Statutes of the Steering Committee of Nanotube Conferences (SCNC)
1. The primary mission of the Steering Committee of Nanotube
Conferences (SCNC) is to secure the continuity of the conference
series.
2. All SCNC decisions, including those about the SCNC membership
and the person filling the position of the SCNC Chair, are reached
by a majority of votes of its members.
3. The primary responsibilities of the SCNC Chair are to
3.1. represent the SCNC and its decisions;
3.2. initiate, collect and communicate votes within the SCNC;
3.3. decide the most proper way to collect votes, including email
and private communication.
4. The SCNC decisions are binding for the organizers and
participants of Nanotube conferences.
5. SCNC members decide in particular about
5.1. the organizers, the location and the dates of future Nanotube
conferences;
5.2. the composition of the Advisory Board of a given
Nanotube conference;
5.3. changes in the Charta of the Nanotube Conference series;
5.4. matters of interest to Nanotube conferences other than the
conference program.
6. The responsibilities of the SCNC are decoupled from those of the
Organizers of a given conference, who decide organizational details,
and those of the Advisory Board of a given nanotube conference, who
select invited and contributed oral presentations.
7. The SCNC is the highest instance resolving disputes and
addressing complaints related to the organization of Nanotube
conferences.
8. The SCNC carries no financial or legal responsibility for the
Nanotube Conferences.
9. Every SCNC member can raise at any time an issue related to the
Nanotube conferences. It is the responsibility of the SCNC Chair to
take the vote and communicate the decision to all members on an
adequate timescale.
10. These statutes can only be modified by a majority of votes of
its members.
Members of the Steering Committee of the
Nanotube Conferences:
| Eleanor Campbell |
(Edinburgh University, Scotland) |
| Mildred Dresselhaus |
(MIT, USA) |
| Tony F. Heinz |
(Columbia University, USA) |
| Annick Loiseau |
(ONERA-CNRS, France) |
| Marcos Pimenta |
(UFMG, Brazil) |
| Ariete Righi |
(UFMG, Brazil) |
| Humberto Terrones |
(IPICyT, Mexico) |
| Mauricio Terrones |
(IPICyT, Mexico) |
| David Tomanek |
(Michigan State University, USA) |
| Masako Yudasaka |
(AIST, Japan) |
(status: July 2008)
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