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Committee Members Responsibilities

Year-Round

  • Provide advice to the LAD committee on issues which arise.
  • Co-author white papers as the need arises (e.g., for Decadal Surveys).
  • Alert the LAD Committee when issues of interest to the Division occur.
  • Provide input to the Committee for the Division’s Annual Report.
  • Encourage (or initiate) LAD's involvement in joint meetings and conferences when appropriate.
  • Serve on LAD committees whenever requested.
  • Advertise LAD at scientific events (through oral or posters presentations, flyers, etc.) whenever appropriate.

Fall

  • Encourage colleagues to submit nominations for the Dissertation Prize.
  • Actively recruit your colleagues to join LAD.
  • Actively serve on Science Organizing Committee for the LAD meeting (nominate potential speakers for the meeting).

Winter/Spring

  • Committee members are expected to attend the Annual LAD meeting, which is typically held jointly with the AAS summer meeting.
  • Committee members are expected to attend the LAD Business Meetings.
  • Encourage your group members to attend LAD meetings, particularly students and postdocs.
  • Encourage your group members to submit abstracts to LAD meetings either for contributed talks of posters.
  • Encourage your graduate and undergraduate students to submit posters to LAD meetings and register them for the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award.
  • Review poster abstracts for summer AAS meeting and sort those relevant to laboratory astrophysics into the LAD poster session. This should be easy to do based on the title. We expect that each LAD committee member will have to review 20-40 abstracts.
  • Encourage colleagues to submit nominations for the Laboratory Astrophysics Prize and the Early Career Award