Difference between revisions of "2021-5-27-LeadershipReports"

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May 27, 2021 Report - May 10 - June 4 Director - Todd Satogata

Todd Satogata

  Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21) 
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  Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4) 
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Alex Bogacz

  Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21) 
     - Present talk on ‘ RF issues of Low Energy Muon Acceleration’ at 1-st Muon Collider Community mtg.
     - ERL Roadmap Panel - writeup on ‘The Art of Arcs’
     - White Paper on future CEBAF - writeup on ‘FFA Energy Doubling’
     - Bisected linac optics (one-on-one with Ryan) 
     - Presenting a talk  on ‘CEBAF FFA energy doubling’ at Hall C collaboration mtg.
  Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
     - Attending IPAC’21
     - Summer Students lecture on ‘Introduction to Accelerators ’
     - ERL Roadmap Panel - writeup on ‘the LHeC ERL’
     - Mentoring a SULI student
     - FFA@CEBAF multi-pass linac optics

Ryan Bodenstein

  Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21) 
     - Attendance of 8 AM SAD meetings
     - Attendance of B-Team Meetings and Procedure Development Meetings
     - FFA WG meetings + IPAC paper
            - The paper is submitted – will check on “green light”
            - Poster and presentation online
     - Looking at some IPAC proceedings already
     - Guidance of Isurumali’s work – lots of editing of the paper and feedback on the poster
     - Writing and editing LDRD full proposal
            - Currently looking through finer details to make a strong case
            - Will need to re-examine budget a bit – will tie Spata into this
            - Will iterate with colleagues.
     - Gave input into Andrew’s LDRD proposal as well.
     - ILC meeting with Andrei and Todd 
  Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
     - IPAC21 attendance
     - LDRD Proposal work – will submit on May 28th

Rui Li

  Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)
     - 
  Next two weeks (May 21 - June 4) 
     -

Edy Nissen

   Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)
     - Created posters for IPAC
     - Created slides for IPAC talk
     - Recorded IPAC talk and poster videos
     - Completed IPAC proceedings papers
     - Wrote SAD update talk for GlueX meeting
   Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
     - Attended IPAC with 1 contributed talk and 2 posters
     - Gave SAD update talk at GlueX meeting
     - I will be taking some time off next week

Chris Tennant

   Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)
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   Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
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Accelerator R & D - Yuhong Zhang

Yuhong Zhang

  Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)
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  Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
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Max Bruker

  Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)
     - IPAC poster + video + paper done
     - I repeated some simulations of the emittance growth in the IMP experiment with phase dithering to make sure they all use the same, most recent tracking code. Unfortunately, the result does not agree with reality anymore! This may be something to study at a later point. For now, I left the dithering results out of the IPAC material.
     - We wanted to start beam commissioning of the CEBAF injector upgrade this week, but it was delayed by a series of unfortunate circumstances.
  Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
     - Start the aforementioned beam commissioning phase.

Bhawin Dhital

   Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)
     - Completed papers preparations for IPAC'21. Two papers submitted for publications.
     - Completed videos uploads for a contributed talk and for a poster presentations at IPAC'21.
     - I was working on new lattice with isochronous arc.
   Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
     - I will participate at IPAC'21 virtual conference starting 05/24/2021 and ends at 05/28/2021.
     - I will be working with new dual energy ring and parameters calculation.

