Open Letter to Congress on Science Funding

Senator Dianne Feinstein Chairman Energy & Water Appropriations Subcommittee Senator Lamar Alexander Ranking Member Energy & Water Appropriations Subcommittee March 1, 2011 Dear Chairman Feinstein and Sen. Alexander, We write in regards to the current proposed budget cuts on science, and the impact the cuts would have on the competitiveness of this nation, both in the short and long term. The economic health and world leadership of this country depends on an unbroken cycle of innovation, rooted in our ability to attract and educate new waves of creative young scientists and engineers, each year. It is this cycle of innovation, whose continuation depends on funding for basic research, that drives both basic and applied sciences, and the creation of new technologies and treatments that define and improve the quality of everyday life. In order for the cycle to remain unbroken, and for the nation's position of leadership to continue, basic research needs to be supported, even when the times demand strict fiscal responsibility. One never knows where the next transformative breakthrough will emerge, or who the next young scientist will be that creates it. The proposed cuts to the Department of Energy Office of Science, the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Standards and Technology would result in the immediate cessation of many scientifically critical activities, due in part to the layoff of thousands of scientists and engineers. The cuts would have a severe impact on cutting-edge research in areas such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, high-speed computing, advanced materials and photonics, as well as high energy physics, nuclear physics and fusion energy sciences. At a time when we are seeking to spark economic growth and encourage talented young people to pursue careers in science and engineering, reducing federal support for science research and education is counterproductive. It is basic research that motivates many young people to study science. Such cuts will only hurt our competitiveness, especially at a time when emerging economies such as China and India are ramping up their investments in scientific research and education, and are learning to form their own generations of young innovators. As young scientists and our mentors, we ask that you make science a priority and fund basic research at a level that provides long term growth as an investment, both in our future and our nation’s future. There are many exciting questions that we can only address if provided sufficient resources, not only this year but in the coming years as well. The tools and techniques that we develop in pursuit of these answers will have a lasting benefit to our country and society. Sincerely, 1. Robert Roser, Fermilab, Batavia IL 2. Ben Kilminster, Fermilab, Batavia IL 3. Katherine Copic, Columbia University, New York, NY 4. Andrey Elagin, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 5. Elisabetta Pianori University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 6. Robyn Madrak, Fermilab, Batavia IL 7. Daniel Whiteson, UC Irvine, Irvine CA 8. Farrukh Azfar, Oxford, Batavia IL 9. Satyajit Behari, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore <d 10. Tom Schwarz, UC Davis, Davis CA 11. Ford Garberson, University of Chicago, Chicago IL 12. Andrey Loginov, Yale University, New Haven CT 13. Heather Ray, University of Florida, Gainseville Fl 14. Emma Alexander, Yale, Atlanta, Georgia 15. Jonathan S. Wilson, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 16. Rob Forrest, UC Davis, Davis CA 17. Dr Charles Plager, UCLA, Los Angeles CA 18. Kai Yi, University of Iowa, Iowa City Iowa 19. Bodhitha Jayatilaka, Duke University, Durham NC 20. Matthew Heintze, University of Florida, Gainseville FL 21. Yen-Chu Chen Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China 22. Kyle Knoepfel, Fermilab, Batavia IL 23. Deepak Kar, University of Dresden, Dresden Germany 24. Alison Lister, UC Davis, Davis CA 25. Valeria Bartsch, University of Susex, Falmer UK 26. Harinder Singh Bawa, UC Fresno, Fresno CA 27. Heather Gerberich, University of Illinios, Urbana IL 28. Chang Seong Moon, Seoul National University, Seoul Korea 29. Tingjun Yang, Fermilab, Batavia IL 30. Sebastian Grinstein, IFAE Barcelona, Spain 31. Max Goncharov, MIT, Boston MA 32. Michal Kreps, University of Warwick, Coventry UK 33. Giulia Manca, University of Cagliari, Cagliari Italy 34. Mousumi Datta, Fermilab, Batavia IL 35. Bonnie T. Fleming, Yale University New Haven CT 36. Sasha Pronko, LBL, Berkeley CA 37. Efe Yazgan, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 38. Diego Tonelli, Fermilab, Batavia IL 39. Sergo Jindariani, Fermilab, Batavia IL 40. Meghan McAteer, University of Texas, Austin TX 41. Olga Norniella, UIUC, Urbana Champaign IL 42. David Cox, UC Davis, Davis CA 43. Dongwook Jang, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 44. Justin Pilot, OSU, Columbus OH 45. Kirsten Tollefson, Michigan State, East Lansing MI 46. John Conway, UC Davis, Davis CA 47. Robin Erbacher, UC Davis, Davis CA 48. Leo Jenner, Fermilab, Batavia IL 49. Paola Garosi, University of Siena, Siena Italy 50. Xinchun Tian University of South Carolina, Columbia SC 51. Karen Bland, Baylor University, Waco Tx 52. Enrique Palencia, CERN, Geneva Switzerland 53. Joseph