APPEC SAC Meeting May 2020

Tuesday 19 May 2020, 09:00 → 16:25 Europe/Zurich

Meeting ID: 524 393 525 (ZOOM)

Laura Baudis (University of Zurich)

09:00 → 09:05 Opening and welcome

Speaker: Laura Baudis (University of Zurich)

09:05 → 09:20 Composition of SAC and Tour de table

Welcome to the new SAC members. As introduction we have a short Tour de table

SACcompositionFeb2020.pdf

09:20 → 09:30 SAC mandate and current workplan

For your information, especially for the new SAC members

APPEC SAC Mandate 2019.pdf

APPEC SAC working plan 2018-2020updateMay2020.pdf

09:30 → 09:35 Minutes SAC meeting 26 November 2019

Draft MinutesAPPEC_SAC Nov 2019 Zurich.docx

Draft MinutesAPPEC_SAC Nov 2019 Zurich.pdf

09:35 → 10:05 Announcements from APPEC-GA

• Follow-up Neutrinoless double beta decay report/recommendations

• APPEC Technology Forum postponed until 2021

• APPEC Town Meeting Berlin postponed until Fall 2021

• Status European Particle Physics Strategy Update

• Status CMB Strategy

APPEC_SAC_May2020.pdf

10:05 → 10:25 Status update EuCAPT

Short presentation by Gianfranco Bertone, EuCAPT director (10 min)

Discussion

EuCAPTpresentation.pdf

10:25 → 10:40 Short break

10:40 → 11:55 Draft report DM direct detection subcommittee

• presentation Leszek Roszkowski (15 min)
• discussion
• next steps
• conclusions and follow-up

The draft report will be available by the end of this week (before 15 May)

appec_dm_report_roszkowski_sac_200519.pdf

dm_report__appec_2020_v1.pdf

11:55 → 13:25 Break

13:25 → 15:25 Preparations Town Meeting: status update recommendations

Sijbrand de Jong will introduce this agenda item (see also his 14 April email message).

We will discuss the objectives for our status update, the procedure and the status of collecting info so far. See also the google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XMrb3Z7ulnM-TkaC9m6fkRXuQJYP37Tjtqkw4EqiGWY/edit

We will discuss and conclude the follow-up actions and time line for the next months.

Speaker: Sijbrand De Jong (Radboud University Nijmegen (NL))

APPEC Town Meeting 2021 plan.pdf

EmailMidtermReviewRoadmapRecommendations.pdf

midterm_v2.pdf

midterm_v2.pptx

15:25 → 15:40 Nominations for new SAC chair

The term of SAC chair Laura Baudis ends in June 2020. The APPEC-GA will appoint a new chair, preferably in the GA meeting on 5 June 2020.

The APPEC statutes say that the APPEC-GA appoints the chair among the SAC members.

Job will shortly report about the response on his email to the SAC members asking for chair nominations.

15:40 → 15:50 AOB and planning next meeting(s)

15:50 → 15:55 Closing of the meeting