Agenda

National User Facility Organization
Annual Meeting
June 10-12, 2009

Argonne National Laboratory
APS Conference Center
Building 402 Lecture Hall

Wednesday, June 10 | Thursday, June 11 | Friday, June 12

Wednesday, June 10 Focus on Users Moderator: Rene Bellwied, Co-Chair NUFO Steering Committee
9:00	Welcome Murray Gibson, Associate Laboratory Director for Photon Sciences and Director, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory
9:15	Keynote Address Tackling Our Energy Challenges in a New Era of Science: The Role of Scientific User Facilities Harriet Kung, Associate Director of Science for Basic Energy Sciences, DOE
10:15	Break
10:30	U.S. Government Policies Affecting International Scientific Cooperation Amy Flatten, Director of International Affairs, American Physical Society
11:00	The APS and Synchrotron Facilities in the US and Worldwide: A Network Perspective Murray Gibson, Associate Laboratory Director for Photon Sciences and Director, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory
11:45	Group photo followed by No-host Lunch
Focus on Users continued Moderator: Susan Strasser, Co-Coordinator NUFO Steering Committee
1:00	How Does NUFO Fit into the National Science Agenda? Rene Bellwied, CoChair NUFO
1:40	Expectations for Users and User Facilities Brant Johnson, CoChair, NUFO
2:10	The Role of National User Facilities in Supporting Academic Research and Future Workforce Development Katherine Kantardjieff, Co-Chair SNUG
2:50	National User Groups for International User Facilities and NUFO Harvey Newman, Chair, User Group for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC )
3:30	Break
4:00	NUFO Web Site: Resources for Users Susan White-DePace, Co-Coordinator, NUFO
4:30	NUFO Business Meeting Charter Review and Nominations for New Steering Committee Members Susan Strasser, Co-Coordinator* NUFO*
5:00	Adjourn
6:00	No-host Dinner at Ted's Montana Grill, Bolingbrook, Illinois (menu)
Thursday, June 11 Focus on Industrial Access to National User Facilities Expected Outcome: A short report with recommendations on best ways to increase industrial participation at national user facilities Moderator: Al Ekkebus, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
8:30	Welcome Dennis Mills, Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for Photon Sciences, Argonne National Laboratory
8:45	A Fifteen-Year Science Policy Lesson: The Voices of Industry and Medicine Matter Most in Washington Mike Lubell, Director of Public Affairs, American Physical Society and CCNY Professor of Physics
9:15	Lobbying for American Innovation John Palafoutas, Task Force on the Future of American Innovation
9:45	Interactions with Industry: DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Perspective Gurpreet Singh, Team Leader, EERE Vehicle Program Office
10:15	Break
10:45	Industrial Users at ORNL’s High Temperature Materials Laboratory (HTML) E. Andrew Payzant, Senior R&D Staff Member, HTML, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
11:15	Use of National Facilities in Technology Development for Energy and Transportation Ernest Hall, Chief Scientist, GE Global Research
11:45	LRL-CAT: A Company's Experience at the APS Steve Wasserman, Head, Discovery Chemistry, Lilly Research Laboratories
12:15	No-host Lunch
Moderator, Steve Wasserman
1:15	Industrial Stories: Successes and Issues (either facility or industrial user speakers) Michael Crawford, DuPont Olga Makarova, Creatv MicroTech, Inc. Chip Lesburg, Schering-Plough, past Chairman of IMCA Jin Wang, Argonne National Laboratory Patrick Lysaght, SEMATECH Milan Buncick, AEgis, Technologies
3:15	Break
3:45	Break-Out Groups to Formulate Recommendations: Outreach to industry and best practices Moderator: Susan White-DePace, Brookhaven Scribe: Jane Andrew, Argonne Industrial interaction (Before site arrival: legal issues, site access, proposal acceptance, speed of scheduling, etc.) Moderator: Judy Trimble, Oak Ridge Scribe: Cathy Knotts, SSRL Industrial interaction (After site arrival: training, badging, use of resources, sample shipping, joint authorship, inducements for scientists to work with industry, etc.) Moderator: Susan Strasser, Argonne Scribe: Connie Vanni, Argonne
4:45	Wrap-up, Summary, and Future Directions Al Ekkebus, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
5:30	Adjourn
Friday, June 12 Focus on Administrative Issues: Best Practices Moderator: Judy Trimble, Co-Coordinator, NUFO Steering Committee
8:30	Welcome Bill Ruzicka, APS Engineering Support Division Director, Argonne National Laboratory
8:45	Master User Agreements: What they are, and how they are being implemented throughout the DOE complex Mark Langguth, Sr. Attorney, Intellectual Property, Argonne National Laboratory
Benchmarking: How To Do It and How to Implement Recommendations
9:30	Co-operation Among User Facilities at a Single National Laboratory: The Argonne Experience Doug Sisterson, Operations Manager, ACRF
10:15	Break
10:45	What keeps us awake at night? Key issues: Foreign Visits and Assignments Benchmarking Results Hosting Requirements/Expectations Access for Sensitive Country Users FACTS -- Modifications Needed? Visas Computer Use Agreements/Remote Access Issues To Badge or Not to Badge: That is the Question Roles of the User Office: User Ombudsman? Other?
12:30	No-host Lunch
1:30	Facility Tours: APS, CNM, ATLAS, EMC Russ Cook, Organizer
2:30	Break-out Sessions by Facility Type (Light Sources, NSRCs, High-Energy Physics Facilities, others as needed)
4:30	Adjourn