Amy Sy

Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)
- Review of student applications as part of the selection committee for MFURA awards.
- Continued work with the Brown-Servranckx transform for round, uncoupled beam from a magnetized beam. Trying to characterize the effects of different forms of the Brown-Servranckx transform, both with and without the 2.5D space charge solver enabled. The 3D space charge solver seems to result in huge, unphysical beams, so still trying to understand this module and its implementation.
- Laser particle counter: test apparatus has been reassembled in TL 1011. Minor modifications, including moving the vacuum pump off of the bench to the floor, may be necessary as testing resumes. The vendor has received and tested initial hardware components and plans to be on site 5/26 and 5/27, returning once per week on a continuing basis thereafter.
- Usual biweekly meeting with Omnisensing Photonics to discuss general progress.
- Prepared and gave a short presentation on parametric-resonance ionization cooling (PIC and Skew PIC) concepts, implementation, and challenges as part of the 1st Muon Community Meeting hosted by CERN. Presentation was part of an overall presentation on advanced muon cooling concepts.
Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
- Attending virtual IPAC2021. Following week: catching up on IPAC talks missed during on site work.
- Laser particle counter: On site visit by vendor on 5/26 and 5/27. A 6-channel prototype was delivered instead of the 12-channel prototype expected due to hardware delays. Initial visit to familiarize ourselves with the hardware and GUI for data-taking. The current prototype can only record data from two channels simultaneously, so an obvious action item is to enable simultaneous recording of data from all six available channels.
- Submitted an action item list to the vendor. Vendor will return with prototype detector either 6/3 or the following week.

Computational Physics - Yves Roblin
Yves Roblin

   Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)
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   Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
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Randi Gamage

   Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)
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   Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
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River Huang

   Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)
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   Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
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Isurumali Neththikumara

   Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)
     - Prepared the poster, poster video and paper for IAPC’21
     - Read some materials received from USPAS Spin dynamics in Particle Accelerator class.
     - Checking outcome for 12-dimensional search problem with different constraints. 
   Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
     - Participate in IPAC’21.
     - Continue 12-D search and figure out the better suited constraints and try to come up with a modified objective functions.

Dennis Turner

   Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)
     - UITF
          - 
     - AIPINJ
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     - 'HLA
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     - 
   Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
     - UITF
         - 
     - AIPINJ
          - 
     - HLA
          -  
     - AI FOA
          - 
     - Ops
          -

He Zhang

   Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)     
     - Finished IPAC slides and presentation. Finished and uploaded the IPAC paper. 
     - Participate in writing and editing an LDRD proposal.  
   Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4) 
     - IPAC’21
     - Add to TPSA lib the feature: generate a symplectic map from a given truncated map. 
     - Finish writing the tests for the TPSA lib.
     - Writing FMM paper.

Diagnostic Development - Kevin Jordan

Kevin Jordan

  Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)
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  Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
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Joe Gubeli

   Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)
     - Isotopes –
     - ARDDOT -  
   Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
     - Isotopes – 
     - ARDDOT –

Michael Tiefenback

   Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)
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   Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
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CASA Fellows
LERF - Steve Benson

   Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)
     - Start setting up CRADA with HZDR
     - Started preparing presentation on loss control in high current ERLs
     - Reviewed several IPAC papers and presentations
     - Submitted ERL Roadmap entries
     - Went over FOA call for SBIRs with Michelle Shinn
     - Put together LDRD proposal
   Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
     - Attend IPAC
     - Complete and present talk on Loss control in high current ERLs for SHC group
     - Submit LDRD proposal
     - Set up training for Drive Laser Enclosure LPSS
     - Start developing longitudinal model for CeC ERL on LiTrack

Andrew Hutton

   Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21) 
     - Isotopes:            
     - ERL Roadmap:    
     - JJCLab: 
     - FCC-ee: .  
     - HIPERLAC:             
   Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)  
     - Isotopes:    
     - ERL Roadmap:    
     - PERLE:    
     - HiPERLAC:   
     - VNACA:

