Joint Session with APS Research Directorate

• APS update (Moncton)
• Proposed review process for Independent Investigator proposals (Shenoy)
• Web-based publications database (Picologlou)
• National Synchrotron and Neutron School (Mills)
• Experiment safety envelopes (Shenoy)

Move to Room B5100 for APSUO Steering Committee Meeting

Routine Business: Approval of minutes of previous meeting, status report on previous action items, approval/modification of remaining agenda, and review of action items

Executive Session

• Election of a vice-chair
• Ninth Users Meeting recap
• Preliminary discussion of Tenth Users Meeting
• APS operations schedule
• Best of the APS award
• Report on presentation to National Research Council committee
• APS Doctoral Fellowship program

Joint lunch with Research Directorate members in Room A5000

CAT Updates (brief reports from each CAT Director on funding, personnel, and/or status of design efforts and technical capabilities)

Executive Session (cont'd. if necessary)

Close Out - D. Moncton, Dierker, Shenoy, newly elected Vice-Chair, Strasser, Pittroff