Boards
Authorship and Publications Board
The DUNE Authorship and Publication Board (APB):
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- Oversees review and submission of DUNE collaboration publications, technical publications, and conference proceedings;
- Establishes and appoints members of Analysis Review Committees (ARCs) for collaboration publications, in conjunction with the Physics Coordinators;
- Appoints Technical Review Coordinators for Technical papers;
- Supervises the collaboration comment process for conference proceedings;
- Adjudicates conflicts that may arise in the DUNE publication process;
- Maintains a database of collaboration publications, technical publications, and conference proceedings;
- Develops and proposes modifications of DUNE publication procedures to the Spokespersons, as requested.
- Oversees maintenance and development of DUNE publication tools.
The APB can be contacted by e-mail at dune-apb@fnal.gov . Please use this e-mail address also for the communication concerning any draft publication or conference proceedings.
Committee:
Xin Qian (Brookhaven Natl Lab), chair
Karsten Heeger (Yale), deputy chair
Enrique Arrieta Díaz (University of Magdalena)
Sara Bolognesi (CEA Saclay)
Aaron Higuera Pichardo (Rice University)
Poonam Mehta (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Carmen Palomares Espiga (CIEMAT)
Ina Sarcevic (Arizona)
Tyler D. Stokes (Yale), Young DUNE
Sergio Bertolucci, DUNE Co-Spokesperson (ex officio)
Sowjanya Gollapinni, DUNE Co-Spokesperson (ex officio)
Chris Marshall, Physics Coordinator (ex officio)
Ines Gil-Botella, Deputy Physics Coordinator (ex officio)
Collaboration Resources
Gary Barker University of Warwick, Chair
Executive Board
The Executive Board (EB) is the main decision-making body of the collaboration. It is responsible for setting scientific and technical objectives and priorities of the DUNE collaboration taking account of the financial aspects as well as other resources. The EB establishes procedures for making technical choices and will oversee progress and developments in various projects.Board Membership:
Sergio Bertolucci (INFN, Università del Bologna), co-chair
Sowjanya Gollapinni (LANL), co-chair
Alfons Weber, Institutional Board Chair
Christos Touramanis, ProtoDUNE-HD Coordinator
Chris Marshall, Physics Co-cordinator
Dario Autiero, FD-VD Top TPC Electronics Consortium Leader
David Christian, FD-HD TPC Electronics Consortium Leader
Dominique Duchesneau, FD-VD CRP Consortium Leader
Ed Blucher, APA Production Board Chair
Eric James, FD-HD Technical Coordinator
Ettore Segreto, PDS Consortium Leader
Francesco Pietropaolo, HV Consortium Leader
Gary Barker, Resource Coordinator
Hiro Tanaka, ND Technical Leader
Hugh Gallagher, TMS Consortium Leader
Ines Gil-Botella, Physics Co-Coordinator
Jose Maneira, CALCI Consortium Leader
Justin Evans, APA Consortium Chair
Luca Stanco, SAND Consortium Leader
Michael Kirby, Core Software & Computing Consortium Leader
Michele Weber, ND-LAr Consortium Leader
Stefan Soldner-Rembold, Phase-II
Steve Kettel, FD-VD Technical Coordinator
Wes Ketchum, DAQ Consortium Leader
Zarko Pavlovic, Beam Interface Working Group Co-Convener
Aleena Rafique, Speaker’s Committee Chair (observer)
Xin Qian, Authorship and Publication Board Chair (observer)
Laura Rogas, DUNE Coordinator
Near Detector Technical Board
Purpose:
The Near Detector Consortia are the primary forum for Near Detector technical issues including design, construction, installation, and commissioning.
Hiro Tanaka, Near Detector Technical Coordinator
ND-LAr Consortium:
Michele Weber
Technical Lead: Daniel Dwyer
TMS Consortium:
Hugh Gallagher
Technical Lead: Thomas Markiewicz
DAQ Consortium
Alessandro Thea
ND Technical Lead: Asher Kaboth
SAND Consortium
Luca Stanco
Technical Lead: Claudio Montanari
SAND-US I&I: Jonathan Lewis
Far Detector-Horizontal Drift Technical Board
Purpose:
DUNE Technical Board meetings are the primary forum for generating recommendations for decisions on issues related to detector design, construction, installation, and commissioning.
