Agenda for the
Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC) Meeting
Gaithersburg Hilton Hotel
Gaithersburg, Maryland

Monday, October 26, 1998

8:00 a.m.  Coffee

8:15 a.m.  Introduction of Committee Members and Guests -- Geraldine Richmond

8:30 a.m.  Comments from the Deputy Director of the Office of Energy Research -- Jim Decker

9:30 a.m.  An Overview of the High Flux Isotope Reactor, ORNL --  Jim Roberto

10:30 a.m.  Break

11:00 a.m.  BESAC Review of the High Flux Isotope Reactor --  Jack Crow and Committee Members

12:30 p.m.  Lunch (Tarragon Room)

1:30 p.m.  BESAC Workshop on Novel Coherent Light Sources -- Steve Leone

2:00 p.m.  Scientific Simulation Initiative (SSI) – View from the Top
         Mike Knotek, Program Advisor for S&T, Office of the Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

2:30 p.m.  SSI – View from the Trenches -- Bill Kirchhoff

3:00 p.m.  SSI - View from the Trenches -- Dan Hitchcock

3:30 p.m.  Break

3:45 p.m. OSTP News & Views -- Bob Marianelli

4:45 p.m. Public Comment

5:15 p.m.  Adjourn

6:00 p.m.  Dinner – O'Donnell's Seafood Restaurant, 
O'Donnell's Seafood Restaurant, 311 Kentland Blvd,
Gaithersburg, MD 20878-5447; Phone: (301)519-1650
Restaurant Review 

Tuesday, October 27, 1998

8:00 a.m.  Coffee

8:30 a.m.  News from the Office of Basic Energy Sciences: 
       FY 1999 Budget, Other Current Events -- Pat Dehmer

9:00 a.m.  Workshop on Complex Systems -- Chuck Shank

9:30 a.m.  New Charge to BESAC

10:30 a.m.   Public Comment (there was none)

10:30 a.m.  Adjourn

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