Contact Us
EIC2@JLab Director:
Douglas Higinbotham
(757) 269-7851
Media Contact:
Lauren Hansen
Communications Manager
(757) 269-7689
lhansen@jlab.org
https://www.jlab.org/pressroom
EIC2@JLab Director:
Douglas Higinbotham
(757) 269-7851
Media Contact:
Lauren Hansen
Communications Manager
(757) 269-7689
lhansen@jlab.org
https://www.jlab.org/pressroom
The Electron-Ion Collider Center at Jefferson Lab (EIC2@JLab) is an organization to advance and promote the science program at a future electron-ion collider (EIC) facility. Particular emphasis is on the close connection of EIC science to the current Jefferson Lab 12 GeV CEBAF science program.
EIC2@JLab consolidates and connects the EIC physics and detector development activities in and around Jefferson Lab. These activities include:
Further, EIC2 coordinates with the following activities:
In addition, EIC2 establishes the following new activities:
The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) is located at 12000 Jefferson Avenue in Newport News, Virginia.
Accelerate your career with a new role at the nation's newest national laboratory. Here you can be part of a team exploring the building blocks of matter and lay the ground work for scientific discoveries that will reshape our understanding of the atomic nucleus. Join a community with a common purpose of solving the most challenging scientific and engineering problems of our time.
A career at Jefferson Lab is more than a job. You will be part of “big science” and work alongside top scientists and engineers from around the world unlocking the secrets of our visible universe. Managed by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC; Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is entering an exciting period of mission growth and is seeking new team members ready to apply their skills and passion to have an impact. You could call it work, or you could call it a mission. We call it a challenge. We do things that will change the world.
At Jefferson Lab we believe in giving back to our community and encouraging the next generation of scientists and engineers. Our staff reaches out to students to advance awareness and appreciation of the range of research carried out within the DOE national laboratory system, to increase interest in STEM careers for women and minorities, and to encourage everyone to become a part of the next-generation STEM workforce. We are recognized for our innovative programs like:
1,500 students from 15 Title I schools engage in the Becoming Enthusiastic About Math and Science (BEAMS) program at the lab each school year.
60 teachers are enrolled in the Jefferson Science Associates Activities for Teachers (JSAT) program at the lab inspiring 9,000 students annually.
24 high school students have internships and 34 college students have mentorships at the lab.
Systems Administrator Myung Bang works to assure Jefferson Lab employees can access their resources
Monitoring more than 300 servers and 1,300 workstations, Bang strives to make working at Jefferson Lab accessible and efficient.
At 6:30 a.m., Myung Bang turns his computer on. He must ensure that all of the 300 servers and 1,300 workstations he manages as the system administrator are behaving correctly before everyone else starts to arrive.
Dong Myung Bang grew up the middle child of three boys: all named Dong Bang.
“In Korea, one generation of kids will all have the same first name then the next generation will have the same middle name,” Bang explained. Since the Bang brothers all had the same first name, there were many confusions when they first arrived in America, including Bang attending a job interview intended for his brother. He ended up getting an offer.
The Bang brothers grew up in a remote farming village of Boeun, South Korea, where they received only a few hours of electricity each night around dinner time. “Afterwards, I still remember we all gathered into one room under candlelight to read books,” Bang recalled.
His mother was strict. She required of her boys focus and determination. “She always made sure that we did our homework and studied for our tests,” Bang said.
When the boys reached middle school age, Bang’s mother dreamed of a better education than their small town could offer. “She believed if you want to be a big fish, you need to go into bigger water,” Bang said.
So, in 1979, Bang’s family packed for America. They were headed to Pennsylvania, where an uncle awaited their arrival.
After six months, the Bang family moved to Richmond, Va., where his mother’s brother helped his parents open a local “mom-and-pop” store. Sixteen-year-old Bang and his brothers headed to high school.
“It was really scary,” he said. “The first few months, I sat in school and I didn’t understand a single word.”
Bang grew up a shy child, and he spent his childhood reading everything he could find.
“I thought I was going to be a writer,” he said.
It was in high school, while he sat in class trying to learn English, that math revealed itself as the universal language.
“One day, we were working on math problems and something clicked. I was able to solve something that nobody else could solve,” Bang said. “I realized I am good at math, and that realization carried through the rest of my life.”
Bang attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute to study electrical engineering and minored in mathematics. He continued his studies, gaining a master’s degree in information assurance at the University of Maryland University College, eventually landing himself a job as a programmer with Computer Sciences Corporation.
On his first day of work, Bang found himself as a programming contractor with NASA Langley Research Center. That same day, however, their systems administrator quit.
