Statement:

Jon Urheim

 The Users community can contribute in many ways to Fermilab in its
standing as the premier particle physics laboratory in the Americas.
First and foremost is the scientific program.  Beyond the roles of
the PAC and other advisory entities, which focus on the program
narrowly defined, the UEC provides Fermilab management with a uniquely
broad-based, practically-oriented point of view representing the people
with the most at stake.  In the other direction it serves as a conduit
for timely information from laboratory management on the execution of
the lab's scientific mission.  To me, particularly as a User based
off-site, this role of communication about the scientific program
in both directions is the crucial function of the UEC, and it
it is my main motivation to serve on the UEC.

 Implicit in this is the notion that success in devising, articulating and
executing the scientific vision for the laboratory depends on people -- both
based at Fermilab and elsewhere.  Specifically, Users must be fully engaged
with the issues and activities of the laboratory; the lab must engage with
Users to make it possible to do the science.  This provides a multi-faceted
array of concerns beyond "what is the program" with which the UEC can help,
whether it be with regard to facilitating participation from groups and
individuals from outside the US (as has been successfully addressed in
recent years), with regard to communicating more effectively with the
outside world, or with regard to understanding how, practically, Fermilab
can maintain leadership in LHC-related activities, or further the existing
accelerator and non-accelerator based programs, or host an energy frontier
machine again in the future, etc -- in all of this the Users community has
critical roles to play.

 I have worked on experiments spanning a range of scales and topics
(in flavor physics/intensity frontier physics).  I hope my experiences
will bring a relevant and useful perspective to the UEC, and I very much
look forward to working in a non-partisan-but-still-pretty-opinionated
way with the other UEC members.