Each year, the SLAC Users Organization (SLUO) hosts its annual meeting for users. For as long as I’ve been involved, the meeting is themed. This year, the theme of the meeting is SLAC science, from the depths to the heavens. SLAC users now represent research programs located deep underground, developing and using new accelerators here on the surface of the Earth, and looking far out into the cosmos. SLUO needs to have representation and participation in all of these exciting programs, and the annual meeting will highlight this.
The meeting will happen all day, next Thursday (Sep. 17). During the lunch, institutional representatives will meet with current executive committee members and nominate candidates for the next election cycle. Elections for the SLUO executive committee will be held this fall. SLUO needs your nominations! Talk to your institutional representative (group leader, principal investigator, senior researcher, etc.) and make sure they make nominations at this meeting!
Nominations can be made in person over lunch or on the web,
http://www-group.slac.stanford.edu/sluo/2009AnnualMeeting/lunchSignUp.asp
If you have an interest in serving users, representing them to the SLAC management, and acting on behalf of them (e.g. through science advocacy in Washington D.C.), SLUO needs you! Make sure you let your institutional rep. know you want to be nominated. If you know someone who is perfect for this, nominate them to your rep.
If you have a SLAC unix account, use SLAC equipment, work at SLAC, etc. you qualify to be a SLAC user! Make sure you’re registered – your vote is important, so make sure you can cast it.
SLAC is, more and more, a diverse community. From science projects located deep underground, to projects orbiting the earth and looking at ancient light from distant cosmic cataclysms, SLAC’s users are working to understand the total universe. Make sure your voice is heard; make sure your interests are represented.
