RIA Facility Workshop
March 9-13, 2004
East Lansing, Michigan

Dear Colleague,
We are organizing a workshop to discuss all aspects of the Rare Isotope
Accelerator (RIA) Facility from the ion source to the experimental areas.
We plan this to be an important opportunity for the machine builders of
RIA to interact with the future experimentalist of RIA to discuss needs
and constraints.  As such, the emphasis of the workshop will be on the
interfaces of the major subsystems of RIA.  The discussion at this
workshop should go far in preparing the community for the conceptual
design report.

The workshop will be held March 9-13, 2004 on the campus of Michigan State
University, East Lansing, Michigan. The workshop will consist of a plenary
session, working group sessions and a summary session. There will be four
major areas organized by three conveners each:

1. Driver-LINAC
   Claude Lyneis (lyneis@lbl.gov)
   Peter Ostroumov (ostroumov@phy.anl.gov)
   Stan Schriber  (scriber@nscl.msu.edu)

2. Target Area
   Georg Bollen (bollen@nscl.msu.edu)
   Tony Gabriel (gabriela@ornl.gov)
   Jerry Nolen (nolen@anl.gov)
3. Secondary Beam Delivery
   Jim Beene (beenejr@ornl.gov)
   Guy Savard (savard@phy.anl.gov)
   Brad Sherrill (sherrill@nscl.msu.edu)
4. Experimental Areas
   Ernst Rehm (rehm@phy.anl.gov)
   Michael Thoennessen (thoennessen@nscl.msu.edu)
   Alan Wuosmaa (wuosmaa@wmich.edu)

There will be plenty of time for input from the community. If you would
like to contribute, please contact one of the conveners.

The workshop will take place in the Biological and Physical Sciences
Building (BPS) on the campus of Michigan State University. It will begin
with a reception on Tuesday night in the atrium of the National
Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. The plenary session begin on
Wednesday morning, March 10th at 9:00am in room BPS 1410. The working
group sessions will take place in lecture halls and seminar rooms in BPS
and the NSCL.
The summary session will be Saturday morning, March 13, and the workshop
will end at noon that day.

Registration is available over the web at
http://meetings.nscl.msu.edu/ria2004 and the early (before 2/13/2004)
registration fee is $75. After 2/13/2004 the registration fee will be
$100.

The workshop is jointly organized by Michigan State University and Argonne
National Laboratory. Members of the national advisory committee are Larry
Ahle (LLNL), Jim Alessi (BNL), Jim Beene (ORNL), Claude Lyneis (LBL), Joe
Natowitz (TAMU), Claus Rode (JLAB), and Tom Wangler (LANL).

More information about the workshop can be found at
http://meetings.nscl.msu.edu/ria2004
If you have further questions please contact one of us or send an email to
ria2004@nscl.msu.edu

We would like to invite you to participate in the workshop to make sure
that the whole community has input and is aware of the capabilities of the
whole facility.

For the organizing and advisory committee:

Jerry Nolen 			Michael Thoennessen
nolen@anl.gov		        thoennessen@nscl.msu.edu
(630)252-6418                   (517)333-6323