Pierre Auger Collaboration

R & D Meeting

Southeast Colorado, 21 & 22 October, 2005

Friday October 21, 2005

9:30 AM Buses leave Cow Palace for area tour.

9:40 CF Maier manufacturing

10:40 Lamar Community College (LCC), coffee, tour of campus

Drive south on US287. Visit Prowers County buildings. Lunch in Springfield. Return via county roads. Explore a bit.

4:00 (approx.) Back at Cow Palace

5:00 Social hour at LCC Trustees building room 121

6:00 Dinner at LCC, Trustees building room 121

Saturday October 22, 2005 at LCC Trustees building, room 114

9:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:25 Detector Session, Chair: Jim Matthews

Status Report      John Harton (10 min)
Surface Detector local station electronics           Laurent Gugleilmi (10 min) ppt pdf
Surface Detector front end R&D                       Tiina Suomijarvi (10 min) ppt pdf
R&D for FD and Radio: an infill array layout     Hans Klages (20 min) ppt pdf
Scintillator Detector R+D                                  Steve Kuhlmann (20 min) ppt pdf
A roto-molder in Lincoln, NE                           Greg Snow (10 min) ppt pdf
Freezing studies Pablo Bauleo (10 min) ppt pdf
SD manufacture in SE Colorado                       Dave Warner (15 min) ppt pdf
Can we reduce the ``per unit'' SD detector costs?  John Matthews (10 min) pdf
Insulation possibilities for polyethylene tanks Paul Mantsch (10 min) ppt pdf
Remarks Jim Cronin (10 min)

Break at about 12:00 noon. Lunch on your own. Lunch approx 12:00-1:30 pm

1:40 pm Science and Outreach Session, Chair: Paul Mantsch
Northern site education/outreach                      Greg Snow (10 min) ppt pdf
The Need for Auger North                               Paul Sommers (25 min) ppt pdf
Science Case and Detector Optimization          Katsushi Arisaki (30+ min) ppt pdf
Discussion
Adjourn