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

2. 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

3. 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)

4. 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

5. (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)

6. 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

7. DNP Executive Committee Nominees
Chair line: Krishna Kumar
Board members:
Nadia Fomin
Dipangkar Dutta
Lawrence Weinstein
Go to and click on “Nominate Today”
Deadline July 1

8. 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

9. 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

10. Write to Congress!
Edit the letter template and send it to your senators and representative
Downloadable from
Respond to the DNP request also
is good
Snail mail is better
Phone calls are even better
Do something!!!

11. 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

12. 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 and send it to congress
Respond to the DNP letter writing request