CINT Users Association

The DOE/BES Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) is a U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Nanoscale Science Research Center jointly operated as a national user facility by Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories. The Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies Users Association (CINT-UA) provides an organized framework for communication between those who use the CINT facilities and the CINT management, other Nanoscale Science Research Centers, the U. S. Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences, and other organizations.

Membership in the CINT Users Association is open to all those who are named as an investigator or collaborator on an approved CINT User Proposal in the current calendar year or in either of the two preceding calendar years. Membership status will be updated at the beginning of each calendar year and again as CINT User Proposals are approved throughout the year.

The CINT User Association Charter/Bylaws can be downloaded by clicking here. Comments or questions regarding the Charter/Bylaws may be directed to Sanjay Krishna, UEC Chair (skrishna@chtm.unm.edu) or to Neal Shinn, CINT User Program Manager (ndshinn@sandia.gov).

Users Executive Committee (UEC)
The Users Executive Committee (UEC) represents the Association and conducts its business. Two members of the Association are elected to the UEC each year for a term of office of three years. The UEC is led by a Chair and Vice-Chair who are elected from within the UEC according to the Bylaws.

The current UEC consists of four interim members who were appointed to assist CINT during its construction and initial operations phases. They are:

Professor Sanjay Krishna, Chair	University of New Mexico
Professor Julia Weertman	Northwestern University
Professor Atul Parikh	University of California, Davis
Professor Robert Haddon	University of California, Riverside

UEC Elections
In order to move expeditiously to a fully elected UEC, the Association will conduct elections for two new members to the UEC in February 2008. These new members will begin their three-year term of office immediately and will serve through 2010. Instructions for electronic voting will be provided to Association members in late February.

The regular annual UEC election cycle will commence in the Fall 2008 in order for new members to take office at the beginning of each calendar year.

CINT users interested in being a candidate for the CINT Users Executive Committee are encouraged to contact Sanjay Krishna, UEC Chair (skrishna@chtm.unm.edu) on or before Friday, February 15, 2008 in order to be considered for the upcoming election.