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 ==== Draft Agenda for Workshop Organizers ====  ==== Draft Agenda for Workshop Organizers ==== 
-Please go ahead and fill in details+Some of the details are in flux
 === MARCH 19 (Wednesday) === === MARCH 19 (Wednesday) ===
-**  Introduction and Status Reports**+  * **  Introduction and Status Reports**
     * 1:30 Welcome - //Prisca Cushman//     * 1:30 Welcome - //Prisca Cushman//
     * 1:50  Working Group Status and Breakout Topics     * 1:50  Working Group Status and Breakout Topics
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       * Benchmarking - //Ray Bunker//       * Benchmarking - //Ray Bunker//
     * 2:30 Community Assay Database - //James Loach//     * 2:30 Community Assay Database - //James Loach//
-    * 2:50 Discussion about implementing database, legacy data, new data+    * 2:50 Discussion About Implementing Database, Legacy Data, New Data - //Jodi Cooley-Sekula//
 === 3:00 Coffee Break === === 3:00 Coffee Break ===
-**  Reducing Backgrounds – Experience from Specific Experiments**  +  * **  Reducing Backgrounds – Experience from Specific Experiments**  
-  * 3:30 LZ screening program - //Karen Gibson// +    * 3:30 LZ screening program - //Karen Gibson// 
-  * 3:50 EXO screening program - //David Auty// +    * 3:50 EXO screening program - //David Auty// 
-  * 4:10 The Majorana Demonstrator Assay Program and capabilities necessary to support a future 1-tonne scale germanium experiment - //Eric Hoppe// +    * 4:10 The Majorana Demonstrator Assay Program and capabilities necessary to support a future 1-tonne scale germanium experiment - //Eric Hoppe// 
-  * 4:40 XENON 1T Screening Program - //Francesco Piastra// +    * 4:40 XENON 1T Screening Program - //Francesco Piastra// 
-  * 5:00 SuperCDMS screening program - //Jeter Hall// +    * 5:00 SuperCDMS screening program - //Jeter Hall// 
-  * 5:20 Darkside Background Reduction -//John Orrel// +    * 5:20 Darkside Background Reduction - //John Orrell (Remote)// 
-  * 5:40 Backgrounds in PICO - // ?? Jeter looking//+    * 5:40 Backgrounds in PICO - //Eric Vazquez-Jauregui//
 === Dinner at local restaurants === === Dinner at local restaurants ===
 ==== MARCH 20 (Thursday) ==== ==== MARCH 20 (Thursday) ====
-** Low Background Facilities and Techniques** +  * ** Low Background Facilities and Techniques** 
-  * 8:30 Recent Advances in NAA - //Mani Tripathi// +    * 8:30 Recent Advances in NAA - //Mani Tripathi// 
-  * 8:50 The Beta Cage: ultra-sensitive screener for surface contamination - //Richard Schnee// +    * 8:50 The Beta Cage: ultra-sensitive screener for surface contamination - //Richard Schnee// 
-  * 9:10 An in-situ Assay of the DRIFT TPC using alpha spectroscopy - //Eric Miller// +    * 9:10 An in-situ Assay of the DRIFT TPC using alpha spectroscopy - //Eric Miller// 
-  * 9:30 Low Background Counting at SNOLAB - //Ian Lawson//     +    * 9:30 Low Background Counting at SNOLAB - //Ian Lawson//     
-  * 9:50 CUBED counting capacity and a well-shaped germanium counting station for PMT counting - //Dongming Mei// +    * 9:50 CUBED counting capacity and a well-shaped germanium counting station for PMT counting - //Dongming Mei// 
-  * 10:05 LBL counting capacity and large area Si detector for measuring surface contamination - //Kevin Lesko (Remote)//+    * 10:05 LBL counting capacity and large area Si detector for measuring surface contamination - //Kevin Lesko (Remote)//
 === 10:25 Coffee Break=== === 10:25 Coffee Break===
-** Facilities continued** +  * ** Facilities continued** 
-  * 10:50 Kimballton Low Background facility +    * 10:50 Kimballton Low Background facility - //Reyco Henning// 
-  * 11:00 Soudan Low-background Counting Facility - //Ray Bunker// +    * 11:00 Soudan Low-background Counting Facility - //Ray Bunker// 
-** Neutron Detection and Benchmarking ** +  * ** Neutron Detection and Benchmarking ** (20 min each) 
-  * 11:10 Muon topology and coincident neutrons at the Soudan Low-background Counting Facility - //Anthony Villano// +    * 11:10 Muon topology and coincident neutrons at the Soudan Low-background Counting Facility - //Anthony Villano// 
-  * 11:30 Measuring Fast Neutrons with the Liquid Scintillation Detector at the Soudan Mine - //Chao Zhang// +    * 11:30 Measuring Fast Neutrons with the Liquid Scintillation Detector at the Soudan Mine - //Chao Zhang// 
