[Hps] Yuri Gershtein's application for HPS membership

[Jaros, John A.]

Dear HPS,

Yuri Gershtein has formally applied for membership in the HPS Collaboration. As required by our bylaws, he has indicated to the Executive Committee how he hopes to contribute to HPS (see below) and the EC has approved forwarding his request to the Collaboration. 

Our bylaws also stipulate that the HPS Collaboration should vote on accepting new applications at our next Collaboration Meeting, which will be held at SLAC on September 10-12, 2012. Membership elections are to be held by secret ballot at the Collaboration meeting. Members of the HPS Collaboration may submit their ballots prior to the meeting electronically; such ballots should be sent to the three spokespeople. 

Please be prepared to vote on membership for Yuri Gershtein at our upcoming meeting, or send your ballot before the meeting to Stepan, Maurik, and me.

Sincerely,

John 
on behalf of the HPS EC





Dear John, Maurik and Stepan,

I would like to formally request admission to the HPS collaboration.

As you may know, currently my main activity is on the CMS experiment at the LHC, but I have long sought  an opportunity to be involved in a smaller project. The physics that HPS is after is something that I have pursued before at the Tevatron and the LHC, and I find it very compelling.
Now that the race to the Higgs discovery is mostly over, I can start re-directing my time and resources to HPS work.

I will still be involved with the LHC research for a foreseeable future, but I have very little management commitments at this point and can spend 1/3 to 1/2 of my research time on HPS. Currently, I have a very talented undergrad, Joey Richert, working on HPS, who will be with me for another year. If admitted, I will recruit a graduate student to work on HPS, will involve more undergrads, and, in a couple of years when my current postdoc moves on, I'll consider having his replacement to work on HPS. 

I would like to contribute to the experiment's hardware. We have a very good electronics shop (for example, the token bit manager chip for CMS pixel detector readout was designed at Rutgers) and a very decent subsidized machine shop. Among items that were discussed at the meeting last Tuesday tasks like manufacturing ECAL components / supports seem like a good match to my experience and local capabilities. Contributing to the muon system construction would be another area where I could heavily contribute.

I'd be happy to iterate on possible tasks and answer any questions that you might have.

Sincerely,
Yuri 

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