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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. SEAB Task Force Meeting on Fusion Energy 4/29-4/30
2. Call for Input into Fusion SSI Proposal Process
3. NRC Proposes Committee Members for Fusion Assessment
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1. SEAB Task Force Meeting on Fusion Energy 4/29-4/30
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The Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB) Task Force on
Fusion Energy
will hold its second meeting on April 29-30 at the Princeton Plasma
Physics
Laboratory in Room LSB-318 of the Lyman Spitzer Building.
The meeting will begin at 8:30 AM on Thursday, April 29 and
adjourn at
12:30 PM on Friday, April 30.
Those planning to attend this meeting need to submit the Visitor's
Access
Form (below) as soon as possible.
A listing of Princeton area hotels is given below. For more
information
concerning local logistics for the SEAB Task Force meeting, please
contact
Dolores Lawson (dlawson@pppl.gov).
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PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY
AUTHORIZATION FORM FOR ALL VISITORS
SECRETARY OF ENERGY ADVISORY BOARD
TASK FORCE ON FUSION ENERGY
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Lyman Spitzer Building
Room LSB-318
April 29-30, 1999
NAME:
INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION:
ADDRESS:
ARRIVAL DATE:
DEPARTURE DATE:
CITIZENSHIP:
PASSPORT NO./EXP. DATE: (non-US citizens only)
PLACE/DATE OF BIRTH: (non-US citizens only)
Please return this form to:
Dolores Lawson
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Post Office Box 451, Princeton, NJ 08543
609-243-3554 (FAX: 609-243-2749)
dlawson@pppl.gov
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Princeton Area Hotels:
Holiday Inn
4355 U.S. Route #1 South
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-452-2400
Residence Inn
4225 U.S. Route #1 South
Princeton, NJ 08540
732-329-9600
Novotel Princeton
100 Independence Way
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-520-1200
Princeton Marriott
201 Village Boulevard
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-452-7900
The Forrestal at Princeton
Princeton Forrestal Center
100 College Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-452-7800
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2. Call for Input into Fusion SSI Proposal Process
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> CALL FOR INPUT INTO FUSION SSI PROPOSAL PROCESS
>
> S. Eckstrand and W. Tang (April 16,
1999)
>
>
>
> The purpose of this message is to solicit broad community
input
> into the proposal process for the participation of the Fusion
Energy
> Sciences in the DOE Scientific Simulation Initiative (SSI),
which is part
> of the multi-agency Information Technology for the Tweny-First
Century
> (IT-2). In anticipation of the publication of the SSI announcement
in the
> Federal Register next week, we are soliciting synopses of
proposed work
> from all interested participants.
>
> At the OFES Budget Planning meeting, the methodology
for preparing
> an integrated proposal from Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
was presented and
> is now posted on the FES SSI Webpage at:
>
> http://w3.pppl.gov/ssp
>
> The distinguished Program Advisory Committee (PAC), which
helped guide the
> development of a well-received White Paper by the Fusion
SSI Management
> Team will again be prominently engaged.
>
> Synopses from potential participants should address the scientific
issues
> identified in the Fusion SSI White Paper (also posted at
the above
> website). These include: Microscopic Turbulent Transport,
Global
> (Macroscopic) Stability, and IFE Source-to-Target Ion-Beam
Simulations.
> The synopses must include a technical description of the
proposed work,
> technical milestones, budget and manpower estimates, and
a discussion of
> how the work will be managed. The budget and manpower estimates
should
> identify both existing manpower and funding, and new manpower
and funding
> to be requested in the proposal. Near-term milestones (within
the next
> year) need to be both scientifically significant and achievable.
If the
> FES proposal is selected, clearly identifiable progress by
Spring of 2000
> will nevertheless be needed to ensure continued SSI funding
for FY 2001
> and
> beyond. Of course, longer term milestones must be sufficiently
ambitious
> and exciting that they are consistent with the goal of the
SSI Basic
> Science Applications goal -- to revolutionize research within
the programs
> sponsored by the DoE Office of Science.
>
> Please provide your SSI proposal input to us by email
or FAX at:
>
> eckstrand@er.doe.gov and tang@pppl.gov
> FAX: (301) 903-4716 FAX: (609) 243-2662
>
> Synopses from all potential Fusion SSI participants are due
by:
>
> 4:00 PM (EDT) on APRIL 30, 1999.
