[Jlabsa_gs] *Registration open* 2018 Jefferson Lab Users Group Annual Meeting- a message from the UGBOD

[Lorelei Carlson]

Please join us for the 2018 Jefferson Lab Users Group Annual Meeting, 
June 18-20th. Registration is now open.

The theme of this year's program is "From JLab 12 GeV to the EIC". The 
program includes a variety of physics talks, presentations from the User 
Group Board, laboratory management and funding agencies, and Prize 
winners. Featured speakers will include: /A. Aprahamian;/ /Imaging: M. 
Diehl, H. Gao, C. Hyde; QCD in nuclei: T. Mineeva, A. Schmidt, C. 
Weiss;/ /Spectroscopy: S. Dobb, T. Skwarnicki, D. Wilson./

We particularly encourage graduate students to attend. Student 
registration fees will be waived, courtesy of the Jefferson Science 
Associates Initiatives Fund. There will be special graduate student 
lunch discussions each day with food provided.

The poster competition continues, with a first prize of $500, a second 
prize of $250, and a third prize of $100. Each winner will additionally 
receive $500 in travel support to present their work at a meeting of 
their choice. The deadline for poster competition abstracts is Friday, 
June 8, 2018 (email to: lorelei at jlab.org <mailto:lorelei at jlab.org>).

You cannot win if you do not enter!

The Users Group Board of Directors will meet on the evenings of June 
18th and 19th. If you have comments, questions, or issues to be raised 
at the meeting, please notify one of the board members. Voting is 
underway to replace some of those members of the Users Group Board of 
Directors (UGBoD) who's terms are ending. The ballot is located at: 
http://www.jlab.org/user_resources/usergroup/ballot.html. *Voting closes 
May 4th, please vote!*

This project is supported by the JSA Initiatives Fund Program 
(http://www.jsallc.org/IF/IFProjects.html 
<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsallc.org%2FIF%2FIFProjects.html&data=01%7C01%7Clweinste%40odu.edu%7C9a3b3aed2b084325a9eb08d487fbde46%7C48bf86e811a24b8a8cb368d8be2227f3%7C0&sdata=L2AICKYyzKjvYAssVOapId67FsMpGpG%2BpuIbxYan36c%3D&reserved=0>), 
a commitment from the JSA owners, SURA and PAE Applied Technologies. 
Initiatives Funds support programs, initiatives, and activities that 
further the scientific outreach, promote the science, education and 
technology of the Jefferson Lab and benefit the Lab's extended user 
community in ways that complement the Lab's basic and applied research 
missions.

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