LCFI Group Meeting on 23rd September 1999 ========================================= The next LCFI group meeting will be held on Thursday 23rd September, starting at 4 pm sharp, 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 +44 181 9966800 (or 0181 9966800 from the UK). This will connect you to an operator. Ask for the RUTHERFORD CONFERENCE CHAIRED BY MR DAMERELL, ACCESS CODE C052. Agenda ====== 1) Action items from last meeting will all be best covered in the progress reports (Item 3). But would everyone concerned please check the notes of the 19th August meeting and review the status of your action items. 2) Short reports on points relevant to our project from recent workshops, notably International Position Sensitive Detectors Conf PSD5 (UCL) Chris D 3) Detector R&D status reports RAL Lab 9 prep, and RAL/Oxford portable cryo system Bob E Cryostats, test boxes and heaters Andy N Lab 6 cleanroom and thin ladder assembly/test programme Laurie L Liaison with and hardware from EEV Chris D CCD mbds, flex-lines, drive modules Steve Bu Analogue modules Roger B ADC and digital modules Tony G VME crates, computers and software David S L'pool Cryo system and cryostat Tim G ISE & Maxwell simulations (CCD and ladder design) Steve Bi Oxford WIPM system developments Phil B 4) LCFI organisation/budget/manpower Chris D 5) Detector simulations and physics Phil B 6) Future meetings (updated) European ECFA/DESY Workshop 16-19 October 1999 (Obernai, nr Strasbourg) Physics and detector developments Registration: http://ireswww.in2p3.fr/ires/ecfadesy/index.html ECFA/DESY Workshop March/April 2000 (Naples/Milan/...???) Responsibilities for writing TDR. ECFA/DESY Workshop October 2000 (DESY) Discussion of first draft of TDR. North American Next regional workshop Feb/March 2000 (LBNL) Asian ACFA workshop 4-6 Nov 1999 (Seoul, Korea) International LCWS 2000 Week of Oct 16 or 23rd (Fermilab) 7) AOB If you have transparencies or drawings to show, you should send them electronically to Tim Greenshaw, green@hep.ph.liv.ac.uk, so he can make them accessible from the LCFI home page.