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Collaboration Coordinators


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titleCollaboration Chair Spokesperson (0.5 FTE)

The SeaQuest spokespersons are the leaders of the project and are the primary links between the laboratory and the experiment.  They are the principal sources of liaison with PPF, AD, TD, and SCD.  They are responsible for establishing work priorities, from which the work plans are created, as well as developing work procedures that satisfy the lab-specified ESHQ criteria.  Work priorities comprise the high-level Run-Plan and potential upgrades.  The priorities are defined consultation with the SpinQuest Institutional Board, the governing body of experiment and Collaboration Bylaws.  The Spokespersons are also responsible for working together with the laboratory ESHQ personnel and the PPD Operations Coordinator to ensure that collaborations are appropriated trained and execute their work in accordance with established work procedures and hazard mitigation protocols.  The spokespersons are also responsible for executing the operation plan of the experiment or delegating qualified personnel to do so as well as supervise the Run Coordinators.  The spokespersons also make the appropriate arrangements to ensure that experiment is staffed as needed.

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titlePosition Filed
 Dustin Keller (dustin@virginia.edu) and Kun Liu (liuk.pku@gmail.com)



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titleCollaboration Chair (0.5 FTE)

If the Chair is a Spokesperson then the Spokesperson just holds more responsibility to the Collaboration in regards to organization and to survey the Collaborations view and respecting the directions and interests of the group at large. Otherwise the Collaboration Chair has the same rights and privileges as a Spokesperson within the Collaboration.  The Chair is responsible for keeping the effort of the Collaboration organized and the ByLaws up to date.  The Chairs main function is to ensure that the direction of the experimental effort is following the interests of the Collaboration majority and to establish all required positions in the collaboration as well as ensure transitions in the Collaboration Coordinators and Working Group Leaders. The Collaboration Chair is the Chair of the PI meeting where critical collaboration decisions are made via a PI vote.  The Collaboration Chair also Chairs the Steering Committee.  The Chair shall organize the voice of the Collaboration and represent that voice to the experiments Spokespeople, FNAL and outside the Collaboration.  The Chair shall also attend the management meetings to represent the Collaboration interests.  The Chair will also help organizing collaboration meetings, keep track of Collaboration Full and Affiliated Members, keep or arranging others to keep the Biweekly Collaboration zoom meetings and hold meeting regarding Collaboration Business along with setting up any required voting platforms needing in the collaboration.  The Chairs appointment is not fix but will serve until passing to another collaborator.  If more than once person is interested in Chair or any position the present Chair will arrange a vote or setup a committee to establish an election or selection.

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titlePosition Filed
 Dustin Keller (dustin@jlab.org)


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titleDeputy Chair (0.5 FTE)

The Deputy Chair can hold IB meetings (and/or Steering Committee meetings) in the absence of the Collaboration Chair or request meetings without the Collaboration Chair present as needed.  The responsibility of the Deputy Chair is to make sure the Collaboration view and interests are represented as a whole and to ensure there is good communication between all members of the collaboration.  The Deputy Chair also helps organize the discussion of membership status of Institutions and individual Members, as necessary, especially the discussion of the introduction of new institutions.  The Deputy Chair works with the Spokespeople to ensure that the direction of the experimental effort is following the interests of the Collaboration majority and to establish all required positions in the collaboration as well as ensure transitions in the Collaboration Coordinators and Working Group Leaders.  The Deputy Chair may also attend the management meetings to represent the Collaboration interests.

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titlePosition Filled
 Steven Pate

If the Chair is a Spokesperson then the Spokesperson just holds more responsibility to the Collaboration in regards to organization and to survey the Collaborations view and respecting the directions and interests of the group at large. Otherwise the Collaboration Chair has the same rights and privileges as a Spokesperson within the Collaboration.  The Chair is responsible for keeping the effort of the Collaboration organized and the ByLaws up to date.  The Chairs main function is to ensure that the direction of the experimental effort is following the interests of the Collaboration majority and to establish all required positions in the collaboration as well as ensure transitions in the Collaboration Coordinators and Working Group Leaders. The Collaboration Chair is the Chair of the PI meeting where critical collaboration decisions are made via a PI vote.  The Chair shall organize the voice of the Collaboration and represent that voice to the experiments Spokespeople, FNAL and outside the Collaboration.  The Chair shall also attend the management meetings to represent the Collaboration interests.  The Chair will also help organizing collaboration meetings, keep track of Collaboration Full and Affiliated Members, keep or arranging others to keep the Biweekly Collaboration zoom meetings and hold meeting regarding Collaboration Business along with setting up any required voting platforms needing in the collaboration.  The Chairs appointment is not fix but will serve until passing to another collaborator.  If more than once person is interested in Chair or any position the present Chair will arrange a vote or setup a committee to establish an election or selection.

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titlePosition Open
 Dustin Keller (dustin@jlab.org)


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titleAnalysis Coordinator (0.5 FTE)

The Analysis Coordinator (AC) will help to lead and organize the physics analysis effort of the collaboration.  This person will be responsible for making the analysis tools available to the collaboration.  They will also hold regular (biweekly) analysis meetings which will initially focus on keeping track of the information gained from E906 and how to implement improvements and optimize the effort to reduce systematic uncertainty.  After E1039 data becomes available the focus will shift to optimization of reconstruction and analysis and producing results of the Sivers Function.  The Chair, PC and the AC will form physics working groups.  The AC will track analysis efforts, and make regular reports to the Collaboration on the over all analysis effort from the various working groups.  The AC ensures that the members of each working group and persons perusing publication follow the established protocol for the review, approval, and submission of all manuscripts for publication.  The AC will also maintain a web page archiving the analysis software packages, analysis notes, and analysis progress as well as any technical and collaboration publications.  The AC also serves as the Working Group Leader for the Sea Quark Sivers Function. The AC is also responsible for obtaining/maintaining resources for analysis, stable software (approved by Collaboration) and reconstruction.


The Analysis Coordinator assigns and manages a focused effort on the aspects of analysis:
  • Simulations
  • Systematics
  • Dilution Factor
  • Tracking/Reconstruction
  • Off-line Computing
  • Determining Alignment
  • Off-line t0
  • time-to-distant
  • Data Management and Computing at FNAL

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