Governance

Program Directors
Kyungseon Joo (University of Connecticut), Principal Investigator, kyungseon.joo@uconn.edu
Christian Weiss (Jefferson Lab), Co-Investigator, weiss@jlab.org

 

Coordinating Committee
The Coordinating Committee (CC) is appointed by the program managers and consists of representatives from the US and Japan:

Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook University & Brookhaven National Lab)
Thia Keppel (Jefferson Lab)
Richard Milner (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jen-Chieh Peng (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Yuji Goto (RIKEN)
Shunzo Kumano (Japan Women's University & KEK)
Satoshi Nakamura (University of Tokyo)
Shinya Sawada (KEK)

The CC acts as a standing committee and reviews and judges the applications as they come in. The CC also evaluates the progress of the program on an annual basis and advises the program managers on areas of priority and further program development.

 

Funding
USJHPE is supported by the US Department of Energy under grant DE-SC0021359 "U.S.-Japan Hadronic Physics Exchange Program for Studies of Hadron Structure and QCD."