US CMS Collaboration Board Chair’s Report

1. US CMS Collaboration Board Chair’s Report • Nick Hadley • May 8, 2009

2. Welcome to the US CMS Collaboration Meeting • We have a lot to cover (not listed in order) • CMS Status Report • LPC Reports • US CMS Program Status including upgrades • Education and Outreach • Parallel Sessions • Outreach, ECAL, Trigger, and Tier 3 Computing • USLUO • Physics

3. Commissioning CMS • However, before the physics… • Highest priority is to commission the detector we have worked so long to build. • First with pulsers, sources, and cosmic rays • Then this fall with beam • a continuing process… • For the next 18 months, we will be commissioning, running, analyzing data, publishing physics, and upgrading • All at the same time

4. US CMS Collaboration • CMS • 39 Countries • 181 Institutions • 1940 Scientific Authors total • 1223 Ph.D. Physicists • USCMS • 48 Institutions • 639 Scientific Authors • 431 with Ph.D (35% of CMS) • 197 Graduate Students (32% of CMS)

5. US nuclear physics groups in CMS • MIT, UIC, UC Davis and Kansas were just joined by Maryland, Vanderbilt. • Los Alamos and Iowa would like to join • Other groups are considering this.

6. Open Access Publishing • CMS CB in March 2007 • CMS “support(s) Open Access Publishing” • CB endorsed plans to privilege “SCOAP3 friendly” journals in June 2008 meeting • SCOAP3 = Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics • Will still publish in best peer reviewed journals, re-directed subscription money will be used for open access conversion • CMS detector paper published in JINST • Downloaded more than 60,000 times • Libraries at 31 out of 48 US CMS currently support this initiative (see http://scoap3.org/scoap3us.html for names and details of how this will work.) • Letter to US CMS CB will follow asking for your institution’s support.

7. US CMS CB 2008-2009 • Letter to the Fermilab Director about Fnal’s joining ATLAS • A letter to Pier from the CB was sent 9/15/08. Your CB rep has a copy. 43/48 institutions signed. • Copies to Kovar, Dehmer, Bernthal, Zimmer, Dawson • Last Paragraph • US CMS and CMS depend on Fermilab as the US Host Laboratory. We are concerned that the impact of the Laboratory’s joining ATLAS will be more significant than currently envisioned. We will be watching to see whether the lab indeed follows through with the strong support for CMS that you expressed in Fermilab Today (August 2008). "At Fermilab we are committed to the support and the strengthening of the US CMS community and the global CMS community for what should be a fantastic voyage of exploration.“ • Current Status (From the 3/06/09 UEC meeting minutes) • (UEC) “Any updates on a proposed ATLAS group at Fermilab?” • YK Kim: “Such a group would not form officially until the Tevatron operation is complete. If there are individuals who are interested before then, they can join the ATLAS group through Argonne or University of Chicago.”

8. COLA Committee • COLA Committee charged by Joel Butler • Members: Hadley, Newman-Holmes, Hagopian, Ruchti, Hauser • Reviewed COLAs for grad students and postdocs from the Operations program. • Report accepted by Joel Sept. 2008

9. COLA Committee • General recommendations • COLA requirement: working at least half time on Service Tasks important to the Operations Program • Yes, time at CERN is important for PD and GS • No, this is not an entitlement • L2 managers decide who gets COLA • People needed for required tasks and budget limitations • Operations Program COLAs should be uniform • Of course, universities have the discretion to add to the COLAs if they wish. • Exceptions with approval of Operations Program maanager (currently Joel Butler).

10. COLA Committee • Specific Recommendations • Grad Students $900/month from Operations Program • Postdocs $1600/month from Operations Program • Number is sum of cash and other (e.g. free housing) • Those receiving more may be “grandfathered” at their current rate for up to one year. • Duration • Postdocs up to 5 years then become “senior scientists” • Graduate students Operations Program support up to 2 or 3 (??) years. • Universities can support as long as they like, of course. • Students should be encouraged to graduate. • More students for less time vs fewer students for more time.

11. Message of Sympathy to our Indian ColleaguesNovember 2008 • Dear Colleagues, • At the time of celebration of Thanksgiving in the United States, we were shocked to hear about the vicious killings and maimings of innocent people in Mumbai. On behalf of the members of the US ATLAS and US CMS collaborations, we offer our sincerest sympathies to our Indian colleagues, to the victims of these attacks and to the many people in India and elsewhere who have been affected by this brutality. • This tragedy reminds us that we must rededicate ourselves to the principles of peace and humanity, and accept no justification for such indiscriminate attacks on innocent people. • Sincerely, • Dr. Joel Butler, Operations Program Manager, US CMS • Dr. Howard Gordon, Deputy Operation Program Manager, US ATLAS • Professor Alfred Goshaw, Chair, US ATLAS Collaboration Board • Dr. Dan Green, Coordinator, US CMS LPC • Professor Nicholas Hadley, Chair, US CMS Collaboration Board • Professor Vasken Hagopian, Deputy Chair, US CMS Collaboration Board • Professor Daniel Marlow, Deputy Operation Program Manager, US CMS • Professor Harvey Newman, Chair, US LHC Users Organization Executive Committee • Professor Michael Tuts, Operations Program Manager, US ATLAS

