NPPS Leadership Team

[Brett Viren <bv AT bnl.gov>]

Hi Cedric,

Yes, these are both good points.  They change my mind.  Both positions
would benefit from the option of allowing either a BNL xor a CERN home
base!

-Brett.

Cedric Serfon <cedric.serfon AT cern.ch> writes:

> Hi,
>
>  > It makes sense to me for new BelleII person to be BNL-based.
>
> There are also good arguments to have CERN based people for Belle II :
> - Timezone : Given the 13 hours difference (14 in winter) between KEK and 
> BNL, there is no working hours
> overlap. That makes it complicated to have common meetings.
> - Belle II uses Rucio and Dirac which core teams are both based at CERN. In 
> particular, since Dirac will
> have a major rewrite, that's important to have people following these 
> development closely (PS : I will try
> again to propose Panda, but that's hopeless...)
>
> Let's hope that this time, this limitation won't have any negative impact 
> on the pool of candidates.
>
> Cedric
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> De : Phys-npps-mgmt-l <phys-npps-mgmt-l-bounces AT lists.bnl.gov> de la part 
> de Brett Viren via
> Phys-npps-mgmt-l <phys-npps-mgmt-l AT lists.bnl.gov>
> Envoyé : lundi 10 juillet 2023 15:19
> À : Torre Wenaus via Phys-npps-mgmt-l <phys-npps-mgmt-l AT lists.bnl.gov>
> Objet : Re: [Phys-npps-mgmt-l] New positions
>  
> Hi Torre,
>
> Torre Wenaus via Phys-npps-mgmt-l <phys-npps-mgmt-l AT lists.bnl.gov>
> writes:
>
>> There was a lot of back and forth with HR about making CERN location a 
>> possibility. At the moment we
> have
>> to choose between BNL and CERN location.
>>
>> Hence this one is BNL, the DUNE one will be CERN, based both on
>> fit and on the known candidates.
>
> It makes sense to me for new BelleII person to be BNL-based.
>
> I can think of a few reasons both for or against either choice of CERN
> or BNL for the DUNE position.  I think either will be good depending on
> the candidate.
>
> Forcing us to choose a specific one a'priori will obviously reduce the
> pool of qualified candidates.  Doing that is not in the best interest of
> the lab.  It is very difficult to find qualified candidates for this
> type of position so this limitation is particularly detrimental.
>
> Did HR give a justification for imposing this harmful limitation?
>
> O.w., the text looks good to me.
>
> -Brett.

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