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

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

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

Monday 11 December

14:00 → 18:00 14:00 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -

Normal Session-Zoom link

14:00 Adoption of the Agenda

English

14:05 Approval of the draft minutes of

14:15 Matters arising from the previous meetings

14:20 Report by the SPC Chair (Oral)

Slides

14:30 Briefing by the President of the Council (Oral)

Slides

14:40 Scientific Committee Reports: INTC-SPSC-LHCC-CMAC- FCC-SAC (Oral)

FCC-SAC Slides

INTC Slide

LHCC Slides

SPSC Slides

15:40 Report by the Director-General (Oral)

slides

16:00 Coffee break

16:20 Status Report on Experiments and Computing (J. Mnich - Oral)

Slides

17:00 Report from the 7th HL-LHC Cost and Schedule Review 2023 (M. Seidel - Oral)

Slides

17:30 Status report on accelerator complex and Management’s first response to the HL-LHC Cost & Schedule review (M. Lamont - Oral)

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)

18:20 Appointment of three members of the SPC Member Selection Committee (Oral)

19:00 → 19:30 19:00 - - - CLOSED SESSION - - -

19:30 → 21:30 Dinner (Glassbox - Restaurant No. 1)

Tuesday 12 December

08:15 → 09:00 8:15 - - - CLOSED SESSION - - -

09:00 → 11:15 9:00 - - - NORMAL SESSION - - -

09:00 Major upgrades of experiments

10:15 Coffee break

10:30 Report on ECFA activities in 2023

English

Slides

11:00 Report from the LDG (D. Newbold - Oral)

Slides

11:14 Report from the European Particle Physics Communication Network (EPPCN)

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

12:55 Timetable for Council Sessions and committee meetings in 2025

English

12:58 Other business

13:00 → 14:00 - - - LUNCH - - - (Glassbox - Restaurant No. 1)

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)

Slides

15:00 Prepared responses on particular aspects e.g. Higgs physics, Neutrino Physics… (Oral)

15:30 General discussion by SPC and Scientific Delegates