[Cuga] Joint QCD town meetings- A message from Haiyan Gao and Craig Roberts

[Lorelei Chopard]

Dear JLab Users,

The deadline for reserving your hotel room for the DNP LRP joint town 
meetings on QCD is August14, which is coming soon! Please reserve asap 
through the meeting 
website.https://phys.cst.temple.edu/qcd/accommodation.html
Hotel rooms have been blocked at a highly preferential rate which 
expires on August 14 (soon). The selected hotel is ideal for the 
meeting. It sits immediately above a subway station just two stops from 
Temple. The local organizers will provide subway tokens to meeting 
participants.

The Town Meeting will be on September 13th-15th at Temple University in 
Philadelphia:https://phys.cst.temple.edu/qcd/ and the agenda will be 
posted very soon.

Why should you attend the Town Meeting?

The town meeting is a crucially important part of the Long Range 
Planning process, a process undertaken by the nuclear physics community 
once every 5 to 10 years. The town meeting is an opportunity for members 
of our community to help define the direction of Nuclear Physics in the 
US. One of the goals of the meeting is to start writing a White Paper 
for the QCD community that will serve as input for the NSAC Long Range 
Plane Writing Group (LRP WG). The White paper will consist of three 
parts: 1) Phases of QCD matter, 2) QCD and Hadron physics, and 3) the 
case for an Electron-Ion Collider as the next big construction project 
in Nuclear Physics. In addition, a set of recommendations will be 
developed, with community input, during the third day of the QCD Town 
Meeting. Those recommendations will also be submitted to the LRP WG as 
part of the White Paper.

The Program Committee is in the process of putting together a program of 
presentations that will provide a comprehensive yet succinct view of the 
scientific goals and vision of our field for the next decade. There will 
be opportunities for comments after each talk and during an extended 
discussion period at the end of each session where members of the 
community can make short presentations in the same format as was used in 
the 2007 town meeting at Rutgers.

Your attendance ensures that you can play a part in developing the 
vision for the future of nuclear science. It should be a particularly 
high priority for the younger leaders of our field to attend the joint 
town meetings so that they can provide input on their future and so that 
they can gain a longer term perspective on the field that will serve 
them in their careers. In addition, attendance is important as an 
indicator of the vitality of our field and the intellectual engagement 
of our community.

Best regards,

Craig Roberts (co-Chair, QCD and Hadron Physics town meeting program 
committee), and
Haiyan Gao (co-Chair, QCD and Hadron Physics town meeting program 
committee)