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CONTENTS:

	1. U.S. ITER Project Office Will Be Located at PPPL
	2. Final report, Workshop on Advanced Computational Materials
	Science
	3.  Call for proposals for large allocations of computing
	resources
	4.  Fusion Oral History being developed


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	1. U.S. ITER Project Office Will Be Located at PPPL
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The U.S. Department of Energy has announced that the U.S. project office
for ITER will be located at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL).
See press release at:
http://fire.pppl.gov/iter_doe_pppl_071304.pdf

Attached to this email is the current organization chart for the US ITER
Project Office.  Many of the boxes on the chart are to be filled based on
a national selection process.


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	2. Final report of the Workshop on Advanced Computational
	Materials Science
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The final report of the Workshop on Advanced Computational Materials
Science:  Application to Fusion and Generation IV FIssion Reactors is
attached to this email.  In addition to this written report, all of the
presentations from the workshop are posted on the meeting website at:
http://www.csm.ornl.gov/meetings/SCNEworkshop/DC-index.html


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	3.  Call for proposals for large allocations of computing
	resources
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The new call for proposals for large allocations of computing resources
for the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment
(INCITE) program is available on the Office of Science web site.

http://www.nersc.gov/projects/incite/incitecall.php

For more info, contact:

Dr. Stephen Eckstrand
NSTX Program Manager
Office of Science, SC-55
Phone: 301-903-5546
FAX: 301-903-4716
e-mail: steve.eckstrand@science.doe.gov


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	4.  Fusion Oral History being developed
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The OFES has tasked PPPL to coordinate an effort to collect oral histories
of the U.S. fusion community. A list of fusion community leaders who
should be interviewed for this is being developed.  PPPL is asking for
your help in identifying these.  Please send your recommendations to John
De Looper via email (jdeloope@pppl.gov) by July 15, 2004.  see email below
for details.


Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:38:55 -0400
From: Rob Goldston 
Subject: Fusion Oral History


OFES has tasked PPPL to coordinate a small effort to collect oral
histories of the U.S. fusion community. Fusion has had a very rich
history. Unfortunately, some of the greatest scientists who created the
fusion program have passed away, and we already have missed them.
Others are getting older. Therefore, it is imperative that an oral
history be collected as soon as possible.

Our first effort was to have Marshall Rosenbluth interviewed before his
passing. We have just received 81 pages of transcript of interviews
that were done by Professor Kai-Henrik Barth of Georgetown University,
under the direction of the American Institute of Physics. The APS will
be putting all of this on the Web.

The next step is to develop a list of other fusion community leaders
who should be interviewed. We are asking for your help in identifying
these individuals, as well as the priority we should assign to the
interviews, having to do with age and health, centrality to the
development of fusion power, and the degree to which they have already
put their thoughts and perspectives into print.

Please send your recommendations to John De Looper via email
(jdeloope@pppl.gov) by July 15, 2004. We will then have further
discussions to come to a prioritization.

thank you.
Rob






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