[Lnc-business] Various LNC items
James Lark
james.lark at lp.org
Fri Jul 6 15:07:55 EDT 2018
Dear colleagues:
I hope all is well with you. As we begin the 2018-2020 term, allow
me to offer again my congratulations to you on your election to the LNC,
and to provide some information for you. I hope you find the
information helpful.
1) As Alicia Mattson mentioned during the first meeting, LNC members
should disclose potential conflicts of interest. I have enclosed below
my list of potential conflicts of interest for your consideration.
2) If you have not already done so, you may wish to prepare a
"Libertarian biography" that provides information about your involvement
and accomplishments in the LP and the liberty movement, as well as basic
biographical information. I have found such a document to be very
helpful. I have enclosed my bio below as a matter of introduction to my
new colleagues.
You may also wish to prepare a bullet-point list of the
biographical items you consider most important. I usually bring such a
list with me when I appear on TV and radio programs, give invited
addresses, etc. The list makes life easier for those who are
interviewing/introducing me; it also conveys a sense of professionalism.
3) As you may know, I have been involved in building libertarian campus
organizations for several years. By virtue of my background in campus
organizing, I would like to serve as an LNC member of the "Youth
Engagement Committee" that will soon be constituted.
Incidentally, if I understand correctly, the LNC will appoint the
five members of the committee; the committee members will appoint the
committee chair. At least one committee member will be a college
student, at least two will be under the age of 27, and at least one will
be an LNC member.
If I may request of my fellow regional reps and alternates, please
inform/remind your state affiliates that I am happy to assist their
efforts to build college and high school organizations, as well as other
youth outreach efforts. All things being equal, I prefer that they
contact me at my james.lark at lp.org e-mail address.
4) On a personal note, thanks to all of you who offered congratulations
on my induction into the Hall of Liberty on Sunday. It is a great honor
to be inducted into the Hall of Liberty; I shall always strive to be
worthy of this honor. Please note that our colleague Bill Redpath is
also a member of the Hall.
Thanks also for your kind comments regarding the work of the 2018
Awards Committee in organizing the awards ceremonies during the
convention. I shall relay those kind comments to my Awards Committee
colleagues (Tim Hagan, Daniel Hayes, Keith Laube, and Hap Werther).
Thanks for your work for liberty. I look forward to working with
you this term, and to seeing you in the Phoenix area in September.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of assistance to you.
Take care,
Jim
James W. Lark, III
Professor, Dept. of Systems and Information Engineering
Professor, Applied Mathematics Program, Dept. of Engineering and
Society
Affiliated Faculty, Department of Statistics
University of Virginia
Advisor, The Liberty Coalition
University of Virginia
Region 5 Representative, Libertarian National Committee
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POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST: Jim Lark
* Secretary, Board of Directors, Liberty International
* Board of Advisors, Students For Liberty
* Board of Advisors, Freedom and Entrepreneurship Foundation (Fundacja
Wolnosci I Przedsiebiorczosci) in Poland
* Secretary, Libertarian Party of Virginia
* Secretary, Jefferson Area Libertarians
* Member, Faculty Network, Foundation for Economic Education
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*BIOGRAPHY: JAMES W. LARK, III*
James W. Lark, III currently serves as a professor in the Department of
Systems and Information Engineering and the Applied Mathematics Program
of the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of
Virginia.He is an affiliated faculty member of the Department of
Statistics at the University of Virginia.
Prior to the 2003-2004 academic year he served as assistant professor in
the Department of Systems and Information Engineering and as adjunct
professor in the McIntire School of Commerce at U.Va.From 2003-2009 he
served as Assistant to the Athletics Director for Special Projects at
U.Va.During the 2012-2013 academic year he served as a professor in the
Department of Statistics at U.Va. in addition to his position in the
Department of Systems and Information Engineering. He received a B.S. in
Mathematics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
(Va. Tech) and a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of
Virginia.
Dr. Lark has served as visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of
Public Choice at Virginia Tech.He was an Earhart Foundation Visiting
Fellow at the Center for Research in Government Policy and Business in
the Graduate School of Management at the University of Rochester.He has
also served as a visiting scholar in the Department of Mathematics at
the University of California, Berkeley, and the Department of
Mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.He is the author
of publications in mathematics, operations research, and artificial
intelligence.His solution procedure for finite-horizon partially
observed Markov decision processes is known in the research literature
as the “Lark algorithm” (or “Lark filtering algorithm”).
He has been a member of the Libertarian Party since 1983.He currently
serves as the Region 5 representative on the Libertarian National
Committee.He is a member of the LNC’s Executive Committee, and serves as
the LNC’s representative to the International Alliance of Libertarian
Parties (IALP).During the LNC’s 2016-2018 term, he served as chair of
the Employment Policy and Compensation Committee and the 2018 Awards
Committee.