“I walked in and they said, ‘Do you want to work on the Novell system?’” He recalled, laughing. “I didn’t know anything about it. I didn’t even know how to spell Novell.” Bang said he was willing to learn and, “I was hooked. I never wrote a single line of code again.”
From that day on, Bang worked hard to understand computer systems. In 1998, as his contract was ending at NASA Langley Research Center, he applied for and accepted his job at Jefferson Lab, where he monitors and cares for the advanced software systems that drive its computers.
“I tell my family and friends that I manage computers and computer systems. Nine times out of 10, they take that as I fix computers, which is not true,” Bang said. “I manage computer systems. I make sure everyone can get to their resources.”
Working with Jefferson’s Lab’s Cybersecurity Team, Network team, Windows, Linux and Mac Teams, as well as the Help Desk, Bang keeps Jefferson Lab’s technology and systems up to date and functioning to prevent work stoppage.
“You can never predict what’s going to happen,” Bang said. “Something can break, or a virus goes around, and we have to catch the virus so nobody’s computers get infected. I come to work thinking, ‘I’m going to do this today,’ but I may not even get to touch that because new issues pop up.”
Issues pop up in all forms: files become vulnerable; a virus breaks free; a certificate on someone’s smart card expires, locking them out of the system; a corrupted file locks down; a problem domain controller refuses users’ login; the email server doesn’t deliver emails, etc.
Bang is responsible for monitoring and resolving all alerts from systems, providing day-to-day maintenance of the operating systems, managing various commercial products, installing and configuring systems, and determining if patches are needed. He is also responsible for researching and testing out the latest technology that could make computer systems more efficient and capable.
Troubleshooting, Bang has discovered, is one of his passions.
“If the technology worked all of the time, it would be pretty boring,” Bang said. “If I don’t understand something, that motivates me to try to understand it.”
When Bang isn’t working, he is clocking in hours on the tennis court to add to his 30 years of tennis experience.
“Tennis fits me,” Bang said, smiling. But he always has his eye on the systems.
“Other than when I’m sleeping, I keep my eye on things happening at work.”
The Jefferson Lab campus is located in southeastern Virginia amidst a vibrant and growing technology community with deep historical roots that date back to the founding of our nation. Staff members can live on or near the waterways of the Chesapeake Bay region or find peace in the deeply wooded coastal plain. You will have easy access to nearby beaches, mountains, and all major metropolitan centers along the United States east coast.
To learn more about the region and its museums, wineries, parks, zoos and more, visit the Virginia tourism page, Virginia is for Lovers.
To learn more about life at Jefferson Lab, click here.
We support our inventors! The lab provides resources to employees for the development of patented technology -- with over 180 awarded to date! Those looking to obtain patent coverage for their newly developed technologies and inventions while working at the lab are supported and mentored by technology experts, from its discovery to its applied commercialization, including opportunities for monetary awards and royalty sharing. Learn more about our patents and technologies here.
“Generally, the mechanical engineers at the lab support the physicists. The physicists have the big ideas about how to support new science, and the engineers figure out how to make that happen.”
"There is world-class research going on here. Any given day you can be in the room with genius physicists and that’s just amazing.”
"Everybody in the chain is working towards the same goal: to ensure that everything is built safe and to the code specifications"
"Not every day is the same day. Working in research and development, it’s not a one person job."
"My own research enables me to better lead the Theory Center, to lead our collaboration, to provide good guidance to our junior researchers on the team, and to provide valuable input to the advisory and review committees that I serve"
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APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN For 2024
The EIC Center at Jefferson Lab, EIC2, is pleased to announce opportunities for graduate and post-doctoral fellowships.
These fellowships will be awarded to fund coming to Jefferson Lab to research a special topic. The current areas of research include theory, simulations, detectors, and computing as they relate to the EIC, Positrons or the proposed JLab 22 GeV upgrade. Each fellowship will provide travel to Jefferson Lab, housing and a per diem for a typical stay of ten weeks at the lab.
Eligible students must be enrolled full-time in a relevant doctoral program. Postdocs must have a full-time position with a relevant university or laboratory research program. . The awardees may not concurrently hold another major full-time fellowship or internship. The award is limited to once a year though awardees can reapply for an additional year.
To apply, a research plan must be provided according to the guidance provided below. The plan should be written by the applicant together with their university or laboratory advisor. The plan should contain clear goals and deliverable to be accomplished by the end of the Fellowship visit. Working with a Jefferson Lab staff member is encouraged.
The applications will be evaluated on an ongoing basis according to the following criteria:
The following application will be reviewed on an rolling basis.
The application materials must be sent by email to Patricia Cheeseboro <pcheese@jlab.org>.
Inquiries about the fellowship program should be directed to: Douglas Higinbotham (doug@jlab.org)
Press releases about past winners of the program can be found at the following links: