# Presentation: 066993

## Physics Department Meeting

**June 19, 2008**

**  ****Safety items:  Mike Zarcone**
** ****DOE**** ****Emergency Management Audit next week**
**  ****Department news**
**  ****Budget update**
**  ****Looking ahead**
** ****Q & A**

## Welcome to our new Department members

**RHIC/ATLAS Computing:  ****Kunal Shroff**
**Lattice Gauge Theory:  ****Chuan Miao**
**RBRC Spin Group:****  Kieran Boyle**
**STAR computing group:  ****Matthew Ahrenstein**

## Congratulations!

**Bob Palmer elected to National Academy of Sciences **

## Daya Bay Experiment

**Successful review for DOE “Critical Decision 3”**

**Construction Begins**

## U.S. ATLAS Construction Project

**Critical Decision 4b achieved**

**Construction is complete; operations begun**

**Analysis Jamboree, 12/07**

**Waiting for beam!**

## On the Budget Front...

**On the Budget Front...**

**The FY 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Bill was not good for science.**
**The President’s Request for FY 2009 is very good, but will almost certainly not be realized.**

**We have fared better than other labs in this very difficult budget year:**
**BNL has avoided the layoffs and furloughs seen elsewhere, but the squeeze is on...**
**  ****Every effort made to maximize the RHIC run**
**  ****A critical time for ATLAS (LHC start-up this year) and Daya Bay (construction starting)**
**  ****Travel costs are a particular issue**
**Our Department is in a mode of fiscal austerity.**

**Physics Dept. funds**

***Budget projections for the remainder of this fiscal year (through September) are in the ******RED.***
_***You can help:***_**  Please try to reduce your vacation carry-over as much as possible.**

## Nuclear Physics

**Nuclear Physics**

**RHIC has high priority in DOE/NSF NSAC 2007Long Range Plan:  ****~40% of DOE investment in Nuclear Physics**

_**BNL’s Goals:**_** **
**Complete the upgrades of PHENIX, STAR, RCF for RHIC II science capability.**
**Maintain BNL’s forefront role in heavy ion and spin research.**
**Maintain the BNL research groups’s successful host roles in experimental operations at RHIC.**
**Establish an intellectual base at RHIC for the development of eRHIC science.**

## Long Term Vision for BNL High Energy Physics

**Long Term Vision for BNL High Energy Physics**

**BNL’s plans are very well aligned with the priorities of the new DOE “P5” Long Range Plan.**

_**The Energy Frontier:**_
**  ****Host Laboratory for U.S. ATLAS collaboration**
**  ****Unique national role for advanced accelerator development**
_**The Intensity Frontier:**_
**  ****Leading role in U.S.-China Daya Bay Neutrino experiment**
** ****R&D and planning for future Long Baseline neutrino expt.**** **
_**The Cosmic Frontier:**_
**  ****Initiating a new effort in astrophysics: cosmology & dark energy**
**  ****In concert with Instrumentation Div. work on LSST**

## Space News

**Space News**

**In the near term:**
** ****Cleaning and refurbishing several labs.**
** ****Consolidating machine shop facilities.**

- There are longer term plans taking shape for major renovation of building 510.

- High on our priorities:
-   Refurbish the Large Seminar room
-   Repair our dismal front entrance

**RACF Expansion: in progress**

_**New:**_** Department Safety**
**Headquarters **

## DOE Strategic Laboratory Infrastructure Initiative

-   A $1.5B investment to modernize DOE Labs (10 involved)
-   The Labs are making competitive proposals
-   BNL is proposing projects amounting to $350M

**BNL’s proposals include:**
**Interdisciplinary Science Building I**
**FY09 – FY12 ****	****Labs and office space for CMPMS, EENS, Biology****	****$66M**
**Renovate Science Labs II**
**FY10 – FY13****	****Renovate lab space in Buildings 510, 555****	****$50M**
**Interdisciplinary Science Building II**
**FY12 – FY15****	****Office space and labs for Bio-energy, Instrum.****	****$70M**
**Central Computing Building**
**FY17 – FY18****	****Accommodate growth in computing capacity****	****$27M**

## BNL Site Core 2018

- Refurbishments-SLI IGPP DMR

- New Buildings-Program Funded

- New Buildings-NY State Financed

- New Buildings-SLI

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- KEY

- BNL Site Core 2018

- C

- A

- 6

- E

- 2, 7

- 7

- B

- 1. INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE PH I
- 2. RENOVATE SCIENCE LABS PH II
- 3. INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE PH II
- 4. SUPPORT SHOPS COMPLEX
- 5. UTILITIES IMPROVEMENT PROJECT (NOT SHOWN)
- 6. CENTRAL COMPUTING BUILDING
- 7. RENOVATE SCIENCE LABS III

- A. NSLS-II
- B. MATERIALS HANDLING
- C. MAIN GATE/ ENTRY ROAD/
-     VISITOR CENTER
- D. SUPPORT OFFICE BUILDING

- 2,7

- 3

- New Buildings & Additions IGPP

- 7

- D

- 4

- F

- G

- H

- E. CENTRAL CHILLED WATER
- F. JPSI
- G. NSLS-II HOUSING
- H. MAILROOM/  POST OFFICE

- New Buildings-Alt. Financed Funded

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