October 25, 2009I’ve spoken before about the yearly trips by members of the particle physics community to Washington, D.C. Their purpose is simple. We go to educate Members of Congress about our passion, our science, and its impact on the nation; we listen to what they have to say about science, and take messages back to the [...]
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May 3, 2009This past week, three user organizations joined forces yet again in a well-organized and well-executed act of science diplomacy and headed to Washington D.C. to carry messages to Congress. Messages were also received, and will here be delivered in a short form for the community to heed. A more detailed report of this trip will [...]
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March 27, 2009As a member of the SLUO executive committee and co-chair of the Washington D.C. Trip subcommittee, I wanted to update people on the status of our annual trip to DC. There are currently 11 members of the team going to DC, representing diverse areas of the SLAC PPA user community: astronomy and astrophysics, collider physics, [...]
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April 28, 2008Back in 2005, just after the March Washington lobbying effort by SLAC and Fermilab users, a few of us at SLAC decided to setup a website that could serve as a hub for political action by scientists. It was intended to be a resource more than an organization (unlike SEA, which formed later), a means [...]
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March 15, 2008What follows is my own high-level summary of the lessons from the Fermilab/SLAC/U.S. LHC users’ joint trip to Washington DC. I then conclude with my thoughts on the way forward. These thoughts are distilled from my experiences, and some of the experiences of others, during the trip.
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March 10, 2008This week, I am proud to co-chair (with Greg Madejski of KIPAC) the annual SLUO trip to Washington. In conjunction with our colleagues from the FNAL Users’ Group and the U.S. LHC Users’ Group, we bring a message to Washington about the importance of supporting the physical sciences through timely passage of appropriations for FY09. [...]
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December 11, 2007I caught this article linked from the “SLAC Today” website: “UK pulls out of plan for the ILC”. With the recent speech by Dr. Raymond Orbach at Fermilab, encouraging the community to put on the brakes on the ILC, and with this financial crisis in the UK, it begins to feel like a once [...]
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Steve Sekula is an Assistant Professor of Experimental Particle Physics at Southern Methodist University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004, and currently works on the BaBar Experiment at SLAC and the ATLAS Experiment at CERN.
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