Jefferson Lab User Group Report at the Annual User Group Meeting Lawrence Weinstein Old Dominion University June 20, 2017

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

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)

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

(mostly supported by JSA Initiatives Fund) 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)

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

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

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

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!!!

2016 Poster 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 2016 Poster

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