dpf:mission

The DPF Program Committee

Provide Institutional Memory with regard to the April Meeting
To communicate organizational matters to the rest of DPF [Amendment from 4/16/18]
Aid the Vice Chair in producing the best program for DPF at the April Meeting
- Review and revise sorting categories (for the abstracts) every Spring and send to APS (Vinaya)
- Over the summer
  - Define a set of mini-symposia and focus talks and find speakers
  - Identify relevant Invited Talk sessions and find speakers
  - Target cross disciplinary topics (communicate with other Program Committees)
  - Send sorters to the sorting meeting
  - Provide Chairs for the meeting

Improve the April meeting overall
- Improve relevance of April meeting (and APS) to DPF
- Better utilization of APS resources
- Improve web presence (our roles and names)
- Resource for Snowmass planning

DPF Program Committee will periodically update DPF members via E-mail about the Committee activities/recommendations, including the proposed list of April meeting sorting categories before it is sent to APS.

Term of office: 3 years, staggered (1/3 rotate off every year)
Nomination procedure: generally we will try to replace ourselves (in our sub-field) when we rotate off, in consultation with others in our sub-field.
There is no formal election.