sPHENIX Institutional Board

["Chamizo Llatas, Maria" <mchamizo AT bnl.gov>]

Dear IB members: 

 

Thank you for voting in the first round of the sPHENIX spokesperson election. We had nearly 85% participation and the results were very close among the three pairs of candidates, with none receiving more than 50% of the votes in this round. The top two vote getters are:  

• Dennis Perepelitsa & Anne Sickles
• Megan Connors & Jin Huang

 

The SP election nominating committee warmly thanks Stefan Bathe and Hugo Pereira Da Silva for standing in the election. 

 

We will initiate a second round of the election which will be open from today, January 7, 2025, until January 16, 2025. Instructions on how to vote are provided below. 

 

Only the IB representative listed in the sPHENIX phonebook (https://phonebook.sdcc.bnl.gov/sphenix/client/) can vote on behalf of your institute. Votes from anyone else will not be considered.

 

To cast your vote, please follow these steps:

1. Send an email to the list  sphenix-spokesperson-nominating-committee AT lists.bnl.gov
2. Use the following subject line: Vote for sPHENIX Spokesperson - Round 2 - Institution XX (replace XX with your institution's name).
3. In the content of the email, include:

• ONE choice among the following options:

• Dennis Perepelitsa & Anne Sickles
• Megan Connors & Jin Huang

State your name and surname to confirm that you are the IB representative, in case your email address is not the one listed in the phonebook.

The voting for the second round will take place from January 7, 2025, to January 16, 2025. 

 

The candidate pair that receives more than 50% of the votes we be the winner and will be announced on January 17, 2025.

 

Maria Chamizo-LLatas (chair, BNL),

Rosi Reed (Lehigh University),  

Yuko Sekiguchi (RIKEN),

Tanner Mengel (UT Knoxville)