US LUEC Meeting US LUO Annual Meeting, Fermilab October 18-20, 2012
22 Slides3.84 MB
US LUEC Meeting US LUO Annual Meeting, Fermilab October 18-20, 2012
US LUO Executive Committee 2013 Membership (2 Year Terms) Name Darin Acosta Ken Bloom Tom LeCompte Usha Mallik Sheldon Stone Julia Thom Institution Collaboration Term Expires Florida CMS 2014 Nebraska CMS 2014 Argonne ATLAS 2014 Iowa ATLAS 2014 Syracuse LHCb 2014 Cornell CMS 2014 Daniela Bortoletto Purdue CMS 2013 Sridhara Dasu Wisconsin CMS 2013 Sarah Demers Yale ATLAS 2013 Sandor Feher Fermilab LARP 2013 Harvey Newman Caltech CMS 2013 Michael Tuts Columbia ATLAS 2013 Observers [Youth, Gender, Exp. Balance]: M. Hurwitz, Y. Maravin, J. Harris, J. Klay. Totals: CMS 6 1, ATLAS 4 1, LHCb 1, LARP 1, ALICE 0 1 Darin Acosta (ACCU), Jen Nahn (Webmaster through Nov. 2011) Ex-Officio: US ATLAS and CMS PMs, Deputies, CB Chair, IB Chair Thanks to: Joey Huston, Boaz Kilma, John Huth, Jane Nachtmann, Randy Ruchti 2
US LUO Executive Committee 2012 Membership (2 Year Terms) Name Institution Collaboration Term Expires Daniela Bortoletto Purdue CMS 2013 Sridhara Dasu Wisconsin CMS 2013 Sarah Demers Yale ATLAS 2013 Sandor Feher Fermilab LARP 2013 Harvey Newman Caltech CMS 2013 (2012 Chair) Michael Tuts Columbia ATLAS 2013 Joey Huston Michigan State ATLAS 2012 John Huth Harvard ATLAS 2012 Boaz Klima Fermilab CMS 2012 Jane Nachtman Iowa CMS 2012 Randy Ruchti Notre Dame CMS NSF 2012 Sheldon Stone Syracuse LHCb 2012 Observers [Youth, Gender, Exp. Balance]: M. Hurwitz, Y. Maravin, J. Harris, J. Klay. Totals: CMS 6 1, ATLAS 4 1, LHCb 1, LARP 1, ALICE 0 1 Darin Acosta (ACCU), Jen Nahn (Webmaster through Nov. 2011) With Thanks to: Kevin Burkett (Fermilab/CMS), Al Goshaw (Duke/ATLAS) 3
US LUEC ACCU News Issues for Discussion Our 2012 Meeting: Participation and Finances US LUA: Proposed to be Hosted by URA Uniform Nonprofit Assoc. Act US LUA Articles of Assoc. Bylaws 2012-13 Funding Campaign Review of Appeal Letter Our “Agenda”: How to better serve our community Preparing New Students/Postdocs for CERN; living in CH or France Well-being of our students http://www.uslhc.us/The US and the LHC/ at CERN Collaborating Institutions Working conditions, burotels US LUO Webmaster 4 2013 DC Trip
CERN ACCU, US ATLAS and US CMS http://cern.ch/ph-dep-ACCU/ and USLUO “ACCU is the forum for discussion between the CERN Management and the representatives of CERN Users to review the practical means taken by CERN for the work of Users of the Laboratory.” Our Representative is Darin Acosta USLUO has “a focus on how best to enhance scientific participation in the discoveries expected from [LHC] research ” US ATLAS and US CMS Managements also work to assist their users: the issues discussed by ACCU can be collaboration matters, or US LUO matters. Partly by agreement, partly because of who has the funding. Pro-Active CERN DG Recent Issues: Master Plan to 2030, to Accommodate more users with better facilities and infrastructure New Service Desk: 7777; http://cern.ch/service-portal Housing: Online booking; evolution of occupancy and capacity Day Care: http://www.lejardindecapucine.com/ Transportation: Bus and Tram; Car Sharing; Bike Sharing Pending/Upcoming Issues: Students’ work environment and well-being; 5 Lack of office space and increased use of “burotel” common areas
US LUO Host Organization ACCU News and Funding US LUO does not have a host laboratory: unlike Fermilab UO, SLUO Goodwill based funding served us well in the early years but cannot sustain us We are grateful to Fermilab, LBNL and Argonne for supporting our Annual Meetings (in 2010-12 we also recovered a few k in fees) Thanks to DPF and to the Lab Directors of Fermilab, Argonne, BNL, LBNL and SLAC for Supporting our 2009-12 DC Trips ! We need to be Self-Sustaining A home base, funding for operations, and staff help ( 1/2 FTE) Need a Tax Free Host Organization to collect contributions We need to maintain our website; support add’l DC Trips (APS, NUFO), LUO in Nat’l Events, student travel to meetings, Outreach, Etc. We finished exploring becoming an APS Unit: not a match Working towards having URA Host US LUO A natural fit; initial responses (Bernthal; Cehelsky) Accommodating Major milestone this year to achieve this: establishing our legal 6 existence by forming the US LHC Users Association
