User Program Advisory Committee

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User Program Advisory Committee

• Artie Bienenstock, Stanford, chair
• Marty Blume, American Physical Society
• Steve Harrison, Harvard
• John Hill, Brookhaven
• Denis McWhan, BNL (ret)
• Dagmar Ringe, Brandeis
• Jochen Schneider, DESY
• Sunil Sinha, UCSD
• Charge To advise the MIT Dean of Science on the
  best approach to the development of a robust and
  sustainable national user program to optimize the
  incentives for participation and the inclusion of
  a diverse community.

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User Program Development

• Plan 10 (of a possible 30) beamlines in
  construction project
• Principal users will lead beamline development
• Peer Review process will select Principal Users
• Plan to integrate Principal Users in project team
• Include initial (10) beamline costs in project
  budget
• Include beamline operations in facility operating
  budget
• Question 1 What is the deal for Principal
  Users?
• Question 2 What is the selection process?

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User Program Development

• Definitions
• A beamline includes all output from a single
  undulator
• A particular undulator could support many photon
  lines
• The Deal
• The Principal User accepts overall responsibility
  for beamline construction and operations
• 50 of the total capacity of a beamline is
  reserved for assignment to independently proposed
  research
• The remaining time is at the direction of the
  Principal User for research, maintenance and
  development

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User Program Development

• The Selection Process
• The collaborators on the design study proposal
  include five candidate Principal Users who will
  receive funding for a student and/or post-doc
• The collaborators also include three possible
  candidates
• Five open funding slots exist in the design
  study budget
• Others solicited through outreach, workshops
• Regardless of funding source, all candidate
  Principal Users will undergo Peer Review to be
  included as Principal Users in the construction
  Project Proposal

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MIT Commitment to User Program

• MIT will fund a series of early scientific
  workshops across the relevant fields
• MIT will empanel and support distinguished
  advisory committees to guide the science, and
  technology, as well as user program development
  and project management
• MIT is committing funds to hire additional
  project staff in the immediate future in
  technology areas such as x-ray optics/beamline
  design