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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The 2020 edition of the “Electron-Ion Collider User Group Meeting” will take place from August 3<sup>rd</sup> to 7<sup>th</sup> at the Kovens Conference Center of the Biscayne Bay Campus of Florida International University, Miami, FL,
USA. The meeting will be organized by the Physics Department of FIU.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This user meeting will be the first one to take place after the recent CD0 and site selection made by the US Department of Energy, with the EIC to be constructed at Brookhaven National Laboratory. As such the meeting will focus on the
EIC/BNL physics program featuring topical sessions on new advances in physics as well as accelerator and detector R&D related to the ElC at BNL. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Special emphasis will be given to the Yellow Report Initiative with discussions of the activities of the physics, detectors and accelerator Working Group and their associated sub-working groups. Parties interested in organizing satellite
meetings around the days of the User Group Meeting are encouraged to contact the organizers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For further information please see the event website: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__indico.bnl.gov_event_7352_&d=DwMGaQ&c=CJqEzB1piLOyyvZjb8YUQw&r=TI1-uR1CNrL-lIqQDSyKdw&m=vkJSU6zUawPHBYvwkMo0buNIQWrcP6e9BenfVACIQBk&s=OUsv4wFNEuvFVBQhc1y6XtxIPfG_dbrws1u2mBhIq70&e=">https://indico.bnl.gov/event/7352/</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Registration details will be communicated in a future circular.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>The Electron-Ion Collider User Group (EICUG) consists of more than 1000 physicists from over 200 laboratories and universities from around the world who are working together to realize a powerful new facility in the United States with
the aim of studying the particles, gluons, which bind all the observable matter in the world around us. This new facility, known as the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), would collide intense beams of spin-polarized electrons with intense beams of both polarized nucleons
and unpolarized nuclei from deuterium to uranium. Detector concepts are now being developed to detect the high-energy scattered particles as well as the low-energy debris as a means to definitively understand how the matter we are all made of is bound together</i>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Wim Cosyn<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lei Guo<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Misak Sargsian (contact)<o:p></o:p></p>
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