1. Intro, HN
— Summary of HEPAP meeting; CMB-S4
Le Blanc, on HEP budget p. 7: initiative funding (AI/ML, QIS) is already allocated or it available?
** These initiatives are available to route to HEP grants
How much of QIS is coming into physics?
** QuantiSED for HEP, additional info in “HEP Research Breakdown” p. 8 (contact Alan Stone for details)
2. Kevin Pedro, govt relations
Monthly meetings of usparticlephyiscs.org contact group for regular updates
Analyzing results of post-trip participant surveys
State department contact on CERN noncollaboration with Russia (international benchmarking panel, Geneva mission)
Community letter in support of re-capitalizing LC-130 fleet for South Pole support
3. Steven Goldfarb, quality of life
Summer party: around July 4, involve US mission
Visa issues for summer students: must get visa for stays longer than 8 days (dependencies on work, shifts,…)
** Robin (with Jason): charge from Abid to assess how big the visa problem is (# students, # engineers, etc.) with contact to US mission
— Annual meeting: SLAC in December? Will need to circulate a poll..
4. David Saltzberg, Finances
Current balances: okay for immediate future
Fundraising: John Stupak
5. Larry Lee, new website
Hosted on Git: saves money, easy for others to contribute
HN: request to add LHC status, ways to contact Congress members
Can collect volunteers to help contributing & migrating fully
6. Elise Le Boulicaut, AAPT Summer Exhibit
Still looking for 2 volunteers to join
3 days total, 1 day of setup
Want to have any other USLUA branded material available? Banner?
What resources for teachers can we advertise? Ex. virtual visits
7. Julia Gonski, Outreach/Comms
Twitter engagement going up
Draft Wikipedia page
** DC Trip Snowmass paper [https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00122], P5 articles mentioning USLUA, news posts archived on website
* FCC Week?
8. John Stupak, Fundraising
The Fundraising & Finance Committee is preparing to launch a "drip campaign" targeting donors outside our community. 5 email drafts are currently under review (thanks to Karri for making a first pass at revisions!), which will soon be sent out to ~100k potential donors that we identified in coordination with a consultant. We hope to begin sending the emails this week, with one email going out every few days. In parallel, we will develop a few more emails to send out to potential donors (after the initial batch).