1. 1 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOCIATES NSLS-II Strategic Planning John Hill Experimental Facilities Division Director NSLS-II EFAC May 5 th 2008

2. 2 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOCIATES Need for a Strategic Plan NSLS-II has overall responsibility for building and operating all beamlines ensuring that they are well-integrated into the facility– extension of the stewardship role to beamline development and operations. Opportunity to coherently plan entire facility in a way that takes advantage of synergies in techniques and beamlines across communities NSLS-II is a finite resource and demand, even from existing NSLS user community, outweighs supply Output from workshops:RequestAvail –Straight Sections3427 –3PWs18~15 –Soft Bend/IR14~12 –Far-IR44

3. 3 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOCIATES A Strategic Plan Should: Leverage the core strengths of the facility for the greatest scientific impact Evolve with time as the environment changes Have an upgrade path Have stakeholder buy-in –Community –Staff –Sponsors

4. 4 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOCIATES A Strategic Plan Should not: Simply be a wish list from existing NSLS community Be static

5. 5 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOCIATES NSLS-II Strategic Strengths Technical Strengths World-leading brightness (hard and soft x-ray) World-leading coherent flux (hard and soft x-ray) Small beam size Broad spectral coverage (far-IR to ?? keV) Source stability Long beamlines

6. 6 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOCIATES NSLS-II Strategic Strengths Scientific Strengths Imaging (from nm to cm) Dynamics (from ps to minutes) NE research community NSLS User base BNL Strengths (detectors, crystal optics, metrology, core research programs)

7. 7 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOCIATES Elements of Strategic Plan Should contain: Mission Statement Goals of facility Prioritization of competing demands New ideas vs. continuation of existing communities The appropriate balance between different scientific communities High impact, few users vs. High thru-put beamlines Identification of growth areas and opportunities for entirely new directions Guidance on physical placement of beamlines (weighted constraints)

8. 8 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOCIATES Elements of Strategic Plan (Cont.) Infrastructure planning (beyond construction project) Conventional facilities –Future LOBs –Additional buildings (biology, guest house, remote endstations…) Accelerator systems –Accelerator performance goals, operating modes –Insertion device development Detectors Scientific computing Metrology

9. 9 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOCIATES Scientific Portfolio of NSLS-II Existing User Distribution at NSLS (FY07) What should the goals for the NSLS-II portfolio be? How do we decide?

10. 10 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOCIATES Planning Process To date: Multiple workshops with existing community (NSLS- biased). The latest (Jan 08) produced 6 detailed white papers This is an excellent start, but has some weaknesses. Areas that need strengthening include It is very NSLS-centric Greater emphasis on new ideas, new opportunities? Status of world-wide photon environment (now and projected forward) How do we synthesize into a single whole, applying appropriate facility judgment? How do we add the missing pieces? How do we get user, staff and sponsors buy-in?

11. 11 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOCIATES Possible Roadmap Jan workshop white papers posted for comment by community (May 08) NSLS-II staff synthesize white papers into executive summary, adding facility perspective and judgment. –Executive Summary posted (Aug 08). Comments open til Oct 08 –Solicit suggestions for New Opportunities Workshops, deadline: Oct 08 NSLS-II Roadmap for development of strategic plan. Strategic plan roadmap due Nov 08 EFAC and PAC review of Strategic Plan Roadmap (Fall 08) New Opportunity Workshops (Dec 08 – Apr 09) –White papers from workshops due April 09 NSLS-II staff prepares first draft of Strategic Plan in light of input (May 09) EFAC and PAC review draft Strategic Plan (Spring 09) Repeat as necessary.

12. 12 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOCIATES Summary The strategic plan will guide the development of experimental facilities at NSLS-II The expectation is NSLS-II will call for LOIs against this plan It will be a large amount of work to prepare a quality document It is not entirely clear how to do so in a manner that will reach out to the appropriate communities, be forward looking and obtain buy-in from all stakeholders. We are looking for advice on how to improve this process.