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Provided below is
a listing in reverse chronological order of
BES-sponsored workshop reports that address the status of some important
research areas. These reports
do not include those resulting from
the “Basic Research Needs”
(BRN) Workshop series that are used to help identify
research directions for a decades-to-century energy
strategy. The BRN reports
are available here.
Longer abstracts of these reports
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Future Science Needs and Opportunities for Electron Scattering:
Next-Generation Instrumentation and Beyond
This report is based on a BES Workshop entitled
"Future Science Needs and Opportunities for Electron Scattering: Next-Generation
Instrumentation and Beyond," March 1–2, 2007, to identify emerging basic science
and engineering research needs and opportunities that will require major
advances in electron-scattering theory, technology, and instrumentation.
(more)
 PDF
file of this report (3.0
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The Path to Sustainable Nuclear Energy
Basic and Applied Research Opportunities for Advanced Fuel Cycles
This report is based on a small DOE-sponsored
workshop held in September 2005 to identify new basic science that will be the foundation for advances in nuclear fuel-cycle technology in the near term, and for changing the nature of fuel cycles and of the nuclear energy industry in the long
term.
(more)
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file of this report (0.9
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Advanced Computational Materials Science:
Application to Fusion and Generation IV Fission Reactors
This report is based on a workshop
held March 31–April 2, 2004, to determine the degree to which
an increased effort in modeling and simulation could help bridge the gap between the data that is needed to support the implementation of advanced nuclear
technologies and the data that can be obtained in available experimental
facilities.
(more)
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file of this report (0.7
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Opportunities for Discovery:
Theory and Computation in Basic Energy Sciences
This report is based on the deliberations of the BESAC
Subcommittee on Theory and Computation following meetings on February 22 and April 17–16, 2004, to obtain testimony and discuss input from the scientific community on research directions for theory and computation to advance the scientific mission of the Office of Basic Energy
Sciences. (more)
PDF
file of this report (2.0
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Nanoscience
Research for Energy Needs
This report is based upon a BES-cosponsored
National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) Workshop held March 16–18, 2004, by
the Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET)
Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) to address
the Grand Challenge in Energy Conversion and Storage set out in the NNI.
This report was originally released on June 24, 2004, during the Department of Energy NanoSummit.
The second edition that is provided here was issued in June 2005.
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file of this report (6.6
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DOE-NSF-NIH
Workshop on Opportunities in
THz Science
This report is based on a Workshop on Opportunities in Terahetrz (THz) Science held February 12–14, 2004, to discuss basic research
problems that can be answered using THz radiation. The workshop did not focus on the wide range of potential applications of THz radiation in engineering, defense and homeland security, or the commercial and government sectors of the economy. The workshop was jointly sponsored by DOE,
NSF, and NIH.
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file of this report (10.0
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Theory and Modeling in Nanoscience
This report is based upon the May 10–11, 2002, workshop conducted jointly by the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee and the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committees to identify challenges and opportunities for theory, modeling, and simulation in nanoscience and nanotechnology and to investigate the growing and promising role of applied mathematics and computer science in meeting those
challenges.
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Opportunities for Catalysis in the 21st Century
This report is based upon a Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee
subpanel workshop
that was held May 14–16, 2002, to identify research directions to better understand how to design catalyst structures to control catalytic activity and selectivity.
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file of this report (1.0
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Biomolecular Materials
This report is based upon the
January 13–15, 2002, workshop sponsored by the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee to explore the potential impact of biology on the physical sciences, in particular the materials and chemical sciences.
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file of this report (9.1
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Basic Research Needs for Countering Terrorism
This report is based upon a BES
workshop
on basic research needs to counter terrorism that was held on February 28 and March 1,
2002, to identify connections between technology needs for countering terrorism and
underlying science issues and to recommend investment strategies to increase the impact of basic research on
efforts to counter terrorism.
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file of this report (1.8
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Complex Systems: Science for the 21st Century
This report is based upon a BES workshop, March
5–6, 1999, which was designed to help define new scientific directions related to complex
systems in order to create new understanding about the nano world and
complicated, multicomponent structures. (more)
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file of this report (1.9
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Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology Research Directions
This report illustrates the wide range of research opportunities and challenges in nanoscale science, engineering and technology.
It was prepared in 1999 in connection with the interagency national research initiative on nanotechnology.
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file of this report (6.7
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