Walding, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA 54. Marcelle Soares-Santos, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 55. Prashant Subbaro, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 56. Halley Brown, Fermilab, Batavia IL 57. J.P. Chou, Brown University, Providence RI 58. Sudhir Malik, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Nebraska 59. Christian Pascal Graf, UIC, Chicago IL 60. Matthew Worcester, University of Chicago, Chicago IL 61. Ritoban Basu Thakur, Fermilab, Batavia IL 62. Carley Kopecky, UC Davis, Davis CA 63. Zeynep Isvan, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 64. Derek Strom, UIC, Chicago IL 65. Dr Christina Mesropian, Rockefeller University, NYC NY 66. Ayesh Jayasinghe, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 67. Gary Cheng, Columbia, NYC NY 68. Suneel Dutt, Panjab University, Chandigarh India 69. James Monk, UCL, London UK 70. Aaron Morris, Northern Illinois Univ. Dekalb IL 71. Jacob Linacre, Fermilab, Batavia IL 72. Ioana Anghel, UIC, Chicago IL 73. Ian Howley University of Texas, Arlington TX 74. Karolos Potamianos, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN 75. Shulamit Moed Sher, Harvard University, Boston MA 76. Jason St. John, Boston University, Boston MA 77. Bruno Casal, ETH Zurich, Zurich Switzerland 78. Gavril Giurgiu, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD 79. Alexander Paramonov, Argonne National Lab, Argonne IL 80. Bari Osmanov, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 81. Jeffrey Kubo, Fermilab, Batavia IL 82. Adam Patch, Yale University, New Haven IL 83. Anna Mazzacane, Fermilab, Batavia IL 84. Michael Peter Cooke, Fermilab, Batavia IL 85. Benjamin Auerbach, Yale University, New Haven CT 86. Warren Clarida, University of Iowa, Iowa City IA 87. Ricky Fok, University of Oregon, Eugene OR 88. Samvel Khalatyan, UIC Chicago IL 89. Miguel Mondragon, Fermilab, Batavia IL 90. Federico Sforza, PISA University, PISA Italy 91. Jon Wilson, OSU, Columbus Ohio 92. Jonathan Asaadi, Texas A&M, College Station TX 93. Edward Laird, Princeton, Princeton NJ 94. Dean Andrew Hidas, Rutgers University, Piscataway NJ 95. Irkli Chakaberia, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS 96. Mark Mathis, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA 97. Alejandro de la Puente, Notre Dame, South Bend Indiana 98. Yaofu Zhou, IIT, Chicago IL 99. Sarah Lockwitz, Yale University, New Haven CT 100. Douglas Orbaker, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 101. Joseph Haley, Northeastern University, Boston MA 102. Steve Nahn, MIT, Boston MA 103. Harvey Newman, Caltech, Pasadena CA 104. Austin Napier, Tufts, Medford MA 105. Sarah Demers, Yale, New Haven CT 106. JoAnne Hewett, SLAC/Stanford, Stanford CA 107. Jean-Luc Vay, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 108. Tatiana Rodriguez, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 109. Evan Friis, UC Davis, Davis California 110. Anyes Tafford, UC Irvine, Irvine CA 111. Avto Kharchilava, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo NY 112. Georgia Karagiorgi Columbia University, NYC NY 113. Aaron Mislivec, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 114. William J Willis, Columbia University, NYC NY 115. Michael Murray, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS 116. Victor Yarba, Fermilab, Batavia IL 117. Florencia Canelli, University of Chicago/Fermilab, Chicago IL 118. Stefan M.Spanier, University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 119. Pushpa Bhat, Fermilab, Batavia IL 120. James Wetzel, University of Iowa, Iowa City Ia 121. John Penwell, Indiana University, Bloomington IN 122. Igor Gorelov, University of New Mexico, Albequerque NM 123. Barbara Alvarez Gonzalez, MSU, East Lansing MI 124. Mauro Donega, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 125. Angela Galtieri, LBL, Berkeley CA 126. Josehp F Muratore, BNL, Upton New York 127. Julie Managan, Rice University, Houston TX 128. Elizabeth H. Simmons, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 129. Elisa Pueschel, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 130. Ben Brau, U. Mass., Amherst MA 131. Jennifer Klay , California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo CA 132. Daryl Hare, Rutgers University, Springfield NJ 133. Daniel McDonald, Rice University, Houston TX 134. Sridhara Dasu, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI 135. Steven Blusk, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY 136. Fabrizio Margaroli, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN 137. John Strologas, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 138. Nathan Goldschmidt, University of Florida, Gainesville Fl 139. Eva Halkiadakis, Rutgers, Picsataway NJ 140. Howard Haber UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz CA 141. Hongliang Liu, UC Riverside, Riverside CA 142. Stephen Parke, Fermilab, Batavia IL 143. Joachim Kopp, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 144. Alan Fisher, SLAC, Menlo Park CA 145. Jacobo Konigsberg, University of Florida, Gainesville FL 146. Zeno D. Greenwood, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston LA 147. Harrison B. Prosper, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL 148. Nikolai Smirnov, Yale University, New Haven CT 149. Nick Evans, University of Texas, Austin TX 150. Michael E. Peskin, SLAC, Stanford