EIC User Group

The EICUG Organization


Purpose

The Electron-Ion Collider User Group (EICUG) is an international affiliation of scientists dedicated to developing and promoting the scientific, technological, and educational goals and motivations for a new high energy Electron-Ion Collider. A detailed scientific description can be found in the last edition of the White Paper (Eur.Phys.J. A 52 (2016) 268), as well as in the EIC Yellow Report (Nucl.Phys. A1026 (2022) 122447), which contains also a detailed description of the requirements for a general-purpose large-acceptance conceptual detector. The EIC has been recommended as highest priority in both the 2015 U.S. Nuclear Science Advisory Committee Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science “Reaching for the Horizon”, and the 2023 U.S. Nuclear Science Advisory Committee Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science “New Era of Discovery”.


Membership, Phone Book and Organization

Membership in the EICUG is open to all scientists actively engaged in Electron-Ion Collider related science, detector R&D, simulations and design. Information regarding joining the EICUG is available at the dedicated page on this site. The EICUG maintains its membership database, a.k.a. the “phone book”. The EICUG organization is defined by the Phase III of the EICUG Charter, which was approved in December of 2022. The Steering Committee has completed the implementation and the transition to the new structure described in this document by June 1, 2023. The previous Phase II Charter may be found here EICUG II Charter.



Governance

The EICUG is governed by the Steering Committee SC.

The SC is formed by twelve (12) members: the Chair line (Chair, Past Chair, Chair-elect), two regular members, two representatives from world regions outside the US, one early-career scientist, the Chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee DE&I, one representative of the ePIC Collaboration, two representatives selected by the host laboratories (Jefferson Lab, Brookhaven National Lab) / EIC Project.

The ePIC Collaboration and the host laboratories / EIC Project appoint their representatives for a one year term, and can reappoint or replace them at their discretion.

All other SC members are elected for a three-years term based on a broad call for volunteers and nominations to the entire EICUG community. Nominations for the elections shall be solicited by the Elections and Nominating Committee. Every year, three new members (one of which is the Chair-elect) shall be elected for three-years terms.

The SC appoints the Elections and Nominating Committee.

The officers of the EICUG are the SC Chair, the Chair-elect and the most recent Past Chair. The SC Chair is the EICUG Spokesperson.

The SC mailing list is eicug-sc@eicug.org


Steering Committee

Meetings

The EICUG Steering Committee meets weekly on Thursday, 10:00AM (EDT) for a 1h meeting discussing EICUG matters.

Current Leadership

Chair line

  • Chair: Marco Radici (INFN - Pavia, Italy), term August 2023 - August 2024
  • Chair-elect: Or Hen (MIT, USA), term August 2023 - August 2024
  • Past Chair: Renee Fatemi (University of Kentucky, USA), term August 2023 - August 2024

Regular Members

  • Tanja Horn (The Catholic University of America, USA), term January 2022 - August 2024
  • Martha Constantinou (Temple University, USA), term August 2023 - August 2026

International Representatives

  • Marta Ruspa (University of Torino and INFN-Torino, Italy), term August 2023 - August 2025
  • Asmita Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay), term January 2022 - August 2024

Early Career Member

  • Wenliang “Bill” Li (Stonybrook University CFNS, USA), term August 2023 - August 2025

DE&I Committee Chair

  • Alexander Jentsch (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA), term August 2023 - August 2024

Lab/EIC Project Representatives

  • Rolf Ent (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, USA)
  • Thomas Ullrich (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)

ePIC Representative

  • John Lajoie (Iowa State University, USA)

Information about previous leadership teams of the Steering Committee can be found at the “Previous Leadership” page.


Elections and Nominating Committee

  • Chair : Cristina Tuvè (University of Catania and INFN-Catania, Italy), term September 2021 - August 2024
  • Members
    • Adrian Dumitru (CUNY, USA), term September 2021 - August 2024
    • Bedangadas Mohanty (NISER, India), term September 2021 - August 2024
    • Marie Boer (Virginia Tech. University, USA), term August 2023 - August 2026
    • Guillaume Beuf (NCBJ, Poland), term August 2023 - August 2026


Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee

Chair line

  • Chair and Chair-elect: Alexander Jentsch (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA) term August 2023 - August 2024
  • Past Chair: not available

Regular Members

  • Asli Tandogan (University of Connecticut, USA), term August 2023 - August 2026
  • Fernando Flor (Yale Wright Lab, USA), term August 2023 - August 2025
  • Kavita Lalwani (MNIT Jaipur, India), term August 2023 - August 2024
  • Taushif Ahmed (University of Regensburg, Germany), term August 2023 - August 2024

Early career Member

  • Hu Zhi (KEK, Japan), term August 2023 - August 2026


Conference and Talks Committee

The Conference and Talks Committee coordinates EIC-related seminar, colloquia, workshop and conference activities and selects appropriate speakers from the members of the EICUG. Please contact eicug-talks@eicug.org in order to suggest speakers or to let the conference and talks committee members know of new talk opportunities.

The guidelines for the speakers can be found in the dedicated section of the “Conferences” page.

  • Co-chair : Nicole D’Hose (IRFU, CEA, University Paris-Saclay), term January 2023 - December 2024
  • Co-chair : Andrea Signori (University of Torino and INFN-Torino, Italy), term January 2023 - December 2024
  • Member : Shujie Li (Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory, USA), term August 2023 - August 2025


Charter Committee

Phase 3/4: ​January 2023 - current

  • Richard Milner (MIT, USA) (Co-chair)
  • Franck Sabatié (Saclay, France) (Co-chair)
  • John Arrington (LBL, USA)
  • Will Brooks (USM Valparaiso, Chile)
  • Olga Evdokimov (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, USA)
  • Yuji Goto (RIKEN, Japan)
  • Barbara Jacak (LBNL & Univ. California at Berkeley, USA)
  • Marco Radici (INFN Pavia, Italy)
  • Sevil Salur (Univ. Rutgers, USA)
  • Daria Sokhan (Univ. Glasgow, UK)


Previous Leadership Teams

For information about previous leadership teams of the IB, SC and other committees please see the “Previous Leadership” page.


Working Groups

Please see the working groups page for more information.