Sridhara Dasu (Wisconsin) 1 09 May 2009 US LHC User Organization For Harvey Newman, Chair USLUO USLUO Activities Washington Visit If you have not registered already, please do so!

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Sridhara Dasu (Wisconsin)309 May 2009 USLUO Executive Committee Chair Demographics: Dominated by old CMS hats Invited younger people to join us ex-oficio Katherine Copic (ATLAS) & Yurii Maravin (CMS)

Sridhara Dasu (Wisconsin)409 May Activities Activities ramped up slowly –Media Training (December 2007) Professional training for scientists on how to talk to media –Outreach about LHC (2008) Work actively with existing programs Barnett started student reporter visits to CERN –Will report back to their schools and get their community excited about LHC Ensure that the outreach works for all members: big labs, small universities … Showcase all important contributions –Washington Visit (March 2008) Coordinated visit with FNAL and SLAC Users Organizations CMS Participants: Albrow, Clare, Dasu, Newman Other USLUO: Barnett, Liss, Huston, Jacobs –Annual meeting (October 2008) Organized by USLUO at FNAL Very good participation from CMS – not so from others  Poster session for selection of young people to join on Washington 2009 –Winners: Mike Anderson, Len Apanasavich, Yu Zheng Young LHC group needed for 2009

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Sridhara Dasu (Wisconsin)609 May Washington Visit Participation –16 USLUO vs ~20 FNAL-UEC and ~10 SLUO –4 Graduate Students & 3 Postdocs from USLUO –10 – CMS + 6 – ATLAS –Primary USLUO issue was funding struggle  Organization –Worked with UEC/SLUO Well oiled machine to set up appointments, … Could have better trained our USLUO contingent – but they did a wonderful job in spite of some of our organizational troubles Message to Congress - one-pager and brochure –Improved LHC/international collaboration content –Pictures …

Sridhara Dasu (Wisconsin)709 May 2009 One Pager Our ASK: Please support HEP research through DOE Office of Science & NSF in the FY2010 Budget. Emphasis on University / Lab partnership Highlights LHC Emphasis on long term support …

Sridhara Dasu (Wisconsin)809 May 2009 Back Spinoffs Train Innovators … Thank you Emphasis on long term support … Doubling of physical sciences in 10 years … Very timely Obama NAS speech a bonus

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Sridhara Dasu (Wisconsin)1209 May 2009 Reactions to our message Most congressional staff we met understood the importance of science –Overall we are regarded as a well-organized field –Manages its scientific opportunities well –Makes good use of the funding provided –What we do has great impact on society at large Especially LHC press – paraphrasing a young staffer: “Cool – you work on the blackhole machine ” One pager and leave-behind packet –One-pager was very effective in some offices –The fact that basic science provides a steady stream of near- and medium-term benefits to society impressed some staffers; not others. –Education and outreach (Quarknet, Saturday morning physics, individual efforts) resonating strongly in many offices. –In some offices, it was essential to show what NSF & the DOE Office of Science brought to the congressman's district.

Recruiting Senate Champions On House side we have strong supporters –Foster, Holt, Ehlers, … –It was pointed out that such support is lacking on Senate side A goal of some of us was to get a Senator to take up the issue of support for basic science as His (or Her) issue, particularly during floor debate of the budgets starting with the FY10 budget. –We got a polite response that this was an interesting possibility. –It's not clear that this will happen, but we need to persist. –Eventually we might make it happen. Sridhara Dasu (Wisconsin)1309 May 2009

OMB, DOE & NSF Visits We relayed to OMB, DOE & NSF: The Partnership of universities and laboratories is the key to our success Many congress-people still do not understand that the DOE OoS is the major funder of university research in the physical sciences, together with NSF –This surprised some staffers Map of funding and detailed tables had to be used in some cases More such data useful for future visits to the Hill –At OMB, Mike Holland said this is a key point that he has been saying for "ten years” –At DOE, Pat and Glen Crawford also responded to that message, and wrote it down as something to be noted. Sridhara Dasu (Wisconsin)1409 May 2009

