The APSUO Steering Committee (SC) advises the Advanced Photon Source Director on matters affecting the user community, serves as an advocacy group for the Facility and its user community, and assures good communication between the APS user community and the APS management. Furthermore, the APSUO is responsible for organizing the APS Users Meetings. Consequently, it is important that all segments of the APS community are represented on the APSUO SC.

The following people have been nominated by the APSUO Steering Committee for the upcoming election:

1. Wesley R. Burghardt, Department of Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University
2. Lin Chen, Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory
3. David Cookson, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization
4. Stephen Durbin, Deptartment of Physics, Purdue University
5. Andrew J. Fisher, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis
6. Michael Garavito, Department of Biochemistry, Michigan State University
7. Lisa Keefe, Dept. of Biological, Chemical, and Physical Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology
8. Kenneth Kemner, Environmental Research Division, Argonne National Laboratory
9. John Rose, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia
10. David Rosenfeld, Central Research and Development, E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
11. Bernard Santarsiero, Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, University of Illinois at Chicago
12. Sunil K. Sinha, Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego

As in previous elections, six new members will be elected. We will use an electronic web-based voting procedure for the first time, with an open voting period prior to the APS users meeting. A list of current APSUO steering committee members can be found at: http://www.aps.anl.gov/apsuo/members/apsuosc.html

Additional Nominees

Any APSUO member may suggest additional candidates to the Steering Committee. Nominations will be accepted by petition of 18 or more current APSUO members (0.5% of APSUO membership) in support of each candidate. These petitions should be sent to apsuser@aps.anl.gov before 8 a.m. on September 10, 2001. It is the responsibility of the nominator to ensure that sufficient petitions are received before this deadline for the nomination to be accepted. A final slate of candidates will be announced at the beginning of the open voting period

Voting

Voting will take place from September 17 until 5:30 p.m. on October 10, 2001. A link to the APSUO ballot webpage will be available here during the voting period. Users will be asked to provide their name and APS users badge # to validate their ballot.

Results

Election results will be announced during the APS users meeting on October 11, 2001.