US LHC: 67 of 83 US ACCU News Universities in URA Alabama Arizona Caltech UC Davis UC Irvine UCLA UC Riverside UCSD UCSB Colorado Yale Florida State Florida Chicago UIC UIUC NIU Northwestern Indiana Notre Dame Purdue Iowa Iowa State Johns Hopkins Duke UMd Case Western BU Ohio State Harvard Oklahoma MIT Oregon Northeastern Carnegie Mellon Tufts Pennsylvania MSU Pittsburgh Michigan Brown Wayne State South Carolina Minnesota Tennessee-Knoxville Nebraska-Lincoln Vanderbilt Princeton Rice Rutgers Southern Methodist New Mexico Texas A&M SUNY Buffalo Texas Tech Columbia UT Arlington Cornell UT Austin Rochester UT Dallas Rockefeller Virginia SUNY Stony Brook Washington Syracuse 7
US LUO Proposal to URA We propose that URA be US LUO’s host organization, to help it carry out its annual activities, including: Annual trips to Washington, DC, to meet with policy makers in Congress and at OSTP, DOE Headquarters, OMB, the DOE Office of HEP and NSF. US LUO has established a strong tradition of coordinating with the Fermilab UEC and SLUO, starting with briefings and an organizational meeting at URA, oriented towards discussing and promoting support for the physical sciences in general. During this annual trip it has until now been difficult for US LUO to support more than a small handful of young members of our community. Hosting by URA, and gathering the resources needed would allow us to partially or fully support the needed complement of 10-15 young scientists and engineers. There are also other occasions when visits to Washington take place, for example by the American Physical Society annually, and by the National User Facilities Organization which is currently planning its annual Exhibit on Capitol Hill. The proposed arrangement would help US LUO participate more actively in these initiatives. Due to lack of financial support, US LUO is unable to do this,until now. 8
US LUO Proposal to URA Annual Meeting of US LUO. Until now our annual meeting has been graciously hosted by the US HEP Labs: Fermilab, LBNL, and most recently Argonne. But we have not been able to offer travel support for a sufficient number of young physicists to attend the meeting. We would hope to partially support up to ten young members to come and give a talk, and also contribute to the discussions during the meeting. Participation in National Events highlighting science and technology. It is extremely important that members of the US physics community engage with the public, as part of helping to ensure that future support of basic research is kept high on the national agenda. The high visibility and public awareness in general of the LHC and its intriguing physics goals and possible discoveries offers a great opportunity in this regard, especially in hard economic times. There are special events, such as the recent U.S. Science & Engineering Festival ( http://www.usasciencefestival.org/) held in Washington, D.C and across the country last October, that offer a chance to engage with young people who are excited by science and who are just starting to consider their future careers, as well as teachers and people from all walks of life. 9
US LUO Proposal to URA Attendance of Other Science Society Meetings. While particle physicists young and old take part in the APS April meeting, the March meeting is much larger and covers a broad range of disciplines. Under the proposed arrangement, support for young physicists to attend this meeting as well as the AAAS, AAS, MRS and ACS meetings where US LUO’s work has a significant impact would help let our colleagues in many fields of science and engineering know of the capabilities and developments of our community, both at the laboratories and at universities nationwide. Coordinating Information about Large Scale Science in an International Context Science today is deeply and increasingly international. US LUO is at the cusp of this trend, with many members living and working overseas, and many others working closely with colleagues overseas through electronic means of collaboration while at their home institutions. Through its web site and by sharing information in real time as needed, US LUO has helped it members to deal with visa, taxation, health and medical issues, the rights and obligations of scientists working at an overseas laboratory, and the many 10 aspects of acclimating to life and work abroad.
