The Users' Executive Committee (UEC) represents the scientific user community at the NSLS. The UEC interacts with NSLS Administration, BNL, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the public in matters of user community issues, facility operation, policies, and improvements.

General members are elected for a term of two (2) years. The nominating committee has prepared the following slate of candidates who have agreed to run for election for the 2012-2013 term. Six (6) general member candidates will be elected by a majority vote. Election results will be announced at the afternoon session of the main meeting at the NSLS Annual Users' Meeting. You must be an active NSLS user in order to vote.

Deadline: Votes must be cast by 5/21/2012.

Please choose up to six (6) candidates.

	Dario Arena, BNL-Photon Sciences Dario Arena is a Physicist at the Photon Sciences Directorate at BNL, where he is the scientist in charge of NSLS beam line U4B, the Magnetics Material Characterization beam line. In addition to extensive support of general users, Dario has developed an active research program focussing on soft x-ray spectroscopy of magnetic materials and complex oxides. He is a co-developer of XFMR, which combines x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) with ferromagnetic resonance (FMR); XFMR is a technique that examines ultrafast magnetization dynamics and which has been adopted at numerous third generation synchrotron sources in the US and Europe. Dario has served on the NSLS allocation committee, on proposal review committees at the APS, ALS and SSRL, and he currently is Chair of the APS Sector 4 beam line advisory committee. Dario has a strong connection with the Materials Science community and is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference, and a Member of both the IEEE Technical Committee on Magnetism an the Topical Group on Magnetism (GMAG) of the American Physical Society. He has a particular interest in expanding the use of soft x-ray techniques at NSLS-II for these communities and materials science in general.
	Annie Heroux, BNL-Photon Sciences
	Jean Jordan-Sweet, IBM Jean Jordan-Sweet is a Research Staff Member in the Silicon Technology Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. She has been the resident scientist and manager of the IBM x-ray beamlines at X20 since 1986, after two years as a postdoc on the VUV ring at U8. Her interests include the application of a wide range of x-ray techniques to study materials used in microelectronic device fabrication. Jean has a long history at the NSLS and has served on numerous committees, including the UEC, Proposal Allocation Panel, BNL’s Community Advisory Council, and a stint as UEC Chair in 1994. This experience gives her the institutional knowledge and perspective to help guide the NSLS through its remaining years. She is also keenly interested in user access to the NSLS-II and the capabilities that will exist for us there.
	Wah-Keat Lee, BNL-Photon Sciences Wah-Keat Lee is the group leader for the Full-field X-ray Imaging beamline for the NSLSII. Prior to coming here, he worked at the Advanced Photon Source for 21 years where he worked on x-ray optics and full-field imaging. He was responsible for developing the 32-ID beamline at the APS into a dedicated full-field imaging facility. Together with his colleagues at the APS, he pioneered ultrafast x-ray imaging techniques and the use of x-ray imaging to study insect physiology. His scientific interest is in looking at real dynamical systems in real time. He is also interested is in outreach: expanding the user community to new disciplines and small institutions; and, reaching local communities to encourage science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs in schools.
	Joe Lidestri, Columbia University
	Karl Ludwig, Boston University Karl Ludwig is a Professor of Physics and faculty member of the Materials Science and Engineering graduate program at Boston University. He has been a user of synchrotron sources since his thesis work at SSRL in the early 1980’s. In recent years his research has focused primarily on in-situ studies of the dynamics of materials processes, particularly at surfaces. This uses principally a dedicated facility at beamline X21 developed for the real time study of thin film growth and nanoscale surface patterning. In recent years his group has also used beamlines X18, X23 and X24 for studies of oxide surfaces at ambient pressure. Beyond NSLS, Ludwig has performed real-time studies at CHESS, and coherent x-ray scattering experiments at APS, ESRF and LCLS. In the past, Ludwig has served as the Chair of the New England Section of the American Physical Society and the Chair of the Condensed Matter Physics Review Panel at APS. Currently he is a member of the NSLS Proposal Oversight Panel (POP) and is participating in planning for NSLS-II user capabilities as spokesperson for the ISR BAT and as a member of the CHX BAT. Ludwig would like to ensure that the NSLS user community can productively use the current facility as long as possible before shutdown, and that it can transition successfully to the new opportunities the NSLS-II will offer.
