APS Renewal White Paper
Since March of 2008, the APS user community has been engaged in a process to move forward on an APS renewal plan. From the beginning, the importance of user involvement in the development of this plan was recognized and an APS Renewal Steering Committee was formed with membership from the user community, the APS, and the APS Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC).
An open workshop held on October 20-21, 2008, was organized by the APS Renewal Steering Committee to stimulate the development of the scientific drivers for a substantial renewal of the APS. A primary goal of the workshop was to engage the SAC in identifying overarching scientific themes that would guide the technical aspects of the renewal. Two exciting themes emerged: mastering hierarchical structures through x-ray imaging, and real materials in real conditions in real time.
Those two themes formed the focus for a white paper, which can be downloaded as a .pdf file at http://www.aps.anl.gov/Renewal/APS_Renewal_WhitePaper.pdf was sent to the U.S. Deparrtment of Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Science in November 2008. This white paper outlines a proposed APS renewal that promises maximum scientific impact and high return on investment.