Senior Scientist Update

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Senior Scientist Update

• Jim Siegrist
• 30 August 2005

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Issues

• Reduction in Force Status
• Budget Outlook for FY06
• Long-term Budget Issues
• News from HEPAP and Recent Issues
• ATLAS Analysis Centres
• Neutrinos
• CMB
• Supernova Cosmology and the DETF
• SNAP Plan B
• Future Planning and Division Retreat
• Staffing actions

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Reduction in Force Status

• We are out of RIF
• We had 5 volunteers
• 3 Senior Scientists
• 2 Technical
• We have made major changes in our administrative
  support taking advantage of sharing with General
  Sciences (cut 10/35 slots)
• We hope to reduce our Division burden rate
  despite a significant reduction in the salary
  base
• These reductions will have a significant impact
• Recent changes in the status of (union)
  represented administrative personnel added
  significant complications to the RIF

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Budget Outlook for FY06

• Initial RIF goal was to reduce labor costs by 2M
  for FY06 after inflation to accommodate a
  reduction of 1.3M in the Presidents Budget and
  an expected additional cut of 0.6M
• The reductions through RIF, planned departures of
  postdocs and graduate students and our
  organizational changes have accomplished this
  goal
• In addition, for FY06 only, DOE-HEP has already
  provided additional funds in FY05 to support
  students in their final year and postdocs who are
  looking for jobs (650K)
• We need to reduce labor by that amount for FY07
• Significant changes in lab overheads are coming
  FY06 budgets will be in flux through September
• We expect additional costs of 250K and they
  will hit fabrication projects

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Long-term Budget Issues

• Every indication is that FY07 will be a very bad
  year
• In addition to overall reductions, Robin Staffin
  has indicated that he will take funds from base
  and compete them for new projects
• As we will discuss later, this means we need to
  work to get funds for new programs
• Our RIF has probably exhausted all short-term
  possibilities for significant staff reductions
  until 2010 or later.
• We need to think hard about how we evolve our
  program

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FTE by Fiscal Year
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Labor Costs by Fiscal Year
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The (Last?) HEPAP Agenda

• Staffin
• LHC Programme
• Tier 2 Centres (NSF)
• NuSAG
• LHC/LC Subpanel
• P5 Discussion
• Resource Study
• Weiss Report

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Program Changes

• ATLAS Analysis Centres
• Three centres were recommended as part of overall
  physics analysis report
• We are moving to establish ours and organize a
  kickoff meeting on 21 October
• Plan will include roles for UCSC and SLAC
• This will increase space needs at LBNL

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New Program Issues

• Neutrinos (Daya Bay)
• Presented to NuSAG (Staffin supports it)
• CMB
• Weiss Report supports polarization measurements
  (helps Polarbear?)
• But the report is still not yet official
• Supernova Cosmology and the DETF
• We need to plan out program and compete
• What role for baryon oscillations etc.?
• SNAP Plan B
• Issue arose at Business Plan presentation to
  Orbach
• Need to formulate alternate launch plan

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Future Planning and Division Retreat

• The many future issues suggest the need for a
  planning retreat
• We have scheduled a retreat for 19-20 October at
  the Clark Kerr Campus
• One day for Particle Physics, one for Cosmology
  and Astrophysics
• We need to deal with the fact that our base
  program will not fit within flat-flat budgets
• We need to look to new funding opportunities and
  to developing new proposals

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Day 1

• Accelerator-based program             Status
              Connections to the Community (within
  LBNL, SLAC, Fermilab, universities)
              Opportunities for Proposals
              ATLAS             ILC            
  Neutrinos (reactor and follow on)            
  Particle Theory             PDG Service
              Discussion of Short-Term Issues
              Reception and informal discussions

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Day 2

• Cosmology/Astrophysics             SNAP/JDEM
              SN Science             CMB (S-Z and
  Polarization)             Theory and Computation
              Discussion of Short-Term Issues
              Wrap-up and Planning Next Steps

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Staffing actions

• State-mandated supervisor training on harassment
  issues
• Lab-mandated supervisor training on ESH issues
• We have posted for a new Chamberlain Fellow this
  year
• We need to watch the campus search closely
• Do we begin any other searches?