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Agenda for ATLAS CB Meeting 27th February 2004
13:30
Procurations, establishment of the quorum
13:45
Welcome by the CB Chairperson
S Bethke
13:55
Spokesperson election by ballot
S Bethke
14:10
Collaboration composition matters
- Status of contacts (no pending decisions)
P Jenni
14:15
Endorsement of the CB Chair Advisory Group
S Bethke
14:25
Endorsement of the guidelines for appointing physics
S Bethke
working group conveners
(B Kersevan invited)
14:40
Endorsement of the new members for the
Publications Committee
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14:50
Endorsement of the appointment of the joint
Commissioning Coordinators
P Jenni
15:00
Selection of the venue for the Physics Workshop 2005
P Jenni
15:15
Follow-up matters from the Plenary,
including the LHCC Letter of Intents
- Heavy Ions
- Forward Detectors and Luminosity
P Jenni
15:30
Computing manpower matters and proposal
15:55
Brief status of Common Projects
16:15
Resources matters
- Status and planning for the RRB
- Approval of new in-kind contributions
16:35
Main (policy) issues for the medium-term future
16:50
Follow-up comments on the initial discussion on the
publication policy 2007+
17:05
AoB
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M Nessi
M Nordberg
P Jenni
S Bethke
(P Wells invited)
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Spokesperson election
(Copied from the mail of 1st December 2003)
The Search Committee reviewing the nominations of candidates for ATLAS Spokesperson, at the
end of Peter Jenni's present term of office, consisted of the CB Chairman and Deputy Chairman,
members of the CB Chair Advisory Group and Matteo Cavalli-Sforza. (The latter, who was CB
Chairman at the previous Spokesperson election, provided valuable advice to the committee on
this occasion, for which we are most grateful.)
There were nominations for eight candidates, some coming from individual ATLAS members and
some in the name of institutes. The Search Committee carried out a careful review of the
nominations and prepared a short list of candidates.
Following discussions with the short-listed nominees to ascertain their availability and
willingness to stand in the election, we have to inform the CB members that our recommendation
is that in the election in February, there will be only one candidate on the ballot, namely our
present Spokesman, Peter Jenni. This is because the other nominees were unwilling to stand
against Peter, on the contrary offering him their strong support in continuing in his present office
as Spokesman.
In turn this implies that the election will ask for a simple vote in favour or against re-appointment
of Peter as Spokesman, and I remind CB members that, in accordance with the ATLAS
consitution, such re-election requires a two thirds majority in the ballot. We hope that an
announcement at this date will allow time for proper consultation within groups ahead of the
election in February, and look forward to your participation in that process.
Ken Smith and Siggi Bethke
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CB Chair Advisory Group
One of the first official duties of a new CB chair is to propose the composition of the CB
advisory group. Most of the current members of this board have served for longer than 2 years.
I therefore decided to relieve most of the current members from this duty and to put this task
onto the shoulders of a new group of colleagues.
In order to assure a certain degree of continuity in the transition from the current to the new
group, I propose that two of the current members, Jim Siegrist and Marko Mikuz, will continue to
stay for another two year's period. Keeping the previous size of the group to a total of 12
members, my proposed list of candidates is the following:
Abramowicz, Halina
Azuelos, Georges
Huston, Joey
Kawamoto, Tatsuo
Mikuz, Marko
Siegrist, Jim
Solodkov, Alexander
Susinno, Giancarlo
Tapprogge, Stefan
Tong, Guoliang
Teixeira-Dias, Pedro
Wingerter-Seez, Isabelle
Tel Aviv
Montreal
Michigan SU
Tokyo
Ljubljana
Berkeley
Protvino
Cosenza
Mainz
Beijing
London RH
Annecy
Israel
Canada
USA
Japan
Slovenia
USA
Russia
Italy
Germany
China
GB
France
(Muon)
(LArg)
(Tile)
(Muon)
(ID)
(ID)
(Tile)
(Muon)
(TDAQ, SM WG)
(Muon)
(TDAQ)
(LArg)
The CB is invited to endorse these appointments at its next meeting on February 27, 2004.
Siggi Bethke
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CB Chair Advisory Group
Composition of the old (outgoing) CB Chair Advisory Group:
Bosman, Martine
Guyot, Claude
Holmgren, Sven-Olof
Kobayashi, Tomio
Lellouch, Daniel
Patricelli, Sergio
Pilcher, Jim
Richter-Was, Elzbieta
Taylor, Geoff
Tikhonov, Iuori
Barcelona
Saclay
Stockholm
Tokyo
Weizmann
Napoli
Chicago
Cracow
Melbourne
Novosibirsk
Spain
France
Sweden
Japan
Israel
Italy
USA
Poland
Australia
Russia
(Tile; Physics)
(Muon)
(TDAQ)
(Muon)
(Muon)
(Muon)
(Tile)
(ID)
(ID)
(LArg)
Many thanks for their valuable help - and for the time they devoted to this task!!
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New members for the Publications Committee
(Copied from the mail from 11th February 2004)
The Search Committee (CB chairperson and deputy, spokesperson and deputy, plus Anna Di Ciaccio
and Tatsuo Kawamoto) is pleased that the call for nominations for the renewal of members for the
Publications Committee has resulted in a good number of replies and candidates:
A total of 41 replies were received (including two post deadline) proposing 31 different colleagues.
