Ventures

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Ventures
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report on BNL

• How and Why
• Partners to manage Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Report Card
• Progress at one year
• USB-BNL Connections
• Some existing collaborations
• Planned new alliances
• Outlook

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how and why

• BNL operated for 50 years by AUI.
• DOE terminates contract on 5/1/97
• BNL is arguably the best multi-purpose national
  lab in the nation Stony Brook is largest
  institutional user.
• What to do???

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how and why

• DOE creates most demanding RFP ever.
• Many meetings with potential bidders.
• Who will team with whom?
• August 4th kickoff for Stony Brook-Battelle
  team plus six Core universities.

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how and why

• Create Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA)
• Proposal deadlines come and go.
• Finally! Award announcement 11/25/97.
• Award 1/5/98begin operating on 3/1/98.

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how and why

• BSA commitments
• Effect management culture change
• Repair and strengthen community relations
• Exert strong science leadership
• Meet required new compliance standards on a fast
  track.

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report card

• Good working relationship with DOE.
• Generally communities trust BSA.
• About half way to having management systems in
  place.
• Excellent science continues, several initiatives
  which build on existing strengths. RHIC begins
  operation this Summer.
• Challenges
• meet contract milestones
• increase selectively base support for research

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report card
What about Stony Brook?

• Lots of outside visibility
• Academe, the LI community, the nation.
• Increasing interest in treating BNL as a NYS
  resource.
• Increased interest from staff at both USB and BNL
  in new, or bigger alliances.

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USB-BNL collaborations
Neural Circuitry for Motor Behavior- functional
MRI

• Psychology (behavioral expertise)-BNL high field
  MRI group.
• Anderson, Brener, Squires plus students.
• First objective reconcile MRI/ single-cell
  electrophysiology data.

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USB-BNL collaborations

• Scanning x-ray microscope at NSLS

• Rafailovich, Sokolov,
• Kirz, Gersppe
• Polymer phase transitions
• in thin films.
• 0.04 ?m resolution
• Some applications
• printing dyes, protein/
• prosthetic devices.

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USB-BNL collaborations
PET imaging and drug abuse research

• Volkov, Fowler, others at BNL. Hitzemann USB
  General Clinical Research Center
• Image from findings on Ritalin affect on dopamine
  transporters.

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USB-BNL collaborations
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

• Collisions of ultra relativistic gold nuclei
  expected to create quark-gluon plasma
• Deduce physics of plasma from collision debris.
  (Scientific American Feb. 99 )

• Stony Brook group led by Jacak, Drees, Hemmick,
  Marx, Lacey and Alexander has major role with
  PHENIX detector.

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USB-BNL collaborations
PHENIX
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new alliances

• Center for Data Intensive Computing (CDIC)
• BNL experiments ? computing research on
• Managing VERY large data sets
• (e.g., peta bytes/ RHIC event).
• Visualizing large data sets.
• Extracting bio-molecular structures from x-ray
  data.
• Have formed collaboration USB
• ( CS and AMS) and BNL.
• Joint seminars, proposals, searches.
• Plan joint appointments, support from DOE, NSF,
  other agencies.

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new alliances
Two applications for CDIC
HIV protein structure from X-ray data
RHIC simulated collision debris
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new alliances
Science Studies at Stony Brook

• Science and Society controversies have political,
  social, economic, historical, philosophical
  aspects.
• Science Studies Forum draw together faculty
  group in the social sciences and humanities and
• a segment of BNL staff.
• Already have visiting lecturers, USB speaker
  series.
• Plans for visiting scholars, conferences.
• Contacts Bob Crease, Nancy Tomes

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new alliances
USB Ecology Evolution ? BNL Environmental
Biology

• Combine expertise in species interactions to
  large-scale ecosystem studies on CO2 enrichment.
• Nitrogen influence on plant-herbivore system.
• Establish ecology field site at BNL.
• Team approach
• Manual Lerdau (USB) ? George Hendry (BNL)

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new alliances

• Cancer Institute of Long Island
• Two years of planning for a Comprehensive Cancer
  Center.
• Assets USB, BNL, and CSHL. New CMM, and
  out-patient therapy facilities.
• BNL strengths imaging, radiation therapies,
  radio-nuclides and -pharmaceuticals.
• Goal NCI CCC in 3 to 4 years.

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new alliances

• Others on the horizon
• Environmental sciences
• Environmental management
• Education/Research programs
• Structural biology

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outlook

• President Kennys seed grants to encourage new
  USB-BNL links.
• Evaluation committee working on 1st round.
• Exciting breadth of proposal aims!
• Overall impressive array of plans for new
  projects based on coordinating strengths.
• BSA era can lead to stable future for BNL.
• State of affairsmatches hopes when we began this
  venture.