	Ben Ocko, BNL-Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Ben Ocko has been working at the NSLS since 1986 and he is currently the local contact at X22B. He has also been a user at X22A, X9, X6B and X10B, the APS, ESRF, HASYLAB and he has led the construction of several beamlines and endstations. Ben is currently the Group leader for Soft Matter Physics in the Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Sciences at BNL where he leads a group of six. He led the successful proposal effort for the Soft Matters Interfaces Beamline for NSLS II that is part of the NEXT project. Ben has helped organize workshops for the NSLS and Materials Research Society, and he is on the scientific advisory board of the Surface Neutron and X-ray Scattering Conference. His research interests include liquid surfaces and interfaces, polymers, organic photovoltaic devices, ionic liquids, surfaces freezing, and grazing incident small angle x-ray scattering. Ben would like to help ensure that the transition to NSLS II encompasses the greatest number of current NSLS users.
	Jon Rameau, BNL-Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Jonathan R Rameau received his PhD from Stony Brook University in 2009 after completing dissertation work at the NSLS in the Electron Spectroscopy Group of BNL's Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department with Peter Johnson as my advisor. His work at the NSLS focused on high resolution Angle Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy (ARPES) performed at beamline U13UB at the UV ring as well as setting up a laser ARPES facility based on the Ti:Sapphire laser system at U6. Jon was awarded the Julian Baumert thesis award for his work at the NSLS toward completing his degree. In addition to his own work and that of the group at large Jon also tended users at the beamline and enjoyed using the facilities at the CFN. He has since joined the Electron Spectroscopy group as a post doc and have served the past year as a SPiG rep for "timing experiments", and subsequently as a member at large, on the NSLS-CFN Users' Executive Committee.
	Bruce Ravel, National Institute of Standards and Technology Bruce Ravel is a member of the Synchrotron Methods Group in the National Institute of Standards and Technology Materials Measurement Laboratory and the local contact for X23A2, NIST's X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy beamline. Bruce has been an NSLS user since graduate school. He is known for his contributions to XAS, including as a teacher at frequent training workshops and as co-author of a suite of XAS data analysis software. Along with his colleagues at NIST, Bruce is developing the BMM beamline for NSLS-II. He is also the chair of the beamline advisory team for the NEXT Inner Shell Spectroscopy beamline.
	David Starr, BNL-Center for Functional Nanomaterials David Starr is an Associate Scientist in the Interface Science and Catalysis Group of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory. David operates the Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy end-station at beamline X1A1 of the NSLS. His research focuses on developing and using surface sensitive experimental techniques, particularly synchrotron-based photoelectron spectroscopy, to study model catalysts in-situ and in-operando. He is interested in facilitating access to NSLS and NSLS-II for users of the CFN and vice versa.
	Eli Stavitski, BNL-Photon Sciences Eli Stavitski is currently a local contact for the infrared imaging beamlines, U10B and U2B. As a member of Low Energy Spectroscopy Group at NSLS, his research interests focus on developing new instrumentation for infrared spectroscopic imaging and time-resolved measurements, aiming at broad range of scientific communities, from biomedical research to material science and heterogeneous catalysis. Although primarily concerned with infrared activities at NSLS, he is strongly engaged in synthesis and X-ray assisted characterization of advanced materials for energy related applications, among them carbon dioxide sequestration, gas separation and green catalysis. He is especially interested in advancing the infrared program and building a vibrant infrared user community at NSLS-II.
	Peter Stephens, Stony Brook University As assistant, associate, and full professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department of Stony Brook University, I have been a habitual user of the NSLS since 1985, in a scientific program largely based on the use of high resolution powder diffraction. I have twice served as chair of the NSLS User Executive committee (1996-97, 2005-6), and am a member of the NSLS-II X-ray Powder Diffraction project beamline BAT. I am a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the US National Committee on Crystallography. We face a number of critical issues in the transition from NSLS to NSLS-II in the next few years, and it will take a strong voice from the user community to help guide the shift from one very productive facility to the next.