LOG – 07.07.2011 Room D
Present: Emma Sanders, Despina Hatzifotiadou, Marzena Lapka, Kathryn Grim,
Achintya Rao, Steven Goldfarb, Rolf Landua, Claudia Marcelloni, Ian Randall,
Ariane Koek, Lauren Rugani, Sophie Tesauri, Mirko Pojer, Ceri Perkins, Beatrice
Bressan, Emmanuelle Carrier -- Excused : Bolek Pietrzyk
*Update on the project collide at CERN and progress with partnerships
(Ariane Koek)
The first of CERN’s artists in residency prizes will be announced during the Ars
Electronica Festival (Sept 2) in Linz. The winning artist spends 2 month being
inspired at CERN, working with mentors. Ariane requests suggestions of potential
mentors. The prize is funded for 3 years. The Ars electronica festival will focus on
Origins (including from a CERN angle) this year.
In October 2012 CERN will announce a new Dance and Performance prize,
thanks to funding from the Ville de Geneve and an anonymous donor.
*Advance warning of 5 press releases in the pipe-line (Sophie Tesauri)
- Open Hardware License – sent later this day
- EPS HEP 2011
- ASACUSA we are waiting for the date of publication from Nature
- Cloud we are waiting for the date of publication from Nature
- Citizen Cyber science Centre (Francois Grey). Launch of a new version of LHC
at home, expected end July/ beginning August
*Communication around EPS HEP2011 (Emma Sanders)
- The EPS organises a press conference on the 25th July.
- CERN finalises tactics on the 18th July in a meeting between the DG, Corinne
Pralavorio and the spokespersons.
- the CERN press release on the 21st July is likely to simply flag the start of the
conference and the upcoming press event on the 25th. If any discovery
announcement is to be included, that will be decided in the meeting with the
spokes on the 18th.
*Progress on 3D graphic library (Rolf Landua)
- This is a library of graphic objects open for use by all and not imposed.
- Rolf aims to cover the main ingredients of many of our animations to ensure
continuity of design (protons, quarks, rf cavities, magnets … and much more!)
- Rolf will present examples at the September LOG
*Science Museum exhibition 2013 (Emma Sanders)
- The vision document written by Graham Farmelo was presented to the museum
director last week for approval. The executive summary is on indico. We expect
to know in the next couple of weeks if the project goes ahead.
- Thank you to the experiments and machine for all the propositions of objects
that will make up the backbone of this major exhibition.
*Proposal for Publicising CERN talks at science festivals and allowing the
IPPOG database to profit from the content (Emma Sanders/Lisa Mc Carthy)
- Emma to follow up the possibility of a science festival column in the Bulletin
when there is CERN or experiment involvement in major festivals (such as Ars
Electronica)
- The experiments to work on the flow of such information from within the
collaborations
- Subject to be re-tabled in October.
*Round the table (All)
- LHC: objectives are already achieved for the year. A mini Chamonix will be held
next week to discuss new objectives. Mirko presented the new BE dept internal
newsletter : Newsletter
- TOTEM: the new spokesman is Giani Simone and there is a new paper in the
pipeline.
- ATLAS showed their trial run of short video presentations for a New Journal of
Physics paper (2 versions: one for general public and the other one higher level)
- CMS have the go-ahead to film management board meetings for internal use.
There is potential for external use if authorized on a case by case basis.
CMS and PH-EDU will explore how the CMS Centre@CERN in Meyrin area
can be improved to account for the demands for visits (VIP and other), including
possible provision of outreach displays, introductory videos, etc.
CMS-visits@cern.ch is the new email for visit requests at pt 5.
- ALICE are finalizing their big poster for pt 2
- US-LHC – Discovery package texts are nearing completion
Next meeting: Thursday, August 4 room 1-1-025