Minutes of SHUG Executive Committee Meeting of October 29, 2004
Present members (6):
- Paul Butler
- Takeshi Egami
- Nancy Ross
- Joanna Krueger
- Paul Sokol
- Angus Wilkinson
The call began at 11:00 am
Agenda: This entire focus of this meeting is to set up for the upcoming elections and to assign duties.
The final slate of candidates for the SHUG elections was discussed. Proposal is to obtain their bios and get a ballot sent out to the wider SHUG community the week of Nov. 15.
As a reminder, the following SHUG members terms expire in 2004:
- Nancy Ross (Earth Sciences/ Minerals/ VTech)
- Paul Sokol (Condensed Matter/ IUCF)
- Takeshi Egami (Materials/Transition Metal Oxides/ UTK-ORNL-SNS)
- Christina Hoffman (Single Crystal diffraction/ ORNL-SNS)
- Kim Tait (GS/PD position/ High pressure diffraction)
2005-06 Nominees were selected during our conference call this morning who could fill the holes left by the loss of these members as well as to fill the membership gap in the field of Magnetism. At this point, Paul S., Paul B., Angus, Nancy, Takeshi and Kim are in charge of collecting the bios (one paragraph statement) and web page link for the candidates assigned to them this morning (see chart below) WHO ACCEPT their nomination to run this year. Please work to get these bios to Paul Butler ASAP but definitely before Nov. 12 meeting. Kim is to contact the two GS/PD nominees to get their bios.
| Name | Institution | Nominated by | General Area of Interest | Bio/statement Requested [committee member in charge] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular 2-year Nominees: | ||||
| Steve Shapiro | BNL | Self | Magnetism | Yes [Paul Sokol] |
| Umi Ijiri | Penn? | Paul Butler | Magnetism | [Paul Butler] |
| Mark Lumsden | ORNL/HFIR | Paul Butler | Magnetism | [Paul Butler] |
| Julia Chan | LSU | Paul Butler | Magnetism | [Angus Wilkinson] |
| W. Michael Snow | IUCF | David Baxter | Nuclear Physics; Instrument Design | [Paul Sokol] |
| Despina Louca | U. Virginia | Takeshi Egami | Materials | [Takeshi Egami] |
| David Bucknell | Georgia Tech | Angus Wilkinson | Polymer; Fiber Engineer | [Angus Wilkinson] |
| John Parise | Stoney Brook | Nancy Ross | High Pressure Beamline; earth sciences | [Nancy Ross] |
| Alternate to JP– George Lager | Nancy Ross | Earth Sciences | [Nancy Ross] | |
| Paul Sokol | IUCF | SHUG | Condensed Matter | [Paul Sokol] |
| alternate to make 10 total nominees-Mark Dadmun | UT Knoxville | Joanna Krueger | Polymer blends and nanocomposites | [JKKrueger] |
| GS/Post-doc 1-year Nominees: | ||||
| ???? | Kim Tait | [Kim Tait] | ||
| Darren Locke | Ariz. St ? | Nancy Ross | [Kim Tait] | |
Our next conference call is scheduled for Friday November 12, 2004 at 11 am.
