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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We invite you to nominate a young researcher for the "Gary McCartor Fellowship Award".</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">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></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">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</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">(</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://www.ilcacinc.org/about-ilcac/" id="OWA0b41346f-8f5a-48fe-a9c5-97d849e1c85a" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.ilcacinc.org/about-ilcac/</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">)</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> of ILCAC
and detailed in the White Paper </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">(</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://ilcacinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ILCAC-WP-FINAL-201309.pdf" id="OWAae7fcde6-90a3-3ff4-96d6-b6a78b9ac18f" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">http://ilcacinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ILCAC-WP-FINAL-201309.pdf</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">),
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">with a travel award of up to $2000 to attend Light Cone 2024
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;">at
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; background-color: white;">the Huizhou Campus of the Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMPCAS), November 25-29, 2024</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: red; background-color: white;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; background-color: white;">(</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://indico.impcas.ac.cn/event/55/registrations/15/" id="OWA67f90d95-55d3-e99d-1723-19e1980cd5fd" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://indico.impcas.ac.cn/event/55/registrations/15/</a>).
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">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></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">An announcement of the recipient(s) of the award will be made by ILCAC.
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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, July 31, 2024.</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Best Regards, </span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Chueng Ji (Chair) [email:</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="mailto:crji@ncsu.edu" id="OWAa9ea21c7-d0eb-33c2-8722-622bec338207" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">crji@ncsu.edu</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">]<br>
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Wayne Polyzou (Vice Chair) [email:
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="mailto:polyzou@uiowa.edu" target="_blank" id="OWAf6a2f0a5-47f6-a62d-95bf-964cb8d1f7ec" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">polyzou@uiowa.edu</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">]</span></p>
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