Scientific Policy Committee - Three-Hundred-and-Thirty-Seventh Meeting

Name: Scientific Policy Committee - Three-Hundred-and-Thirty-Seventh Meeting
Start: 2023-12-11T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2023-12-12T16:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

11 Dec 2023, 14:00 → 12 Dec 2023, 16:00 Europe/Zurich

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

503/1-001 - Council Chamber

CERN

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Monday 11 December
- Mon 11 Dec
- Tue 12 Dec
- 14:00 → 18:00
  14:00 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -
  
  Normal Session-Zoom link
  - 14:00
    Adoption of the Agenda 5m
    
    CERN/SPC/1224
    
    English
  - 14:05
    Approval of the draft minutes of 10m
    
    the three-hundred-and-thirty-fifth meeting 5m
    
    CERN/SPC/1225/RA
    
    English
    
    the three-hundred-and-thirty-sixth meeting 5m
    
    CERN/SPC/1226/RA/Draft
  - 14:15
    
    Matters arising from the previous meetings 5m
  - 14:20
    
    Report by the SPC Chair (Oral) 10m
    
    Slides
  - 14:30
    
    Briefing by the President of the Council (Oral) 10m
    
    Slides
  - 14:40
    
    Scientific Committee Reports: INTC-SPSC-LHCC-CMAC- FCC-SAC (Oral) 1h
    
    FCC-SAC Slides
    
    INTC Slide
    
    LHCC Slides
    
    SPSC Slides
  - 15:40
    
    Report by the Director-General (Oral) 20m
    
    slides
  - 16:00
    
    Coffee break 20m
  - 16:20
    
    Status Report on Experiments and Computing (J. Mnich - Oral) 40m
    
    Slides
  - 17:00
    
    Report from the 7th HL-LHC Cost and Schedule Review 2023 (M. Seidel - Oral) 30m
    
    Slides
  - 17:30
    
    Status report on accelerator complex and Management’s first response to the HL-LHC Cost & Schedule review (M. Lamont - Oral) 30m
    
    Slides
- 18:00 → 19:00
  18:00 - - - RESTRICTED SESSION - - -
  
  Zoom link
  - 18:00
    
    Election of a nominee for the position of Vice-Chair of the SPC (Oral) 20m
  - 18:20
    
    Appointment of three members of the SPC Member Selection Committee (Oral) 40m
- 19:00 → 19:30
  
  19:00 - - - CLOSED SESSION - - -
- 19:30 → 21:30
  
  Dinner (Glassbox - Restaurant No. 1) 2h
Tuesday 12 December
- Mon 11 Dec
- Tue 12 Dec
- 08:15 → 09:00
  
  8:15 - - - CLOSED SESSION - - -
- 09:00 → 11:15
  9:00 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -
  - 09:00
    Major upgrades of experiments 1h 15m
    
    ALICE (M. Van Leeuwen - Oral) 35m
    
    Slides
    
    Supportive document-Letter of intent for ALICE 3
    
    LHCb (V. Vagnoni - Oral) 35m
    
    Slides
    
    Supportive documents-LHCB upgrade II
    
    Expression of interest
    
    Framework TDR
    
    Physics case
  - 10:15
    
    Coffee break 15m
  - 10:30
    Report on ECFA activities in 2023 30m
    
    CERN/SPC/1227/Rev. CERN/3776/Rev.
    
    English
    
    Slides
  - 11:00
    
    Report from the LDG (D. Newbold - Oral) 14m
    
    Slides
  - 11:14
    Report from the European Particle Physics Communication Network (EPPCN) 1m
    
    CERN/SPC/1228 CERN/3787
    
    English
- 11:15 → 12:15
  
  11:15 - - - CLOSED SESSION - - -
- 12:15 → 12:45
  
  12:15 - - - RESTRICTED SESSION - - -
- 12:45 → 13:00
  12:45 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -
  - 12:45
    
    Close-out report on Closed and Restricted Sessions 10m
  - 12:55
    Timetable for Council Sessions and committee meetings in 2025 3m
    
    CERN/3777/Draft
    
    English
  - 12:58
    
    Other business 2m
- 13:00 → 14:00
  
  - - - LUNCH - - - (Glassbox - Restaurant No. 1) 1h
- 14:00 → 16:00
  14:00 - - - TOPICAL SESSION - - -
  
  Attendance: Chair and Vice-Chair, Members, Scientific delegates, President of Council, Chair of FC, Director-General, CERN Services, any other person invited by the Chair to attend
  
  Zoom link
  - 14:00
    
    Presentation of US situation, P5 (Hitoshi Murayama, Karsten M. Heeger - Oral) 1h
    
    Slides
  - 15:00
    
    Prepared responses on particular aspects e.g. Higgs physics, Neutrino Physics… (Oral) 30m
  - 15:30
    
    General discussion by SPC and Scientific Delegates 30m