-  * 11:50 Recent Results Using the FaNS Technique - //Thomas Langford// +    * 11:50 Recent Results Using the FaNS Technique - //Thomas Langford// 
-  * 12:10 Multiplicity and Recoil Spectrometer Measurements of the Fast Neutron Background at Depth - //Mark Gerling// +    * 12:10 Multiplicity and Recoil Spectrometer Measurements of the Fast Neutron Background at Depth - //Mark Gerling// 
-=== 12:30 Lunch===+    * 12:30 LVD - //Marco Selvi (not confirmed)// 
 +=== 1:00 Lunch===
 ** Facilities + Consortium Discussion as a Group** ** Facilities + Consortium Discussion as a Group**
-  * 2:00 Brief (5 min), slides - //Mani Tripathi// +  * 2:00 Brief slides - //Mani Tripathi// 
-  * 2:05 Brief (5 min), slides for new ideas - //Dongming Mei// +  * 2:05 Brief slides for new ideas - //Dongming Mei// 
-  * G2 Assay Requirements - //John Orrell (Remote)//+  * 2:10 Assay Requirements - //John Orrell (Remote)//
 === 3:00 Coffee Break=== === 3:00 Coffee Break===
-=== 3:30 – 6:00 Working Groups Breakout Sessions === +  * ** Working Group Breakout Session ** 
-  * Identify topics and tasks+    * 3:30 - 6:00 Identify topics and tasks
 === Banquet at Chez Leon === === Banquet at Chez Leon ===
 ==== MARCH 21 (Friday) ==== ==== MARCH 21 (Friday) ====
-** Simulation (General Updates on Geant4, Fluka, Tools, etc.)**  +  * ** Simulation (Advances in Geant4 and FLUKA)** 
-  * GEANT4 Updates - //Mike Kelsey// +    * 8:30 Geant4: Muon production of neutrons in multiple targets  - //Allison Kennedy//    
-  * Fluka Updates - //Anton Empl//   +    * 8:50 FLUKA:  Muon production of neutrons in multiple targets - //Sarah Lindsay// 
-  * Talk - //slot available// +    * 9:10 Simulation of Noble Liquid Detectors Using RAT - //Tom Caldwell// 
-  * ** 10:00 Coffee Break** +    * 9:30 Advances in NEST - //Matthew Szydagis// 
-** Simulation (Cosmogenics, Noble Liquids, Backgrounds)** +=== 10:00 Coffee Break=== 
-  * 10:30 Geant4 cosmogenic simulations - //Allison Kennedy//    +  * ** Simulation ** 
-  * 10:50 FLUKA cosmogenic simulations - //Sarah Lindsay// +    * 10:30 Comparison of cosmogenic backgrounds at different depths - //Angie Reisetter// 
-  * 11:10 Comparison of cosmogenic backgrounds at different depths - //Angie Reisetter// +    * 10:50 New libraries for simulating neutron scattering in dark matter detector calibrations - //Alan Robinson (not confirmed)// 
-  * 11:30 Simulation of Noble Liquid Detectors Using RAT - //Tom Caldwell//+    * 11:10 GEANT4 Updates - //Julia Yarba// 
 +    * 11:30 Fluka Updates and Borexino cosmogenic results - //Anton Empl//  
 ===12:00 Lunch=== ===12:00 Lunch===
-** Radiogenic Bkgd, Nuclear Physics, Better Cross Sections** +  * ** Radiogenic Bkgd, Nuclear Physics, Better Cross Sections** 
-  * 1:30 Comparisons between SOURCES and USD Website - //Silvia Scorza//  +    * 1:30 Comparisons between SOURCES and USD Website - //Silvia Scorza//  
-  * 1:50 Radiogenic Backgrounds in CDMS - //Mark Pepin// +    * 1:50 Radiogenic Backgrounds in CDMS - //Mark Pepin// 
-  * 2:10 CoGeNT backgrounds - //John Orrell// +    * 2:10 CoGeNT backgrounds - //John Orrell (Remote)// 
-  * 2:30 Radiogenic Backgrounds in EXO or LZ ?? +    * 2:30 Radiogenic Backgrounds in LUX - //TBD// 
-  * ** 3:30 Wine and Cheese Break** +=== 3:30 Wine and Cheese Break=== 
-=== 4:00-6:00 Working Group Breakout Session === +  * **Working Group Breakout Session ** 
-  * Prioritize identified topics and Plan Future work+    * 4:00 - 6:00 Prioritize identified topics and Plan Future work 
 +=== Dinner at local restaurants ===
 ==== MARCH 22 (Saturday) ==== ==== MARCH 22 (Saturday) ====
-=== 8:30 – 10:00  Progress Reports from Working Groups ===+  * ** 8:30  Progress Reports from Working Groups **
     * Simulation - //Anthony Villano//     * Simulation - //Anthony Villano//
     * Radiogenics - //Jodi Cooley//     * Radiogenics - //Jodi Cooley//
     * Benchmarking - //Ray Bunker//     * Benchmarking - //Ray Bunker//
-===Coffee Break===+===10:00 Coffee Break===
   * 10:30 – 12:00 Integration of Working Group plans into Proposals, Consortium planning, and new integrative initiatives   * 10:30 – 12:00 Integration of Working Group plans into Proposals, Consortium planning, and new integrative initiatives
 ===12:00 Catered Pizza Lunch === ===12:00 Catered Pizza Lunch ===
 ===1:00 Adjourn=== ===1:00 Adjourn===
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