LCFI group meeting on Thursday 20th September
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Start: 16:00 UK time.

You can participate in this meeting in one of three ways. You may come to
RAL (Conf Room 1, Building R1), to Liverpool U Physics Dept, Oliver Lodge
Laboratory, Room 306, or you may phone in from wherever you are.

Phone-in participants should ring the BT conference centre at +44 1296
333400 (or 01296 333400 from the UK). This will connect you to an operator.
Ask for the RUTHERFORD CONFERENCE CHAIRED BY MR DAMERELL, ACCESS CODE
C603571.

Meeting Agenda

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NOTE: Item 6 is the most pressing, and I suggest we start the meeting with
this.
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1)	Detector R&D status reports

RAL   Thin ladder development programme             Erik J, Laurie L
      Drive control module                          Edward S et al
      ADC system (from ESD group)                   Dave S, Tony G
      Detector testing                              Konstantin S, Bob E et
al
               
      Col parallel CCDs (work with Marconi)         Chris D et al
      Col parallel CCDs (simulation)                Konstantin S
      Readout chip (col parallel)                   Steve T et al
      Bump bonding                                  Chris D et al
      Driver and motherboards                       Tony G et al 

NB. I have removed 'online system', 'test system cryogenics', 'ADC
(commercial)' and 'sequencer' from the list, since Konstantin and Bob have
got these fully working. Very major achievements! They will report any
further refinements in these areas under the topic 'detector testing'.


L'pool   Cryo system and cryostat                   Tim G
         Device simulation                          Tim G et al

Oxford   WHIPM system developments                  Phil B, Glenn C
         Ladder R&D (mechanical)                    Wing Lau, Phil B

2)	LCFI Finances                                 Dave S

3)	LCFI organisation/manpower                    Each group rep

4)	Ongoing detector simulations/physics studies     Stefania X, Matthew
W

5)	Forthcoming conferences

		ECFA/DESY 3rd series (Krakow) 15th-18th September
		Vertex 2001 (Brunnen) 24th-28th September

6)	Proposal to Technology Fund and status report to PPRP (Projects Peer
Review Panel, formerly PPESP)

The proposal to the Technology fund was submitted by the deadline of 10th
September. There are a few items we need to discuss about this bid.

I hope to distribute the draft status report to the PPRP by the morning of
20th September. It can't be sooner, because of my responsibilities at the
ECFA/DESY workshop. I am sorry about the tight schedule, but I hope everyone
will have time to read it, so we can agree on the final version during our
phone conference. Even so, we will miss Dave Morrell's requested submission
date of 15th September.

7)	AOB

If you have transparencies or drawings to show, please send them
electronically to Tim Greenshaw, green@hep.ph.liv.ac.uk, so he can make
them accessible from the LCFI home page.