The Search Committee has considered all candidates, with the task to propose a set of 6 new
members to be added to the continuing members of the Publications Committee, as announced in
the call for nominations.
An important criterion for the proposal was to arrive at a well-balanced overall composition for the
Publications Committee.
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Proposed new members:
Jon Butterworth
Christine Kourkoumelis
Bianca Osculati
David Rousseau
Peter Schacht
Sally Seidel
(UC London)
(University of Athens)
(University of Genoa)
(LAL Orsay)
(MPI Munich)
(University of New Mexico)
Continuing members:
Shoji Asai
Eilam Gross
Sten Hellman
John Huth
Maria Smizanska
Pippa Wells
(ICEPP Tokyo)
(Weizmann Institute)
(University of Stockholm)
(Harvard University)
(Lancaster University)
(CERN)
The CB is invited to endorse the proposed 6 new members for the Publication Committee
(Their term of office is for two years, starting in March 2004)
The Search Committee has also discussed the Chairperson for the coming year, and we are
pleased to announce that Pippa Wells accepts this task
We take the occasion to thank the outgoing members, Alain Blondel, Lutz Koepke, Michel
Lefebvre, Heinz Pernegger, Marc Virchaux and last but not least the Chairperson Stephen
Haywood, for the dedicated and professional service to the Collaboration over the last two years!
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Appointment of the joint Commissioning Coordinators
(Copied from the mail from 10th February 2004)
As announced end of November it has been decided by the EB to proceed in setting up an
organization for the overall commissioning activities for ATLAS, following the initial discussions
over the past months, also during the last ATLAS Week at Prague.
Thank you to all who have responded to the invitation to make nominations for candidates to
coordinate this new activity, and for the constructive comments received.
In total 10 colleagues have been nominated as possible candidates, in 14 nomination mails. The
appointment is made by the ATLAS management for a period of two years, and the coordinators
will become members of the Technical Management Board (TMB) and will be invited to the EB for
the technical part in the mornings as the TMB activity managers for commissioning.
Following also some of the comments, we have concentrated for this initial phase mainly on
technical, electronics, and TDAQ expert knowledge.
The proposal is to appoint for a two years term of office (starting in March 2004):
Giuseppe Mornacchi (CERN, oriented mainly towards TDAQ aspects)
Pascal Perrodo
(LAPP Annecy, oriented mainly towards technical and
electronics aspects)
Both have amply demonstrated experience in these fields previously
The CB is kindly invited to endorse this joint appointments
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Physics Workshop 2005
(Copy from the mail from 3rd February 2004)
Three attractive proposals were submitted in time to host the 5th ATLAS Physics Workshop in
2005 (plus CERN, always being the standard alternative):
Cambridge (UK)
CERN
Eilat (Israel)
Rome (Italy)
A very brief summary of the proposals as well as additional information made available by the
proponents was distributed previously.
In spite of many arguments to hold meetings at CERN, the experience shows that to have some
of the meetings outside CERN is a clear benefit for the spirit and motivation of the Collaboration.
However, as in previous years, the CB will have the opportunity to consider also a CERN-based
meeting during the selection vote.
Decision: ballot at the CB meeting, following the standard rules
(If none of the four possible venues achieves the absolute majority of the present and represented votes,
the two places with the highest vote count will be retained for a second round where the winner will be
decided upon by a single majority)
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Proposals for the ATLAS Physics Workshop 2005
Place, location
Organizer
Possible dates
Auditorium facilities
Cambridge, UK
Queens College Cambridge
Cambridge and UK ATLAS
18-25 July 2005
Eilat, Israel
Hotel and conference facility
Weizmann Institute
First half of
250 places conference
November 2005
room
5 days WS, 1 day
tour, 2x0.5 travel
to/from airport
Rome, Italy
University Roma Tre
University Roma Tre
May - June 2005
Fee
(including)
Hotel cost range
Hostels
Visits
(labs, excursions)
Main auditorium 245 seats Modest fee for
At Queens College
Exploring the old
various smaller rooms also facilities and breaks, 315 places, 35-55 pounds town which is a
meals extra
plus breakfast
tourist attraction
Also in town from 25
pounds onwards
Around 150 USD
breaks, workshop
dinner and cocktail
transports to main
airport, excursion
200 places (Law Fac.)
Modest fee is
or well over 200 (Literature and
foreseen
History Faculty)
meals extra
smaller rooms available
Special comments
Supported by Institute of
Particle Phys. Phenomenology
also some IPPP talks
Cheep flights, and good bus
connections
Ranging from 40 USD to
typically 85-100 USD in
double rooms on half
board
TGC production and Positive experience with 1999
tests Weizmann and Muon Week
Tel-Aviv
Dead Sea
All options in town
Student accomodations
possible close to Univ.
INFN Frascati Lab
Gran Sasso
La Sapienza Univ.
Tor Vergata Univ.
Rome city
Public transports easily
available, walking distance
to underground lines
Expression of Interest for a future meeting:
An interesting possibility has been offered by the teams from the Boston area. They could
accommodate 250 – 300 people in the Student Village in suites at a reasonable price (53 USD
per night and person)
This information came past the deadline, and in agreement with the Boston colleagues this
information is given here in view of possible future meetings
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