Discussions at OMB The budget for FY10 is going to show a flattening, due to the partial effect of the Stimulus funds that also offload some other costs in FY10. –Indeed FY10 budget out yesterday shows that flattening – especially for LHC  –Then in FY11, the growth path to doubling the NSF and DOE OoS budgets will resume, "likely" (said Holland) for the next 5-6 years. A wild card is ITER. Holland said the project was "sold" to everyone by Aymar when he was director, before the degree of complexity and the associated costs were well understood. DOE signed on for $ 1.1B but the costs are ballooning rapidly. Now it looks like the cost to DOE might be $ 2.4B. –That would put pressure on other programs at the Office of Science. Sridhara Dasu (Wisconsin)1509 May 2009

Discussions at NSF First half-hour was devoted to NSF selling to us DUSEL  –DOE partnership, especially Project-X beams to DUSEL seen as necessary –Later some of us lamented that US is ceding the energy frontier to others, vis-à-vis CLIC Dehmer pointed us to muon collider future The out-year funding projection at NSF was more conservative than at OMB –Joe Dehmer said that the budget deficits will become intolerable in "2-3 years", indicating that it would stem the funding growth. –This sentiment was also expressed by some senior staffers (some in democratic offices) Sridhara Dasu (Wisconsin)1609 May 2009

Discussions at DOE Pat Dehmer was much more upbeat –Very happy with Obama’s NAS speech Obama's speech to NAS contains the goal of 3% of GDP for R&D. –The US is now at 2.66% and at the height of the space rage it was 2.9%. –So we should see some further growth. –Where would the growth occur ? –Pat Dehmer mentioned that NSF, the DOE OoS, and NIST only were singled out for doubling. –In response to a question from NASA if they would also be included, the answer from Obama administration was "no". Sridhara Dasu (Wisconsin)1709 May 2009

Money Flow News (NSF) Of $ 3B of ARRA funds, $ 2B is for broad-based research and $ 1B for infrastructure projects. –These will be awarded as new peer-reviewed 3-year grants (possibly front loaded) Concern about potential echo shortfall in 3 years –This will NOT be distributed as supplements of existing grants; but one can always apply for supplements from the normal NSF budget (up to 20% of the original grant amount New solicitations will be out soon. –New programs targeting young investigators … –They are delayed by the administrative burdens at the agency. NSF has to go back to Congress for approval of their lump sum allocationFY2009 budget –Also, in the process of finalizing the distribution by NSF divisions Sridhara Dasu (Wisconsin)1809 May 2009

Money Flow From DOE FY09 university supplements are being dealt with this week An informal call for (university) infrastructure proposals (using ARRA funds) will be out very soon. Perhaps next week –Then there will be 3-4 weeks to prepare proposals that will be peer reviewed by mail and/or by panels at DOE. –By late summer/early fall the responses from DOE will be done. The reporting burden at the agencies is much increased –For example, for ARRA funds, DOE must prepare a Weekly report. Sridhara Dasu (Wisconsin)1909 May 2009

Sridhara Dasu (Wisconsin)2009 May 2009 USLUO Issues Profile of our Washington visit group –Much better this year –Thanks to Mike Anderson, Malina Kirn, Bryan Dahmes, Len Apanasevich, Laura Jeanty, David Miller, Sarah Demers Funding remains a concern –Next slide for more on this Membership and exec committee lacks diversity –Gender ratio, Age profile, ATLAS vs CMS –Hope for better balance in the coming election Other LHC user issues –Working with CERN ACCU with Darin’s help –More concerted effort towards helping US users Hagopian/Barnett efforts on health insurance, taxes … Joined NUFO (National Users Facility Organization) –After changes acknowledging University / Lab partnership in charter

Sridhara Dasu (Wisconsin)2109 May 2009 USLUO - Funding? goodwill based funding cannot be guaranteed in future –Washington visit funds are a major problem as government funds cannot be used for congressional visits 2008 partially funded by DPF, and the remaining from University funds 2009 visit concerted efforts by Harvey resulted in ~$5K from DPF (young people), FRA (older), Stanford (ATLAS members) + Harvard, Caltech Annual FNAL –FNAL funded the meeting – thanks to Dan’s efforts Proposal for future –Solicit funds from membership? Fees ? Voluntary contributions ? –$20 x ~1000 = $20,000 is sufficient per year Some $100 level contributions can help others –Should investigate if this can be done Perhaps, APS will help collect and manage funds Will there be support from the community?