NPPS Leadership Team

[Torre Wenaus <wenaus AT gmail.com>]

Very interesting, thanks a lot Gene!

  Torre

On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 2:41 PM Van Buren, Gene <gene AT bnl.gov> wrote:

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:
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> 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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