Name: DURA Annual Meeting 2013
Start: 2013-03-05T08:00:00-08:00
End: 2013-03-05T18:00:00-08:00
Location: Universe

DURA Annual Meeting 2013

Tuesday, 5 March 2013 - 08:00

Monday, 4 March 2013
Tuesday, 5 March 2013

08:00 Refreshments
Refreshments
08:00 - 08:30
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Contributions

08:30 SNOLab and Other International Labs - Nigel Smith (SNOLab)

09:05 SURF (SD) - Kevin Lesko (SURF)

09:25 Soudan (MN) - Marvin Marshak (Soudan)

09:45 KURF (Virginia) - Jonathon Link (Virginia Polytechnic Institute)

10:05 Discussion Time (can be spread over above talks)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:05
Contributions

11:00 DOE-HEP - Discussion of roadmap and support for science at underground physics programs in US and outside - Michael Salamon (DOE)

11:45 NSF - Opportunities at US and International Underground Facilities: the NSF viewpoint - Jim Whitmore (NSF)
12:05 Lunch
Lunch
12:05 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:30
Contributions

13:30 Low Background Counting Facilities in US: Status and Plans - Priscilla Cushman (University of Minnesota)

13:50 Underground Accelerators - Alberto Lemut (LBNL)

14:10 Double Beta Decay - Giorgio Gratta (Stanford)

14:30 LBNE - Christopher Mauger (LANL)

14:50 International Perspective - Neutrino Oscillations - Mary Bishai (FNAL)

15:10 Time for discussion
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 Report from DURA and discussion of an on-going role of DURA - Richard Gaitskell (Brown University)

16:15 Multidisciplinary Microbiology Activities at URLs and SURF - Joe Wang (LBNL)

16:35 Status of US Underground Geological and Engineering Studies - Bill Roggenthen (SDSMT)

16:55 Dark Matter - Summary of US Underground Program - Mike Witherell (UCSB)

17:15 Facilities Planning Process (includes discussion of US underground science program and how it should be organized) - Murdock Gilchriese (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)