Speaker: Dr. Donald F. Geesaman

Argonne National Laboratory

“Reaching for the Horizon: The 2015 NSAC Long Range Plan”

 

In October, 2015, the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC) delivered to the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation a new long range plan for nuclear science. NSAC was charged to conduct a new study of the opportunities and priorities for United States nuclear physics research and to recommend a long range plan for the coordinated advancement of the Nation’s nuclear science program over the next decade. The entire community actively contributed to developing this plan. Ideas and goals, new and old were examined and community priorities were established.  The Long Range Plan Working Group gathered at Kitty Hawk, NC to converge on the recommendations. In this colloquium I will discuss the vision for the future that has emerged from this process.  The new plan, “Reaching for the Horizon”, offers the promise of great leaps forward in our understanding of nuclear science and new opportunities for nuclear science to serve society. The plan is available on the DOE NSAC web site http://science.energy.gov/~/media/np/nsac/pdf/2015LRP/2015_LRPNS_091815.pdf.