NPPS Leadership Team

["Van Buren, Gene" <gene AT bnl.gov>]

Hi, Torre

Here was my perspective, which probably differs from those outside NPPS who 
were more connected to some of the topics discussed.

The elephant was kicked out of the room, in the sense that anything to do 
with EIC was excluded from the discussion. With that put aside, the bulk of 
the 2 hour discussion was focused on how the Lab could position itself for 
future projects in future colliders, the energy frontier and the intensity 
frontier, and cosmology (even radio astronomy).

sPHENIX was mostly brushed aside as an ongoing project.
STAR was even more briskly brushed aside as not needing Lab investments.
ATLAS hardly had a breath of mention.

For NPPS specifically, Hong expressed early on the same points you wanted 
made, Torre. Benedikt also helpfully engaged our group as being connected on 
the topics of a DUNE computing model, Belle-II databases, and possibilities 
of being a super-facility for virtual hosting, with the latter having some 
to-be-defined resource investment requirements should it be pursued. The 
topic of data storage+management came up (with the keyword "data ocean" 
bantered a little) for which Benedikt also pulled us in there for Rucio 
development, and that taking a more visible role for this on the global stage 
would likely mean establishing a team of at least a few people, i.e. 
requiring workforce investment.

Another topic brought forward with some possibilities for future 
considerations was Quantum Information Systems, but the discussion was pretty 
far from concrete as far as I could tell (though everyone found interest in a 
brief discussion about a joint C-AD + Stony Brook proposal to look into a 
table-top storage-ring-base qubit storage system).

All-in-all the discussions were more about considerations for future 
priorities to remain relevant rather than details of LDRDs and PD fund 
spending.

Again, others probably had different perceptions and may have caught details 
I missed. Hope that helps,
-Gene


> On Jun 25, 2019, at 2:07 PM, Torre Wenaus via Phys-npps-mgmt-l 
> <phys-npps-mgmt-l AT lists.bnl.gov> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> Gene represented NPPS at the NPP investment meeting on Monday. Any 
> impressions from it Gene?
> 
> Apparently one outcome was a request to groups to fill out an investment 
> sheet by this Friday. I attach a first pass at ours, based on a provided 
> template, covering our two planned DP requests. Comments appreciated. The 
> flat $300k profile on each is pure invention.
> 
>   Torre
> 
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