Report to NuPECCon NSAC activities

R.E. Tribble, NSAC ChairJune 10, 2006

NSAC Membership for 2006Ani Aprahamian Ulrich Heinz Susan Seestrom (APS/DNP)

Notre Dame Ohio State Univ. LANL (>4/06)

Douglas Bryman Roy Lacey Bradley Sherrill (APS/DNP)

Univ. British Columbia SUNY-Stony Brook NSCL and MSU (<4/06)

David Dean Naomi Makins Robert Tribble (chair)

ORNL Univ. of Illinois TAMU

Rolf Ent June Matthews Thomas Ulrich

JLAB MIT BNL

Thomas Glasmacher David Roberston (ACS) Ubirajara van Kolck

NSCL and MSU Univ. of Missouri Univ. of Arizona

Guy Savard William Zajc

ANL Columbia Univ.

[Members are now special government employees]

‘New’ vs. ‘Old’ NSAC

My goal is to make the ‘new’ NSAC look like the ‘old’ NSAC

The role of NSAC is unchanged: provide guidance to DOE and NSF when asked

One change – takes 6 months to approve new members so cannot quickly replace someone

NSAC Information

web site:

http://www.sc.doe.gov/np/nsac/nsac.html

Includes links to membership, charter, on-going activities, reports, meeting agendas and minutes.

Meeting on March 2-3, 2006

• Reports on FY07 budget submission for DOE and NSF

• Report submitted from NuSAG on accelerator and reactor -oscillation experiments

• Science updates from user labs (ATLAS, BNL, HRIBF, JLAB and NSCL)

• New charge to NuSAG • Discussion of possible future charges

Agenda:

Funding Information(implications for NSAC)

Federal funding split:

Department of Energy 90%

National Science Foundation 10%

Some details from FY06 and FY07

Budgets for FY06

• Department of Energy (due to late change)– $367 M after 1% rescission– $34 M below FY05 (actual $)– Out year guidance – flat or reduced budgets– Led to NSAC subcommittee report last year

• National Science Foundation– $42.269 M (includes centers like JINA)– $40.970 in FY05

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*Private Funding Added to this amount

What is the Future of U.S. Science?• Calls in Congress to ‘double’ the NSF and DOE

Science budgets (68/100 Senators signed a letter in ’06 calling for major increases in DOE funding) – yet funding for physical science has been decreasing as in President’s agenda

• Many reports generated about U.S. science• New study by NAS just released:

Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future

This has had an impact!

Budgets for FY07 Department of Energy and National Science Foundation to

benefit from:

From State ofUnion AddressJanuary 31, 2006

Connection To NSAC

Next meeting – July 21, 2006

• Expect to receive two charges:– Call for a new Long Range Plan– Request for a Committee of Visitors for DOE

• LRP issues now being addressed

Budget provided for LRP guidance is

crucial to the report produced by NSAC

Long Range Plan Issues:Program Balance

• Physics of Nuclei and Astrophysics– traditional nuclear structure– nuclear astrophysics

• Quantum Chromodynamics – encompasses much of RHIC and CEBAF

• Fundamental Symmetries and Neutrinos– neutron physics at NIST and SNS (EDM)– double beta decay– solar and reactor neutrino experiments

Long Range Plan Issues:Facilities

• Budget Guidance in charge letter critical

• Status of JLAB upgrade (FY07 budget)

• RHIC II upgrade

• From RIA to ???

• Longer term – electron-ion collider?

Long Range Plan Issues:Connections

• Consider program in international context

• Likely to call on some of you for help and

information about European programs