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Final Program
(Last update Monday, October 5th 2009 9:54:37 AM PST)
Wednesday, September 30th 2009
(Travel Day)
4:00 PM Registration
5:00 PM
Registration Session #1 Underground Tour Safety Training
6:00 PM Dinner
7:00 PM Welcome - Tullis Onstott and Kevin Lesko
7:10 PM Plenary Session (Chair Kevin Lesko)
7:10 PM Jaret Heise - Sanford Laboratory Update
7:35 PM Rohit Salve - Background Characterization and Monitoring at the Homestake Mine
7:55 PM Peggy Norris - E&O Overview
8:10 PM Tom Deutscher - OSHA
8:30 PM Peggy Norris - Underground Tour Schedule
8:45 PM Welcome Reception at the Bar
Thursday, October 1st 2009
Registration Available 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
7:30 AM
Mine Tours and Break up into Working Groups
(Working Group Meeting Space Available)
Working Groups Vulcan Database in Groups Mine Tours:
6.15 AM Group #1 Bus Leaves
8.00 AM Session #2 Safety Training
8.15 AM Group #2 Bus Leaves
10.15 AM Group #3 Bus Leaves
12:00 PM Lunch
1:20 PM Plenary Session (Chair Bill Roggenthen)
1:20 PM Jon Kotcher (NSF), Rick Fragaszy (DOE)
Awards and cooperative agreements Timeline/another ramp for science experiments R&D funds for experiments that were not ready for S4
2:05 PM Michael Procario - DOE Perspective
2:20 PM Hank Sobel - Physics experiments at DUSEL for Biologist, Geologist and Engineers
2:50 PM Tullis Onstott - BGE experiments at DUSEL for Physicist
3:20 PM Coffee
3:40 PM
Parallel Sessions (20 + 3 mins)
PHY (Chair Richard Kadel) BGE (Chair Tullis Onstott)
Bob Svoboda - LBNE (Water Cherenkov) Catherine Peters - CO2 Sequestration
Michael Wiescher - DIANA (Astrophysics) Eric Sonnenthal- THMCB Experiment
Vuk Mandic - Deep Underground Gravity Lab at DUSEL David Bout - Ecohydrology
4:50 PM Coffee
5:10 PM
Parallel Sessions (20 + 3 mins)
PHY (Chair Steve Elliot) BGE (Chair Tullis Onstott)
Giorgio Gratta - EXO (Double β) Larry Murdoch - Ground water flow system at DUSEL
John Wilkerson - 1 Ton Ge (Double β) Larry Stetler - Hydrological and Ground Motion Studies
Priscilla Cushman - AARM Herb Wang - Fiber-Optic Strain and Temperature Monitoring
6:20 PM End of Parallel Sessions
6:30 PM Dinner
7:30 PM Golder Reception with Talk by Roman Popielak - Synergy Between Geotechnical Designs and Scientific Experiments
Friday, October 2nd 2009
Registration Available 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
7:30 AM
Mine Tours and Break up into Working Groups
(Working Group Meeting Space Available)
Working Groups Vulcan Database in Groups Mine Tours:
6.15 AM Group #1 Bus Leaves
7.00 AM Session #3 Safety Training
8.15 AM Group #2 Bus Leaves
10.15 AM Group #3 Bus Leaves
12:00 PM Lunch - E&O Lunch (one representative per collaboration)
1:20 PM Plenary Session (Chair Daniela Leitner)
1:20 PM Facility update and organization of science management/interfaces current layouts (number of modules/ surface facilities) access (shafts)
Kevin Lesko - DUSEL Project Overview
Kurt Deshayes - Project Systems and Support Office
Dave Turner - Integrated Suite of Experiments (ISE)
Steve Marks - ISE Requirements and Documentation
2:20 PM Break
2:35 PM
Parallel Sessions (20 + 3 mins)
PHY (Chair Bernard Sadoulet) BGE (Chair Larry Murdoch)
Andrew Sonnenschein for Juan Collar - COUPP (DM) Bill Roggenthen - Interface Between Experiment and Facility
Cristiano Gabiati - MAX (DM) Steve Glaser - Transparent Earth
Tom Shutt - LZ3 (DM) Leonid Germanovich - Induced Fracture Laboratory
Sunil Golwala - GEODM (DM) Herb Einstein - Large Cavern Design and Construction
4:10 PM Coffee
4:30 PM
Parallel Sessions (18 + 2 mins)
PHY (Chair Hank Sobel) BGE (Chair Larry Murdoch)
Rick Gaitskell - LUX Dark Matter Experiment @ Sanford Lab Susan Pfiffner - Collaborative uses of the MULE
Bonnie Fleming - Liquid Argon Detector Develpment Phil Long - Use of graphite electrodes for quantifying rates of microbial activity
Yuri Kamyshkov - Vertical Shaft and Survey of Environmental Magnetic Field in the Ross and Yates Shafts at Sanford Lab Kirk Nordstrom - Groundwater geochemistry, hydrogeology and coupled processes
Bill McDonough - Geo-neutrinos Duane Moser - DUSEL Deep Microbiology: Some Cross Cutting Insights and Sentinel Hole Transect
Boris Grynyov - Radiopure Oxide Scintillators to Search for Dark Matter and Double β Decay Emmanuel Detournay - Mechanics of Engineered Fractures in Discontinuous Rock
Xinhua Bai - What An Air Shower Array at DUSEL Can Help
6:30 PM End of Parallel Sessions
6:30 PM Dinner
7:30 PM Meeting Room Available for Working Groups
Saturday, October 3rd 2009
9:00 AM Coffee at Middle School
Meeting Room Available for Working Groups
12:00 PM Lunch (Boxes)
1:00 PM Plenary Session (Chair Derek Elsworth)
1:00 PM 10 Minutes Summary per WG
Astrophysics (DIANA)
AARM
Dark Matter
Double β Decay
Ecohydrology
GEODM
Gravity Group
LBNE
THMCB
3:45 PM Open Discussion Led by Kevin Lesko
4:15 PM Concluding Remarks, Recommendations and Near Term Plans
4:30 PM End of Workshop