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

12 Dec 2011, 14:00 → 13 Dec 2011, 17:00 Europe/Zurich

60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F) (CERN)

Monday 12 December

14:00 → 18:00 2 p.m. NORMAL SESSION

14:00 Adoption of the Agenda

agenda spc-e-982-agdec2011-FZ.pdf

14:05 Approval of the Draft Minutes of the Two-Hundred-and-seventy-third meeting

Minutes spc-e-981RA-App.pdf

14:10 Matters Arising

14:15 Chairman's report

14:20 Briefing by the President of Council

14:25 Director-General's Report

14:35 LHC Matters

16:00 COFFEE

16:30 Report on the CERN fixed-target programme (C. Vallee - Oral)

Slides spc174_vallee1.pdf

17:00 CNGS/OPERA and neutrino velocity

17:40 Plans for the Medium-term Plan for the Period 2013-2017 (Director-General - Oral)

18:00 → 19:00 6 p.m. CLOSED SESSION

18:00 Closed session matters

19:00 → 21:00 DINNER

Tuesday 13 December

09:15 → 09:45 9.15 a.m. RESTRICTED SESSION

09:15 Close-out Report on the Closed Session

09:30 SPC Membership - Re-election of the SPC Chairman

09:45 → 12:30 9.45 a.m. NORMAL SESSION

09:45 Close-out Report on the Closed and Restricted Sessions

10:00 CERN plans for communications on the Higgs boson search at the LHC (Director-General - Oral)

10:15 Status report on the preparations for the European Strategy Update (T. Nakada - Oral)

Slides ES_Update_Council.pdf

10:30 COFFEE

11:00 CLIC

11:40 Any Other Business

11:50 Summary of Conclusions

12:00 Agenda for Next meeting

12:30 → 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 → 16:00 2 p.m. CERN SEMINAR Programme here

16:00 → 17:00 4 p.m. RESTRICTED SESSION

16:00 SPC Discussion with the ATLAS and CMS spokepersons