[DUSELScience] DUSEL town meeting , Washington DC , November 2-4, 2007

[Bernard Sadoulet]

The NSF is sponsoring a Town Meeting in Washington DC to discuss and 
develop the next phases of the study of a Deep Underground Science 
and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL). It has asked the site independent 
scientific study group (S1) to organize the event.

On the Friday afternoon November 2, we will have an  open meeting 
describing to interested federal officials and the press the 
scientific and education potential of DUSEL, and 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.

 From Saturday morning  November 3  to Sunday November 4 early 
afternoon, we will organize a scientific workshop involving all 
underground disciplines (Physics, Astrophysics, Biology, Earth 
Scienecs and Engineering) to focus on the next phases of the project:
         * Process to arrive at technical designs of the first suite 
of experiments to be included in
the MREFC proposal (Solicitation 4).
         * Needs in terms of  R&D before technical choices for major 
experiments can be made and to reduce technical and cost risks.
         * Science opportunities at Homestake before the MREFC 
decision  and during construction.
         * Coordination mechanisms with existing national and 
international underground laboratories/sites,
funding agencies and other entities.
         * Further technical input to the S3 design
         * Organization of the community and input to the NSF process.
This will be an opportunity for all interested scientists to develop 
further the community-specific needs that the DUSEL facility should 
support.

Mark you calendar! Details are forthcoming.
Suggestions can be sent to sadoulet at berkeley dot edu

For the S1 team

Bernard Sadoulet
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Bernard Sadoulet
Professor of Physics
Berkeley  Experimental Cosmology Group
439 LeConte Hall
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