Name: Scientific Policy Committee - Two-hundred-and-seventy-third meeting
Start: 2011-09-12T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2011-09-13T13:30:00+02:00
Location: CERN

Monday 12 September
- Mon 12 Sept
- Tue 13 Sept
- 2.00 p.m.: Normal Session
  - 1
    Adoption of the Agenda
    
    CERN/SPC/973
    CERN/SPC/973/Rev.
    
    agenda
  - 2
    Approval of the Draft Minutes of the Two-hundred-and-seventy-second Meeting
    
    CERN/SPC/972/RA/Draft
    
    Minutes
  - 3
    
    Matters Arising
  - 4
    
    Chairman's Report
  - 5
    
    Director General's Report
  - 6
    
    Briefing by the President of Council
  - 7
    LHC Matters
    
    a) Status Report on the LHC Machine (S. Myers – Oral)
    
    Slides
    
    b) Status Report on LHC Experiments and Computing (S. Bertolucci - Oral)
    
    Slides
    
    c) Status Report on Higgs searches in CMS (G. Tonelli – Oral)
    
    d) Status Report on Higgs searches in ATLAS (F. Gianotti – Oral)
    
    Slides
  - 16:15
    
    16:15 COFFEE
  - 8
    Report on the question 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 (T. Wyatt - Oral)
    
    CERN/SPC/978/Rev.2 CERN/2986/Rev.2
    
    document
    
    spc-e-0978-Higgsreport-Rev.pdf
    
    spc-e-978_c-2986Higgsreport.pdf
    
    spc-e-978Rev2_c-2986Rev2Higgsreport.pdf
    
    Slides
  - 9
    Reports from Summer Conferences:
    
    a) Collider physics (E. Elsen - Oral)
    
    Slides
    
    b) Non-collider physics (H. Murayama - Oral)
    
    Slides
- 6.15 p.m.:Closed Session
  - 10
    
    Closed Session Matters
- 19:00
  
  19:00 DINNER (Glass-Box – Restaurant No.1)
Tuesday 13 September
- Mon 12 Sept
- Tue 13 Sept
- 8.30 a.m.: Restricted Session
  - 11
    
    Close-out Report on the Closed Session
  - 12
    
    SPC membership
  - 09:30
    
    9.30 a.m.: COFFEE
- 10.00 a.m.: Normal Session
  - 13
    
    Close-out Report on the Closed and Restricted Sessions
  - 14
    
    Recent results and prospects in in neutrino oscillation physics (D. Wark - Oral)
    
    Slides
  - 15
    
    Prospects for a short baseline neutrino experiments at CERN (C. Touramanis - Oral)
    
    Slides
  - 16
    Preparations of the September European Strategy Session:
    
    a) European Strategy Group List of Participants (Members and Invitees)
    
    CERN/SPC/974 CERN-Council-S/086
    
    English
    
    b) Timeline for the Strategy Update
    
    CERN/SPC/979/Rev. CERN-Council-S/090/Rev.
    CERN/SPC/979 CERN-Council-S/090
    
    English
    
    Slides
    
    c) Report on ECFA Activities
    
    CERN/SPC/975 CERN-Council-S/087
    
    English
    
    Slides
    
    d) Status report -Technology Transfer Network
    
    CERN/SPC/976 CERN-Council-S/088
    
    English
    
    e) Continuation of the activity of the Technology Transfer Network
    
    CERN/SPC/980/Rev. CERN-Council-S/092/Rev.
    CERN/SPC/980 CERN-Council-S/092
    
    English
    
    f) Report from the Communication Network
    
    CERN/SPC/977 CERN-Council-S/089
    
    English
    
    Slides
  - 17
    
    Summary of Conclusions
  - 18
    
    Agenda for Next Meeting
  - 19
    
    Any other business
  - 12:30
    
    12.30: LUNCH (Restaurant N°1)

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

Room George Charpak (Room F)

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