wishes to join CLAS12 Phil Cole became Chair on Sept 1, 2017 – Physics Dept. at Lamar (Tropical Storm Harvey makes landfall in Beaumont, TX on August 29, 2017 and dumps 66 cm of rain in one day and a total of 1.2 meters over four days). Lamar University is located 85 miles due east of Houston, 35 miles north of the gulf – and 25 miles from Louisiana [The Cajun South].

wishes to join CLAS12 Physics Department: 9 Professors: 2 Full, 4 Associate, 1 Assistant, 2 Instructors 1 Assistant Professor just left – room for a new hire 1 Instructor was just promoted to Assistant Professor – room for a new hire. 2 Lab Staff + one Senior Admin Assistant Wish to build research portfolio. Undergraduate Dept. with 30 Majors – constant over the past five years. 8 graduates per year – constant over the past five years ROOM FOR GROWTH.

wishes to join CLAS12 Lamar University has 15,000 students. Lamar is mostly an undergraduate/regional school. Lamar is the top school in the Texas State University System Research profile at Lamar and in the Physics Dept. needs to grow. Building up the research profile of the Physics Department is strongly supported by the upper administration. New Science and Technology Building – Good opportunities.

wishes to join CLAS12 The College of Engineering is strong with a PhD in Chemical Engineering (Golden Triangle – Gas Refineries – Spindletop)

wishes to join CLAS12 New Science and Technology Building – Good opportunities. 83,000-square-foot

wishes to join CLAS12 My Goals as Chair Build up the research profile/portfolo make good use of the new Science and Technology Building Build a nuclear physics group – like I did at ISU Bridging opportunities with JLab Recruit and expand the number of majors Make the education for undergraduates first rate in the region Establish a Master’s Program Pipeline Lamar students to good graduate programs – especially those universities with Hall B connections.

wishes to join CLAS12 Postdoc and Assistant Research Prof at GWU (1991 -1997) JLab-Bridge Assistant Prof at UTEP (1997- 2004) I mentored and supported five undergraduates when I was a JLab-bridged assistant professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, all of whom went on to earn their PhDs Adam Lichtl (Carnegie Mellon University, PhD 2008). Founder & CEO at Delta Brain Inc. https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamlichtl Julliette Mammei (Virginia Tech, PhD 2009) Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, University of Manitoba. Russell Mammei (Virginia Tech, PhD 2010) Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, University of Winnipeg. Rocio Olave (Old Dominion University, PhD 2009). She held a postdoc as an accelerator physicist and she presently is pursuing medical studies. Carlos Velasco (Hampton University, PhD 2010) Medical Physicist, Sentara CarePlex

wishes to join CLAS12 Idaho State University (2004 -2017) (I am now a professor emeritus of ISU, believe it or not) We built the R1 drift chamber (Tony Forest and Dustin McNulty) Three PhD students (All in Hall B) Julian Salamanca. Associate Professor at Universidad Distrital in Bogota Colombia. Photoproduction of phi mesons with linearly polarized photons (g8b) Chuck Taylor. Staff Scientist at LANL. Differential Cross Sections of K\Lambda using circularly polarized photons (g13a) Olga Cortes. Postdoc at GWU. Photoproduction of omega mesons off the bound proton with linearly polarized photons (g13b)

wishes to join CLAS12 What have my students and I done for CLAS/CLAS12? Established first proposals for the Coherent Bremsstrahlung Facility Service for Beamline/Instrumented Collimator for the CBF Tagger repair, etc. Start counter calibrations Drift chamber monitoring/tracking Magnet mapping Pair spectrometer (hardware & software) Flux monitoring Review analysis notes + papers

wishes to join CLAS12 Where do we go from here? N* Physics (CLAS12) Build a JLab group in Southeast Texas at Lamar Any detector projects for the Science and Technology Building? Service Needs – I am open to suggestions.

Studying Baryon Resonances with the CLAS (JLab) and BGO-OD (ELSA) Detectors Philip Cole June 25-28, 2018 NSF Grant Award No. 1615146 Fulbright Scholar – Germany