Directorate

Program Planning Office

The Program Planning Office coordinates the experimental physics program carried out at the Laboratory, by:

Acting as liaison between experimenters and laboratory staff regarding beam conditions during high energy physics operation.
Establishing priorities between accelerator studies and experiments and among experiments, in consultation with the Director, and resolving conflicting requests from experiments.
Developing short- and long-range experiment schedules according to guidance from the Director.
Monitoring the progress of the program schedule implementation.
Assisting in organizing the Physics Advisory Committee Meetings.
Organizing and chairing weekly All Experimenters Meetings.
Organizing and chairing weekly Scheduling Meetings.
Organizing Director's Reviews.
Coordinating Division and Section reviews of draft Memoranda of Understanding for approved experiments.