GDE Executive Committee: Public Meeting Minutes 27 April 2006

Guest:
Sally Dawson (BNL)
Vice Chair, EPP2010 Committee

  • EPP2010 report was released on April 26, 2006.
  • Priorities
    • Committee believes that accelerators will remain an essential component of the program
    • First priority is the US participation in the LHC
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    • Second is two fold
      • US as a world leader for R&D on the ILC
      • US bid to host the ILC
    • No timetable established, when a design is ready, the US would/could want to build it.
    • Report was favorable by the congress and the Secretary of Energy
    • The future of particle physics will have to be international

CLOSED SESSION:

Actions Items:

Valencia Meeting

  • significant logistic constraints
  • currently planning for 470 people
  • parallel room, up to 20 rooms – very good
  • problem – separate plenary
    • WWS – 202 people
    • GDE – 131 people
    • Future venues need to be discussed
      • LCWS 07 – Europe (DESY?)

RDR Mgmt Group

  • Meeting at DESY
    • Working on the agenda and will put on Indico
    • Attendance looks good
  • RTML meeting
    • Needs feedback from RDR mgmt
    • Very good and impressive presentation
    • Many issues being driven by operations issues
    • PT opened WIKI for comments, well done

Nobu asking for RDR integration scientist to be approved to propose changes to the baseline.

  • Approved.

Next weeks guest will be Tom M. to discuss EDMS.

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