Jefferson Lab User Group Report
at the
Annual User Group Meeting
Lawrence Weinstein
Old Dominion University
June 20, 2017
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Users Group Board of Directors (UGBoD)
 Represents Users to JSA, JLab Management, and outside stakeholders
• User representative on Director’s Safety Council and Diversity
Council
• Chair gives user group update at JSA, SURA board meetings
 Follows up on User questions, comments, complaints, suggestions…
 Organizes the Annual User Meeting and two satellite meetings (APS April
and DNP Fall meetings)
 Meets twice annually with
 JLab leadership
 JSA representatives
 Manages awards (Thesis Prize, Postdoc Prize, Poster Prize…)
 Represents Users in evaluating JSA Initiatives Fund requests
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Users Group Board of Directors (UGBoD)
Soon to be Past Chair: Lawrence Weinstein [ODU]
Soon to be Chair: Krishna Kumar [Stony Brook]
Soon to be Chair-Elect: Julie Roche [Ohio U]
Incoming Vice-Chair: Will Brooks [UTFSM, Chile]
Retiring Past Chair: Haiyan Gao [Duke]
Secretary/Treasurer: Lorelei Chopard [Jefferson Lab] (staff)
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Users Group Board of Directors (UGBoD)
Charles Hyde (Old Dominion U): Quality of Life
Angela Biselli (Fairfield U): User/JLab interaction
Marco Contalbrigo (INFN Ferrara): Foreign Visitors
Nathan Baltzell (Jefferson Lab): Postdocs
Outgoing members:
Nadia Fomin (U of Tennessee): Outreach
Misak Sargsian (Florida International U): Experiment/Theory Liaison
Volker Crede (Florida State U): Computing
Holly Szumila-Vance (Old Dominion U): Graduate Students
Incoming members:
Caryn Palatchi (Uva): Graduate Students
Ian Cloet (ANL): Theory
Lamiaa El Fassi (Mississippi SU): Outreach
Or Hen (MIT): Computing and Outreach
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UGBoD Activities
(mostly supported by JSA Initiatives Fund)
• Satellite meeting at the DNP Fall Meeting and the APS “April” Meeting
• Select the winner of the postdoc prize (February) and thesis prize (now)
• Nuclear Physics Day visits to DC (usually March, May this year)
• Identify/recommend candidates for DNP Executive Committee (May)
• Annual Users Group Meeting (June)
• During the Meeting: Select and award Poster Prize winners
• New 2017 activities
• Select and nominate users for APS Fellowships
• Meet with DOE NP to present Users’ perspective (May)
• Met with incoming Director (Stuart) to present Users’ concerns
• Helped with Software Carpentry Workshop (May)
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Thesis and postdoc prizes
(supported by JSA Initiatives Fund)
• Organized by Julie Roche
• Thesis prize
• Each reader read two theses
• Each thesis was read by several readers
• No conflicts of interest allowed
• Postdoc prize
• Each proposal was read by all five readers (except for coi)
• Awarded tomorrow by Jerry Draayer
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DNP Executive Committee Nominees
• Chair line: Krishna Kumar
• Board members:
• Nadia Fomin
• Dipangkar Dutta
• Lawrence Weinstein
• Go to http://www.aps.org/units/dnp/ and click on “Nominate Today”
• Deadline July 1
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Outreach
• Nuclear Physics day Capitol Hill visits (~25
Jlab representatives, May)
• UG Board visit to DOE Nuclear Physics
(May)
• Letter to representatives and senators
(NOW!)
Inform users of important issues
Encourage contact between users and their
representatives in congress
Nadia Fomin led these outreach efforts.
Lamiaa El Fassi and Or Hen will assume her
duties
Partially supported by the JSA Initiatives Fund
https://wiki.jlab.org/cugwiki/index.php/Nuclear_Physics_Day_on_the_Hill
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Nuclear Physics on the Hill 2017
• May 2, 5th year of Jlab involvement
• Jlab, RHIC and FRIB user groups
meet with the offices of senators
and representatives
• 2016: 24 Jlab user participants
from 12 states
• 2017: 25 Jlab participants
• Organized by N. Fomin
Write to Congress!
• Edit the letter template and send it to your senators and representative
• Downloadable from https://tinyurl.com/ybcq6rhs
• Respond to the DNP request also
• Email is good
• Snail mail is better
• Phone calls are even better
• Do something!!!
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2017 Annual Meeting
June 19-21, 2017
Theme: The Breadth of JLab Science
Featured speakers:
Xiangdong Ji (U Maryland)
Chuck Horowitz (Indiana U)
Anna Hayes (LANL)
Jianwei Qiu (JLab)
Stuart Henderson (JLab)
2016: 177 participants including 67
students
Funded by JSA Initiatives Fund
Summary
• The User Group Board helps
• Bring the users together
• Represent the users to the lab and the lab to the users
• Represent the lab+users to Congress and the DOE
• Write to congress!
• Edit the letter at https://tinyurl.com/ybcq6rhs and send it to congress
• Respond to the DNP letter writing request
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