[Cuga] Electron-Ion Collider User Group Meeting 2018 - A message from Tanja Horn

[Jodi Patient]

*Electron-Ion Collider User Group Meeting 2018*

July 30 – August 2, 2018

Catholic University of America

Washington, DC



*Web Page:* https://www.jlab.org/conferences/eicugm18/



*Circular:*

The Electron Ion Collider User Group Meeting (EICUGM) will take place from
Monday July 30th to Thursday August 2nd, 2018. It will be preceded on
Sunday July 29th by a Workshop on Detectors and Technology.

The EICUGM will feature introductory and agency talks, including
international views, and discuss the outcome of the National Academy of
Science study and the path forward for the Electron-Ion Collider.

The EICUGM will further include recent developments and progress on novel
physics ideas and technical plans for the collider and detectors, as well
as four parallel sessions. The last day will be dedicated to wrap-up
including summaries and EICUGM business meeting, discussions and further
outlook/organization. For contributed abstracts to the parallel sessions,
please contact the session conveners
<https://wiki.jlab.org/cuawiki/index.php/Parallel_Session_Conveners>.

The Electron Ion Collider (EIC) is a proposed facility to study hadron
physics at high energy recommended by the 2015 Long Range Plan for Nuclear
Science by the NSAC. The EIC User Group (EICUG) promotes the realization of
the EIC and its science, and consists of well over 700 scientists, see
www.eicug.org.


*Local Organizing Committee*

Fatiha Benmokhtar - Duquesne

Tanja Horn – CUA

Greg Kalicy – CUA

Ian Pegg – CUA

Alexei Prokudin – Penn State Berks



*International Advisory Committee*



Christine Aidala – U. of Michigan

John Arrington - ANL

Daniel Boer – U. of Groningen

Abhay Deshpande – BNL/SBU

Rolf Ent – Jlab

Barbara Jacak – LBL/UCB

Charles Hyde – ODU

Richard Milner – MIT

Vasiliy Morozov – JLab

Marco Radici – INFN/Pavia

Ferdi Willeke – BNL

Ernst Sichtermann - LBL

Bernd Surrow – Temple U.

Thomas Ullrich - BNL

Rik Yoshida - JLab