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 '''Todd Satogata'''
-    '''Previous two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)'''
+    '''Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)'''
-       - EIC Meetings (management, RF, crab, cryo, cooling, impedance, OPC, team, R&D)
+       -
-      - EIC Management Retreat (Apr 21-22)
+    '''Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)'''
-      - EIC Planning (technical reviews, partner project scope negotiation)
+       -
-      - MGMT Meetings (Leadership/Dept Heads, CASA coffee, ODU engineering)
-      - ADMIN APS April Meeting (Apr 17-20)
-      - ADMIN IPAC'21 planning (Wednesdays)
-      - ADMIN IPACCC SPMS/Indico Task Force (Apr 20)
-      - OPS Meetings (08:00 daily, BTeam, 1:30 Weds SAD)
-      - ODU Lila isotopes code debugging
-      - PERS COVID vaccination #2 (Apr 15), Doc appt (Apr 21)
-      - VACATION Apr 16 (post-vaccination)
-    '''Next two weeks (Apr 26 - May 7)'''
-       - EIC Meetings (management, RF, crab, cryo, cooling, impedance, OPC, team, R&D)
-      - EIC Meetings (second IR, tech change control board Apr 26)
-      - EIC Planning (technical reviews starting May 10)
-      - MGMT Meetings (Leadership/Dept Heads, CASA coffee, personnel)
-      - ADMIN IPAC'21 planning (Wednesdays, oral dry runs May 6)
-      - ADMIN IPACCC SPMS/Indico Task Force (May 5)
-      - OPS Meetings (08:00 daily, BTeam, 1:30 Weds SAD)
-      - VACATION Apr 29 half-day
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        - Gave input into Andrew’s LDRD proposal as well.
        - ILC meeting with Andrei and Todd
-    '''Next two weeks (May 24 June 4)'''
+    '''Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)'''
        - IPAC21 attendance
        - LDRD Proposal work – will submit on May 28th
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 '''Rui Li'''
-    '''Previous two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)'''
+    '''Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)'''
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-    '''Next two weeks (Apr 26 - May 7)'''
+    '''Next two weeks (May 21 - June 4)'''
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 '''Edy Nissen'''
-     '''Previous two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)'''
+     '''Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)'''
-       - Out for 3 days due to a medical procedure
+       - Created posters for IPAC
-       - Attended Bteam, Beam-beam, and RCS meetings
+       - Created slides for IPAC talk
-       - Finished and resubmitted DODGE paper
+      - Recorded IPAC talk and poster videos
-       - Worked on analysis of February DESIREE data
+       - Completed IPAC proceedings papers
-     '''Next two weeks (Apr 26 - May 7)'''
+       - Wrote SAD update talk for GlueX meeting
-       - Out for 3 days volunteering at a vaccination site in Greensboro North Carolina
+     '''Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)'''
-      - Wrote and submitted beam time proposal for DESIREE in the fall
+       - Attended IPAC with 1 contributed talk and 2 posters
-       - Finish data analysis of February DESIREE data
+       - Gave SAD update talk at GlueX meeting
-       - Write talk for IPAC
+       - I will be taking some time off next week
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 '''Chris Tennant'''
-     '''Previous two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)'''
+     '''Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)'''
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-     '''Next two weeks (Apr 26 - May 7)'''
+     '''Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)'''
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 '''Yuhong Zhang'''
-    '''Previous two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)'''
+    '''Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)'''
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-    '''Next two weeks (Apr 26 - May 7)'''
+    '''Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)'''
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 '''Bhawin Dhital'''
-     '''Previous two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)'''
+     '''Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)'''
-       - I was working on IPAC2021 papers. We accepted an invitation for "Contributed Talk" from IPAC'21 on \Beam Dynamics Study in a Dual Energy Storage Ring Cooler". Papers were completed and sent it for review among the group members. After review, some corrections were made and updated almost to the final version. Papers are ready to submit at IPAC'21.
+       - Completed papers preparations for IPAC'21. Two papers submitted for publications.
-       - I was working with JSPEC (Jefferson Lab Simulation Package for Electron Cooling). I am using JSPEC in Sirepo (from Radiasoft). Cooling rates were estimated using eRHIC proton lattice parameters using both Meshkov and Parkhomchuk formula implemented in JSPEC.
+      - Completed videos uploads for a contributed talk and for a poster presentations at IPAC'21.
