All Committee of Visitors (COVs) reports and BES responses are available here.

 Charges

Title

Activity Dates

Agenda

Reports

These items are arranged in chronological order by activity, not date of charge.

Grand Challenges for Basic Energy Sciences

Subcommittee on Theory and Computation 
 - Letter Report from Subcommittee to BESAC Chair    

Winter 2003

20-Year BES Facilities Roadmap
 - Letter Report from Chair to Orbach

Feb. 22-24, 2003

Assessment of short-pulse, short-wavelength, high-intensity light sources.  This  was covered in the Feb 22-24 20-Year BES Facilities Roadmap Exercise.

Feb. 22-24, 2003

Basic Research Needs to Assure a Secure Energy Future 

**Full Report w/ Bookmarks

**Executive Summary and Introduction (24 pgs)

**Report Details and Background
    Appendix A - Proposed Research Directions
    Appendix B - Factual Document
    Appendix C - Organizational Details
    Appendix D - Introduction Presentations
    Appendix E - Summary Presentations
    Appendix F - List of Abbreviations

Oct. 21-24, 2002

Full
ES

A
B
C
D
E
F

Workshop on Catalysis Presentations

May 14-16, 2002

Theory and Modeling in Nanoscience --
This workshop was a joint effort by the Offices of Basic Energy Sciences and Advanced Scientific Computing Research.     Presentations

May 10-11, 2002

SC Performance Measurement

Jan. 24-25, 2002

Biomolecular Materials

Jan. 14-16, 2002

BESAC Review of the BES-Operated Spallation Neutron Sources - IPNS at ANL and the Lujan Center at LANL

Nov. 14-17, 2000

BESAC Review of the Advanced Light Source

Feb. 3-4, 2000

Neutron Scattering-considering the
HFBR Shutdown

Jan. 5-6, 2000
Feb. 14-15, 2000

BESAC Review of the Electron Beam Characterization Centers 
(UI, ANL, ORNL and LBNL)

Dec. 6-10, 1999

BESAC Review of the Novel, Coherent Light Sources

Jan. 18-22, 1999

BESAC Review of the High Flux Isotope Reactor

Aug. 31 - Sept. 1, 1998

Synchrotron Radiation Sources and Science