JSA Awards Presentation and Comments

Jerry P. Draayer

SURA President & CEO

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2015 Outstanding Nuclear Physicists

•  Recognizes individuals who have made outstanding and sustained contributions and/or significant technical achievements in experimental and/or theoretical research related to the nuclear physics program at Jefferson Lab

•  Selection panel chaired by Bob McKeown and included Science Council member James Symons, JSA Programs Committee member John Hardy, and 2013 Outstanding Nuclear Physicist recipient Douglas Beck

Award to: Xiangdong Ji and Anatoly Radyushkin

For their seminal roles in the development of Generalized Parton Distributions and the identification of associated experimental

observables via Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering

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JSA Post Doctoral Research Prize

•  Established 8 years ago by the Users Group as a way to recognize, reward, and honor the finest postdocs and support the Lab’s scientific mission

•  Over the years, the prize has helped to encourage students to see that excellence is recognized at every level of their careers, including their post graduation, career building phase

•  Of the past 7 prize recipients, 3 are now JLab scientists, and 1 just received a DOE SC Early Career research grant

Award to: Raúl Briceño

Proposal: Exotic mesons, resonances and transition rates from quantum chromodynamics

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JSA Thesis Prize

•  Established in 1999 by the Users, an opportunity to recognize some of the best theses on JLab science and research by graduate students

Award to: Adesh Subedi, Ph.D., MS State University: Determination of the weak charge of the proton through parity violating asymmetry measurements in the elastic e+p scattering Cristiano Fanelli, Ph.D., INFN/Sanita, Rome: Measurements of polarization transfers in real Compton scattering by a proton target at JLab

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Other JSA Prizes & Awards

•  Users Group Poster Prizes awarded yesterday to: ~  Alejandro Castilla, ODU ~  Kurtis D. Bartlett, W&M ~  Ishara Fernando, HU

•  Accelerator Physics Education Outreach with Mexican Universities: Edgar Morales, National Autonomous University of Mexico

•  HUGS International Fellowship for Graduate Students in Developing Countries: Cintia Willemyns, Buenos Aires University

•  Lab Mechanical Engineering Co-op Program: Mowafeg Abdelwhab, NC A&T

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Other JSA Prizes & Awards

•  Graduate Fellowships (AY15-16) ~  Melissa Beebe, W&M ~  Marco Carmignotto, Catholic ~  Kayla Craycraft, UTenn ~  Jie Liu, UVa ~  Chao Peng, Duke ~  Cheng-Ying Tsai, VA Tech ~  Aristeidis Tsaris, FSU

•  Sabbatical Support to faculty members: ~  Gerard Gilfoyle, U of Richmond ~  Matthew Shepherd, Indiana U

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Jefferson  Lab  Jefferson  Lab  

In addition to the ILCAC 2015 McCartor Travel Awards, JSA is

providing Initiatives Fund support for student travel awards and

registration for LC2015

ILCAC International Light Cone Advisory Committee, Inc.

http://www.ilcacinc.org/

NSHP National Society of

Hispanic Physicists, Inc.

http://www.hispanicphysicists.org/

NSHP President Luz Martinez-Miranda, UMD

2014 Edward A. Bouchet Award

recipient "For her pioneering research on liquid crystals ... and extensive effort in mentoring and increasing diversity in

physics and materials science."

NSHP seeking funding from NSF and NASA/Goddard for travel, lodging, and registration for students attendees and travel

assistance to guest speakers

http://sacnas.org/

Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology

http://www.cit.org/ CIT PI, Jefferson Lab CTO Drew

Weisenberger, with Variable-Angle Slant-Hole Collimator, designed to attach to the Dilon 6800 gamma camera.

DoD proposal (~$1.0M) to obtain funds to provide computer control of the

VASH and integration into the Dilon camera control

computer to allow usability trials.

Community Building

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Relations & Outreach •  Advocating FY16 budget increase for Nuclear

Physics/JLab (Up 4.9% over FY15, thanks to US Senate letter in January) – but requesting minimum run-time of 21 weeks to maximize 12GeV investment

•  Virginia Governor supported and General Assembly approved just under $4M for the Lab to prepare for a bid on the EIC

•  SURA growing stronger Hill presence with community and JLab Users: Nuclear Physics Day (March 2015) had 22 participants (more than FRIB; 2 less than Brookhaven)

Jefferson  Lab  

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Jefferson  Lab  Jefferson  Lab  Oyster Point Development and MEIC

IP IP

Ion Source Pre-booster

Linac

12 GeV CEBAF

12 GeV

11 GeV

Full Energy EIC Collider rings

MEIC collider rings

Newport News commitment to ensure availability of land for future

Jefferson Lab expansion

Discussions continue among

stakeholders regarding the “Tech Center”

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