Video-meeting: Restricted and Open Council - Two-Hundred-and-First Session

from Thursday, December 10, 2020 (9:00 AM) to Friday, December 11, 2020 (1:00 PM)
CERN (503/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Dec 10, 2020
Dec 11, 2020
AM
9:00 AM
Restricted Council (until 3:35 PM)
9:00 AM Report on the credentials  
9:02 AM Matters arising from previous meeting (Oral)  
9:07 AM Adoption of the agenda  
9:09 AM Approval of the draft minutes of the two-hundredth Session - Restricted Council  
9:14 AM President's report (Oral)  
9:24 AM Director General's report (Oral)  
9:44 AM Developments in the Member States relevant for CERN (Oral)  
9:59 AM Overview of protocols concluded since November 2019  
10:09 AM Status report on participation of non-Member States in the CERN Programmes 2019-2020  
10:19 AM Fundraising report (Ms C. Warakaulle - Oral)  
10:29 AM Status of public engagement and educational programmes on the CERN site (Ms C. Warakaulle - Oral)  
10:39 AM Report by the Chair of the Finance Committee (Dr U. Dosselli - Oral)  
10:49 AM The Cost-Variation Index for 2021  
10:59 AM Final Budget of the Organization for the sixty-seventh financial year 2021  
11:14 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:29 AM Proposed amendments to the 11th edition of the Staff Rules and Regulations – technical adjustments  
11:44 AM Proposed amendments to the Rules and Regulations of the Pension Fund and the CERN Health Insurance Scheme  
12:04 PM Governance structure of experiments at CERN (Prof. E. Elsen - Oral)  
12:24 PM Audit Committee (AC)  
2:00 PM Scientific Policy Committee  
2:15 PM Preliminary information on the Medium-Term Plan for the period 2022-2026 (Director-General - Oral)  
2:30 PM Earned-value management (EVM) reports on the LHC Injector Upgrade (LIU) and High-Luminosity LHC projects  
2:45 PM CERN Pension Fund  
9:00 AM
Open Council (until 11:30 AM)
9:05 AM Approval of the draft minutes of the hundred-and-ninety-ninth Session on 19 June 2020 – Open Council  
9:10 AM Report on the decisions taken at Restricted and Closed Council (President - Oral)  
9:20 AM Report by the Chair of the Finance Committee (Dr U. Dosselli - Oral)  
9:30 AM Overview report for 2020 by the Chair of the Scientific Policy Committee (Prof. L. Rivkin - Oral)  
9:45 AM EPS study on the importance of physics to the economies of Europe (Prof. P. Rudolf, EPS President - Oral)  
10:05 AM Social cost-benefit analysis of the LHC and HL-LHC (Prof. M. Florio, University of Milano - Oral)  
10:30 AM LHC matters  
11:10 AM Timetable for Council Sessions and committee meetings in 2022  
11:15 AM Confirmation of the access status of the documents on the agenda  
11:17 AM Other business  
11:30 AM
11:30: End-of-year LHC virtual Jamboree - Talks by Young Scientists (until 1:00 PM)
11:45 AM ALICE (13') - James Mulligan (University of California, Berkeley (US))  
11:58 AM ATLAS (covering also LHCf) (15') - Heather Russell (CERN)  
12:13 PM CMS (covering also TOTEM) (15') - Stefanos Leontsinis (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))  
12:28 PM LHCb (covering also MoEDAL) (15') - Dr Phoebe Hamilton (University of Maryland (US))  
12:43 PM Physics potential of Run 3 and HL-LHC (15') - Dr Julien Baglio (CERN)  
PM