NSLS-II Strategic Planning John Hill Experimental Facilities Division

NSLS-II Strategic Planning John Hill Experimental Facilities Division Director NSLS-II EFAC May 5 th 2008 1 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE

Need for a Strategic Plan • • • NSLS-II has overall responsibility for building and operating all beamlines ensuring that they are wellintegrated into the facility– extension of the stewardship role to beamline development and operations. Opportunity to coherently plan entire facility in a way that takes advantage of synergies in techniques and beamlines across communities NSLS-II is a finite resource and demand, even from existing NSLS user community, outweighs supply • Output from workshops: – Straight Sections – 3 PWs – Soft Bend/IR 2 Avail 34 18 14 Request 27 ~15 ~12 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE

A Strategic Plan Should: • Leverage the core strengths of the facility for the greatest scientific impact • Evolve with time as the environment changes • Have an upgrade path • Have stakeholder buy-in – Community – Staff – Sponsors 3 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE

A Strategic Plan Should not: • Simply be a wish list from existing NSLS community • Be static 4 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE

NSLS-II Strategic Strengths • Technical Strengths • World-leading brightness (hard and soft x-ray) • World-leading coherent flux (hard and soft x-ray) • Small beam size • Broad spectral coverage (far-IR to ? ? ke. V) • Source stability • Long beamlines 5 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE

NSLS-II Strategic Strengths • Scientific Strengths • Imaging (from nm to cm) • Dynamics (from ps to minutes) • NE research community • NSLS User base • BNL Strengths (detectors, crystal optics, metrology, core research programs) 6 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE

Elements of Strategic Plan Should contain: • Mission Statement • Goals of facility • Prioritization of competing demands • New ideas vs. continuation of existing communities • The appropriate balance between different scientific communities • High impact, few users vs. High thru-put beamlines • Identification of growth areas and opportunities • for entirely new directions Guidance on physical placement of beamlines (weighted constraints) 7 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE

Elements of Strategic Plan (Cont. ) • Infrastructure planning (beyond construction project) • Conventional facilities – Future LOBs – Additional buildings (biology, guest house, remote endstations…) • Accelerator systems – Accelerator performance goals, operating modes – Insertion device development • Detectors • Scientific computing • Metrology 8 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE

Scientific Portfolio of NSLS-II Existing User Distribution at NSLS (FY 07) Series 1; materials science; 657; 30% • What should the goals for the NSLS-II portfolio be? Series 1; life sciences; 880; 40% Series 1; geoscience s; 258; Series 1; 12% • How do we decide? Series 1; chemical engineerinunknown; physics; sciences; g; 39; 2% 71; 3% 125; 6% 186; 7% 9 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE

Planning Process • • • To date: Multiple workshops with existing community (NSLS-biased). The latest (Jan 08) produced 6 detailed white papers This is an excellent start, but has some weaknesses. Areas that need strengthening include • It is very NSLS-centric • Greater emphasis on new ideas, new opportunities? • Status of world-wide photon environment (now and projected forward) How do we synthesize into a single whole, applying appropriate facility judgment? How do we add the missing pieces? 10 How do we get user, staff and sponsors buy-in? BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE

Possible Roadmap • • Jan workshop white papers posted for comment by community (May 08) NSLS-II staff synthesize white papers into executive summary, adding facility perspective and judgment. – Executive Summary posted (Aug 08). Comments open til Oct 08 – Solicit suggestions for New Opportunities Workshops, deadline: Oct 08 NSLS-II Roadmap for development of strategic plan. Strategic plan roadmap due Nov 08 EFAC and PAC review of Strategic Plan Roadmap (Fall 08) New Opportunity Workshops (Dec 08 – Apr 09) – White papers from workshops due April 09 NSLS-II staff prepares first draft of Strategic Plan in light of input (May 09) EFAC and PAC review draft Strategic Plan (Spring 09) 11 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE

Summary • The strategic plan will guide the development • • of experimental facilities at NSLS-II The expectation is NSLS-II will call for LOIs against this plan It will be a large amount of work to prepare a quality document It is not entirely clear how to do so in a manner that will reach out to the appropriate communities, be forward looking and obtain buy-in from all stakeholders. We are looking for advice on how to improve this process. 12 BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE