• Registration closes February 28. Please sign up early.
• To register and sign up for talks: Just send an email to Jody Kaplan mailto:kaplan@physics.umn.edu (612-624-7886)
  • Give your name and the days (or sessions) you will be attending.
  • State whether you would like to give a talk or not (you are welcome to contribute to the Working Groups without presenting a formal talk)
  • If presenting, please provide your talk title. Most talks will be ~20 min long.

Make your own reservations and then apply for reimbursement (see below). The following hotels are recommended:

• Comfort Inn
  • Located just north of Fermilab on Kirk Road and Fabian Parkway, it has a Fermilab rate ($76/night plus taxes) but one must use the link above to receive the rate. Also provides a free hot breakfast and complimentary high speed internet. They are in the process of purchasing a van to provide shuttle service and Fermilab is within its travel range. Check that the van will be available.
• Hyatt House
  • Provides a fully equipped kitchen in each room, complimentary full breakfast buffet and complimentary high speed internet.
• Hyatt Place
  • Provides a mini refrigerator (no microwave), complimentary a.m. Kitchen SkilletTM served daily, with hot breakfast items and complimentary high speed internet. Attendees can mention Fermilab for the Hyatt properties and see if they will give them the government rate. Both provide shuttle service to Fermilab.
• Other hotels can be found at http://www.fnal.gov/pub/visiting/accomodations.html

• This workshop is sponsored by the NSF under the Integrative Tools for Underground Science grant. No registration fee is required and coffee breaks will be provided. We may be able to reimburse up to $800. for travel and lodging (not meals). Travel reimbursement is especially designed to enable young researchers to participate and present their findings and is subject to some constraints.

• Reimbursement Form xls form and receipts should be sent/faxed/emailed(scanned) to
  • Jody Kaplan mailto:kaplan@physics.umn.edu
  • School of Physics and Astronomy
  • University of Minnesota
  • 116 Church St SE
  • Minneapolis, MN 55455
  • Fax = 612-624-4578

• Introduction and Working Group Status Reports
• Experiment Screening Programs and Background Reduction

• Techniques in Radiopurity Assay, Community Database
• New experiments, neutron benchmarking

• Consortium and AARM Future: Presentation and Discussion
• Breakout Sessions: Identify topics, tasks

• Simulation (cosmogenics, noble liquids, backgrounds)
• Simulation (general updates on Geant4, Fluka, tools)

• Understanding radiogenic backgrounds
• Breakout Sessions: Prioritize topics and Plan Future work

• Working Group Summary Reports
• Integration of Working Group plans into Proposals, Consortium planning, and new integrative initiatives
• Catered Pizza Lunch
• Adjourn 1:30

( Detailed Draft Agenda a working page for the Collaboration Meeting Organizers.)

Please post your talks by the night before if at all possible. You can also change them and repost at the last minute. This will enable those following by audio to be part of the workshop.

The workshop will be held at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL

• Main Meeting room is Curia II. There will be remote access through ReadyTalk. Call 866-740-1260

• ReadyTalk Access Code:1626019#
• Breakout Rooms (Curia II will house the Neutron Benchmarking Group)
• Commitium (Simulation). ReadyTalk Access Code: 9262422#
• One East (Radiogenics). ReadyTalk Access Code:

• Click here for a list

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