Jefferson Lab Users Group Annual Meeting June 20

Jefferson Lab Users Group Annual Meeting June 20 -22, 2016 Haiyan Gao Chair, UGBOD June 2015 - June 2016 1

Users Group Board of Directors (UGBo. D) Board changes to occur in June: Larry Weinstein [ODU] becomes chair (June 2016) Krishna Kumar [Stony Brook] becomes Chair Elect (June 2016) Julie Roche [Ohio U] becomes Vice Chair (June 2016) Past Chair: Haiyan Gao [Duke/Duke Kunshan] Secretary/Treasurer: Lorelei Chopard [JLab] (staff) New Members: Holly Szumila-Vance, Nathan Baltzell, Angela Biselli, Marco Contalbrigo, Charles Hyde 2

Users Group Board of Directors (UGBo. D) Outgoing members: John Arrington (ANL): Past Chair Haiyan Gao Elton Smith (Jefferson Lab): Quality of Life Charles Hyde Garth Huber (Regina): User/JLab interaction Angela Biselli Silvia Niccolai (IPN Orsay): Foreign Visitors Marco Contalbrigo Ellie Long (New Hampshire University): Postdocs Nathan Baltzell Melissa Cummings (William and Mary): Graduate Students Holly Szumila-Vance Nominating committee: P. Solvignon (Chair)* , Raffaella Devita, Nilanga Liyanage, Rory Miskimen, Reinhard Schumacher, and Christian Weiss * deceased 3

Special talk by Barry Barish (Caltech) On The 100 -Year Odyssey to Einstein's Gravitational Waves Theme of the workshop: Reaching for the Horizon – the 2015 Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science Featured speakers: Alexandra Gade (Michigan State) Giorgio Gratta (Stanford) Chen-Yu Liu (Indiana) Krishna Rajagopal (MIT) Mougey Memorial Talk by Omar Benhar https: //www. jlab. org/conferences/ugm

Program Notes • Talks are being livecast on the web; links to the video feed are on the main meeting/program page: https: //www. jlab. org/conferences/ugm/program. html • Lunch times coordinate with student lunch seminars (12: 30 -2 pm), so we’ll need to keep on schedule • Users Group Board meets Monday and Tuesday evenings; be sure to bring up questions, issues, suggestions to board members • Poster competition: Monday June 20 6

Users Group Annual Meeting Organizing Committee Larry Weinstein (Chair) Lorelei Chopard John Arrington Nadia Fomin Garth Huber Krishna Kumar Silvia Niccolai Misak Sargsian Holly Szumila-Vance – poster, student lunch talks Jefferson Science Associates – Provides funding for meeting, poster prizes, Thesis/Postdoc awards, etc… through JSA Initiative Fund 7