Public Input APS Summary
After UFA Meeting on Monday evening
Ed Doyle: missing diagnostics aspects.
Boris Breizman: I would like to reiterate my remark and suggest that your international collaboration panel lists THEORY as an essential component of the overall collaborative activity. I believe that this will be beneficial not just for the theory itself but also for the experimental collaborations that are often in need for stronger theoretical support. The US theorists already have very productive collaborations with their international colleagues at various levels (formal and informal). I can mention JIFT as an example. It would therefore be quite appropriate to build on that strength and give the theory sufficient visibility within your panel. Let me also add that joint theoretical work is a particularly attractive area for US universities with their strong intellectual potential and a large body of international students.
Don Correll: see input from Xu
Open Meeting Wednesday ( after presentation- Wed_Talk_DMM.ppt)
Notes based on recording (FESAC APS-DPP Public Input.mp3)
Prager
• Need to look at incoming collaborations as a constraint,
• Need quid pro quo compare cost-effectiveness of $ into US versus int’l
• need an existence proof that these opportunities exist.
• HEP is model for ITER, not for others
• US needs incoming collabs, can’t be one-way
• Opportunities exist within the US in the next 10 years, more could exist
Wurden
• it is a question of scale that will determine how to do outgoing
• Us should offer incoming collabs cost sharing
• teams are a way to over come some of the barriers to foreign collabs
Saskia Mordijck
• need to have a way for small University collabs to participate
• need to include Univ in teams
Aaron Redd
• impact of off-site work on students
• Greenwald – HEP does lots of analysis back home at the Univ
Doyle
• KSTAR/EAST contracts for the US to build diagnostics with quid-pro to provide access
Greenwald
• the strategic issue is not the scientific opportunities, but how the collaboration strengthen the US program
Sarff
• an local presence is important for plasma physics programs at Universities to attract students and get University support.
• the US needs to have a portion of the intellectual leadership of the collaboration
Greenwald - collaboration needs to help make ITER a success
Wurden – we also need a backup
X. Xu – consider collabs going to smaller facilities if appropriate, could be more cost-effective
Mauel – collabs bring ideas can be successful, need a stake in the Leadership
Doyle – Diagnostics help provide an entre to program leadership
Other contacts at APS
Don Hillis-