Update to council information for
the upcoming meeting.

The agenda s a follows

STAR COUNCIL MEETING AT BNL

Sunday, March 31, 2019 

Agenda:

        I. Approval of Meeting Minutes for last Council Meeting in July 2018

      II. Spokesperson Report – Helen Caines/Zhangbu Xu

    III. New Applications

AUC (Ahmed M. Hamed)

IISER Berhampur Application (Md. Nasim)

IIT Patna (Neha Shah)

IISER Tirupati (Chitrasen Jena)

    IV. Shift Report (Declan Keane)

      V. Run Status (Irakli Chakaberia, tbc)

    VI. Talks Committee Report (Lijuan Ruan)

  VII. STAR Juniors Report (Masha Sergeeva)

VIII. Next STAR Collaboration MeetingS  (All)

    IX. AOB

      X. Management discussion

 

There are several items and backup material.

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There has been a new application from a group to join STAR. That is  Ahmed Hamed, who is actually at STAR this week.
I enclosed and attached the information available so far. The attachment has the application.
Please if you have comments circulate to list.It will be discussed at the March Collaboration meeting.
best Flemming

From the council chair:

"Enclosed please find our first business matter for this year – an application from Prof. Ahmed Hamed, who is now leading AUC group, to formally join STAR. He requests to have his group (at least initially) affiliated through Texas A&M, and Saskia had confirmed that she endorses this request on behalf of her group. Below I also quote expression of support for this application from the STAR management side.

 

I plan to schedule the discussion of this application at our upcoming meeting in March; meanwhile, please kindly let me know if you have any questions on the application details;  I will communicate these to Ahmed."

 

From STAR mgt
On behalf of the STAR management team we are forwarding Prof. Ahmed Hamed's application for his new group at the American University of Cairo (AUC) to join STAR. Since Prof. Hamed's group does not yet have two members with PhDs he is requesting to join STAR with Texas A&M serving as their council representative. However, he would like to list AUC as his group's institute.

Prof. Hamed is a long time member of the STAR collaboration, working most recently with Prof. Mioduszewski from Texas A&M. He started  a new position at AUC this Fall. The management team unanimously supports Prof. Hamed's application, the details of which are attached to this email, and we ask that the Council consider his request at their earliest convenience.

I have cc'd Prof. Hamed in this Email in case you have any further questions for him about his application. Zhangbu and I are also happy to discuss this application.

Thanks

 Helen and Zhangbu
 for the STAR Management Team

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On 2/6 the following information was send out by the council chair documents attached to the blog

Enclosed please find application materials from Neha Shah and Md. Nasim together with the Spokesperson’s notes with some background on groups situation  (which was also discussed at our last meeting in July 2018), and management support for the applications.

 

I will add these add these application to the agenda on our upcoming March meeting.

Hi Olga,

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item 3

Enclosed please find  STAR membership application from IISER Tirupati group. To remind you, we had previewed this application at the last meeting, but ad been asked o postpone the vote until internal approvals are in place. Chitrasen is now asking us to proceed with review and voting, so I will be adding this application to our March meeting agenda.

 

As always, if you have any questions on the application ahead of the meeting, I will be happy to pass them along to Chitrasen.

 

Best regards,

Olga