Dr. Lawrence S. Cardman Associate Director for the Physics Division Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Dr. Cardman is the Associate Director for Physics at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility where he is responsible for the management of the fundamental research program carried out using the laboratory's Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility and the associated experimental equipment. He also coordinates the support the laboratory provides to the international community of scientists who carry out research using CEBAF.

The author of over 60 papers, Dr. Cardman received his B.A. and Ph.D. in Physics from Yale University in 1966 and 1972, respectively. He was an instructor at Yale from 1971 to 1972, and then became a Research Associate before he went to the U.S National Bureau of Standards as an NAS-NRC postdoctoral research fellow. In 1973, he joined the faculty of the University of Illinois as an Assistant Professor; he was promoted to an Associate and then to full Professor in 1978 and 1982, respectively.

While at the University of Illinois, Dr. Cardman served from 1981-1990 and 1992-1993 as principal investigator on the National Science Foundation grant supporting the university's Nuclear Physics Laboratory. He took sabbatical leaves at the Centre d'Etudes Nucleaire Saclay in France (1980-1981) and at Jefferson Lab (1989-1990). Dr. Cardman joined Jefferson Lab as Deputy Associate Director for Physics in 1993, and became Associate Director for Physics in 1997. He was named a Virginia Governor's Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia in 2001.

Dr. Cardman is a fellow of the American Physical Society where he has served on the Program and Executive Committees of the Division of Nuclear Physics. He has also served on the DOE/NSF Nuclear Sciences Advisory Committee, and on a variety of other boards including; the Program Advisory Committees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Bates and the Indiana University Cyclotron Facilities; and the Facility Advisory Boards for Jefferson Lab, for the Saskatchewan Accelerator and the Triangle Meson Facilities in Canada, and for the Institute for Accelerating Systems and Applications in Athens, Greece.

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