[DUSELScience] DUSEL: Preliminary program of the S1 Minneapolis workshop

[Bernard Sadoulet]

We have just posted  on http://www.dusel.org a preliminary program of 
the  DUSEL solicitation 1 workshop which will take place in 
Minneapolis from July 22 to 24. We would like to urge you to 
participate!

Your participation is all the more important because of the recent 
developments. In particular,  the distribution of Solicitation2-panel 
preliminary reports on individual-site proposals asking for comments 
have generated a lot of discussions in the community. Though the S1 
process should not be influenced by any decisions, it is obvious that 
the choices being made will have a significant impact on the S1 
process and direction it will take.

Our S1 mission remains the same however, even if the context seems to 
have changed:

-- to unify the community behind the idea of multidisciplinary, 
American Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory;

-- to develop a compelling scientific justification for such a 
laboratory, cutting across our many disciplines;

-- to spell out the infrastructure requirements for such a laboratory 
that will address the needs of a broad cross section of science over 
the next 20-30 years and complement other facilities worldwide.

These are the  points around which the current program of the 
workshop has been built.

Discussions in the coming weeks, and hopefully the NSF decision, will 
allow us to sharpen the focus of our work and to modify the workshop 
program accordingly.  It is clear in any case that the workshop will 
be a pivotal moment in our process: we will have to decide what is 
the best way we can promote our common dream.
-- 
Bernard Sadoulet
Berkeley Cosmology Group
Department of Physics
University of California - Berkeley 94720-7304
Tel: 510 642 5719. Fax:510 642 1756
Cell: 510 703 3840
sadoulet at cosmology.berkeley.edu