<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear HPS,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">We are looking for two people who are willing and able to take on a leadership roles in the collaboration in the areas of Monte Carlo and Tracking. Both MC, from physics generators to final analysis, and Tracking, from SVT readout to fully vetted tracks, have come to the foreground in our recent analyses as areas that could use additional man power and oversight. A new position of “tzar” (“king”, “emperor”, use your favorite metaphor) for MC and one for Tracking would allow the efforts in these areas to have more coherence and drive.</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 13px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class="">What is involved?</b></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">We would expect that these positions are filled with somewhat more experienced people, i.e. post-doc or higher, who have a relatively high level of commitment to the experiment. They would also help recruit new people to their respective efforts.</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 13px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class="">Monte Carlo: </b>The MC “tzar” would oversee the MC production, and help </span>organize and check the results of the various production runs and analyses<span class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">. This person would also direct improvements to the MC code base, the physics event generators, and the detector geometry. </span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 13px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class="">Tracking:</b> The tracking “tzar” would help organize the efforts and results of the tracking tests and analyses, direct the improvements to the code base and the detector alignment, and helps to ensure we have high quality results from our tracker. </span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 13px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Please contact John, Stepan and Maurik if you are interested in serving in either one of these positions, or if you know someone who you think would be an excellent fit for either one of these positions.</span></div></div><div class=""> </div></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Stepan, John, Maurik.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>