From I_Hinchliffe@lbl.gov Wed May  4 18:39:41 2005
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 15:39:20 -0700
From: Ian Hinchliffe <I_Hinchliffe@lbl.gov>
To: Lynne H. Orr <orr@pas.rochester.edu>
Cc: Ulrich Baur <baur@ubhex.physics.buffalo.edu>
Subject: Re: Feynman LHC collaborative fellowships


Ground rules.
1) 500K is all you will get for the first year
2) More likely to get funded if the proponents give something up  as it 
shows they are willing to make a real contribution and not just looking 
for a handout
3) Visibility to universities and NSF is vital.

Therefore:

The Feynman LHC collaboratory fellowships and studentships.

a) Some university agrees to manage the program and disburse the funds 
directly to the recipients (vital to prevent loss in overhead). This is 
similar to the way Columbia disburses the NSF atlas money. The NSF only 
deals with that university. The director of the program is at that 
institute and does the admin work at no cost to the program (just like 
Willis did for atlas). This person could be one of you. This university 
receives a management fee of 20K per year and waives all other overhead.

b) Management board decides who gets the fellowships, which are awarded 
in an open competition.

c) Each year there are 20 studentships of 15K each and 9 postdoc awards 
of 20K each. The award must be spent over a two year period. Renewals 
are  possible but there is a lifetime limit of 2 awards

d) Student awards. The award goes to the student who can use it for any 
of the following.
    1) collaboration with another person on LHC related activities.
    2) a research project directly related to LHC
    3) Salary so they do not have to teach. This is conditional on the  
student's adviser guaranteeing that any support that the student is 
getting from a base grant will not be reduced.
As a condition of the award the student must travel to CERN for a period 
of a few weeks when all the other students will gather. Going to fnal or 
bnl or somewhere else is OK, but they have to be exposed to the 
excitement of a real laboratory with experiments so CERN is required. 
(This is part of the reason that Ryken works at BNL; RIHC is there). 
During the time at CERN, the management board ensures that there are 
some of its members or senior people nominated by them there to mentor 
the students. The cost of this travel is charged to existing grants (not 
to this program).

e) Postdoc awards.
These cannot be used for salary. Any other research related cost is 
allowed including paying expenses of a collaborator who travels. If the 
postdoc moves from one institute to another during the term of the 
award, the award moves with him/her.

This uses up the $500K. No funds are allowed for video conferencing or 
other luxuries (you just proved that remote meeting can be held at no cost).

Benefits.
1) Students and postdocs get rewarded for working on LHC.
2) faculty can tell their deans that their students won a Feynman 
fellowship. This is very important in the propaganda war.
3) Students will go back from CERN to their home institutes and tell all 
the other students what great physics is going on there.
4)NSF gets visibility and education is vital to them.


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