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Dear all, <br>
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As you probably all know, Jefferson Lab has reduced its workforce
last week by 46 employees within a matter of a single day. Of these
46, eight had been employed within the physics division. Hall B lost
one senior scientist, Dennis Weygand. One physicist, Alexandre Deur,
was reassigned to work in Hall D. The layoff of Dennis will have
detrimental effects on the offline computing/software group. The
move of Alexandre to Hall D will immediately affect the preparations
of the PRAD experiment, for which Alexandre was assigned as Hall B
liaison. Other changes may have lesser immediate effects<b> </b>on
Hall B and CLAS/CLAS12. <br>
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In order to manage the impact of these reductions in Hall B staff we
will need to redistribute responsibilities within the group. This is
particularly urgent for the offline/computing/software effort where
we also need to more aggressively go about recruiting collaborators
to take on specific software projects. <br>
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I will discuss these issues first within the Hall B group and NP
division management<font color="#ff0000"><b> </b></font>next week
and after that with the collaboration leadership.<br>
<br>
Volker Burkert<br>
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