University, Stanford, California 151. Lawrence S. Pinsky, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 152. Bo Fenton-Olsen, LBL, Berkeley CA 153. Carlo Dallapiccola, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA 154. Ron Madras, LBL, Berkeley CA 155. Paddy Fox, Fermilab, Batavia IL 156. Lance Dixon, SLAC, Menlo Park CA 157. Douglas Wright, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Pleasanton CA 158. Ian Shipsey, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN 159. Reid Mumford, Salt lake City Utah 160. Pamela Klabbers, University of Wisconsin, Madison Wisconsin 161. Richard A. Vidal, Fermilab, Batavia IL 162. Ankush Mitra, Academia Sinica, Taipei Taiwan 163. Robert Hirosky, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA 164. Chris Neu, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA 165. Lina Galtieri, LBL, Berkeley CA 166. Marco Trovato, University of PISA, PISA Italy 167. Elizabeth Worcester, University of Chicago, Chicago IL 168. Leo Sabato, University of PISA, PISA Italy 169. Yu Zeng, Duke University, Durham NC 170. Yine Sun, Fermilab, Batavia IL 171. Viktoriya Zvoda, Fermilab, Batavia IL 172. Hatim Hegab, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater OK 173. Alexey Naumov, Fermilab, Batavia IL 174. Andrei Khilkevich, Fermilab, Batavia IL 175. Azeddine Kasmi, Baylor University, Waco TX 176. Robert Zwaska, Fermilab, Batavia IL 177. Alexander Romanenko, Fermilab, Batavia IL 178. Denise C. Ford, Northwestern University, Evanston IL 179. Kenichi Hatakeyama, Baylor University, Waco TX 180. Geum Bong Yu, Duke University, Durham NC 181. Tim Maxwell, Northern Illinois, Dekalb IL 182. Jun Guo, Columbia University, New York, NY 183. Liang Li, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 184. Gianluca Petrillo, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 185. Dr. Tyler Dorland, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. 186. Jesus Orduna, Rice University, Huston, TX 187. Mark A. Padilla, University of California Riverside, Riverside CA. 188. Zhenyu Ye, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 189. Andrew Kobach, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 190. Hang Yin, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 191. Ryan J. Hooper, Bradley University, Peoria, IL 61625 192. Ashish Kumar, SUNY Buffalo, NY 193. Kayle DeVaughan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 194. Dennis Mackin, Rice University, Houston, TX 195. Avdhesh Chandra Rice University, Houston, TX 196. Juliette Alimena, Brown University, Providence, RI 197. Satish Desai Fermilab, Batavia, IL 198. Jadranka Sekaric University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 199. Dale Johnston, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE 200. Dr. Andrew Haas, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA. 201. Kathryn Tschann-Grimm, Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 202. Peter Renkel, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. 203. Marc Buehler (PhD), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 204. Oleksiy Atramentov, Research Associate, Rutgers U., New Brunswick, NJ 205. Shabnam Jabeen, Brown University Providence, RI 206. Subhendu Chakrabarti, State University of New York, Stony Brook 207. Alex Melnitchouk, University of Mississippi, University, MS 208. Michael Eads, University of Nebraska – Lincoln 209. Michael Wang, Unversity of Rochester, Rochester, NY 210. Carrie McGivern, University of Kansas 211. Diego Menezes, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL. 212. Ioannis Katsanos, University of Nebraska – Lincoln 213. Trang Hoang, Florida State University, Tallahassee, IL 214. Sung Woo, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 215. Sehwook Lee, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 216. Maiko Takahashi, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 217. Dmitry Bandurin, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 218. Leah Welty-Rieger, Northwestern University, Evanston IL 219. Amitabha Das University of Arizona 220. Xuebing Bu, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL 221. Joseph G Haley Northeastern U Boston, MA 222. Bjoern Penning, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL 223. Andreas Jung, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 224. Daniel Boline , SUNY at Stony Brook, NY 225. Mandy Rominsky, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL 226. Michelle Prewitt, Rice University, Houston, TX 227. Kenneth Herner, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 228. Mark Williams, Fermilab International Fellow, Chicago, Il 229. Yunhe Xie, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 230. Gabriel Facini, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 231. John Backus Mayes, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 232. Harold Nguyen, Univ. of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 233. Anton Kravchenko, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 234. Ryan M White, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 235. David Doll, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 236. Bradley Wray, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 237. Alexander Rakitin, California Inst. of Technology, Pasadena, CA 238. Daniel Chao, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 239. Alexander