THE CENTER
FOR NANOPHASE MATERIALS SCIENCES
USER GROUP
Welcome to the CNMSUG
The
formation of CNMSUG was initiated in 2005 when the CNMS management
started to identify several users as the Charter
Members of the Users Executive Committee (UEC). These Charter
Members were responsible for preparing the charter of the CNMSUG,
and coordinating the election of the first UEC. Four Charter
Members were appointed in 2006 including Haiping Cheng (University
of Florida), S. Michael
Kilbey, II (Acting Chair; Clemson University), and Yoke Khin
Yap (Michigan Technological University). Under the leadership
of Michael Kilbey and Tony E. Haynes (CNMS user coordinator),
a proposed Charter was prepared by the Charter Members. The
purpose of this Charter was to establish the initial bylaws,
structure and procedures for CNMSUG.
The CNMSUG was officially founded on September 7, 2007 when
its Charter was unanimously approved by the voting users. According
to the Charter, all lead principal investigators on approved
CNMS user projects and all badged CNMS users become CNMSUG
members for three years from the initiation of their CNMS project.
The stated purpose of the CNMSUG is:
The User Executive Committee is an elected body of members that
conducts the regular business of the CNMSUG. The UEC is expected
to make recommendations to CNMS management on matters affecting the
user community and to participate in planning the annual user meeting.
Users are encouraged to contact any member of the UEC listed below
to make suggestions for enhancing the benefits the research community
receives from CNMS.
CNMS
2013 User Executive Committee
(term of service ends in December of the indicated year)
Chair, by succession from Vice-Chair: Tony Hmelo (Vanderbilt University) - 2013
Vice-Chair: Vivek Prabhu (NIST) - 2014
Secretary: Milan Buncick (AEgis Technologies Group) - 2013
At-Large Members:
Nina Balke (ORNL/CNMS) - 2014
Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb (Georgia Tech) - 2013
Michael Hickner (Penn State) - 2013
Marian (Molly) Kennedy (Clemson U.) - 2014
Megan Robertson (U. Houston) - 2014
Ichiro Takeuchi (U. Maryland) - 2013
Rafael Verduzco (Rice U.) - 2014
Past Chair, ex officio member: Martyn McLachlan (Imperial College, London) - 2013