Third Annual HEDSA meeting
The Third Annual Meeting of HEDSA will be 12:15-1:45 on Wednesday, November 14 in room Salon 14 at the Rosen Centre Hotel, the APS/DPP conference site. There will be many places at the Rosen Centre where you will be able to buy a sandwich or salad (or something else) and a drink for lunch to bring to the meeting room and so we encourage you to do so. Feel free to bring potentially interested colleagues and students.
We will have at least one speaker from NNSA, Christopher Deeney, and at least one from the Office of Science, who will discuss research funding opportunities in high energy density laboratory plasma (HEDLP) physics that they foresee in the near future. In addition, we will discuss ideas for how HEDSA might best help expand the resources available to us for HEDLP science, both funding and access to intermediate and, eventually, large scale HEDP facilities.
In the next day or so, you will receive a "ballot" on which we will ask you to vote for two new members of the HEDSA Steering Committee. There will be 4 candidates.
Finally, I would like to thank all of you who wrote to your senators and congressmen/women regarding the HEDLP funding problem resulting from a House Energy and Water appropriations subcommittee's cutting of $25 M from the DOE budget. This question is still not resolved and so it is still worthwhile for you to let your representatives know that you would like those funds restored in the DOE budget if you've not already done so.
I hope to see many of you in 4 weeks in Orlando a the HEDSA lunch meeting.
Best regards,
Dave Hammer, for the HEDSA Steering Committee
More information about the DPP meeting can be found here: http://www.aps.org/meetings/unit/dpp/index.cfm