-      - Meshkov cooling force formula works better in dual energy storage ring. It shows good cooling rates less than an hour in both horizontal and longitudinal dimensions.
+       - I was working on new lattice with isochronous arc.
-     '''Next two weeks (Apr 26 - May 7)'''
+     '''Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)'''
-       - I will be working on IPAC'21 contributed talk presentation .
+       - I will participate at IPAC'21 virtual conference starting 05/24/2021 and ends at 05/28/2021.
-       - I will be working on IPAC'21 poster presntation.
+       - I will be working with new dual energy ring and parameters calculation.
-      - I will be further working on cooling parameters calculations.
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 '''Computational Physics - Yves Roblin'''<br>
 '''Yves Roblin'''
-     '''Previous two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)'''
+     '''Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)'''
-       - Moller beamline work
+       -
-      - Moller collab. prep work
+     Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
-      - Spin lecture notes
+       -
-      - Analytical spin transport algorithm development
-      - BTeam prep
-      - Procedural development/meeting
-     Next two weeks (Apr 23 - May 7)
-       - Moller collaboration meeting.
-      - BTeam meetings, Bteam prep
-      - Spin lecture notes
-      - Procedural development meetings
-      - Preparing Jlab talk for Hugs
-      - Moller experiment work on designing the locks
-      - SBS experiment status meeting
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 '''Randi Gamage'''
-     '''Previous two weeks (Mar 29 - Apr 9)'''
+     '''Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)'''
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-     '''Next two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)'''
+     '''Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)'''
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 '''River Huang'''
-     '''Previous two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)'''
+     '''Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)'''
-       - Continue working on EIC Beam-Beam project. In Next 4-6 weeks, I also Plan to learn the online courses of “Winter 2021 US Particle Accelerator School” and will discuss the questions with Yuhong Zhang
+       -
-     '''Next two weeks (Apr 26 - May 7)'''
+     '''Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)'''
-       - Continue working on EIC Beam-Beam project and implementing Elegant for detail informations of SPS lattice with help of Vasiliy and Yuhong.
+       -
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 '''Dennis Turner'''
-     '''Previous two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)'''
+     '''Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)'''
        - '''UITF'''
-            - Merged final deck from the UED Optics workspace into the Ops workspace; quite a few conflicts needed to be resolved.
+            -
        - '''AIPINJ'''
-            - Set final optics in CED Optics workspace and merge into Ops
+            -
-           - Prepare for upcoming commissioning testplans, including a tunnel tour
        - '''HLA''
-            - cs2sdds bugfixes
+            -
-           - Begun work on elegant to CED import in earnest
+       -
-           - Met with Chris Slominski and Michele Joyce to discuss the upcoming RF HLA API.
+     '''Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)'''
-           - Continue work on the rayTrace tools
-      - Continue work on the Aperture Scan procedure
-       - Attend BTeam, AIPINJ, UITF, PPB, CASA, 0800, AI FOA, and Ops Procedure Review meetings
-      - Attend AI Lunch Series talks and Accelerator Seminars
-     '''Next two weeks (Apr 26 - May 7)'''
        - '''UITF'''
-           - Submitted spreadsheet of Optics measurments taken after last run
+           -
-          - Work with Yan to measure energy spread
        - '''AIPINJ'''
-            - Rematch INJ->NL->Arc1 with Injector magnet settings that will be used for upcoming commissioning run
+            -
-           - Volunteered to take shifts for AIPINJ commissioning
        - '''HLA'''
-            - Continued work on elegant2ced
+            -
-               - Import seems to work now; more thorough testing to come
-               - While testing, uncovered a bug in ced2elegant which must be addressed
-           - cs2sdds bugfixes
        - '''AI FOA'''
-            - Prepare slides to present to the weekly brainstorming meeting
+            -
-           - Submit abstract to ICALEPS
        - '''Ops'''
-            - Continue with Aperture Scan procedure and present again
+            -
-      - Attend AI Lunch Series, Accelerator Seminar, OWLE machine learning seminar
-      - Attend 0800, CASA, BTeam, AIPINJ, UITF Optics, AI FOA, Ops procedure review, polarized postitron meetings
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 '''Kevin Jordan'''
