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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">We invite you to nominate a young researcher for the "Gary McCartor Fellowship Award".<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The Gary McCartor Fund, honoring Gary's scientific and professional leadership, was established in 2008 owing to a generous donation by Gary's wife,
Sheila McCartor, and donations by Gary's personal friends and colleagues. The fund continues to support young scientists due to regular support from these friends and colleagues as well as from the many institutions sponsoring Light Cone meetings.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Gary was particularly keen to see that young researchers had opportunities to participate in forefront research in our field. Accordingly, ILCAC plans
to award a young researcher(s) who works in the field defined by the mission statement
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">(</span><a href="https://www.ilcacinc.org/about-ilcac/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">https://www.ilcacinc.org/about-ilcac/</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">)</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">
of ILCAC and detailed in the White Paper <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">(</span><a href="http://ilcacinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ILCAC-WP-FINAL-201309.pdf"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">http://ilcacinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ILCAC-WP-FINAL-201309.pdf</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">), </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">with
a travel award of up to $2000 to attend Light Cone 2023 </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">at Brazilian Center for
Physics Research – CBPF, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">
<span style="background:white">from September 18 to September 22, 2023<o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">(</span><a href="https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/29047/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/29047/</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">).</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">
The conference fee will also be waived for the awardee. Due to the limited funds available, the ILCAC Board has decided to limit the number of awards up to a maximum of three per year, taking into consideration the actual travel and local costs of the awardees. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">An announcement of the recipient(s) of the award will be made by ILCAC.
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Please send your email nomination (limited to 1200 words) with a brief CV (up to two pages) of the nominee to
us before the deadline, March 31, 2023. <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Best Regards, </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Chueng Ji (Chair) [email:</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> </span><a><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">crji@ncsu.edu</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">]<br>
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Wayne Polyzou (Vice Chair) [email: </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">polyzou@uiowa.edu</span></a>]<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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