A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine-appointed ad hoc committee will organize a series of workshops and other community engaging events to explore future (1) science drivers, (2) large-scale experimental capabilities, and (3) potential options for expanding available scientific infrastructure, with the goal of informing the U.S. Department of Energy’s Basic Energy Sciences user facilities mission beyond 2035.
Specifically, the committee will:
• Organize up to six workshops and associated webinars to explore future scientific questions relevant to the BES mission, including (1) cutting-edge and cross-cutting scientific research directions, (2) potential infrastructure limitations that could impede research on these questions, and (3) opportunities for DOE to reduce research barriers in the future.
• Organize a capstone workshop to share and discuss a set of high-level takeaways from the workshop series and explore the future of experimental capabilities and potential options for expanding available infrastructure that would be necessary to address these science drivers.
• Disseminate takeaways from the workshops to spread awareness of the critical science drivers, options for possible investment, and potential opportunities and considerations for DOE.
Exploration workshops will be summarized in Proceedings-in-Brief reports, while the capstone will be summarized with a Workshop Proceedings report.