Eric James, Far Detector Horizontal Drift Technical Coordinator
Far Detector-Vertical Drift Technical Board
Purpose:
DUNE Technical Board meetings are the primary forum for generating recommendations for decisions on issues related to detector design, construction, installation, and commissioning.
Steve Kettell, Far Detector Vertical Drift Technical Coordinator
Institutional Board
The Institutional Board is responsible for establishing governance rules of the DUNE collaboration and regulating the governance related issues. The responsibilities of the IB include but are not limited to: admission of new collaborating institutions and members; oversight of Co-Spokesperson election process; election of at -large members of the Executive Committee; approval of common funds assessments; establishment and governance of detector operations shifts; and establishment of procedure for publication of scientific results and authorship rules. IB can request presentations on and discussion of specific issues relating to the collaboration or the experiment. The results of such discussions may be recorded and passed to the Co -Spokespersons as formal advice. (from “Governance of the DUNE Collaboration”, v3, Article 3, DUNE Doc 1)
Contact:
Alfons Weber (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz/Fermilab), chair
Committees
Speakers Committee
The DUNE Speakers Committee coordinates and approves presentations on behalf of the DUNE Collaboration at scientific conferences and workshops. Its mission is to ensure that talks accurately represent DUNE’s scientific achievements, maintain the highest standards of quality, and provide fair and inclusive opportunities for all collaborators.
The committee is responsible for reviewing proposed abstracts, selecting speakers, and offering guidance during the preparation and review of talks. It works closely with speakers to ensure consistency, scientific excellence, and appropriate messaging across all DUNE presentations.
In addition to supporting individual speakers, the Speakers Committee maintains a record of DUNE’s conference contributions and helps manage interactions with conference organizers. Through these activities, the committee highlights DUNE’s scientific leadership and promotes the collaboration’s visibility within the broader research community.
Contact:
For any questions, please contact the Speakers Committee at dune-sc@fnal.gov.
To submit a plenary nomination, please use this form: Plenary Nomination Form
To submit a parallel talk abstract, please use this form: Parallel Talk Abstract Submission Form
If you would like to have your talk featured on DUNE social media, please fill out this form: DUNE Social Media Highlight Form
Committee:
Aleena Rafique (ANL), chair
Alex Booth (QMUL)
Dominic Brailsford (Lancaster)
Patricia Sanchez (University of Granada & CAFPE)
Sunny Seo (Fermilab)
Jay Hyun Jo (Brookhaven National Lab)
Fatih Bay (Antalya Bilim Univ., Turkey)
Navaneeth Poonthottathil (IITK, India)
Adi Ashkenazi (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Nuno Barros (LIP, Portugal)
Alex Moor (Sheffield, UK)
Laura Patrizii (INFN Bologna)
Bryce Littlejohn (IIT)
Valentim Rodolfo (UNIFESP Brazil)
Francisco Martinez Lopez (Indiana University)
Ex-officio members:
Co-Spokespersons (Sergio Bertolucci, Sowjanya Gollapinni)
Physics Coordinator and Deputy (Chris Marshall, Ines Gil-Botella)
APB Chair and Deputy (Xin Qian, Karsten Heeger)
Spokespersons Advisory Committee
The Spokespersons Advisory Committee (SAC) is an elected body that provides informal advice to the Spokespersons and does not have decision-making authority. The Committee provides:
- advice and discussion on issues that require attention as determined by the Co-Spokespersons and the Committee
- a conduit for DUNE collaborators to voice opinions and advice that they feel they cannot provide directly
- an early-warning feedback mechanism for significant issues that a arise within the collaboration
Contact: Please contact the DUNE Spokespersons Advisory Committee at dune-sac @ fnal.gov.
Committee:
Sergio Bertolucci (University of Bologna)
Sowjanya Gollapinni (LANL)
Tiago Alves (Imperial)
Jon Paley (Fermilab)
Mayly Sanchez (Florida State)
Alex Sousa (U Cincinnati)
Ana Paula Vizcaya Hernandez (Colorado State)
Elizabeth Worcester (Brookhaven)
SAC consists of two early career members (graduate students or postdocs) nominated by Young DUNE in April for a one-year term, and four elected “at large” members, two being elected each year for a two-year term.
