October 2009 Meeting
A meeting of the FRIB Users Organization was held on Thursday, Oct. 15, as part of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting in Hawaii. This immediately followed a meeting of the RIKEN RIBF facility in the same room.
Agenda
1) Welcome (Konrad Gelbke, MSU)
2) FRIB status and the schedule to CDR (Brad Sherrill, MSU)
3) Report from first FRIB Users Workshop at ANL May 30-31 2009 (Kim Lister, ANL)
4) Science Advisory Committee and the February 2010 Equipment Workshop
(Rick Casten, Yale)
5) Progress at other RIB facilities (CARIBU, HOLIFIELD etc ...
(Witek Nazarewicz, UT/ORNL; Robert Janssens, ANL)
6) FRIB Users Organization Business: Elections, Website,
Science case for CDR etc., (Erich Ormand, LLNL)
Summary
Combined RIKEN and FRIB Users Groups Meetings at the 3rd Joint Meeting of the
APS Division of Nuclear Physics and the Physical Society of Japan
Thursday, October 15, 2009; Waikoloa, Hawaii
During the joint APS/JPS meeting in Hawaii, the User Groups of RIBF at RIKEN
and FRIB held back-to-back users meetings in order to help both groups gain
a better perspective on international opportunities, and gain better
understanding how User Groups can operate effectively.
The RIKEN users meeting was first. There were many interesting talks on the
experiments with the first radioactive beams, and on the prospects for the
next year as the facility ramps up. About 100 users participated, with about
a third from our FRIB community. There was then a refreshments break (provided
by MSU/FRIB) and then the FRIB meeting followed. There was an update on the
status of the project, and the path to the CDR. There was considerable discussion
about how the FRIB users could contribute to the project. The FRIB meeting
had about 70 participants, again with about a third of the people from the
RIKEN/RIBF community.
Everyone agreed this kind of joint meeting was a big success and should be
repeated in the future. It provided an excellent forum for meeting of our
communities, exchanging ideas, building collaborations, and improving the
effectiveness of both user groups. It was agreed that RIKEN provide the
refreshments next time round!