UEC Report 48 th Annual Users Meeting William Louis, June 11, 2015 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

UEC Report 48 th Annual Users Meeting William Louis, June 11, 2015

2014-2015 Users Executive Committee Sandra Biedron Tulika Bose Fernanda Garcia Andre de Gouvea Fabio Happacher Bill Lee Bill Louis Vivian O'Dell Jesus Orduna Lee Roberts Marcelle Soares-Santos Linda Spentzouris Thomas Strauss Secretary : Spentzouris Web Site : Garcia Government Committee : Biedron (chair), Orduna (deputy), Bose, Garcia, Happacher, O'Dell, Roberts, Strauss, Spentzouris Users Meeting Committee : Lee (chair), Strauss (deputy), Bose, de Gouvea, Garcia, Happacher, O'Dell, Orduna, Soares-Santos Quality of Life Committee : Soares-Santos (chair), Happacher (deputy), Biedron, Garcia, Lee, Strauss Outreach Committee : de Gouvea (chair), Spentzouris (deputy), Bose, O'Dell, Orduna

Users Meeting Bill Lee (Chair) & Thomas Strauss (Deputy) • 419 registrants as of 6/9/15 • Outreach Committee added a new feature to the Users Meeting – an Outreach talk by Don Lincoln • Festa Italiana moved to Tuesday evening this year

Thanks to the Users Meeting Committee & the Users & Conference Offices for Organizing the Users Meeting! • Users Office: Users Meeting Committee: • Kim Pearce Bill Lee (Chair) • Linda Granbur Thomas Strauss (Deputy Chair) • Stacey Vassallo Tulika Bose Fernanda Garcia • Directorate: Andre de Gouvea • Greg Bock Fabio Happacher Vivian O'Dell • Conference Office: Jesus Orduna • Cynthia Sazama Marcelle Soares-Santos • Melody Saperston • Suzanne Weber

Quality of Life Improvements UEC: Marcelle Soares-Santos (Chair) & Fabio Happacher (Deputy) FSPA Nigel Lockyer, Joe Lykken, Tim Meyer • Internet in village is improving (Jon Bakken) • PACE bus connection from train to WH (126->442 increase in ridership in last trimester) • Carpool parking spots • More desk space for users in WH • Move Users Office to 1 st or 2 nd floor of WH • Better water quality availability in the village (FSPA) • Increased staffing in Users Office for international visitors (Griselda Lopez, International Services Manager) • Users Center Renovation • New Hostel in the future near Wilson Hall

UEC Government Relations Committee Sandra G. Biedron, Chair and Jesus Orduna, Deputy Chair DC Trip Wrap up

DC Meetings • 360 Meetings with 46 HEPers attending the meetings! • Including Senate, House, NSF, DOE HQ, DOE Germantown, White House OSTP, White House OMB, Committees - Senate CJS Appropriations, Senate E&W Appropriations, House E&W, House SST, Energy & R&T Subcommittees, House E&W Ranking Member

8 HEPers on the DC Trip SLUO 1. Andrea Albert UEC 2. Brendan Wells 1. Andre de Gouvea 3. Chris Davis 2. Anne Norrick 4. Debbie Bard 3. Breese Quinn 5. Eli Rykoff 4. Brian Nord 6. Emily Thompson 5. Brian Rebel 7. Michael Kagan 6. Carrie McGivern 8. Mike Sokoloff 7. Craig Group 9. Sam Totorica 8. Daniel Bowring 9. Fabio Happacher USLUA 10. Fernanda Garcia 1. Andrew Hard 11. Herman White 2. Barak R. Gruberg Cazon 12. Jesus Orduna 3. Dominick Olivito 13. John Stupak 4. Giordon Stark 14. Marcelle Soares-Santos 5. Harvey Newman 15. Sandra Biedron 6. Ho Ling Li 16. Tulika Bose FSPA 7. Jahred Adelman 17. Vivian O'Dell 1. Mateus Carneiro 8. Jessica Metcalfe 18. William Lee 2. Alex Drlica-Wagner 9. Kevin Black 19. William Louis 3. Pavanpoot Pandey 10. Michael Tuts 4. Pengfei Ding 11. Sarah Demers 5. Rob Fine 12. Souvik Das 13. Sridhara Dasu

1-Page Summaries We will send emails regarding contacting Congressional Offices! Copies available.

The UEC worked with Durbin, Hultgren and Foster on Letters to Join the Caucuses

In DC we met with Pat Dehmer, who was smiling!

In Germantown we met with Jim Siegrist and Glen Crawford, who were also smiling!

UEC Elections • UEC elections are planned for July/August, so there will soon be a call for nominations to fill 6 vacancies. Nomination forms are available. FERMILAB)USERS)EXECUTIVE)COMMITTEE) NOMINATION)FORM ! !!!!!!!!!!The!undersigned!members!of!the!Fermilab!Users!Organization! ! ! NAME: ! ))SIGNATURE: ! EMAIL: ! INSTITUTION/PROJECT: ! ! ! For!membership!on!the!Users!Executive!Committee.!He!/!She!has!indicated!a! willingness!to!serve!as!indicated!by!signature.!This!form!should!be!received!to!the! Users!Office,!MS!103!Batavia,!IL!60510! not)later)than)June)26,)2015. ) ) NAME:! !!!SIGNATURE:! ! 1.)! _____________________________) )_________________________________ ! ! ! 2.)! _____________________________! ! ! 3.)!!!!_____________________________!!!_________________________________! ! ! 4.)!!!!_____________________________!!!_________________________________! ! ! 5.)!!!!_____________________________!!!_________________________________ ! ! ! 6.)!!!!_____________________________!!!_________________________________! ! ! 7.)!!!!_____________________________!!!_________________________________! ! ! 8.)!!!!_____________________________!!!_________________________________! ! ! 9.)! _____________________________ !!!!!!!!!!!! !! )______________________________________ ! ! ! !10.)!!!!_____________________________!!!!_________________________________! !

Sign Up as Users • Please remind EVERYONE working at Fermilab (students, postdocs, engineers, technicians, physicists, …) to sign up as USERS! • Please fill out the Users Survey from Griselda Lopez