[DUSELScience] Town meeting in Washington DC November 2-4. Hotel Deadline TODAY 10/18

[Bernard Sadoulet]

Scientists are well known to do everything at the last minute 
(including, I confess, organizing workshops!).

Note, however, that the Hotel reservation for the DUSEL town meeting 
at the guaranteed rate is TODAY Wednesday October 18. This is the 
most we could get in terms of extension. 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. We have finished our selection. If you 
have fill in a request form and have not received any email from Mary 
MacCready confirming your travel support, it is because we could not 
accommodate your request within our limited budget. I hope that you 
can find resources elsewhere to come. We need your ideas and wisdom!

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 at 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
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