UCLC Meeting

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UCLC Meeting

• UCLC Raison detre
• Steps to proposal (Oct 15 submission)
• Plans for Today

Ritchie PattersonJune 30, 2002
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Wherefore UCLC?

• LRP recommends LC as next facility
• Need for university involvement in LC RD
• Need for coherent coupling among community
  efforts and agencies
• UCLC was created to help meet these needs by
  providing a vehicle for NSF support to
  LC-interested universities

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UCLC Introduction

• First meeting on April 19th.
• Heard from experts in the detector and
  accelerator re status and further RD needs.
• Coordinators and working groups were set-up and
  discussion begun.
• Roughly 20 projects are now taking shape, with
  initial project descriptions in hand from many of
  them.
• Final proposal items will be influenced by
  guidance from the USLCSC, expert review panels
  and budget realities.
• Goal is proposal submission by October 15.

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Proposal Features

• Limited resources and time so focus on NLC/TESLA
  generation of LC (Review Panels will advise)
• 3 year program envisioned (could be discussed)
  with funding growing with time (problem will be
  to get support for personnel).
• Intention is to design a dynamic structure so
  that interested parties can join anytime during
  the duration of the proposal.
• Budget estimate
• Year 1 1MYear 2 2MYear 3 3M

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Timeline
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Milestones - I

• July 20 - Draft Project Descriptions and cost
  estimates due (submit to coordinators)
• August 1 - Project Descriptions and cost
  estimates posted on the web. PDs from other
  consortia will also be posted that day.
• August - Compile Project Descriptions
• Coordinators work with Project Manager to form
  the complete set of project descriptions and cost
  estimates consistent with budget realities.
• Coordinate projects across consortia.

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Milestones - II

• Sept 6 - Project Descriptions submitted to
  Steering Group review panel. Other consortia
  will submit on the same date.
• Sept 9 - Paragraph describing Outreach plans
  due(see talk by J. Rogers)
• Sept 13 - Receive panel reviews
• Mid-Sept - Finalize projects and budgets(see
  talk by M. Tigner)

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Milestones - III

• Mid-Sept to mid-Oct - Write proposal and
  supporting documents
• Proposal is 15 page Fastlane version of
  proposed program together with preliminary
  sub-contract documents. Each institution must
  submit an Outreach Plan.
• Supporting documents include
• Combined Project Descriptions
• LC Detector RD by J. Brau et alWe should
  offer our comments on the draft now
• Accelerator supporting document
• Other??
• Oct 15 - Submit proposal

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More on Project Descriptions

• Content
• Project Name
• Institution(s) personnel
• Research plan (3 yr)
• 1 to 5 pages
• Should include measureables
• Budget (3 yr)
• Tex preferred, but anything (MS Word, ASCII) will
  do
• Format of Project Descriptions is common for all
  consortia

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UCLC Connections

• Research Coordinators
• Accelerator Joe Rogers, Jesse Ernst
• Machine/detector InterfaceDave Rubin, Dave
  Cinabro
• Vertexing Homer Neal
• Tracking Keith Riles
• CalorimetryDhiman Chakraborty
• Web sitehttp//www.lns.cornell.edu/public/LC/UCLC

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Today

• Hear research plans
• Offer criticism
• Look for opportunities to collaborateMulti-univer
  sity projects are OK, even beneficial
• Begin to think about Outreach
• Establish consortium organizational structure