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2021 Domestic High-Energy Single-Event Effects (SEE) Testing Users Meeting

Agenda for Domestic High Energy SEE Testing Users’ Meeting
Date: April 13, 2021
NASA Hosted Using WebEx
Time: 10 AM Eastern – 5 PM Eastern

  1. Opening Remarks a. (5 minutes) Dr. Bhavya Lal (NASA - Acting Chief of Staff)
     
  2. Welcome
    1. (15 minutes) Technical Collaboration Developed through a Shared Need: Dr. Jon Ahlbin (MDA) and Dr. Jonny Pellish (NASA)
       
  3. Keynote 1
    1. (30 or 45 minutes) Why high energy heavy ion facilities exist and their future: Dr. Tim Hallman (Associate Director of the Office of Science for Nuclear Physics)
       
  4. Keynote 2
    1. (15 minutes) European perspective on high energy heavy ion facilities and their future: Dr. Anastasia Pesce (European Space Agency - Head of the Radiation Hardness Assurance and Component Analysis Section)
       
  5. Session 1: Why do we need high energy SEE test facilities?
    1. (20 minutes) Accurate environment simulation– track structure and environment coverage: Dr. Robert Reed (Vanderbilt University)
    2. (20 minutes) Future semiconductor, packaging, and system technology challenges for SEE: Mr. Ken LaBel (JHU/APL)
    3. (20 minutes) Test efficiency – multiple simultaneous device test scenarios / return on investment: Mr. Tom Turflinger (Aerospace Corp)
    4. (20 minutes) System level testing and why NSRL: Mr. Russ Graves (NGC)
    5. (15 minutes) Session 1 Q&A
       
  6. Break/Working Lunch
    1. (60 min total; 20 min for folks to get lunch, 30 to brief, 10 Q&A minutes) Virtual networking opportunity w AoA briefing and status: Dr. Jacob Calkins (DTRA)
       
  7. Session 2: Where can you test domestically (present and future potential)?
    1. (25 minutes) NSRL: Dr. Adam Rusek (BNL)
    2. (15 minutes) AGS: Dr. Kevin Brown (BNL)
    3. (15 minutes) LBNL/SLAAC Booster: Dr. Larry Phair (LBNL)
    4. (15 minutes) MSU K1200 and FRIB: Dr. Andreas Stolz (MSU)
    5. (10 minutes) Session 2 Q&A
       
  8. Session 3: Test realities
    1. (20 minutes) The need for modeling and high energy: Dr. Mike Alles (Vanderbilt University)
    2. (20 minutes) Variable Depth Bragg Peak (VDBP): Dr. Steve Buchner (NRL)
    3. (5 minutes) Session 3 Q&A
       
  9. (30 minutes) Panel 1: A conversation with users and facilities – return on investment (ROI) of high energy
     
  10. Closing remarks and path forward
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