LCFI group on Thursday 21st February 
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Start at 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 619800 
(or 01296 619800 from the UK). This will connect you to an operator. Ask for 
the RUTHERFORD CONFERENCE CHAIRED BY MR DAMERELL, ACCESS CODE C059361.

Meeting Agenda

1)	LCFI funding

As mentioned in our last meetng, I was interviewed by SCP4 on 14th January. 
This was followed on 30th January by an assessment of our project by the 
PPARC Science Committee (SC), who have to take a strategic decision about
the UK participation in any new project in excess of £1M. LCFI isn't new, 
but having so far been supported from the PPESP 'seedcorn' funding, and 
given our request for scaled-up support in future, it was necessary for the 
SC to consider it. 

Their assessment was based on our written short proposal (and thanks again 
to several of you for your valuable help with this) plus a presentation I 
gave to their meeting on 30th January. Their conclusions are summarised in 
this e-mail from James Stirling:

Thanks again with your presentation yesterday. Although the decision and 
feedback will come to you through the official channels, I can inform you 
that Science Committee was most impressed by the LCFI project, recognised 
its importance for the UKs involvememnt in a future linear collider, and 
therefore recommended that it go forward for full peer review as soon as 
possible. The usual caveats about the difficult financial situation, no 
promise of money etc apply of course.

Following this successful step, we have been invited to submit a detailed 
proposal and make an open session presentation to the PPRP (Projects Peer 
Review Panel) for their 25th March meeting, with talks by Konstantin 
Stefanov and Nicolo de Groot. I am beginning to write the first draft of 
this proposal, and will again be relying on your help to tune it up. 

2)	Detector R&D status and plans

2.1	Thin ladder development 
2.2	CCD58 testing
2.3	CPCCD (work with MTech)
2.4	CPCCD (simulation)
2.5	CPCCD readout chip
2.6	CPCCD MCM (multi-chip module, incl bump bonding)
2.7	CPCCD electronics (motherboard and beyond)
2.8	Detector test system - Liverpool

3)	Physics studies

4)	LCFI organisation/manpower

5)	Finances (current FY)

6)	Funding for future FYs

Currently, we have no budget allocation for FY02/03, which starts on 1st April. 
This depends on the outcome of Item 1.

7)	Reports from recent LC-related meetings

8)	Future LC-related meetings

9)	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.