US LUO and URA in 2012 Forming the US LHC Users Association Letter to the Lab Directors; Draft Budget Leadership by Marta Cehelsky (URA) and Pier Oddone (FRA) 30k from 5 Lab Directors agreed; During Feb. ICFA Meeting at Oxford: Fermilab, BNL, Argonne, LBNL, SLAC US LUO must be its own organization if URA is to host it; Forming the US LUA: An Unincorporated Nonprofit Association in DC Under the “Uniform Nonprofit Association Act” Formed with help of Tyler Przybylek, the General Counsel of URA Simple to form, but needs to be operated and managed with due care: Clear and precise Articles & Bylaws written with help of Counsel (Tyler) To establish nonprofit tax free 501(c)(3) status: Will apply to the IRS Once US LUA is formed and registered, will formulate and sign an agreement with URA; approval requires action by URA Executive Committee Note: funding from the lab directors forms the core, but the rest will need to come from Institutional Donations (request to go out soon)
US LUO Proposal to URA Budget Outline Expenses Annual Trip to Washington (12 young members) 12k Trips to participate in other events in Washington [e.g. APS, NUFO]: 7k Funds to encourage participation by young members in the Annual US LUO meeting, in the March APS or other science society meetings: 10k Funds to allow US LUO to participate in national events, such as 11k the Annual Science and Engineering festival Part time URA staff person 30k Total Annual Expenses (Estimated): Funding 70k HEP Lab directors’ discretionary funds Fees at Annual Meeting returned to US LUO Requested as donations from US LUO Universities 30k 10k 30k Total Annual Funds (Estimated): 70k Targeted NSF travel grants will be proposed, to support more young physicists12
US LUA: The Uniform Nonprofit Association Act (dcbar.org) http://www.dcbar.org/for lawyers/resources/publications/washington lawyer/august 2003/viable.cfm
US LUA: The Uniform Nonprofit Association Act (dcbar.org) http://www.dcbar.org/for lawyers/resources/publications/washington lawyer/august 2003/viable.cfm
US LUA: Articles of Association
US LUA: Articles of Association
US LUA: Draft Bylaws
US LUA: Draft Bylaws
US LUA: Draft Bylaws
US LUO: Visa Issues Living and working abroad can be a Challenge Especially for non-US citizens in the US LHC community who work abroad for significant periods; even if they are US residents Return visas can be long-delayed, and hard to obtain The delays can depend on geopolitical events, and the level of scrutiny being applied by the US DHS If delays do occur, it is hard to get feedback There is evidence that the rate of incidence is on the rise lately What can you do if your visa case has been delayed 21 days ? Contact the National Academies’ International Visitors Office Before you Email them ([email protected]) visit their website at www.nationacademies.org/visas and fill out the Questionnaire NAS staff review the questionnaires each week and report the visa applications pending for 21 days to the State Dept. The State Dept. reports back to the NAS which cases are resolved each week. The process continues weekly, until each case is resolved 20
US LUO: Visa Issues http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/biso/visas/index.htm With thanks to Amy Flatten, APS Director of the International Affairs Office21
I - Changes concerning Schengen Visa type D requests 3 months, multiple entries In the past, persons subject to visa requirements could ask for both Swiss and French visa before coming to CERN Now only one visa is allowed by the Host States: Both host states refuse granting a visa if the person has already a visa from the other Host State for coming to CERN Based on a Schengen Visa type D, residence rights will be granted in the country for which the visa was issued as well as the right to travel in the other Schengen countries Users coming to CERN who are subject to visa restrictions will have to know in advance if they will live in France or in Switzerland and request the Visa at the corresponding Embassy 97th ACCU Meeting 5. September 2012 - Users' Office - D. Chromek-Burckhart 22