Palmer, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX 240. Gil Vitug, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA 241. Rajarshi Das, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 242. Chih-hsiang Cheng, California Inst. of Technology, San Jose, CA 243. Bertrand Echenard, California Inst. of Technology, Pasadena, CA 244. Liang Sun, Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 245. Ada Rubin, Iowa State University, San Jose, Ca 246. Mikhail Dubrovin, SLAC, Menlo Park, CA 247. Andy Ruland, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 248. Jaclyn Schwehr, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 249. Bryan Fulsom, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 250. Chris Bouchard; University of Illinois; Urbana, IL 251. Daping Du; University of Iowa; Iowa City, IA 252. Gordan Krnjaic; Johns Hopkins University; Baltimore, MD 253. Tim Linden; University of California at Santa Cruz; Santa Cruz, CA 254. Mark Mattson, Wayne State University, Detroit MI 255. Robert Craig Group, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA 256. Artur Apresian, Caltech, Pasadena CA 257. Donatella Toretta, Fermilab, Batavia IL 258. Kate Scholberg, Dune University, Durham NC 259. Vito Di Benedetto, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy. 260. Eric Feng, University of Chicago, Chicago IL 261. Tami Kramer, Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois 262. Nicholas Hadley, The University of Maryland, College Park, MD 263. Paul Sheldon, Vanderbilt Univerisity, Nashville, TN 264. Daniela Bortoletto, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 265. Paul Padley, Rice University, Houston, TX. 266. Stanley Durkin, Ohio State University, Columbus OH 267. Kenneth Bloom, the University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE 268. Robert M. Harris, Fermilab, Batavia Illinois 269. Luc Demortier, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 270. Greg Landsberg, Brown University, Providence RI 271. Tao Han Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 272. Manfred Paulini, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 273. Nikos Varelas, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 274. Brad Cox, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 275. J. William Gary, University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA 276. Marcus Hohlmann, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 277. Daniel Elvira, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 278. Jun Miyamoto, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 279. Wesley Smith, U. Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI 280. Norbert Neumeister, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN 281. Bruce A. Barnett, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 282. David Saltzberg, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 283. Cecilia E. Gerber, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 284. Robert Clare, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 285. Alan Weinstein, Caltech, Pasadena CA 286. Hans P. Paar, University of California, San Diego 287. Edwin Norbeck, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 288. Claudio Campagnari, University Of California, Santa Barbara, CA 289. Yasar Onel, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 290. Ren-yuan Zhu, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 291. Colin Jessop, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN 292. Christopher G. Tully, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 293. Marc Baarmand, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida 294. Liz Sexton-Kennedy, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 295. Dimitri Bourilkov, University of Florida, Gainesville 296. Guenakh Mitselmakher, Universtity of Florida, Gainesville, FL 297. Yuri Gershtein, Rutgers, Piscataway, NJ 298. William T. Ford, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 299. Pierre Ramond, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 300. Richard Lander, University of California, Davis, Davis CA 301. Jim Alexander, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 302. Pete Markowitz, Florida International University, Miami, FL 303. Frank Wuerthwein, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 304. Cecilia Gerber, Univ. of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL 305. Mitchell Wayne, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 306. Kaori Maeshima, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 307. David Stickland, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 308. Peter Elmer, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 309. Lothar Bauerdick, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL 310. Igor Vorobiev, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 311. Frank Geurts, Rice University, Houston TX 312. Vasken Hagopian, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 313. Sharon Hagopian, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 314. David E. Pellett, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 315. Richard Breedon, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 316. Dick Loveless, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 317. Anders Ryd, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 318. Vivek Sharma, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Ca 