Report to NuPECC
on NSAC activities
R.E. Tribble, NSAC Chair
June 10, 2006
NSAC Membership for 2006
Ani Aprahamian
Notre Dame
Ulrich Heinz
Ohio State Univ.
Susan Seestrom (APS/DNP)
LANL (>4/06)
Douglas Bryman
Univ. British Columbia
Roy Lacey
SUNY-Stony Brook
Bradley Sherrill (APS/DNP)
NSCL and MSU (<4/06)
David Dean
ORNL
Naomi Makins
Univ. of Illinois
Robert Tribble (chair)
TAMU
Rolf Ent
JLAB
June Matthews
MIT
Thomas Ulrich
BNL
Thomas Glasmacher
NSCL and MSU
David Roberston (ACS) Ubirajara van Kolck
Univ. of Missouri
Univ. of Arizona
Guy Savard
ANL
William Zajc
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, ongoing activities, reports, meeting agendas
and minutes.
Meeting on March 2-3, 2006
Agenda:
• Reports on FY07 budget submission for DOE
and NSF
• Report submitted from NuSAG on accelerator
and reactor n-oscillation experiments
• Science updates from user labs (ATLAS, BNL,
HRIBF, JLAB and NSCL)
• New charge to NuSAG
• Discussion of possible future charges
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)
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$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 of
Union Address
January 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
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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