He served as chairman of the Libertarian Party during the 2000-2002
term, and as secretary pro tem during part of the 2012-2014 term.He
served as an at-large member of the LNC during the 1998-2000 term, and
as a regional representative during the 2004-2006, 2006-2008, 2008-2010,
2010-2012, 2012-2014, 2014-2016, and 2016-2018 terms.He was a member of
the Libertarian Party’s Platform Committee in 1991, 1998, 2010, and
2012, and a member of the Bylaws Committee in 2000.He was a founding
member of the Board of Directors of the Libertarian National
Congressional Committee.
In July 2018, Dr. Lark was inducted into the Libertarian Party’s Hall of
Liberty, the Party’s highest honor.Induction into the Hall honors
lifetime or significant achievement that has made a lasting impact on
the Libertarian Party and/or libertarian movement.
He is also the recipient of the 2004 Samuel Adams Award (given at
national LP conventions for outstanding activism), the 2008 Thomas
Jefferson Award (given at national LP conventions for outstanding
leadership, high character, and dedication to the principles and goals
of the Party), and the 2012 Thomas Paine Award (given at national LP
conventions for outstanding communication of Libertarian ideas). He is
the only person to win each of these awards.
He serves as the secretary of the Libertarian Party of Virginia; he also
serves as the Local Affiliate Parties Committee chair and the campus
coordinator for the LPVA.He has previously served as vice chairman and
as secretary of the LPVA.He is the secretary of the Jefferson Area
Libertarians (Charlottesville, Virginia). Dr. Lark currently serves as
advisor to The Liberty Coalition and its constituent organizations at
the University of Virginia. He founded several of the Coalition
organizations while a graduate student at the University of Virginia.
He also serves as national campus coordinator for the Libertarian Party,
and advises college and high school libertarians throughout the country
on promoting libertarian ideas on campus. He has conducted several
campus organizing tours on behalf of the LP. He has lectured and
conducted workshops on campus organizing at many state Libertarian Party
conventions, and at the Libertarian Party national conventions in 1987,
1989, 1991, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2014. He
served as a member of the Libertarian Leadership School faculty, and as
a member of the Libertarian Party's "Success '97" and "Success '99"
Leadership Seminar faculty.
He is the secretary of the Board of Directors of Liberty International,
and serves as a member of the Board of Advisors of Students For
Liberty.He serves as a member of the Board of Advisors of the Freedom
and Entrepreneurship Foundation (Fundacja Wolnosci I Przedsiebiorczosci)
in Poland.He served as a member of the Board of Directors of the
Advocates for Self-Government from 2003 until 2016; he served as the
chairman of the Board from 2009 until 2016.
Dr. Lark is a member of the Foundation for Economic Education Faculty
Network.He is the recipient of the Foundation’s 2017 Leonard E. Read
Distinguished Alumni Award for Leadership.
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Dear colleagues:
I hope all is well with you. As we begin the 2018-2020 term, allow
me to offer again my congratulations to you on your election to the
LNC, and to provide some information for you. I hope you find the
information helpful.
1) As Alicia Mattson mentioned during the first meeting, LNC members
should disclose potential conflicts of interest. I have enclosed below
my list of potential conflicts of interest for your consideration.
2) If you have not already done so, you may wish to prepare a
"Libertarian biography" that provides information about your
involvement and accomplishments in the LP and the liberty movement, as
well as basic biographical information. I have found such a document
to be very helpful. I have enclosed my bio below as a matter of
introduction to my new colleagues.
You may also wish to prepare a bullet-point list of the
biographical items you consider most important. I usually bring such a
list with me when I appear on TV and radio programs, give invited
addresses, etc. The list makes life easier for those who are
interviewing/introducing me; it also conveys a sense of
professionalism.
3) As you may know, I have been involved in building libertarian
campus organizations for several years. By virtue of my background in
campus organizing, I would like to serve as an LNC member of the "Youth
Engagement Committee" that will soon be constituted.
Incidentally, if I understand correctly, the LNC will appoint the
five members of the committee; the committee members will appoint the
committee chair. At least one committee member will be a college
student, at least two will be under the age of 27, and at least one
will be an LNC member.
If I may request of my fellow regional reps and alternates, please
inform/remind your state affiliates that I am happy to assist their
efforts to build college and high school organizations, as well as
other youth outreach efforts. All things being equal, I prefer that
they contact me at my [1]james.lark at lp.org e-mail address.
4) On a personal note, thanks to all of you who offered
congratulations on my induction into the Hall of Liberty on Sunday. It
is a great honor to be inducted into the Hall of Liberty; I shall
always strive to be worthy of this honor. Please note that our
colleague Bill Redpath is also a member of the Hall.
Thanks also for your kind comments regarding the work of the 2018
Awards Committee in organizing the awards ceremonies during the
convention. I shall relay those kind comments to my Awards Committee
colleagues (Tim Hagan, Daniel Hayes, Keith Laube, and Hap Werther).
Thanks for your work for liberty. I look forward to working with
you this term, and to seeing you in the Phoenix area in September.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of assistance to you.
