Board of Scientific Representatives Einstein Telescope (BSR-ET)

Tuesday 25 Jan 2022, 13:00 → 14:21 Europe/Amsterdam

https://zoom.us/my/stanbentvelsen

13:00 → 13:03 1. Opening and welcome

• composition of BSR: see attachment (no changes since 23 November)

13:03 → 13:08 2. Decisons and action items last meeting(s)

1. Coordinators were requested to align the WP Governance in the INFRA-DEV proposal with the Board of Governmental Representatives (BGR).
2. All interested countries can join this BSR with a national science representative.
3. France intends to join the BGR on ministerial level
4. After fruitful discussions with CERN management ET hopes to become a CERN recognised experiment. Next opening for applications is in January 2022. The ET collaboration will be asked to prepare the application (Punturo and Lück)
5. After fruitful discussions CERN is open to offer some office space to house part of the ET project office at CERN.
6. Ferroni and Van den Brand will take next steps to formalise the Vacuum project initiative with CERN. This project should start as soon as possible
7. Martinez gave a status report of the Infradev proposal preparations. Version 2.0 will be sent in the next days for final feedback.

13:08 → 13:20 3. Announcements (only topics that are not on the remainder of the agenda)

• Coordinators Antonio and Stan
• Project Directoriate Nando and Jo
• Country representatives: any interesting news?

13:20 → 13:30 4. InfraDev Proposal: report Mario

• Proposal was submitted!
• Thanks to Mario (and many others)
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Proposal-ET-Infradev-Jan22.pdf

13:30 → 13:45 5. CERN related topics

• Status proposal CERN Recognised experiment
• Status Vacuum initiative and discussion how to proceed

13:45 → 13:55 6. Planning BSR meetings

• tour de table to identify possible topics to discuss in BSR
• discussion frequency meetings (every two weeks, four weeks?)

13:55 → 13:59 7. AOB and next meeting

13:59 → 14:00 8. Closing