-    '''Previous two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)'''
+    '''Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)'''
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-    '''Next two weeks (Apr 26 - May 7)'''
+    '''Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)'''
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 '''Joe Gubeli'''
-     '''Previous two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)'''
+     '''Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)'''
        - '''Isotopes –'''
        - '''ARDDOT - '''
-     '''Next two weeks (Apr 26 - May 7)'''
+     '''Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)'''
        - '''Isotopes –'''
        - '''ARDDOT –'''
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 '''Michael Tiefenback'''
-     '''Previous two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)'''
+     '''Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)'''
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-     '''Next two weeks (Apr 26 - May 7)'''
+     '''Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)'''
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 '''Andrew Hutton'''
-     '''Previous two weeks (Apr 12 - Apr 23)'''
+     '''Previous two weeks (May 10 - May 21)'''
-      - Vacation: April 10 - April 17
+       - '''Isotopes: '''
-       - '''Isotopes: '''There is still a lot of discussion to try and lock down the results o the two irradiations.  This was partially achieved for the APS talk given by Steve, but we are still working on it.  The new FOA came out from the DOE Isotope program for training [[:File:DE-FOA-0002508.pdf]]  We will discuss how best to respond on Friday.  Lila is getting to the end of her work, with assistance from Todd (thanks).
+       - '''ERL Roadmap: '''
-       - '''ERL Roadmap: '''Still working with Max Klein.  No further news on PERLE, apart from an email acknowledging receipt of our marked up copy which is now in the hands of the IN2P3 lawyers (again).
+       - '''JJCLab: '''
-       - '''JJCLab: '''I received an invitation to be on their International Scientific Council.
+       - '''FCC-ee: '''.
-       - '''FCC-ee: '''I participated in a r review of the Injector and made several comments.  The Review closeout discussion is on Thursday.  I could not resist suggesting that they look at the LHeC electron complex as the injector (this includes the ERL design by Alex).
+       - '''HIPERLAC:'''
-       - '''HIPERLAC:''' I am continuing to follow up with Framatome and BWXT, and will be writing up an LDRD proposal.
+     '''Next two weeks (May 24 - June 4)
-     '''Next two weeks (Apr 26 - May 7)
+       - '''Isotopes: '''
-       - '''Isotopes: '''The Quarterly Report has been written and is being submitted today.  We are still trying to understand the data from the irradiations.  Our best guess at the moment is that FLUKA 2020, which now calculates Copper67 production correctly, underestimates the production of Gallium67.  Since we calculate the amount of Copper67 from the ratio derived from the calibration, the crucible experimental data is a factor of ~2 greater than FLUKA.  We are continuing to investigate.  I already wrote to you about the new FOA; this was discussed at the Isotope Meeting and our UVA collaborators are on board to take the lead.
+       - '''ERL Roadmap: '''
-       - '''ERL Roadmap: '''The first draft of the report is due mid may, so things are heating up.  I have started on my sections, but have a lot more to do.
+       - '''PERLE: '''
-       - '''PERLE: '''Rumor has it that we are really close.  JLab has accepted the latest CNRS edits and the ICRADA has been sent to the DOE for concurrence.  In a video conference with Achille Stocchi, Director of IJCLab, and Jean-Luc Biarrotte, CNRS Directorate, Jean-Luc stated that CNRS are ready to sign this version.  So maybe we are getting there!
+       - '''HiPERLAC:'''
-       - '''HiPERLAC:''' new name, the pre-Proposal has been uploaded to the Division site and emailed to Leigh.  I have not heard back from BWXT (they have just been named as one of two proposals for micro-reactors for DOE funding and are preparing their next steps) and Framatome (it has been passed to their technical experts).
+       - '''VNACA: '''
-      - VCU Engineering Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering: the Industrial Advisory Board met this week.  the focus was on changing the course offerings to attract more people to the Department.  They have been losing out to computer engineering, including cyber security.  They wanted the advice of the local industries as to which courses would be best adapted for hiring, so I was not much use.
-       - '''VNACA: '''Also met this week.  There was presentation by a policy wonk as to the impact of all of the new initiatives, including the Infrastructure Bill, and the various climate initiatives.  Nuclear seems to be well integrated into this as it is now generally seen as a green energy source.  Hopefully, this will positively impact approval of HIPERLAC!