[All_jlau] Message from Hugh Montgomery: Experimental Physics Leadership

[Pat Stroop]

Subject:  Experimental Physics Leadership – a message from Hugh  
Montgomery



Larry Cardman joined the laboratory 18 years ago. He initially served  
as Deputy Associate Director with John Domingo as Associate Director  
for Experimental Physics. Larry then assumed the Associate  
Directorship in 1995, just as experiments using CEBAF were beginning,  
and has served in that role ever since. Under his leadership the  
experimental nuclear physics program was established and has grown in  
prominence and assumed an essential role in the field.  Larry has  
requested that he be allowed to step down from the Associate Director  
position.  To find a replacement we will launch an international  
search. To help in that effort we will appoint a search committee  
reporting to me that will be constituted of leaders of the field from  
both Jefferson Lab and elsewhere. That process will take some time to  
establish and conclude. In the meantime Larry has agreed to stay on in  
his current role until a clear path to his replacement is established.

Larry has made many contributions to the lab over the years, ranging  
from the construction of the first polarized source for CEBAF and the  
first high brightness gun for the FEL to overseeing the prioritization  
and execution of the nuclear physics experiments.  He was a leader in  
the effort to define the science of the Upgrade and to present it to  
the nuclear physics community.  The execution of what we now call “the  
6 GeV program” has involved a considerable amount of adjudication on  
priorities and running time. Over that period, he has succeeded in  
retaining the respect and friendship of the field.  We will be making  
plans for an appropriate celebration of Larry’s achievements, but  
meanwhile I hope you will join me in thanking Larry for his efforts on  
the community’s behalf, and join the laboratory in its effort to  
identify the best possible individual to assume this key leadership  
role on the Jefferson Lab staff.



Hugh Montgomery