Collaboration Meeting

Name: Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2012-10-06T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2012-10-06T22:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

Saturday 6 Oct 2012, 09:00 → 22:00 Europe/Zurich

60-6-015 (CERN)

60-6-015

CERN

Conference room on 6th floor of main building

- 1
  
  Overview of RPP Efforts
  
  Speaker: Michael Barnett (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
  
  Slides
- 2
  
  Literature search issues
  
  Speaker: Simon Eidelman (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS and Novosibirsk State University)
  
  Slides
- 3
  
  Meson Team issues
  
  Speaker: Claudia Patrignani (Universita e INFN (IT))
  
  Slides
- 4
  Higgs (how do we handle a particle that has been quasi-discovered?)
  
  Speaker: Ken-ichi Hikasa (Tohoku University)
  Slides
  
  barnett_higgs-like.pdf
  
  barnett_higgs-like.ppt
  
  NewHiggsSection.pdf
- 5
  
  Future developments of detector review (accel.) and balance between detector basics and recent, state-of-the-art developments
  
  Speaker: Maksym Titov (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))
- 6
  
  Fits issues – how done, who does them (outside groups)
  
  Speaker: Piotr Zyla (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
  
  Slides
- 7
  
  B Particles, CKM, and Heavy Flavor Averaging Group
  
  Speaker: Wei-Ming Yao (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
  
  document
  
  Slides
- 8
  
  Status and future of HepData
  
  Speaker: Michael Whalley (Durham University)
  
  Slides
- 10:50
  
  Break
- 9
  
  Enable Model-independent searches
  
  Speaker: Katherine Copic (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
  
  Slides
- 10
  
  Add a Cosmology Data Group?
  
  Speakers: Michael Barnett (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)), Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford)
  
  Slides
- 11
  
  Issues with schedules and deadlines
  
  Encodings impact reviews. Is the 3-part set of deadlines for encoding a problem? Is the 2-part set of deadlines for reviews a problem (data-driven vs. others)? Issues with people who regularly miss deadlines. Book or web version first?
  
  Speaker: Michael Barnett (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
  
  Slides
- 12
  
  Discussion
- 12:30
  
  Lunch
- 13
  
  Computing Upgrade and New Encoding System
  
  Possibly allow collaborations to enter data? (Always ask collaborations after lit search deadline)
  
  Speaker: Juerg Beringer (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
  
  Slides
- 14
  
  pdgLive issues – Enable access to archival listings?
  
  Speaker: Juerg Beringer (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
  
  Slides
- 15
  
  PDG Smartphone App – status and future
  
  Speaker: Michael Barnett (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
  
  Slides
- 16
  
  Possible conversion of book to LaTeX or other options
  
  Speaker: Piotr Zyla (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
  
  Slides
- 17
  
  Future handling of Baryon Resonances (outsourcing?)
  
  Speaker: Michael Barnett (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
  
  Slides
- 14:50
  
  Break
- 18
  Invited publishers
  - a) APS
    
    Speaker: Gene Sprouse (Editor in Chief, American Physical Society)
    
    Slides
  - b) Elsevier
    
    Speaker: Eleonora Presani (High Energy Physics Publisher for Elsevier)
    
    Slides
  - c) IOP
    
    Speaker: Nina Couzin (Editorial Business Manager at IOP Publishing)
  - d) Springer
    
    Speaker: Christian Caron (Physics Editorial Department - Springer)
    
    Slides
  - e) Discussion
- 19
  
  Open Access journals – Our issue is always open access, but is that enough?
- 20
  
  Should we do a survey about the big book (and booklet)?
  
  Speaker: Michael Barnett (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
  
  Slides
- 21
  
  Interaction with Advisory Committee
  
  Charge of the committee. How we interact with the committee. How to respond to the Report.
  
  Speaker: Michael Barnett (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
  
  Slides
- 22
  
  Session for open discussion of any issues
- 19:30
  
  Dinner, Auberge Communale de Meyrin