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HUGS 2008 Announcement - a message from Mary Fox
23rd Annual Hampton University Graduate Studies (HUGS) at the Thomas Jefferson
National Accelerator Facility
June 2-20, 2008
Applications are now being accepted for HUGS 2008 to be held at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Virginia. The deadline for fellowship consideration is April 15, 2008.
Through grant support from the United States Department of Energy (DOE), the 23rd Annual Hampton University Graduate Studies (HUGS) Program at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) is scheduled to run from Monday, June 2 to Friday, June 20, 2008. Students will arrive on Sunday, June 1 and depart on Saturday, June 21.
The HUGS Program at Jefferson Lab is a summer school designed for second and third year experimental or theoretical nuclear/particle physics graduate students who have finished (or nearly finished) their coursework. Students who are well into a research project are encouraged to apply as well. Acceptance into the program is competitive. The 2008 school will focus on experimental and theoretical topics in electron scattering, QCD, strong interactions, nucleon structure, and nuclear interactions of high current interest.
Speakers and Topics to include:
- Mary Alberg, Seattle University, Seattle, WA, Parton Models of Hadrons
- Wolfgang Bentz, Tokai University, Japan, The NJL Model for Quarks in Hadrons and Nuclei
- David Dean, Oak Ridge National Lab, TN, Nuclear Theory and FRIB
- Latifa Elouadhriri, Jefferson Lab, Deep Exclusive Processes
- Doug Higinbotham, Jefferson Lab, Short-Range Structure of Nuclei
- Zheng-Tian Lu, Argonne National Lab, Argonne, IL, Nuclear Science with Laser Trapping
- Mike Peardon, Trinity College, Ireland, QCD on the Lattice
- George Sterman, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY, Introduction to QCD
While attending the HUGS Program at the Jefferson Lab summer school, students will attend all lectures and seminars offered. The program is simultaneously intensive, friendly, and casual. The lecturers are internationally renown leaders in their fields. The students will be housed on site at Jefferson Lab. There will be many opportunities to interact with Jefferson Lab staff, as well as the lecturers, other graduate students, and visitors. Students receive insight into the type of physics to be performed at Jefferson Lab in the upcoming years.
Funding limitations require us to restrict the number of fellowships that will be awarded. Each fellowship will cover tuition, fees, room and board, and reimbursement of most, if not all, of the student's domestic, second-class round-trip airfare or mileage, whichever is less. Foreign students' transportation reimbursement will include most, if not all, travel to and from the point-of-entry into the United States. Students will need to supply funds for incidentals, extra meals, etc.
To apply to the HUGS at Jefferson Lab 2008 summer school, submit to the address below a completed application, letter of request for consideration of acceptance into the program, and at least one letter of recommendation. Submission as such will automatically place the student in the fellowship competition. The deadline for application submittal is April 15, 2008. Students should be notified by April 30, 2008 of acceptance.
Forward all queries and applications to:
HUGS 2008
Jefferson Laboratory
Attn: Mary Fox, MS 12H2, Suite 1
12000 Jefferson Avenue
Newport News, VA 23606
HUGS2008@jlab.org
http://www.jlab.org/hugs