>
> The management team that prepared the White Paper will
work with
> the input collected and develop an overall draft proposal
by the middle
> of
> May. This draft proposal will be sent out to the community
and to the PAC
> for review. The PAC will meet at PPPL on June 3-4 to review
and comment
> on the Fusion SSI Proposal. Groups, who feel that the final
proposal
> should
> have a different emphasis or approach from the draft proposal,
may make
> short presentations to the PAC as well. The PAC will then
provide
> recommendations on how to construct the final Fusion SSI
proposal.
>
> The target budget level for basic science proposals
is $2-3
> million, and the length of the proposals is limited to 20
pages plus a one
> page executive summary. Since the SSI is planned to be a
growing program,
> it is expected that there will be opportunities to include
additional
> topics and institutions (beyond those in the FY 2000 proposal)
in future
> years.
>
> The DOE SSI Announcement will actually be two separate
calls (due
> to legal constraints) -- one for the university and private
institution
> sectors and a companion one for the laboratories. A combined
> lab/university/industry proposal in response to these calls
is in fact the
> most desirable with the first priority being an excellent
technical scope
> of work.
>
> Pre-proposals (encouraged, but not mandatory) will
be due in
> mid-May, and the final proposals will be due about July 1.
The review of
> all DOE Basic Science Applications proposals will be held
at the beginning
> of August, and the successful proposals will be announced
in September,
> 1999.
>
> All official announcements from DOE will be accessible
on the
> Office of Science web site at:
>
> www.er.doe.gov/production/grants/grants.html
>
> as soon as they are published in the Federal Register. This
web site also
> contains a Grant Application Guide, which provides detailed
information on
> what is required in a grant application including information
on
> collaborative proposals in Section 7.
>
>
> At present, the proposed DOE Review Process will proceed
as follows:
>
> A single review panel will evaluate all of the SSI Basic
Science
> proposals
> guided by four criteria:
>
> * Scientific and Technical Merit
> -- Potential for major impact on key problems of extraordinary
> complexity in the underlying scientific area
>
> * Readiness for Terascale Computing
> -- Early use of terascale computing evident from underlying
science
> and
> demonstrably scalable numerical methods
> -- Specific requirements for storage and communications
> infrastructure
> readily satisfied by access to SSI resources
> -- Evidence of scientific community readiness via compelling
> implementation plan
>
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3. NRC Proposes Committee Members for Fusion Assessment
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The National Research Council (NRC) has posted its list of
proposed
committee members to conduct "An Assessment of the Fusion
Energy Sciences
Program." The law provides for 20 days for public comment
which can be
provided via the web posting at
http://www4.nas.edu/cp.nsf/ and follow the links to Committee Membership
Alternately, details on the project scope and membership info
can be found at:
http://www4.nas.edu/cp.nsf/Projects+_by+_PIN/BPAX-L-98-05-A?OpenDocument
This review was requested by DOE Director of Science Martha
Krebs, who asked
for an "independent assessment of the scientific quality
of the (DOE Office
of Fusion Energy Sciences) research programs."
In her request letter Krebs said,
"Among the things you may wish to consider in your assessment
are the
quality of fusion research itself as evidenced by progress in
the
understanding of fundamental plasma physics issues in fusion energy;
the
impact that fusion energy research has had in other scientific
areas such
as astrophysics, geophysics, computational science, and technological
areas
such as plasma processing; and the role of fusion research in
the academic
community including graduate student training."
"I anticipate that those who carry out the assessment will
have the broad
scientific expertise necessary to provide the critical judgment
required in
such a task and that they will represent a broad segment of the
scientific
community."
The proposed Committee and its organization is as follows:
Steering Group:
Charles Kennel, Director, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography,
Chair
Robert Socolow, Princeton University
Robert Frosch, Harvard University
Experiment Ggroup:
Claudio Pellegrini, UCLA
George Gloeckler, University of Maryland
Patrick Colestock, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Robert Siemann, Stanford University
Theory and Computation:
Robert Rosner, University of Chicago
James Van Dam, University of Texas at Austin
Nathaniel Fisch, Princeton University
Program Architecture:
James Drake, University of Maryland
Stewart Prager, University of Wisconsin
Andrew Sessler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The NRC is an arm of the National Academy of Sciences and the
National
Academy of Engineering.
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