ePIC Collaboration Council Meeting

US/Eastern
Bernd Surrow (Temple University), Ernst Sichtermann (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

The meeting agenda and materials are available via https://indico.bnl.gov/event/20856/

By consensus, the meeting was not recorded.

The minutes of the Collaboration Council meetings on July 27 were adopted by consensus and were added to the respective meeting indico page.

Representatives of the 2 institutions petitioning to join the collaboration presented their plans as posted and were available for subsequent discussion. The consensus was to vote electronically on the admission of each of the 2 institutions (for/against/abstain).

The elected Chair-lines of the Conferences and Talks Committee, Membership Committee, and DEI Committee presented proposed Committee. The consensus was to vote electronically on the endorsement (for/against/abstain) of each of the proposed committee compositions. An unanticipated change in availability of one of the proposed DEI Committee members meant that this vote was deferred.

The Election Committee Chair announced the outcomes of the elections of the at-large Executive Board members. The Early Career Group selected its representative on the Executive Board, as did the DEI Committee Chair-line. The spokesperson office chose not to propose additional members of the Executive Board. The Executive Board was thereby established.

John Lajoie gave an Update from the Spokesperson Office (materials posted).

The closed session resulted in the decision to keep electronic voting open for a period of two weeks going forward. This is an extension by one week.

No other business was brought up and the meeting was adjourned.

 

Electronic voting was opened on November 7 and concluded on Monday November 27 at 5pm ET. 139 valid votes were cast by that time. This satisfies the required quorum. The required super-majorities were in favor of admission of the institutions petitioning to join ePIC. The required majorities endorsed the proposed Conferences and Talks Committee and Membership Committee.

The Collaboration Council has thus admitted Nara Women’s University and the University to the ePIC Collaboration, and has endorsed the Conference and Talks Committee as well as the Membership Committee.

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    • 10:30 10:40
      Welcome, Agenda, and Minutes from previous meeting 10m
      Speakers: Bernd Surrow (Temple University), Ernst Sichtermann (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
    • 10:40 10:50
      New institutions proposing to join ePIC 10m
      Speakers: Ernst Sichtermann (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), John Lajoie (Iowa State University)
    • 10:50 11:20
      Presentations by Institutional Representatives
      • 10:50
        Nara Women's University 10m
        Speakers: Takashi Hachiya (RIKEN), maya shimomura (nara women's university)
      • 11:05
        University of Debrecen 10m
        Speakers: Balazs Ujvari (University of Debrecen), Balazs Ujvari (Debrecen)
    • 11:20 12:05
      Collaboration Council Committees
      • 11:20
        Membership Committee 10m
        Speakers: Peter Steinberg (BNL), Peter Steinberg (BNL), Pietro Antonioli (INFN - Bologna), Pietro Antonioli (INFN - sezione di Bologna)
      • 11:35
        DEI Committee 10m
        Speakers: Christine Nattrass (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Megan Connors (Georgia State University), Megan Connors (Georgia State University RBRC)
      • 11:50
        Conferences and Talks Committee 10m
        Speakers: Brian Page (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Maria Zurek (Argonne National Laboratory)
    • 12:05 12:20
      Election Status and Executive Board 15m
      Speakers: Ernst Sichtermann (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), John Arrington (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), John Lajoie (Iowa State University), Silvia Dalla Torre (INFN, Trieste)
    • 12:20 12:35
      Update from the Spokesperson's Office 15m
      Speakers: John Lajoie (Iowa State University), Silvia Dalla Torre (INFN, Trieste)
    • 12:35 12:55
      Closed session 20m
    • 12:55 13:00
      Next Collaboration Council Meeting and AOB 5m