LSU Provost Astrid Merget and Vice Chancellor of Research & Economic Development Brooks Keel appointed professors Stephen David Beck and Jorge Pullin as interim management for the CCT. Beck is interim director, and Pullin is interim co-director of CCT.

Beck currently heads the CCT Laboratory for Creative Arts & Technologies and is Professor of Composition and Computer Music at in the LSU School of Music. Pullin is the Horace Hearne Chair in Theoretical Physics in the LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy, and director of the Horace Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Beck and Pullin will jointly lead CCT while the University undertakes an international search for a new CCT director, to replace Ed Seidel,  who accepted a position as the National Science Foundation’s Director of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure, starting Sept. 1,  2008.

The CCT Director Search Committee is chaired by Kevin Carman, dean of the College of Basic Sciences, and co-chaired by Joel Tohline,  professor of physics & astronomy and a senior faculty member at CCT. CCT has a broad representation in the Committee.

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