[DUSELScience] Town meeting in Washington DC November 2-4. Hotel Deadline TODAY
Scientists are well known to do everything at the last minute (including organizing workshops!).
Note, however, that the Hotel reservation for the DUSEL town meeting at the guaranteed rate is TODAY Wednesday October 17. We are trying to extend the deadline by a few days, but we have no confirmation yet. Please register and make your hotel reservation TODAY through our web site
http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/DUSEL/Town_meeting_DC07/
Please fill also the sign up sheet for the working groups.
We are not considering any more request for financial support, except in exceptional circumstances. A first round of acceptance has been sent yesterday and new ones will be sent today and tomorrow.
The online registration is open till October 25 . After that date, a penalty of $75 will be imposed for the workshop registration (the Friday event is free).
------ About the meeting (very similar to previous announcements)-----
As announced previously, the site-independent scientific study group of Deep Underground Science and Engineering (the so-called "S1" group) is organizing a Town Meeting in Washington DC (November 2-4, 2007) to discuss and develop the next phases of the study of a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL).
On Friday afternoon, November 2, in the Auditorium of the National Academy of Sciences, we will hold an open meeting to describe to interested federal officials, the press and other interested parties, the scientific and educational potential of DUSEL, and present the upcoming site-specific technical design of the envisioned Homestake laboratory. We hope that a large number of scientists will be present to express their interest in the project. This event is supported by the University of California Institute for Particle/Nuclear Astrophysics and Cosmology (INPAC).
>From Saturday morning, November 3, to Sunday afternoon, November 4, we are organizing a scientific workshop involving all underground disciplines (Physics, Astrophysics, Biology, Earth Sciences and Engineering) to focus on the next phases of the project. This will take place at the Renaissance M Street Hotel, 1143 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington, DC, where we have reserved a block of rooms. This event is partially supported by NSF.
The Saturday-Sunday meeting is critical in organizing the conceptual/technical designs of the first suite of DUSEL experiments for submission to the NSF Major Research Equipment and Facilities program (MREFC) at the same time as the DUSEL facility. Such designs will be supported by Solicitation 4, which will be discussed at length during the week end. In addition we will give additional technical input to the S3 design, further define the needed R&D, explore the science and education before the MREFC approval and during construction, and discuss coordination mechanisms with existing national and international underground laboratories/sites, national labs, funding agencies and other entities. This will be an opportunity to further organize ourselves as a community and provide input to the NSF process.
A web site is now up http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/DUSEL/Town_meeting_DC07/ with practical information about registration and hotel accommodations, a preliminary program, a working group sign-up page and a request form for financial support.
It would help us greatly in our organization effort if you signed up for working groups for the Scientific Workshop (if you plan to come of course), and indicate whether you would like to give a presentation and its tentative title. Note that this is not a registration, you will have to register in the appropriate section of the web site. Please plan to come also to the Friday afternoon event, if at all possible.
For questions or comments contact us at inpac_response@cosmology.berkeley.edu or through the web site.
The S1 team
Astrophysics
Bernard Sadoulet
University of California at Berkeley
Physics
Eugene Beier
University of Pennsylvania
Civil Engineering/Rock Mechanics
Charles Fairhurst
University of Minnesota
Geomicrobiology
T.C. Onstott
Princeton University
Physics
R.G. Hamish Robertson
University of Washington
Microbiology
James Tiedje
Michigan State University