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UNIVERSITY FUSION ASSOCIATION

http://depts.washington.edu/ufa


E-mail Newsletter
January 2008
sent by S. Knowlton, UFA President

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Items:

1.  FY09 budget
2.  UFA ballot and dues collection
3.  OFES Theory Solicitation
4.  Call for IAEA papers

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1.  As of this writing, I do not yet have information on the 
President's budget request for OFES in FY09.  However, a sidebar news 
item in the January 18 issue of Science magazine (entitled "Cheer Up, 
Physicists") reports that the Administration is proposing to request 
at least $4.7 B for DOE's Office of Science FY09.  By comparison, the 
2008 request was $4.4B before being trimmed last December to $4 B. 
An earlier interview in Science with Ray Orbach on this subject and 
impact of the FY08 cuts can be found at 
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/115/1

This is an appropriate opportunity for me to remind UFA members of 
upcoming Congressional Fusion Day on Feb. 21.

2.  UFA members should have received by regular mail their ballot for 
new executive committee members, and a request for submitting annual 
dues.  I hope you will send your dues and ballot back to UFA 
secretary Michael Brown promptly.  If you have not received your 
ballot, please e-mail him at doc@swarthmore.edu about this or any 
other issues regarding circulation of UFA notices.

3.  OFES has posted its 2008 theory solicitation 
at http://www.ofes.fusion.doe.gov/solicitations.shtml 
and given below. 

DE-PS02-08ER08-08, 
entitled "Theoretical Research in Magnetic Fusion Energy Science".  A 
Letter of Intent to submit an application is required and should be 
submitted by February 22, 2008.  Formal applications are due on April 
1, 2008.  The program contact is Dr. Curtis Bolton.  Submission 
details are included in the Financial Assistance Funding Opportunity 
document on Grants.gov: 
https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/UNID/60413C44210E9C80852573D90057D417/$file/FOA_Notice_08-08_FES-Theory.pdf

4.  Dr. Stephen Eckstrand of OFES is circulating an update on how to 
participate in the US paper selection process for the 2008 IAEA 
conference.  His message is attached to this newsletter.
--
Stephen Knowlton                        Phone: (334) 844-4685
Physics Department                      Fax:    (334) 844-6917
206 Allison Laboratory          knowlton@physics.auburn.edu
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849-5311