Sacha Kopp
Statement:


In the coming years, Fermilab will transition from one of several HEP 
user-based labs to the flagship laboratory for HEP in the U.S. (indeed, 
the sole ship in the fleet).  With this new status comes a new set of 
responsibilities for the Laboratory and for us as Users.  The Lab, in 
charting new directions for its research program, does so now for a 
great part of the U.S. high energy physics community.  We Users must 
increasingly collaborate with the Lab toward the success of its programs 
in order to keep the ship afloat.   Such cooperation necessarily requires 
increased communication between FNAL and the User community, and I hope I 
can help in this regard.  It also requires improved communication with our 
lawmakers on how support of the facilities in Illinois benefits research 
going on across the United States.  I hope to encourage broader and more 
open collaboration between the Lab and all Users, especially as FNAL will 
become host to our LHC and possibly ILC efforts. 

Like many Users at Fermilab, I am a frequent commuter and aficionado of 
the culinary offerings at the O'Hare airport and along Rte.59.  I was a 
student on CDF, postdoc at CLEO, and returned to research at Fermilab in 
2000 to participate in NuMI/MINOS.  I have been working to collaborate 
with the Laboratory on beam-related work not only for the MINOS experiment 
but also other aspects of the accelerator complex more pertinent to 
Run-II.  I have had the opportunity to reap the benefits of analyzing the 
data from experiments, acted as an analysis (co)coordinator for my current 
experiment, and have as well contributed to or managed the design and 
construction of hardware components.   Recently, I chaired a committee to 
advise the Lab on developing stronger collaborative partnerships in 
accelerator projects.  I believe I have some perspective on the future 
balance that must be achieved in operating existing experiments while 
planning for the future, and I hope to see the lab develop stronger 
collaborative ties with the User community as the next big projects 
advance.

  
My home page can be found at http://www.hep.utexas.edu/~kopp/