Take care,
Jim
James W. Lark, III
Professor, Dept. of Systems and Information Engineering
Professor, Applied Mathematics Program, Dept. of Engineering and
Society
Affiliated Faculty, Department of Statistics
University of Virginia
Advisor, The Liberty Coalition
University of Virginia
Region 5 Representative, Libertarian National Committee
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POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST: Jim Lark
* Secretary, Board of Directors, Liberty International
* Board of Advisors, Students For Liberty
* Board of Advisors, Freedom and Entrepreneurship Foundation (Fundacja
Wolnosci I Przedsiebiorczosci) in Poland
* Secretary, Libertarian Party of Virginia
* Secretary, Jefferson Area Libertarians
* Member, Faculty Network, Foundation for Economic Education
-----
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BIOGRAPHY: JAMES W. LARK, III
James W. Lark, III currently serves as a professor in the
Department of Systems and Information Engineering and the Applied
Mathematics Program of the Department of Engineering and Society at the
University of Virginia. He is an affiliated faculty member of the
Department of Statistics at the University of Virginia.
Prior to the 2003-2004 academic year he served as assistant
professor in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering and
as adjunct professor in the McIntire School of Commerce at U.Va. From
2003-2009 he served as Assistant to the Athletics Director for Special
Projects at U.Va. During the 2012-2013 academic year he served as a
professor in the Department of Statistics at U.Va. in addition to his
position in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering. He
received a B.S. in Mathematics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University (Va. Tech) and a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the
University of Virginia.
Dr. Lark has served as visiting scholar at the Center for the
Study of Public Choice at Virginia Tech. He was an Earhart Foundation
Visiting Fellow at the Center for Research in Government Policy and
Business in the Graduate School of Management at the University of
Rochester. He has also served as a visiting scholar in the Department
of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the
Department of Mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
He is the author of publications in mathematics, operations research,
and artificial intelligence. His solution procedure for finite-horizon
partially observed Markov decision processes is known in the research
literature as the “Lark algorithm” (or “Lark filtering algorithm”).
He has been a member of the Libertarian Party since 1983. He
currently serves as the Region 5 representative on the Libertarian
National Committee. He is a member of the LNC’s Executive Committee,
and serves as the LNC’s representative to the International Alliance of
Libertarian Parties (IALP). During the LNC’s 2016-2018 term, he served
as chair of the Employment Policy and Compensation Committee and the
2018 Awards Committee.
He served as chairman of the Libertarian Party during the
2000-2002 term, and as secretary pro tem during part of the 2012-2014
term. He served as an at-large member of the LNC during the 1998-2000
term, and as a regional representative during the 2004-2006, 2006-2008,
2008-2010, 2010-2012, 2012-2014, 2014-2016, and 2016-2018 terms. He
was a member of the Libertarian Party’s Platform Committee in 1991,
1998, 2010, and 2012, and a member of the Bylaws Committee in 2000. He
was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Libertarian
National Congressional Committee.
In July 2018, Dr. Lark was inducted into the Libertarian Party’s
Hall of Liberty, the Party’s highest honor. Induction into the Hall
honors lifetime or significant achievement that has made a lasting
impact on the Libertarian Party and/or libertarian movement.
He is also the recipient of the 2004 Samuel Adams Award (given at
national LP conventions for outstanding activism), the 2008 Thomas
Jefferson Award (given at national LP conventions for outstanding
leadership, high character, and dedication to the principles and goals
of the Party), and the 2012 Thomas Paine Award (given at national LP
conventions for outstanding communication of Libertarian ideas). He is
the only person to win each of these awards.
He serves as the secretary of the Libertarian Party of Virginia;
he also serves as the Local Affiliate Parties Committee chair and the
campus coordinator for the LPVA. He has previously served as vice
chairman and as secretary of the LPVA. He is the secretary of the
Jefferson Area Libertarians (Charlottesville, Virginia). Dr. Lark
currently serves as advisor to The Liberty Coalition and its
constituent organizations at the University of Virginia. He founded
several of the Coalition organizations while a graduate student at the
University of Virginia. He also serves as national campus coordinator
for the Libertarian Party, and advises college and high school
libertarians throughout the country on promoting libertarian ideas on
campus. He has conducted several campus organizing tours on behalf of
the LP. He has lectured and conducted workshops on campus organizing
at many state Libertarian Party conventions, and at the Libertarian
Party national conventions in 1987, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002,
2004, 2006, 2008, and 2014. He served as a member of the Libertarian
Leadership School faculty, and as a member of the Libertarian Party's
"Success '97" and "Success '99" Leadership Seminar faculty.
He is the secretary of the Board of Directors of Liberty
International, and serves as a member of the Board of Advisors of
Students For Liberty. He serves as a member of the Board of Advisors
of the Freedom and Entrepreneurship Foundation (Fundacja Wolnosci I
Przedsiebiorczosci) in Poland. He served as a member of the Board of
Directors of the Advocates for Self-Government from 2003 until 2016; he
served as the chairman of the Board from 2009 until 2016.
Dr. Lark is a member of the Foundation for Economic Education
Faculty Network. He is the recipient of the Foundation’s 2017 Leonard
E. Read Distinguished Alumni Award for Leadership.
References
1. mailto:jwlark at lp.org
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