319. Tim Doody, Fermilab, Batavia IL 320. Joe Incandela, UC Santa Barbara, Sanata Barbara, CA 321. Stanley J. Brodsky, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 322. Douglas Glenzinski, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 323. Marj Corcoran, Rice University, Houston, TX 324. Duncan Carlsmith, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 325. Philip Baringer, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 326. Jon A Bakken, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 327. Lawrence Sulak, Boston University, Boston, MA 328. Robert Harr, Wayne State University, Detroit MI 329. Virgil Barnes, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 330. George Alverson, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 331. Don Reeder, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 332. Michael Schmitt, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 333. Kamal K. Seth, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 334. André de Gouvêa, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 335. Brian Heltsley, Cornell University, Cornell, NY 336. Suharyo Sumowidagdo, University of California, Riverside, Riverside CA 337. Weimin Wu, Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois 338. Andriy Zatserklyaniy, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR 339. Philip D. Lawson, Boston University, Boston MA 340. Alexei Safonov, Texas A&M University, Colleeg Station TX 341. Christopher Neu, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 342. Petar Maksimovic, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 343. Keith Ulmer, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 344. Selcuk Cihangir, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL 345. William Tanenbaum, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 346. Christopher Justus, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. 347. Edmund Berry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 348. Aran Garcia-Bellido, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 349. Remigius K Mommsen, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 350. David Stuart, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 351. Salvatore Rappoccio, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 352. Tia Miceli, University of California Davis, Davis CA 353. Sinjini Sengupta, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 354. Sorina Popescu, Fermilab, Batavia IL 355. Andrew Askew, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 356. Frank Chlebana, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 357. Nhan Tran, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 358. Ted Kolberg, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 359. Julia Yarba, Fermilab, Batavia IL 360. Kirk Arndt, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 361. Jeffrey Temple, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 362. Robert L Stone, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 363. Aram Avetisyan, Brown University, Providence, RI 364. Dorian Kcira, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 365. Valentin Kuznetsov, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 366. Nancy Marinelli, Univ. of Notre Dame – Notre Dame, IN 367. Jacob Anderson, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 368. Seth Cooper, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 369. Andres Florez, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 370. Yuriy Pischalnikov, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 371. Seema Sharma, Fermilab, Batavia IL 372. Alexi Mestvirishvili, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 373. Yuyi Guo, Fermilab, Batavia IL 374. Jorge L. Rodriguez, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 375. Oliver Gutsche, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 376. Jeffrey Kolb, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN 377. Francisco Yumiceva, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 378. Roy Joaquin Montalvo, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 379. Steven Lowette, UCSB, Santa Barbara, California 380. Igor Vodopiyanov, Florida Institute of Technology,Melbourne, FL 381. James Zabel, Rice University, Houston, TX 382. Yuriy Pakhotin, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 383. Jason Gilmore, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 384. Weiren Chou, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 385. J. Kandaswamy, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, CA 386. Jordan M. Tucker, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 387. Hongxuan Liu, Baylor University, Waco, TX 388. Christoph Paus, MIT, Cambridge, MA 389. Armando LANARO, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 390. Tiesheng Dai, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 391. Chi M. Lei, Fermilab, Batavia, IL 392. George S.F. Stephans, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 393. Ye Li, Northwestern University, Evanston IL 394. Will Flanagan, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 395. James Gainer, Northwestern University, Evanston IL 396. Kunal Kumar, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 397. Bernadette Heyburn, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 398. Don Summers, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 