Dear All, If you have not seen this the new CERN DG gave a talk on Monday 12-Jan-09 which may be of interest. The URL is in the message below. Mentioned are the boundary conditions necessary for LHC beam in 2009 as well as a longer term prospectus for broader international collaborations and the role that CERN may play. Apologies for any double mailings. Best regards, Frank Frank E. Taylor CERN MIT ATLAS Collaboration Bldg. 26 - Rm 569 188-3-015 77 Mass. Ave. Route de Meyrin 385, CH-1211 Geneva 23 Cambridge, MA 02139 Switzerland USA Office: +41-22-767-6373 Office: 617-253-7249 FAX: +41-22-767-8350 FAX: 617-258-6923 CELL: 857-891-8579 (USA & Europe) CERN CELL +41 76 487 3563 email: [log in to unmask] web: http://www2.lns.mit.edu/~fet/atlas_mit.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:44:47 -0800 From: Harvey Newman <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: CERN DG's presentation yesterday; Priority issues of the community Dear US LHC Community Members, For those of you who have not seen it, here are the slides of the new CERN DG Rolf Heuer's presentation yesterday : http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=46437 There is also a video of the presentation. Word is that the presentation was very well received by many people at CERN. (Thanks to Adi Bornheim for this pointer.) ... Note that one item emphasized is for members of the CERN community to raise their "priority" issues with their representatives to the Advisory Committee of CERN Users (ACCU). Our representative is Darin Acosta ([log in to unmask]). As noted at our website www.usluo.org we may conduct a survey of US LUO, but for now please feel free to raise any issue you consider important with Darin, myself, or another member of the US LUO Executive Committee. Best regards Harvey