DOE/NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee Meeting
Friday, October 18, 2019

8:15 am – 9:00 am

Annual Ethics Briefing (CLOSED SESSION)

Rachel Kestenbaum, DOE
Office of General Counsel

9:00 am – 9:05 am

Welcome and Introduction

David Hertzog, NSAC Chair
University of Washington

9:05 am – 9:35 am

Perspectives from the Department of Energy

Chris Fall, Director
Office of Science

  9:35 am – 10:00 am

DOE Office of Nuclear Physics Overview 

Timothy J. Hallman,
Associate Director,
Office of Science

10:00 am – 10:45 am

Presentation on Diversity and Inclusion in the
Office of Science 

Julie Carruthers, Senior Science
& Technology Advisor,
Office of Science

10:45 am – 11:00 am

Break

11:00 am – 11:30 am

Perspectives from the National Science Foundation

Denise Caldwell, Director,
Division of Physics,
NSF

11:30 am – 12:00 pm

NSF Office of Nuclear Physics Overview

Allena K. Opper, Program Director,
Nuclear Physics,
NSF

12:00 am – 12:15 am

Presentation of New Charge:  Molybdenum-99

Timothy J. Hallman,
Associate Director,
Office of Science

12:15 pm – 1:15 pm

 Lunch

1:15 pm – 2:00 pm

Presentation of the Quantum Computing and
Quantum Information Science Subcommittee Report

Martin Savage
Subcommittee Chair
University of Washington

2:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Discussion of the Quantum Computing and
Quantum Information Science Report

NSAC

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm

The sPHENIX Project 

Gunther Roland
MIT

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

The Double Beta Decay Topical Collaboration 

Jonathan Engel
University of North Carolina

3:30 pm – 3:45 pm

Break

3:45 pm – 4:15 pm

The Beam Energy Scan Theory Topical Collaboration

Swagato Mukherjee
Brookhaven National Laboratory

4:15 pm – 4:30 pm

Public Comment

4:30 pm

Adjourn