COMPRES Facilities Agenda9:30 Mark Rivers—Introduction to COMPRES Community Facilities 9:40 Mark Rivers—GSECARS Update9:45 Simon Clark—West Coast Synchrotrons10:05 Coffee10:25  Dave Mao and Rus Hemley—Diamond-anvil facilities at the NSLS10:45 Nancy Ross—Neutron studies11:00 Don Weidner—Multi-anvil facilities at the NSLS11:20 Jiuhua Chen-Monochromatic high pressure side station at X17B211:30 Abby Kavner ALS Laser Heating Workshop11:35 Breakout-sessions for users of individual synchrotron and neutron facilities

COMPRES Facilities CommitteeMission (from Policies and Procedures)

• Oversee the planning and operation of facilities for high-pressure Earth and planetary science research to best benefit the community

Responsibilities (from Policies and Procedures and By-Laws)• Set priorities for the development of new facilities• Evaluate user utility of facilities and coordinate feedback• Provide procedures for allocation of community resources• Recommend facilities budgets to the Executive Committee• Provide recommendations designed to maximize access to facilities by the

COMPRES community• Provide coordination between facilities and provide a mechanism for

redirection of users between facilities if necessary• Formulate policies for evaluation of user proposals for accessing

COMPRES community facilities• Assess community needs for different facilities• Identify possibilities for new facilities and facilities upgrade and expansion

COMPRES Facilities

• NSLS DAC ($328K for year 3)– X17-C

• Dedicated, mainly energy dispersive diffraction

– X17-B3• 25% dedicated, 25% shared with X17-B2

– U2A-IR • 100% dedicated

• NSLS Multi-anvil ($318K for year 3)– X17-B2

• 25% dedicated, 25% shared with X17-B3

COMPRES Facilities• West Coast Synchrotrons ($193K plus $115K

one-time equipment grant for year 3)– ALS 12.2.2

• Dedicated high-pressure beamline, partially COMPRES community facility

– SSRL• Used by COMPRES members, potential use of COMPRES

funds

• Neutrons ($70K for year 3)– SNS at Oak Ridge

• SNAP beamline funded by DOE• COMPRES is involved with community development and cell

design

• Total budget about $910K for year 3

Members

• Mark Rivers, Chair, 2003-2005

• Yingwei Fei (2002-2005)

• Charles Prewitt (2003-2006)

• Harry Green (2002-2004, retiring)

• Tom Duffy (2003-2006)

• Candidates for election at this meeting:– Abby Kavner– Joseph Smyth

Major Activities

• Solicit reports and budget requests from facilities in mid-September of each year

• Reports due by November 15

• Committee discusses reports at meeting at AGU, and in subsequent conference calls

• Recommendations made to Executive Committee in early January for preparation of annual budget

Major Activities• In past request for reports was not explicit enough, request for

additional information was made• Reports will now include

– List of users– List of proposals received. Days requested and received.– Calendar with beamtime allocation– Budget expenditures report– Publications

• Some of the above information must be treated as confidential and not made public. Facility operators must know what will and will not be made public, how their reports will be used. Facility reports have been edited (???) before inclusion in the COMPRES annual report to NSF.

• Strongly encouraging all facilities to use the General User proposal system at each synchrotron for beamtime proposal review and beamtime allocation. No more informal beamtime allocation by PI.

Impact of Proposed New By-Laws• Article IV, Section 8: Minutes

– “Minutes will be taken at all official meetings … of Committees …”. “Minutes of all meetings … shall be distributed to all Members …”

• Some Committee discussions should not be made public• 2 types of minutes, public and private?

• Article VII, Section 1– “The Facilities Committee shall invite each facility that

receives COMPRES funds to send a non-voting representative to participate in committee meetings pertaining to their facility …”

• Inhibits frank discussion• At each meeting we discuss all facilities, what part do they

participate in? These are somewhat like NSF panel meetings.

Goals of Breakout Sessions• COMPRES should prepare a document that outlines our

vision for the future of the COMPRES facilities. We need to provide a process for community involvement in preparing that.

• Discuss the need and plans for more regular meetings of local user groups (NSLS, ALS, APS). – Perhaps at annual users meetings of these facilities? – More time at COMPRES meetings?

• Discussion with facility operators– Plans for future upgrades

– Discussion of any perceived problems with the facilities