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Toward Strengthening U. S. Academic Accelerator Science Request for Information August 25, 2015 Catalog of Responses Respondent Page DOE Request for Information 2 Phil Burrows 6/5/2015 5 (TIARA report) 6/5/2015 6 Richard Temkin 6/9/2015 68 John Madey 6/11/2015 72 Justin Schwartz 6/12/2015 75 Jean Delayen 6/17/2015 77 Vladimir Shiltsev 6/17/2015 87 Swapan Chattopadhyay 6/18/2015 109 Paul Gueye 6/18/2015 114 Thomas Glasmacher 6/18/2015 119 Sarah Cousineau 6/18/2015 126 Geoff Krafft 6/18/2015 127 Sergei Nagaitzev 6/18/2015 132 Zhirong Huang 6/18/2015 137 Blaine Norum 6/18/2015 145 Stephen Milton 6/18/2015 147 John Fox 6/18/2015 159 Martin Berz 6/18/2015 163 Bob Zwaska 6/18/2015 166 Jay Hirshfield 6/19/2015 168 Ritchie Patterson 6/22/2015 173 Ilan Ben‐Zvi 7/17/2015 178 Dave Sutter 8/25/2015 180 Resumes and materials marked as copyrighted have been omitted. August 25, 2015 DOE HEP Academic Accelerator Science RFI Responses 1 27678 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 93 / Thursday, May 14, 2015 / Notices contained in OSD Administrative The Draft EIS/OEIS was distributed to implement to foster robust academic Instruction 81; 32 CFR part 311; or may federal and local agencies, elected R&D and workforce development in this be obtained from the system manager. officials, and other interested vitally important high technology area. individuals and organizations. The Draft DATES: Written comments and RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: EIS/OEIS is available for public review information are requested on or before Individual, industrial facilities at www.CNMIJointMilitaryTraining June 18, 2015. cleared by the Personnel Security EIS.com, and at the following libraries: ADDRESSES: Interested persons may Management Office for Industry (1) Joeten Kiyu Public Library, Saipan; submit comments only by email. (PSMO–I), and DoD Component (2) Northern Marianas College Olympio Comments must be addressed to fingerprint capture devices. T. Borja Memorial Library, Saipan; (3) AcademicAcceleratorScienceRFI@ EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED BY THE SYSTEM: Tinian Public Library, Tinian; (4) science.doe.gov, with the subject line Antonio C. Atalig Memorial Rota Public None. ‘‘Academic Accelerator Science RFI Library, Rota; (5) University of Guam Comments’’. [FR Doc. 2015–11606 Filed 5–13–15; 8:45 am] Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Library, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. BILLING CODE 5001–06–P Guam; (6) Nieves M. Flores Memorial Bruce P. Strauss, (301) 903–3705, Library, Guam. AcademicAcceleratorScienceRFI@ SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE The DoN’s science.doe.gov. proposed action is to establish live-fire SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Department of the Navy Range Training Areas (RTAs) within the CNMI to address the U.S. Pacific The Challenge Extension of Public Comment Period Command Service Components’ unfilled Accelerators play a key role in the for the Draft Environmental Impact unit level and combined level training discovery sciences, including High Statement/Overseas Environmental requirements in the Western Pacific. Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, and Impact Statement for Commonwealth The DoN recognizes that public Basic Energy Sciences. Modern of the Northern Mariana Islands Joint comments are an essential part of the discovery science accelerators are high Military Training National Environmental Policy Act technology instruments of remarkable (NEPA) process. Accordingly, the DoN complexity, having advanced over eight AGENCY: Department of the Navy, established a 60-day public comment Department of Defense. orders of magnitude in energy since period in lieu of the minimum 45-day their invention. Aggressive reinvention ACTION: Notice. period required by NEPA implementing of the underlying technology has driven regulations. In response to requests by SUMMARY: On April 03, 2015, the improvements in this science, and has CNMI officials, Federal resource Department of Navy (DoN) published a required sustained investment in agencies, and the public, the DoN has Notice of Availability and Notice of accelerator science R&D that advances extended the Draft EIS 60-day public Public Meetings for the Draft the methods, materials, and comment period by a heretofore Environmental Impact Statement/ understanding of accelerator science. additional 60 days to August 3, 2015, Overseas Environmental Impact Accelerator Science is an EDT [August 4, 2015, ChST]. Statement for Commonwealth of the interdisciplinary field that encompasses Northern Mariana Islands Joint Military FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: the design and improvement of particle Training (80 FR 18385, April 03, 2015). CNMI Joint Military Training EIS/OEIS accelerators, the development of new The purpose of this notice is