Minutes Meeting LCVision Coordination Group 10/3/26
Attendees: Emilio Nanni, Aidan Robson, Jinlong Zhang, Jürgen Reuter, Tatsuya Nakada, Junping Tian, Kiyotomo Kawagoe, Daniel Jeans, Taikan Suehara, Mikael Berggren, Sergey Belomestnykh, Andy White, Philip Burrows, Imad Laktineh, Sven Heinemeyer, Erik Adli, Roman Pöschl, Sanjay Kumar Swain, Dirk Zerwas, Halina Abramowicz, Johannes Braathen, Jorge de Blas, Graham Wilson, Maxim Titov, Caterina Vernieri, Carsten Hensel
- Workplan for CERN
- Submitted one month ago, reception acknowledged but no news so far
- Most likely have to wait for CERN Council Week (23/3/26 - 27/3/26) for more news
- If possible get a hold of your Council representative and make her/him aware of the workplan
- (Preparation of) CERN Council week
- News from LDG Meeting at DESY are mainly that CERN DG is scrutinising the budget against priorities, with HL-LHC as top priority
- Phil (new SPC Chair) pointed out that plans by DG will be presented to SPC already at the beginning of the Council week (SPC session 23th - 24th of March)
- Opinion of Council on ESG recommendations not clear
- Council week will be "terribly" important to come to a consensus on the Strategy, Council Meeting in Budapest in May is mainly to "bless" agreements found in March week
- Not clear which words will be used by council on Strategy Recommendations: "approves" (likely not), "endorses", "takes note"
- GEAR-NG
- EA-JADE successor
- PIs Angeles and Thomas
- Travel to Japan and within Europe (?)
- Travel to US?
- Industrial partner is a must
- Deadline for submission 16th of April
- LCWS
- 9th of November - 13th of November at KEK
- Wait with invitations for Council Week
- Still looking for co-chair from US Community
- Round table
- US (Caterina, Andy): No news
- UK (Aidan and Phil) : Digesting funding cuts that will have an impact on the attitude of the UK in the Council session
- Japan (Taikan): Reorganisation of ILC Japan, "Shy" FCC involvement, preparation of Japanese particle physics strategy
- Germany: No news
- Spain: No news
- France: see slides
- Israel (Halina): Noi clear why Israel's Scientific Advisoir pushed so strongly for FCC (not backed up by community)
- Norway (Erik): Talk with council delegate, positive about LC@CERN workplan, will get in touch with other Nordic states (Latvia, Sweden, Finland, others?) before Council week
- Brasil (Carsten): Set out for FCC, difficult to make alternatives visible (may be ICHEP helps)
- SpB
- ICHEP Abstract on LCF accepted (ICHEP will be in Brasil)