER (on your own) | ||
| Plenary session (optional), Chair: Eugene Beier | |||
| 8:30 - 10:00 P.M. | Short, factual descriptions of the candidate sites: Cascades-Icicle Creek, WA (pdf) Henderson, CO (pdf) Homestake, SD (html) (.ppt) Kimballton, VA (html) (.ppt) San Jacinto, CA (UCI website) Soudan, MN (.ppt) WIPP, NM (html) (.ppt) |
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| 10:00 - 11:00 | Working Group Leaders and PIs meet | Benson Conference Room
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| Thursday, January
6 Benson Geology Bldg, Atrium & Conference Rm |
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| 7:30 - 8:30 A.M. | BREAKFAST | ||
Chair: Charles
Fairhurst |
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| 8:30 - 9:00 A.M. | Biology at Aspo, Sweden (html) (.ppt) | Karsten Pedersen | Univ. of Göteborg |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Worldwide demand & international coordination (html) (.ppt) | Barry Barish | CalTech |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Europe's facilities (html) (.ppt) | Stavros Katsanevas | IN2P3 (France) |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Canadian plans (html) (.ppt) | David Sinclair | Carleton Univ. |
| 10:20 - 10:30 | SNO in the S2 process (html) (.ppt) | Andrew Hime | Los Alamos NL |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | BREAK | ||
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Japan's facilities (.pdf) | Chan Yuen-Dat | LBNL |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | General discussion | ||
Chair: Bernard
Sadoulet |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 P.M. | Fundamental questions at the border of physics and astrophysics (.pdf) (.mov) | Hiroshi Murayama | Univ.of Calif., Berkeley |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Transparent Earth | Jean-Claude Roegiers | Univ. of Oklahoma |
| 12:30 - 1:30 | LUNCH (at the Univeristy Memorial Union) | ||
| 1:30 - 2:00 | E&O at DUSEL (html) (.ppt) | Marjorie Bardeen | Fermilab |
Consolidated summaries of Wednesday's working groups |
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| 2:00 - 2:30 P.M. | Physics (pdf) | ||
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Earth Sciences and Engineering | ||
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Biology | ||
| 3:30 - 4:00 | BREAK | ||
Infrastracture & technical requirements/modules |
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| 4:00 - 6:30 P.M. Working groups: |
• Common
facilities (html) (.ppt) (Bill
Miller, U. Minn.) • Management aspects (including multisite option) • Worldwide demand and international coordination • Education and involvement of the local community |
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| 6:30 - 9:30 | BANQUET at the Folsom Stadium Club |
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| 9:30 - 10:30 | Working Group Leaders & PIs meet | ||
| Friday, January
7 Benson Geology Bldg, Atrium & Conference Rm |
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| 7:30 - 8:30 A.M. | BREAKFAST | ||
Chair: T.C.
Onstott |
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| 8:30 - 8:50 A.M. 8:50 - 9:15 9:15 - 9:20 9:20 - 9:30 |
Common
facilities/Infrastructure (html) (.ppt) Worldwide demand and international coordination (.pdf) Synergies (html) (.ppt) Neutrino beams |
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| 9:30 - 10:00 | BREAK | ||
| Conclusions | |||
| 10:00 - 11:45 A.M. | General discussion | Bernard Sadoulet | UC Berkeley |
| 11:45 - 12:15 P.M. | Chronology and Conclusions (html) (.ppt) | ||
| 12:15 P.M. | End of the workshop | ||
| 12:15 - 5:00 | Henderson mine tour (optional) | ||
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Last revised: January 3, 2005 |