to Project Manager by email via the project methods of charged particle production announce an extension of the 60-day Web site (www.CNMIJointMilitary and manipulation, and the development public comment period. The public TrainingEIS.com). of unique supporting technologies comment period will be extended by 60 Dated: May 11, 2015. needed for accelerators. Significant days to end on August 3, 2015 Eastern N.A. Hagerty-Ford career specialization has evolved as the demand for ever greater performance Daylight Time (E.D.T.) [August 4, 2015, Commander, Judge Advocate General’s Corps, Chamorro Standard Time (ChST)]. U.S. Navy, Federal Register Liaison Officer. has required reaching deep into mathematics, computation, materials DATES: The extended 120-day public [FR Doc. 2015–11674 Filed 5–13–15; 8:45 am] science, plasma science, radio frequency comment period for the Draft EIS began BILLING CODE 3810–FF–P technology, superconducting materials, on April 3, 2015, EDT [April 04, 2015, laser engineering, and a variety of other ChST] with the publication of the disciplines. The accelerator science Notice of Availability in the Federal DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY workforce must be capable of spanning Register by the U.S. Environmental both the breadth and depth of the Protection Agency, and with this Strengthening U.S. Academic subject matter needed to build discovery extension, will end on August 3, 2015, Programs in Accelerator Science science accelerators. It must also EDT [August 4, 2015, ChST]. Mailed AGENCY: Office of High Energy Physics, possess the range of skills and comments should be postmarked no Department of Energy. proficiency levels needed to support later than August 3, 2015, EDT [August operating accelerators for science, 4, 2015, ChST] to ensure they are ACTION: Notice of request for medicine, industry, security, defense, considered. information (RFI). and energy & environmental ADDRESSES: The public may provide SUMMARY: The Office of High Energy applications. comments through the project Web site Physics (HEP), as the Department of National laboratories, academia, and at www.CNMIJointMilitaryTrainingEIS. Energy’s (DOE or Department) lead industry each play vital, mutually com, or by mail at: Naval Facilities office for long-term accelerator research reinforcing roles in the success of the Engineering Command, Pacific, Attn: and development (R&D), invites accelerator-based discovery sciences, 09PA, Public Affairs Office, 258 interested parties to provide comments and in providing the scientific and Makalapa Drive, Suite 100, JBPHH, HI on proposed policies, practices and technological advances necessary to 96860–3134. mechanisms which DOE–HEP may sustain U.S. leadership in this area. August 25, 2015 DOE HEP Academic Accelerator Science RFI Responses 2 VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:59 May 13, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00051 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\14MYN1.SGM 14MYN1 tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 93 / Thursday, May 14, 2015 / Notices 27679 With an estimated 30,000 particle Increasing the Recognition of national laboratories? Could these accelerators operating worldwide, there Accelerator Science in Academia mechanisms be extended to accelerator 1 is a significant—and growing—need 1. Does your institution regard science? for a technically competent workforce accelerator science as an academic Contemporary Models of University that can design, install, operate, discipline? Why or why not? Accelerator Science upgrade, and repair accelerators. 2. If your institution offers graduate 11. What examples exist of thriving A High Energy Physics Advisory training in accelerator science: academic accelerator science programs? Panel subcommittee, in 2014, identified a. What is the core curriculum shared the present deficit in the accelerator a. Are there policies at your university by all accelerator students, regardless of specific to the accelerator science science workforce as an area of special specialization? (e.g. What is the concern, both for its impact on the program that are essential to its success? common coursework taken by all b. Are there scholarships, endowed Office of Science mission, and for its accelerator students?) chairs, or other awards and positions broader consequences.23 Approximately b. How often do students change that give special recognition to 10–12 accelerator science Ph.D.s fields to study accelerator science? From accelerator science? graduate each year in the U.S., nearly an which fields do these students typically c. Are there barriers to having order of magnitude less than Europe. come? accelerator scientists serve as PI or Co- This is traceable to the small number of c. Is your accelerator science program I on proposals? U.S. universities that have accelerator primarily located in the physics, d. Is conversion from research faculty