Scientific Policy Committee - Two-hundred-and-seventy-first meeting

Name: Scientific Policy Committee - Two-hundred-and-seventy-first meeting
Start: 2011-05-02T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2011-05-02T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

Monday 2 May 2011, 09:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Room George Charpak (Room F) (CERN)

Room George Charpak (Room F)

CERN

- 09:00 → 12:00
  Open Session
  - 09:00
    Adoption of the Agenda 5m
    
    CERN/SPC/967
    
    agenda
  - 09:05
    Approval of the Draft Minutes of the Two-hundred-and-seventieth Meeting 5m
    
    CERN/SPC/966/RA/Draft
    
    Minutes
  - 09:10
    
    Matters arising 5m
  - 09:15
    
    Chairman's Report 5m
  - 09:20
    LHC Matters: 50m
    
    Status Report on the LHC Machine (S. Myers – Oral) 25m
    
    Slides
    
    Status Report on LHC Experiments and Computing (S. Bertolucci – Oral) 25m
    
    Slides
  - 10:10
    Medium-Term Plan for the period 2012-2016 and Draft Budget of the Organization for the fifty-eighth financial year 2012 (Director-General - Oral) 20m
    
    White Paper
    
    document
    
    Slides
  - 10:30
    
    10.30: COFFEE 30m
  - 11:00
    
    Comments on the Medium-Term Plan 1h
- 12:00 → 13:30
  Closed Session
  - 12:00
    
    Comments on the Medium-Term Plan 30m
  - 12:30
    
    12.30: LUNCH 1h
- 13:30 → 15:30
  Open Session
  - 13:30
    
    Feedback from the Closed Session 30m
  - 14:00
    
    Conclusions on the Medium-Term Plan 30m
  - 14:30
    
    Questions from Council to the SPC - The scientific significance of the possible exclusion of the SM Higgs boson in the mass range 114-600 GeV and how it should be best communicated 30m
  - 15:00
    
    15.00: COFFEE 30m
- 15:30 → 16:30
  Restricted Session
  - 15:30
    
    Nomination of the four SPC members of the Preparatory Group for the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics 30m
  - 16:00
    
    Continuation of the discussion on the nomination of two new SPC members 30m