APS Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)

The SAC is responsible for advising the APS Associate Laboratory Director in the following areas:

To evaluate the scientific output and facility utilization for all APS sectors.
To examine performance and recommend appropriate beamtime allocation for existing Collaborative Access Teams (CATs).
To evaluate Letters of Intent and scientific proposals for new and reconstituted CATs.
To provide advice to and review decisions by APS management on special operations support for CATs.
To review Special Program proposals, a new mode of access that will guarantee 10-30% the beam time per year on any sector for a finite period of time.
To assist the APS with development of policies and other issues as appropriate.

SAC members
Participants in the Scientific Advisory Committee.

Meetings
Minutes and presentations from the SAC meetings.

Back row (standing) from left: Richard Leapman, Glenn Waychunas, Piero Pianetta, John Helliwell, Howard Einspahr, G. Slade Cargill, Michael Wasielewski, Denis Keane, Jens Als-Nielsen
Middle row (seated) from left: Soichi Wakatsuki,Timothy Graber, Dan Neumann, Wei Yang
Front row (seated) from left: J. Murray Gibson, Miles Klein (SAC Chair), Michelle Buchanan

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