Physics Department Meeting

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Physics Department Meeting

• May 25, 2007

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Steve Vigdor, New ALD for NPP

• Arrives in September from Indiana University
• STAR collaborator and expert on spin physics
• Member of all 6 NSAC Long Range Plan Working
  Groups!

We are planning a department symposium to
introduce our efforts to Steve (probably in
September)
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Safety
Why is accident rate rising?
Accidents mostly not failure of work planning,
but things which could happen anywhere
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This years DART cases

• 11 involve back/shoulder injuries from
  lifting/carrying
• 2 were running
• 2 were ladders
• 1 reaction to mold
• 1 bookcase fell
• 1 hand caught

These could happen to anyone, anywhere
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Department Picnic

• July 25 (Rain Date, July 26)
• Thanks to Sal Marino/Jackie Mooney

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Department Web Page

• Up-to-date announcements
• Send them to me or Jackie Mooney for posting
• RHIC news
• Suggestions to UEC reps

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Library

• Shelving/journals removed
• Internet access (both internal/external networks)
  added
• Department space for visitors to work for a few
  hours/ a few days/ etc.
• Check it out! (Thanks to Bob Liegel)
• Remember to give book purchase suggestions to
  Cindy McQuilken or John Millener
• Thanks to Jim Frank for ordering cosmology books

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Large Seminar Room

• Requesting funds from director to renovate room
• Please send email to me with suggestions for
  needed audio-visual equipment
• How will we use the room in the future?

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Appropriate Computing

• Reasonable Use of ComputersBrookhaven allows
  the staff reasonable use of computing resources
  (for example, hardware, software, networks, and
  printers) for personal purposes unrelated to
  their work assignments. Such limited personal use
  is authorized for non-work-related activities if
  they satisfy the following criteria
• Do not interfere with official business needs.
• Do not interfere with job performance, nor delay
  or compromise Brookhaven's projects.
• Do not cause any significant costs to Brookhaven
  or the DOE.
• Do not compromise information security in any
  way.
• Do not involve illegal activities.
• Are not related to business outside The
  Laboratory, or to any political enterprise.
• Do not involve activities that could potentially
  embarrass Brookhaven or the DOE.

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• Personal Use of ComputersThe following examples
  of the personal use of computers constitute
  acceptable non-work-related activities that meet
  the criteria specified above. Ongoing education,
  self-training, and professional development.
• Personal correspondence and work on your own
  resume or those of family members.
• Work for charities and non-political local
  community groups.
• Good-taste Internet access.
• Various researches, such as reading newspapers
  and magazine articles, checking airline prices
  and schedules and purchasing tickets, browsing
  sales catalogs, comparing prices of automobiles
  and obtaining road maps, and checking accounts in
  credit unions and retirement plans.
• Work on personal finances (for example, preparing
  income taxes).

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Forbidden

• Supporting or accessing sites that promote hate
  language, harassments, or threats.
• Supporting or accessing sites that ridicule
  others on the basis of race, creed, religion,
  sex, disability, nationality, or sexual
  orientation.
• Creating, downloading, viewing, storing, copying,
  or transmitting sexually oriented material (e.g.,
  pornography, child pornography).
• Gambling.
• Working for commercial purposes or supporting
  for-profit organizations or other outside
  employment or businesses.
• Endorsing any product or service.
• Participating in any partisan political activity.
  
• Misleading someone into believing you are acting
  in an official capacity.
• Hosting services (such as creating or storing web
  sites) for purposes not related to Brookhavens
  work.
• Using peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing services,
  such as Napster, Gnutella, KaZaA.
• Using any software that allows your computer to
  be shared outside the Brookhaven firewall without
  first obtaining approval via the Cyber Security
  Management Information System.
• Using Internet auction sites, such as eBay.
• Creating and/or forwarding of chain letters and
  mass mailings.
• Violating license and other computer-related
  contract provisions - particularly those that
  expose The Laboratory to legal costs or damages.
• Using software, such as password-cracking tools,
  vulnerability scanners, and network sniffers,
  without the express written consent of the Chief
  Cyber Security Officer (CCSO).

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High Energy Physics

• On track for start of ATLAS data at CERN in 2008
• ATLAS will remain the departments largest HEP
  effort for the foreseeable future

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Daya Bay Reactor Experiment in China

• Successful CD-1 review in April
• On track for CD-2 review in Fall, 07

HEP program has recovered from RSVP cancellation
with strong program
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HEP Budget

• HEP program approximately solvent
• With care, we should be able to do many of the
  things we would like to do

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Planning

• US Nuclear Physics community in the midst of long
  range planning exercise
• This happens every 5 years
• Large effort in Physics Department to articulate
  physics opportunities with future electron-ion
  collider
• Thanks to Thomas Ulrich (and everyone who
  contributed!) for leading our department effort

http//www.bnl.gov/npp/docs/RHICplanning/PositionP
aper_eA_final.pdf
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Recommendations from NSAC Long Range Planning
Meeting

• Completion of the 12 GeV Upgrade at Jefferson Lab
• Construction of the Facility for Rare Isotope
  Beams
• A program of experiments to investigate neutrino
  properties and fundamental symmetries
• Implementation of the RHIC II luminosity upgrade,
  together with detector improvements.
• Unnumbered 5th recommendation
• We recommend the allocation of resources to
  develop accelerator and detector technology
  necessary to lay the foundation for a polarized
  Electron Ion Collider

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A Long Term View of RHIC
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NP Budget
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NP Budget in Physics Department

• We have great ambitions, but insufficient funds
  to carry out all of our plans for this fiscal
  year (FY08 looks good)
• Detector RD necessary to ensure future
• We are announcing an austerity program for NP
• This means
• Intense scrutiny of travel/purchases
• Intense scrutiny of requests for visitor support
• No new hires of scientific staff

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Call for Voluntary RIFS

• We would like to reduce our expenses, so we can
  perform high priority items
• Part time work? Department is flexible
• If you would like to volunteer for a RIF, contact
  me (in writing) by June 8
• Formula for severance pay is capped at 45K
• We will accept volunteers from either HEP or NP
• To qualify, the RIF must correspond to a real
  reduction in staff and be accepted as such by HR