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Diallo Boye (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Kétévi Adiklè Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Mounia Laassiri (University of Helsinki), Ulrich Goerlach (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))
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To discuss the scientific program of ACP2023

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Ketevi Adikle Assamagan
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Mounia Laassiri, Christine Darve
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ACP-IOC meeting on April 25, 2023

Present:  Kétévi A. Assamagan, Christine Darve, Azwinndini Muronga, Uli Raich, Ulrich Goerlach, Lawrence Norris, Kenneth Cecire, Obinna Abah, Diploma Kobor, Sanae Samsam, Benard Mulilo, Jesutofunmi Fajemisin, Mounia Laassiri 

Salient points

  1. [Africa High Energy Physics] Ulrich to confirm with Haifa if she will be able to give this general talk about Africa High Energy Physics, if not we should find someone else who has a broad overview of HEP in Africa. 
  2. [Early career sessions] Mounia et al. presented an overview of how they are going to organize their 2 sessions. The slides presented by Mounia are accessible here: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1278001/contributions/5368234/attachments/2635268/4558894/ACP2023%20Early%20Career%20Sessions%20.pdf
  3. [Conference dinner talk] Azwinndini proposed Dr Derrick Swartz as a guest for the dinner talk on Sep. 28.
  4. [Special session on small detector labs] Uli proposed two speakers connected to Africa for his session. Both speakers have already accepted the invitation.
  5. [Africa biophysics] Lawrence to confirm with Tebello Nyokong (chemical physics) if she will be able to give a broad talk connected to Africa.
  6. [Special session on African countries joining and thriving in large collaborations] Benard with Kétévi gave us an overview of how they are going to organize this session, Christine added a few suggestions to his list of speakers. Please see the proposal on the indico page added by Benard. 
  7. [Special session on large research infrastructures / big detectors in Africa]  Next meeting, Ulrich will give us an update on this session 
  8. [AMO] Obinna presented one slide with a proposal (program and speakers), the slide will be posted on indico as soon as we receive it from Obinna.
  9. [Physics Education & Communication] Kenneth and Funmi presented detailed proposals and the suggested speaker names already added to the ACP2023 google doc.
  10. [Physics and climate] In a later communication after the meeting, Azwinndini suggested a climate modeling expert Francois Engelbrecht from Wits. Azwinndini will check for the availability of Francois. 
  11. Kétévi will prepare a draft invitation letter for review.
  12. The Next meeting will be on Tuesday, May 9. Session leaders will be asked to provide an update on their sessions.

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