[Cuga] Brief Users Group Update - A message from John Arrington

[Lorelei Chopard]

Dear Users Group,

Below is a brief Users Group Update. I hope that everyone will take a 
minute or two to look it over and to pass on the information to others 
who might be interested.

1) BUDGET NEWS - House appropriations bill (from the June 20 FYI 
<http://www.aip.org/fyi/2014/house-fy-2015-doe-office-science-appropriations-bill>):
The House version of the Energy and Water bill recommends a $6.4M 
increase for nuclear physics relative to the President's Budget, or a 
total of $30.9M over the FY14 allocation.  If one looks at the details, 
this $6.4M increase matches the increase to NP operations, which 
includes language recommending $100M for JLab operations to support up 
to 27 weeks of running.  There are several steps left before this 
becomes an appropriation, but it is clear that the message of the 
Nuclear Physics and JLab community is being heard.


2) DNP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
The deadline for nominations for the DNP executive committee is July 
1st.  If you have ideas for candidates who you feel would do a good job 
in this role, please send in your nomination forms.  If you are looking 
for ideas, the UGBoD suggests nominating ROLF ENT as an at-large member 
of the executive committee.

3) JLAB "ALUMNI GROUP"
The Board would like to organize a group of JLab alumni for networking 
and mentoring of current students and postdocs.  If you have former 
students or postdocs that you think would be interested in 
participating, please send me their contact information or ask them to 
contact me.  We're looking for alumni currently in academa, industry, 
government and elsewhere - anyone who would be interested in being a 
resource for current members of the JLab community.


4) TOWN HALL MEETING SCHEDULE: *NOTE that some dates have changed since 
what was presented at the Users Meeting*
We'll put this up and add details as they come in on 
http://cnr2.kent.edu/~manley/BRAGmeetings.html

Nuclear Structure/Nuclear Astrophysics Town Meeting
August 21-23, 2014
Texas A&M
http://www.lecmeeting.org/

QCD Town Meeting
September 13-15
Temple university

Fundamental Symmetries Town Meetings
September 28-29
Chicago, IL


Best Regards,
John

p.s. Please let me know (johna at anl.gov) if you find these useful, or if 
you have information that you would like see shared in a future email.






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