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

from Thursday 10 December 2020 (09:00) to Friday 11 December 2020 (13:00)
CERN (503/1-001)

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