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Appendix A Breakout Sessions   Thursday, May 16, 2002: 3. Breakout Sessions 8:30 - 10:30 3.1 Technical Issues (Michael Borland and Mark Beno) - (Bimini Room) Possibilities and Benefits for Customized Insertion Devices (Elizabeth Moog) [20 minutes] Recent Progress and Plans for Improved Orbit Stability (Glenn Decker) [20 minutes] Possibilities and Trade-Offs in Storage Ring Improvements (Louis Emery) [20 minutes] Open discussion moderated by Mark Beno and Michael Borland [60 minutes] 3.2 User Support (Dennis Mills and Thomas Gog) - (Nantucket Room) Brainstorming [45 minutes] General suggestions for user support List of services the APS could/should provide Discussion of level of service: none, advisory, full-service, pay/no pay Assignment of Priorities to these Items [15 minutes] Discussion of Concrete Implementation of the Highest Priority Items [45 minutes] User View APS View Summary, Report [15 minutes] 3.3 How to Implement the Centralized II Program? (Dean Haeffner and Lisa Keefe) - (Marina III Room) Introduction (Dean Haeffner) [15 minutes] Discussion of the APS Centralized II Draft (Susan Strasser) [15 minutes] Perspective of Other Facilities (N. Smith - ALS) [15 minutes] SRI-CAT Experience (Dean Haeffner) [10 minutes] DND-CAT Experience (John Quintana) [10 minutes] CARS-CAT Experience (Keith Brister) [10 minutes] II Experience (Janet Smith) [10 minutes] General Discussion (Haeffner/Keefe) [25 minutes] Closing (Haeffner/Keefe) [10 minutes] Subjects for CAT speakers: History of their II program. Strengths and weaknesses of current system from their point of view. What they would like from a new system. Topics to be addressed: How can specific CAT information and requirements be included in the proposal process? What level of support is expected from CAT personnel for II experiments? What rights do beamline staff have to veto approved proposals? How can beamline staff give feedback to the review committee concerning performance of various II experimenters? What rights do users have to appeal II ratings? How can the efforts of CATs who operate as national facilities be coordinated with the APS II program? How should program proposals be handled? Should a rapid access mode be available to IIs and, if so, how should it be implemented? How should the review panel be constituted? How to publicize the APS II program? Coffee break - - Group Picture (back lawn by Harbor area) 10:30 - 11:00 4. Plenary Session (George Srajer) - (Nantucket Room) 11:00 - 12:30 Reports from breakout sessions   Lunch - (Night Crawlers Room) 12:30 - 1:30 5. Breakout Sessions 1:30 - 3:00 5.1 Publicity (Rick Fenner and David Cookson) - (Marina II Room) There's a lot of outstanding research to talk about! How do we raise the visibility of APS research? What should WE do to achieve our objectives in this area? Resources What are the measures of a successful publicity program? 5.2 Funding and Advocacy (Dennis Mills and Steve Durbin) - (Bimini Room) 5.3 Communication Within the APS Community (Glenn Decker and John Quintana) - (Nantucket Room) Technical Operating Communications between Building 400 and 401 (Glenn Decker) Communication within the APS Divisions (Tony Rauchas) Non-technical Communication between Building 400 and 401 (John Quintana) 5.4 Compliance Issues (Bruce Glagola, Bill McDowell, Wilfried Schieldkamp) - (Marina III Room) Computer security (Bill McDowell) [45 minutes] Cyber security at Argonne A discussion of how Argonne complies with DOE Orders and policies concerning information technology and information security. These policies include: N205.1 Unclassified Computer Security Program N205.2 Foreign National Access to DOE Cyber Systems N205.3 Password Generation, Protection, and Use G205.3-1 Password Guidelines Argonne Cyber Security information available on the ANL intranet Argonne Cyber Security Project & Working Groups Argonne Cyber Security Requirements Discussion of impact to the resident users Discussion of implementation timing to minimize user impact Discussion of impact on typical ways users collect data (i.e. foreign computers) Discussion of firewall issues Security of data bases Who has access and who assures correctness of the information Make the database useful to the CATs for their reporting purposes (such as number of user trips, dates, people, shifts received, etc.) Access to sensitive information (such as passport numbers etc.) Access to real time accelerator data Remote real time access to individual experiments Experiment and User Safety (Bruce Glagola and Wilfried Schieldkamp) [30 minutes] Motivation and Attitude Coordination among all DOE laboratories (e.g. shipping requirements, small quantity exemptions, ESAFs) Argonne ES&H, OSHA, DOT Educational outreach to the user institutions Can a single ESAF cover all experiments? How is the experimental safety evaluated? How uniform and reliable is the evaluation process? Truth or consequences How can SOPs be shared among CATs? Reporting requirements and recovery from incidents Construction Safety (Steve Davey) [15 minutes] Who has oversight, who needs construction safety training? APS support of construction management (implementation of code requirements, contractor recruitment, labor relations) Coffee break 3:00 - 3:30 6. Plenary Session (Andrew Howard) - (Nantucket Room) 3:30 - 4:30 Reports from breakout sessions   7. Free time 4:30 - 6:00