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

2 p.m. NORMAL SESSION

1 Adoption of the Agenda

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

2 Approval of the Draft Minutes of the Two-Hundred-and-seventy-third meeting

Minutes spc-e-981RA-App.pdf

3 Matters Arising

4 Chairman's report

5 Briefing by the President of Council

6 Director-General's Report

7 LHC Matters

16:00 COFFEE

8 Report on the CERN fixed-target programme (C. Vallee - Oral)

Slides spc174_vallee1.pdf

9 CNGS/OPERA and neutrino velocity

10 Plans for the Medium-term Plan for the Period 2013-2017 (Director-General - Oral)

6 p.m. CLOSED SESSION

11 Closed session matters

19:00 DINNER

Tuesday 13 December

9.15 a.m. RESTRICTED SESSION

12 Close-out Report on the Closed Session

13 SPC Membership - Re-election of the SPC Chairman

9.45 a.m. NORMAL SESSION

14 Close-out Report on the Closed and Restricted Sessions

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

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

Slides ES_Update_Council.pdf

10:30 COFFEE

17 CLIC

18 Any Other Business

19 Summary of Conclusions

20 Agenda for Next meeting

12:30 LUNCH

2 p.m. CERN SEMINAR Programme here

4 p.m. RESTRICTED SESSION

21 SPC Discussion with the ATLAS and CMS spokepersons