Agenda
was approved
1. Report on CHIPP-EB activities
U. Straumann summarized the recent CHIPP activites, supported by A. Ereditato on the status of the CHIPP tables, by Martin Pohl on the status of the Swiss FP7 DevDet contributions and G. Dissertori on the conclusions from the recent CHIPP school, see activity_report_14Mar08.pdf and CHIPP-tables-0308.pdf and Summary_CHIPP_school_Board_Mar08.pdf
2.
Reports from other committees
- council (incl. European Strategy session), see activity_report_14Mar08.pdf
- ASPERA: a written report of the ASPERA day from Dec 3 was received.
- NuPECC, see NUPECC_report_14Mar08.pdf by C. Amsler
3.
Status SUK funds and plans
- PostDocs
- PRO*DOC
see activity_report_14Mar08.pdf
4.
Communication:
- Status LHC Communication network
- Fact sheet of Swiss LHC construction contributions
see activity_report_14Mar08.pdf
At
some point in time an update of our roadmap will be needed, to be
followed up by the EB.
5.
Tier-2 status
see
report by Christoph Grab (shown by U. Straumann) CHIPP_mar08_grab.pdf
6.
Funding larger projects in 2012-2015
see activity_report_14Mar08.pdf
7. a.o.b.
The situation of replacement professors at Universities was discussed shortly. At the University of Geneva the successor of M. Bourquin is expected to contribute to the LHC exploitation and other CERN experiments. But, it is not clear, when the position will be advertised. ETHZ and PSI look for a common professor, who will also act as the head of the PSI particle physics departement. In both cases members of the CHIPP board are participating in the selection committees.
No other positions are known to become available in near future.
J-P.
Ruder informed about the developments of Technology Transfer (TT)
network. The CHIPP EB will invite G. Clerc from EPFL to its next
meeting to discuss how to proceed.
March
24th, 2008 Ueli Straumann