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Report from the chairman M. Krammer HEPHY, Vienna, Austria

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2nd ECFA HL-LHC Workshop Danube School on Instrumentation ICFA Seminar Next joint ECFA EPS-HEPP Session Country Visit to Greece 2015

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ECFA HL-LHC Experiments Workshop 2nd Workshop: 21-23 Oct. 2014, Aix-les-Bains, F http://indico.cern.ch/event/315626/ Again a very efficient and interesting workshop! 250 registered participants. Many synergies and joint projects between the experiments are identified and beeing conducted.

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A summary document will be produced and presented to Plenary ECFA in November. Discussion on a 3rd workshop, possibly in 2016, has started.

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Instrumentation School in Serbia University of Novi Sad, Serbia September 8-13, 2014 Jointly organised by CERN, the ICFA Instrumentation Panel and ECFA The school was initiated during a RECFA country visit to Serbia. 60 students participated in lectures and laboratory courses (1/3 from Serbia, 1/3 from the Danube region, 1/3 international). This 1 week school is a very successful format for the promotion of detector physics. November 8, 2014

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Instrumentation School in Serbia

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ICFA Seminar 11th ICFA seminar at IHEP, Beijing, on 27-30 October 2014 http://icfa2014.ihep.ac.cn

The Seminar takes place every three years with the aim of bringing together government officials involved in strategic decisions for High Energy Physics (HEP), representatives of the major funding agencies, the directors of major HEP laboratories, and leading scientists from all of the regions of HEP activity.

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ICFA Meeting An ICFA meeting was also held on the first day of the seminar.

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ICFA Meeting con’t Under Any Other Business:

• Proposal for a new ICFA Panel on “Sustainable Accelerators/Colliders” (Suzuki) • Discussion on a proposal for a new IUPAP commission dedicated to “Accelerator Science” • Proposal for the 56th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop: Energy Recovery Linacs ERL2015 (June 7-12, 2015, Stonu Brook University, NY) • Proposal to hold the next ICFA seminar 2017 in Vancouver

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Joint ECFA EPS-HEPP Session Next joint ECFA - EPS-HEPP session during the EPS conference in 2015 (Vienna July 25) The theme of the session is Connecting scales: bridging the infinities Suggestions for talks? In Stockholm we had 7 talks, 20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion First ideas from the EPS-HEPP Board Meeting: Novel Acceleration Techniques Role of the Higgs Field in the early Universe (Shaposhnikov?) Cosmology and sterile neutrinos November 8, 2014

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RECFA Country Visits in 2015 • Czech Republic March 27/28 • Portugal May 15/16 • Proposed dates for the visit to Greece October 2/3 or 9/10 or 16/17 Location: Ioannina

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PECFA and RECFA Meeting November 20/21 PECFA agenda available at http://indico.cern.ch/event/346283/ (No speaker for the Planck talk yet, lost in the speakers committee of Planck, any suggestions for an alternative talk?) Short RECFA meeting before Propose to start at 11:00 (Nov. 20) Points on the agenda: IPPOG, ECFA DRDC

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Material for other agenda items…..

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ECFA Chair election 10 colleagues have been nominated by RECFA representatives. I have contacted all and asked if they stand. The following four colleagues have agreed to stand as candidate: Halina Abramowicz (ISR) Umberto Dosselli (I) Max Klein (UK) Guy Wormser (F) CVs and statements have been distributed to RECFA October 7.

The elected candidate will be presented to Plenary ECFA November 20/21 for endorsement. November 8, 2014

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Election Process Eligible for voting are representatives from the CERN member states (including Romania as candidate for accession and Serbia as associate member state in the pre-stage to membership), and one from CERN. Observers do not participate in the voting. The number of eligible voters is therefore 24.

For the election itself I would like to propose the following procedure (same procedure as in 2011): 1) In order the election to be valid, there must be more than 2/3 of eligible voters participating (i.e. 16). Proxy votes are accepted, however should not exceed 1/6 of the number of the eligible voters (i.e. 4). 2) At every round of voting, those with the lowest number of votes are dropped, until only one candidate is left or one has achieved more than 2/3 of the votes. 3) The last candidate must receive an endorsement by more than 2/3 of the votes participating. 4) Proxy votes can be given to the chair with an exact instruction how to follow the steps described in 2) and 3). I have received 4 proxy votes (Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Serbia)

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Election Process Proposal for one amendment to the election process: -

In the case, following a vote, the sum of dropped votes is larger than 50% of the eligible votes, the voting will be repeated. E.g. eligible votes 21, result 9 - 4 - 4 - 4

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