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2011 JSA Thesis Prize

The UGBoD expects to award the "2011 JSA Thesis Prize" for the best Jefferson Lab related thesis at the summer Users Group meeting, scheduled June 04- 06, 2012 . Please consider nominating people who have defended during 2011.

• Please send Lorelei Carlson (lcarlson at jlab.org) a brief nomination, giving the name and

institution of the person being nominated and the names of three people who will send letters of recommendation, along with a copy of the thesis, preferably electronically.

• All materials must be received by Tuesday, January 31, 2012.

The prize is sponsored by JSA and includes a $2200 award with an invitation to give a presentation on the candidate's thesis subject at the 2012 summer meeting.

• For further information on these items and the User Group in general, please

visit https://wiki.jlab.org/cugwiki .

JSA Postdoctoral Research Prize

The ground rules are:

All entries must be emailed to Lorelei Carlson <lcarlson@jlab.org> by January 03, 2012.

• All nominees must be within 5 years of graduation, and in a postdoc or equivalent position at the time of nomination. You do not have to be an experimental postdoc working at a university to apply, JLab and theory postdocs are also eligible to apply. Previous winners are not eligible to apply.

• Entries should include a research statement (5 page limit) and CV by the nominee, along with three letters of reference. The research statement should describe past work and future plans and should include a preliminary budget. All materials may be emailed in separately.

• The competition will be judged by the Users Group Board of Directors.

• The basis for picking the top candidate includes a record of accomplishment in physics, a planned high-impact Jefferson Lab physics program, proposed use of the research grant, and promise of further accomplishments in the Jefferson Lab research fields in the future.

• The Prize will be in the form of a research grant.

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