399. Eric Vaandering, Fermilab, Batavia IL 400. Dimitris Varouchas, LBNL, Berkeley, CA 401. Burton DeWilde, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 402. Josh Cogan, SLAC/Stanford, Palo Alto, CA (voter in Indianland, SC) 403. M. Saleem, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 404. Paul Jackson, SLAC/Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 405. Devin Harper, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 406. Mark Oreglia, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 407. Darren Price, Indiana University, Bloomington IN 408. Kevin Finelli, Duke University, Durham, NC 409. John Stupak, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 410. James Degenhardt, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 411. Dilip Jana, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 412. Krzysztof Sliwa, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 413. Hayes Dee Meritt, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 414. Steven Farrell, University of California, Irvine, CA 415. Joseph Tuggle, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 416. Tetteh Addy, Hampton University, Hampton, VA 417. Lashkar Kashif, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 418. Ning Zhou, University of California, Irvine, CA 419. Seth Zenz, University of California, Berkeley, CA 420. Michael Werth, University of California, Irvine, CA 421. Jianrong Deng, University California, Irvine, CA 422. Dominick Olivito, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 423. Joshua Moss, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 424. Zachary Marshall, graduate of Calech, Malibu, CA 425. Andrew Nelson, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 426. Tim Andeen, Columbia University, New York, NY 427. Robert Calkins, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 428. Caleb Lampen, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 429. Kevin Slagle, University of California, Irvine, CA 430. Louise Skinnari, University of California, Berkeley, CA 431. Fayez Mahmoud Abu-Ajamieh,Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL 432. Lauren Tompkins, University of California, Berkeley, CA 433. Kevin O’Connell, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 434. Maxwell I. Scherzer, University of California, Berkeley, CA 435. Danial Slichter, University of California, Berkeley, CA 436. Woochun Park, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 437. Jae Jun Kim, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 438. Matthew Relich, University of California, Irvine, CA 439. Scott Aefsky, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 440. Reza AmirArjomand, University of California, Irvine, CA 441. Shannon MacKenzie, University of Louisville, Louisville KY 442. Fabien Tarrade, Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, NY 443. Chad Suhr, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 444. Xin Qian, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 445. Jedrzej Biesiada, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 446. Corrinne mills, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 447. Brokk Toggerson, University of California, Irvine, CA 448. Stephanie Majewski, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 449. Rajivalochan Subramaniam, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 450. Andre M. Bach, UC Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA 451. Hideki Okawa, University of California, Irvine, CA 452. Zhen Yan, Boston University, Boston, MA 453. Robert Harrington, Boston University, Boston, MA 454. Emily Thompson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 455. Christopher K. Vermilion, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 456. William Edson, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 457. William S. Lockman, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 458. Dmitri Smirnov, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 459. James Saxon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 460. Matthew Hickman, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 461. Kurt Brendlinger, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 462. Bradley Dober, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 463. Alex Long, Boston University, Boston, MA 464. Chris Potter, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 465. Peter Radloff, University of Oregon, Eugene OR 466. W. Thomas Meyer, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 467. Usha Mallik, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 468. Simona Malace, Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA 469. German Colón, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 470. Therese Jones, University of California, Berkeley, CA 471. Jessica Metcalfe, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 472. Anze Slosar, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY 473. Sarah Newman,University of California, Berkeley, CA 474. Shirley Ho, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 475. Kyoko Yamamoto, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 476. Eyal Kazin, New York University, New York, NY 477. Alexander Tuna, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 478. Regina Caputo, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 479. Alfred Goshaw, Duke University, Durham, NC