Subject: 2nd draft agenda of Coll. Board meeting Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:45:46 +0100 (CET) From: Friedrich DYDAK To: HARP-institute representatives -- Vladimir AMMOSOV , Marco APOLLONIO , Milla BALDO CEOLIN , Giles BARR , Alain BLONDEL , Maurizio BONESINI , Chris BOOTH , Stepan BUNYATOV , Craig BUTTAR , Maria Gabriella CATANESI , Enrico Di CAPUA , Ubaldo DORE , Jacques DUMARCHEZ , Friedrich DYDAK , Rob EDGECOCK , Ugo GASTALDI , Simone GIANI , Sergej GNINENKO , Juan Jose GOMEZ CADENAS , Claus GOESSLING , Ghislain GREGOIRE , Vladimir GRICHINE , Alberto GUGLIELMI , Dimitar KOLEV , Lucie LINSSEN , Maria Teresa MUCIACCIA , Domizia ORESTANO , Vittorio PALLADINO , Jaap PANMAN , Fernanda PASTORE , Georgij SHELKOV , Petar TEMNIKOV , Roumen TSENOV , Francois VANNUCCI HARP Collaboration Board meeting #15 ************************************ Place: EP conference room 1/1-025 Time: Monday 24 March 19.00 - ? ATTENTION: At this meeting, every HARP institute is requested to vote on the Spokesperson's Policy (see summary below). If an institute cannot be represented by its Team Leader, delegation of the voting right to another person from this institute, or else procuration to the representative of another institute, is requested. Notice that a voting representative cannot carry more than two procurations on top of his/her own vote. Procurations must be announced by email to `friedrich.dydak@cern.ch' at the latest until Monday 24th March, 13.00 h Geneva time, or else at the meeting under item 1 of the draft agenda. AGENDA (2nd draft) ------------------ 1. Establishing institute representation: attendance and procurations, Quorum 2. Adoption of the agenda 3. Approval of minutes of the 14th meeting held on 10.12.2003 4. HARP Common Fund, news on financial matters (L. Linssen) 5. HARP author list, list of HARP talks, list of HARP theses; invitations to report on HARP results (F. Dydak) 6. Discussion of, and decision on, U. Gastaldi's proposal of further TPC calibration --- at this point, M. Baldo-Ceolin and U. Dore will jointly take over as chairpersons --- 6. Physics analysis matters (discussion) 7. Vote of confidence in spokesperson's policy The HARP constitution, available at `http://cern.ch/dydak/HARP_constitution.ps', stipulates that this vote is open. Simple majority among the represented institutes will decide. The spokesperson's policy will be described and argued in the spokesperson's `State of HARP' address at the begin of the Collaboration Meeting. The content will be made available to Collaboration Board members several days earlier, with a view to permitting time for discussion and reflection. 8. A.o.B. SPOKESPERSON'S POLICY (Summary) ******************************* The spokesperson notes, with regret, that progress with physics analysis is too slow. It is not understandable for the outside world, why 2 1/2 years after the launch of the software project in August 2000, and 6 months after the launch of the analysis project, the detector is not yet calibrated and physics tracks are not reconstructed with good and known performance. There is no more room for vague promises. HARP analysis needs less theory-minded dogmatism and more data-driven pragmatism. The outside world expects, rightly and understandably so, first results from HARP. Concentrating all forces on preliminary results for the 2003 summer conferences would solve this problem, but even more importantly, would provide the necessary focus to cut through all problems until the end, while accepting that one or the other compromise will have to be made which will reflect in a larger systematic error. It will permit the rapid transition from a small circle of experts to a broad-based physics analysis, and will show us how to deploy our forces optimally in a second high-precision round of analysis.