2010 NUFO Meeting

June 7-9, 2010 - Brookhaven National Laboratory

Agenda


Monday, June 7, 2010
9:00 am NUFO Steering Committee  
12:00 pm No-host Lunch  
1:30 pm Welcoming Remarks Emilio Mendez, Director, Center for Functional Nanomaterials – BNL
1:40 pm User Agreements from the DOE Perspective John T. Lucas, Office of Assistant General Counsel for Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property
2:10 pm Master User Agreements: Progress and Issues
Questions and Discussions on User Agreements		 Judy Trimble, ORNL
2:50 pm Break  
3:15 pm What can NUFO do for You: Benefits of Communications, Outreach, and Share Information Cathy Knotts, SSRL
3:35 pm User Metrics Discussion: What information is actually useful for your facility? What are the best ways of obtaining it? Susan Strasser, ANL
3:55 pm Maintaining and Collecting NUFO User & Facility Statistics Susan White-DePace, BNL
4:20 pm Wrap-up Discussion  
6:00 pm No-host Dinner  
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
8:30 am Continental Breakfast  
9:00 am Welcome Steven Vigdor, Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear and Particle Physics, BNL
9:10 am The Importance (and Pitfalls) of Outreach: A Headquarters Perspective Ben Brown, Office of Science
9:55 am Science for Energy Technology: Strengthening the link between Basic Research and Industry Simon Bare, UOP LLC a Honeywell Corporation
10:25 am Science and Technology Opportunities of Future Lightsources Uwe Bergmann, Deputy Director, LCLS
10:55 am Break  
11:15 am Long-range Plans for High Energy Science Charles Baltay, Yale University
11:45 am Long-range Plans for Nuclear Science Bill Zajc, Columbia University/Nevis Labs
12:15 pm What is ESnet? Who uses it and what can it offer users? M. Helms, LBNL
12:30 pm No-host Lunch  
2:00 pm Bryant Research Survey Al Ekkebus, ORNL
2:20 pm Year in Review: Report from NUFO Steering Committee Rene Bellwied, Wayne State University
2:50 pm Message from the APS Mike Lubell, APS
3:00 pm Update on DOE Order 142.3 Susan White-DePace, BNL
3:15 pm Break  
3:45 pm NUFO Industrial Usage Report Follow-up Susan Strasser, ANL, APS
4:00 pm NUFO Membership Roles and Responsibilities for User Representatives and User Administrators Brant Johnson, BNL
4:15 pm Open Discussion with Membership: How is NUFO Doing? NUFO Agenda Items for Upcoming Year, NUFO Membership, List Servers Available to User Representatives Rene Bellwied, Wayne State University
5:00 pm Meeting adjourns  
6:00 pm Dinner at Atlantis Marine World Aquarium
  • Reservations Required for Dinner and Diving with the Sharks
  • Cocktails courtesy of Brookhaven Science Associate
  
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
8:30 am Continental Breakfast  
9:00 am Welcome Chi-Chang Kao, Chair, National Synchrotron Light Source, Director of the Joint Photon Sciences Institute, BNL
9:10 am Overview of Education Programs at BNL Scott Bronson, Office of Educational Programs, BNL
9:30 am High School Outreach at the NSLS Tony Lanzirotti, University of Chicago
9:50 am MARIACHI - High School Students Help Researchers Study Cosmic Rays Helio Takai, BNL
10:10 am Break  
10:40 am Inspiring the Next Generation of Innovators Paul Gudonis, President of FIRST
11:00 am Adopt-A-Physicist Program Kendra Rand, American Institute of Physics
11:30 am SciVee Media Solutions for Scientific, Technical, and Medical Marketing Ken Liu, SciVee
12:00 pm Establishment of Annual Physics Olympics and First Responder Outreach Cornelius (Con) Beausang, University of Richmond
12:30 pm No-host Lunch  
2:00 pm NSF Outreach Initiatives Dana Topousis, NSF Office of Legislative and Public Affairs Group Leader for Media and Public Information
2:30 pm Workforce Development at the DOE Office of Science Kirk A. Janowiak, Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow, Office of Science
3:00 pm How to Get Your Science in the News Glenn Ruskin, Director of Public Affairs, American Chemical Society
3:30 pm Break  
3:45 pm Outreach at CERN James Gillies, Head of Communication and Spokesman, CERN Press Office
4:15 pm NUFO Agenda on Education and Outreach Katherine Kantardjieff, California Polytechnic University Pomona
4:45 pm Meeting Adjourned – to be followed by Cocktail Hour –
compliments of Brookhaven Science Associates		  

Participants

  • Prof. William Zajc, Columbia University
  • Dr. Helio Takai, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Dr. Balaji Raghothamachar, Stony Brook University
  • Dr. Igor Zaliznyak, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Mrs. Jennifer Zito, Shoreham Wading River CSD
  • Mr. Thomas Tomaszewski, Shoreham-Wading River HS
  • Mrs. Antonya Sanders, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Dr. Jean Jordan-Sweet, IBM Research Division
  • Michael Helm, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Dorene Price, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Dr. Richard Wagener, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Dr. Syed Khalid, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Dr. Brant Johnson, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Ben Brown, DOE Office of Science
  • Dr. Stanislaus Wong, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Dr. Carla Vale, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Dr. Shaofei Zhu, Argonne National Laboratory
  • Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois
  • Dr. Simon Bare, UOP LLC, a Honeywell Company
  • Mr. David Bunzow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Ms. Terry Law, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Ms. Susan White-DePace, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Dr. Richard Lee, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Kathleen Nasta, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Dr. James Gillies, CERN
  • Mrs. Leilani Conradson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Ms. Tanya Herrera, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Ms. Deborah Smith, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Prof. Katherine Kantardjieff, Cal Poly Pomona
  • Ms. Staci West, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Mr. Ken Liu, SciVee, Inc.
  • Ms. Jane Tanamachi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Ms. Judy Trimble, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Allen Ekkebus, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Ms. Lizette Domenech, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Mrs. Susan Strasser, Argonne National Laboratory
  • Mr. Paul Gudonis, US FIRST
  • Dr. Susan Bailey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Kendra Rand, American Institute of Physics
  • Prof. MICHAEL LUBELL, Am Physical Society & CCNY
  • Prof. Charles Baltay, Yale University
  • Dr. Cornelius Beausang, University of Richmond
  • Mr. Glenn Ruskin, American Chemical Society
  • Mrs. Heather Brown, Sandia National Laboratories
  • Ms. Marie Clark, Argonne National Laboratory
  • Dr. Antonio Lanzirotti, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Dana Topousis, National Science Foundation
  • Mr. Kirk Janowiak, DOE Office of Science, Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists
  • Mr. Peter Smith, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Grace Webster, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Dr. Uwe Bergmann, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
  • Ms. Cathy Knotts, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
  • Mrs. Angela Melocoton, Brookhaven National Laboratory