12. US CMS CB • Meeting February 27, 2009 to review the mechanics of US CMS Funding • Talks by Joel Butler, Cathy Newman-Holmes, Daniela Bortoletto, and Lothar Bauerdick • Contact Nick Hadley for talk copies

13. LPC Coordinator • Chris Tully’s term as co-LPC Coordinator has expired • Chris decided not to be a candidate for re-appointment • The LPC Coordinator Selection Committee has sent a list of potential replacements to Pier Oddone on April 2 as per in the LPC Management Plan. Pier is in the process of selecting the next coordinator. • Selection committee: Bob Clare (chair), Greg Landsberg, Harvey Newman, Paris Sphicas, Nick Hadley, Lothar Bauerdick, Joel Butler, and Dan Marlow • Dan Green remains as co-Coordinator

14. Past and Future • It’s been a tremendous year. • Completed the detector, were ready for beam on day 1. • Our ambitious plans for the shutdown are on schedule. • Forward preshowers installed, numerous repairs and improvements made. • Huge effort by many, including all of you. • Next year should be even more eventful. • Challenge of commissioning, running, publishing, and continuing work on the upgrades. • Great opportunity. Would not want to be anywhere else.

15. US CMS CB • INSTITUTION REPRESENTATIVE E-MAIL ADDRESS • Boston Jim Rohlf rohlf@bu.edu • Brown Greg Landsberg landsberg@hep.brown.edu • UC Davis Winston Ko ko@ucdhep.ucdavis.edu • UCLA Jay Hauser hauser@physics.ucla.edu • UC Riverside Robert Clare robert.clare@ucr.edu • UC San Diego James Branson branson@ucsd.edu • UC Santa Barbara Joe Incandela incandel@hep.ucsb.edu • Caltech Harvey Newman newman@hep.caltech.edu • Carnegie Mellon Tom Ferguson ferguson@cmphys.phys.cmu.edu • Colorado John Cumalat john.p.cumalat@colorado.edu • Cornell Jim Alexander jima@lns.cornell.edu • Fairfield Dave Winn winn@mail.fairfield.edu

16. US CMS CB • Fermilab Lothar Bauerdick bauerdick@fnal.gov • Florida Gena Mitselmakher mitselmakher@phys.ufl.edu • Florida International Pete Markowitz markowit@fiu.edu • Florida State Todd Adams tadams@hep.fsu.edu • Florida Tech Marc Baarmand baarmand@fit.edu • Illinois Chicago Mark Adams adams@uic.edu • Iowa Yasar Onel yasar-onel@uiowa.edu • Johns Hopkins Morris Swartz morris@jhu.edu • Kansas Alice Bean abean@ku.edu • Kansas State Tim Bolton bolton@phys.ksu.edu • Lawrence Livermore Doug Wright wright20@llnl.gov • Maryland Andris Skuja skuja@umdhep.umd.edu • MIT Christoph Paus paus@mit.edu • Minnesota Roger Rusack rusack@mnhep.hep.umn.edu • Mississippi Lucien Cremaldi cremaldi@phy.olemiss.edu

17. US CMS CB • Nebraska Greg Snow gsnow@unlhep.unl.edu • SUNY Buffalo Avto Kharchilava avto@buffalo.edu • Northeastern Steve Reucroft reucroft@neu.edu • Northwestern Mayda Velasco mayda.velasco@cern.ch • Notre Dame Randy Ruchti rruchti@nd.edu • Ohio State Ta-Yung Ling ling@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu • Princeton Pierre Piroue piroue@princeton.edu • Puerto Rico Angel Lopez angel@charma.uprm.edu • Purdue Virgil Barnes barnes@physics.purdue.edu • Purdue Calumet Neeti Parashar neeti@fnal.gov • Rice Jay Roberts roberts@physics.rice.edu • Rochester Arie Bodek bodek@pas.rochester.edu • Rockefeller Anwar Bhatti bhatti@fnal.gov

18. US CMS CB • Rutgers Steve Schnetzer steves@physics.rutgers.edu • Tennessee Stefan Spanier spanier@slac.stanford.edu • Texas A&M David Toback toback@tamu.edu • Texas Tech Nural Akchurin nural.akchurin@ttu.edu • Vanderbilt Paul Sheldon paul.sheldon@vanderbilt.edu • Virginia Brad Cox cox@uvahep.phys.virginia.edu • Wayne State Paul Karchin karchin@physics.wayne.edu • Wisconsin Wesley Smith wsmith@hep.wisc.edu