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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

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UEC Report 48th Annual Users Meeting

William Louis, June 11, 2015

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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

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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

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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

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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 1st or 2nd 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

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UEC Government Relations Committee

Sandra G. Biedron, Chair and Jesus Orduna, Deputy Chair DC Trip Wrap up

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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

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HEPers on the DC Trip

SLUO

1. Andrea Albert
2. Brendan Wells
3. Chris Davis
4. Debbie Bard
5. Eli Rykoff
6. Emily Thompson
7. Michael Kagan
8. Mike Sokoloff
9. Sam Totorica

USLUA

1. Andrew Hard
2. Barak R. Gruberg Cazon
3. Dominick Olivito
4. Giordon Stark
5. Harvey Newman
6. Ho Ling Li
7. Jahred Adelman
8. Jessica Metcalfe
9. Kevin Black
10. Michael Tuts
11. Sarah Demers
12. Souvik Das
13. Sridhara Dasu

FSPA

1. Mateus Carneiro
2. Alex Drlica-Wagner
3. Pavanpoot Pandey
4. Pengfei Ding
5. Rob Fine

UEC

1. Andre de Gouvea
2. Anne Norrick
3. Breese Quinn
4. Brian Nord
5. Brian Rebel
6. Carrie McGivern
7. Craig Group
8. Daniel Bowring
9. Fabio Happacher
10. Fernanda Garcia
11. Herman White
12. Jesus Orduna
13. John Stupak
14. Marcelle Soares-Santos
15. Sandra Biedron
16. Tulika Bose
17. Vivian O'Dell
18. William Lee
19. William Louis

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1-Page Summaries

We will send emails regarding contacting Congressional Offices! Copies available.

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

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

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

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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!

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NAME:! ))SIGNATURE:! EMAIL:! INSTITUTION/PROJECT:!

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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.)

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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