US LHC Users Executive Committee Meeting

Tuesday Feb 27, 2024, 8:00 PM → 9:30 PM Europe/Zurich

CERN

Harvey Newman (California Institute of Technology (US))

Zoom:

https://caltech.zoom.us/j/89934080333?pwd=UmliMmdVUWU3RUhrQWRtcGZLd0wrdz09

Meeting ID: 899 3408 0333
Passcode: 498505
 

It is scheduled for 90 minutes (max).

Please review our subcommittee lists. 

New members,
let us know which committees you wish to join; continuing members
let us know of any changes you would like to make in your committee
assignments. You will also notice that we have openings for a couple of
committee chairs and co-chairs

**Intro (HN)**
* Note to subcommittee chairs: please prepare a brief update
* Welcome new 2024-25 members! 
* Reminder of USLUA mission, history, composition
* Activities: annual fall meetings, annual advocacy trips to DC 
* TODO: new members volunteer for subcommittee membership 

**Government Relations (Kennedy)**
* HN: need urgently to update LHC 2-pager (not taken care of by content group)

**Finances & Fundraising (Stupak)**

**Outreach & Communications (Gonski)**
* TODO: Speaker for USLUA talk at APS April meeting (deadline March 1)
* Secretary: prepare overall USLUA documentation (twiki? Etc.)

**Annual Meeting & Events (Goldfarb)**
* LHCP is in Boston this year: should organize USLUA activity 
    * Deepa Thomas, Matt LeBlanc, Michael Wilkinson, Steven Goldfarb 
* Proposal from Caterina to have next annual meeting at SLAC 

** Website(Pearkes)**
* Need to update website: Larry suggested moving to Wordpess/Hugo

**Round Table & EOI**
* Deepa Thomas: Quality of Life
* Karri di Petrillo: Government Relations & Outreach/Communications 
* Matt LeBlanc: government, opportunities/support for early career scientists, particularly industry 
* Michael Wilkinson: government, website 
* Andy Lankford: importance of advocating for entire P5 program, not just LHC. 
* Joel Butler: P5 is just the beginning

8:00 PM → 8:20 PM Welcome and Introduction:

Speaker: Harvey Newman (California Institute of Technology (US))

USLUECMeetingIntroduction_hbn022624s.pdf

USLUECMeetingIntroduction_hbn022624s.pptx

8:20 PM → 8:55 PM Brief Subcommittee Reports

8:20 PM DC trip status and plans

Speaker: Kiley Elizabeth Kennedy (Princeton University (US))

USLUEC_GRStatus_KKennedy_02.27.2023.pdf

8:25 PM Finances and Fund raising

Speakers: David Saltzberg (University of California Los Angeles (US)), John Stupak (University of Oklahoma (US))

Stupak_USLUA_Fundraising_240227.pdf

8:30 PM Quality of Life

Speaker: Dr Claire Lee (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

8:35 PM Outreach/Communications

Speaker: Julia Lynne Gonski (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Outreach CodiMD

8:40 PM Annual Meeting and Events

Speaker: Steven Goldfarb (University of Melbourne (AU))

8:45 PM Web Presence and Email Lists

Speaker: Jannicke Pearkes (University of Colorado Boulder (US))

2024_02_27_USLUA_update.pdf

8:55 PM → 9:15 PM Discussion

New P5 Plan,
Any Issues Related to the Subcommittees,
Plans and Goals for the Year

9:15 PM → 9:25 PM AOB

Action Items