Case Review Committee
The CRC reviews reports of violations of the DUNE Community Agreement DUNE Community Agreement and recommends actions the Collaboration should take to ensure accountability and protect Collaboration members from harm. Please see the CA for details of all reporting avenues. Anyone may contact the CRC (all members) via dune-crc @ fnal.gov and/or any individual member(s) of the CRC. Please note that any information stored on national lab servers may not be private, so for sensitive matters, the CRC may be reached to set up a conversation without providing details, or an alternative contact method may be used.Committee:
Chair Elizabeth Worcester (BNL) etworcester@gmail.com
Secretary Kate Scholberg (Duke) kate.scholberg@gmail.com
Senior Member (4-year term) Kirsty Duffy (Oxford) ke.duffy1@gmail.com
Senior Member (3-year term) Rhiannon Jones (Sheffield) rjones0211@gmail.com
Senior Member (2-year term) Tanaz Mohayai (Indiana U) tamohayai@gmail.com
Junior Member (2-year term) Steven Dennis (Cambridge) stephen.robert.dennis@gmail.com
Junior Member (1-year term) Isobel Mawby (Lancaster University) i.mawby.crc@gmail.com
Collaboration Engagement and Development Committee
The DUNE Collaboration Engagement and Development Committee (CEDC) is mainly aimed at maintaining and advancing the engagement and development of all collaborators within DUNE in support of the values of the collaboration. CEDC also serves as points of contact for collaboration members with concerns or suggestions related to engagement and development of the collaboration.Committee:
Senior Member (3-year term) Erica Snider (FNAL)
Senior Member (3-year term) Mateus Fernandes Carneiro (BNL)
Junior Member (2-year term) Jonathan Paley (FNAL)
Junior Member (2-year term) Asa Nehm (Mainz)
Young DUNE (2-year term) Elise Hinkle (Chicago)
Young DUNE (1-year term) Biswaranjan Behera (SDSMT)
The CEDC consists of six DUNE Collaboration members serving two-year terms staggered by one year. Four at-large committee members will be elected by the full collaboration. General collaboration elections for two at-large members and one Young DUNE member will occur each year to be arranged by the IB and Young DUNE, respectively.
Education and Outreach
The DUNE Education and Outreach Committee (EOC) is responsible for education and outreach activities in collaboration with DUNE management. The EOC is appointed by the Spokespeople. The responsibilities of the EOC include:
– Initiate, plan, and organize education and outreach activities related to DUNE science
goals and technologies.
– Work with the Fermilab Communications team to develop material communicating DUNE
science to the public, including DUNE’s public web presence.
– Maintain the social media presence of the DUNE Collaboration.
– Coordinate education and outreach activities with other collaborations.
– Centrally support local DUNE education and outreach activities organized by DUNE
collaborators at an appropriate level.
– Approve centrally used DUNE education and outreach material.
Committee:
Kate Shaw (Sussex), chair
Mateus Carneiro (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
David Demuth (Valley City State University)
Zelimir Djurcic (Argonne National Labortory)
Danilo Domenici (INFN Frascati)
David Martinez Caicedo (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)
Poonam Mehta (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Thomas Murphy (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
Dario Pullia (Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie)
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Forum
The DUNE AI/ML Forum is a new committee charged by the DUNE Co-spokespersons. The goal of this committee is to provide and organize a forum for the machine learning community at DUNE. It brings together scientists from diverse groups within DUNE, helps connect them better to the broader data science community, fosters inter-collaboration common solutions, and provides training and benchmarks. We envision the forum organizing monthly or bi-monthly meetings on a variety of subjects. The meetings could be topic-oriented (focusing on a certain ML technique) and may include external experts. The Forum would also serve as an entry point to find specific machine learning resources, such as software solutions for machine learning or hardware resources through connections with the DUNE Core Software and Computing group.
The committee will be chaired by two scientists who are members of the DUNE collaboration with initial appointment of two years subject to renewal. The co-chairs will be chosen by the DUNE Co-spokespersons who will seek nominations from the collaboration and approved by the DUNE management group.
Forum:
Jianming Bian (IC Irvine), co-chair
Leigh Whitehead (Cambridge), co-chair