News/General Nov. 6 2009 Green/Shipsey Guest programs we have 3: LPC Guest Experimentalist Guido Tonelli here this week. Your feedback? Reminder: All LPC conveners are asked to suggest physicists for future events in this series. (Zero response so far…) Greg Landsberg visiting LPC next week. Nov. 11-13 Seminar Wednesday Nov 11 16:00 seminar, discussions and informal meetings/office - schedule coming soon form R. Ruchti Name to face page created initially for USCMS GS & PD, under going beta testing. Will announce once we obtain a few more details from MoA list

News/General Green/Shipsey CTEQ/Higgs workshop Nov 19 LPC as host Joey Huston leads 4th organizing meeting today. Marek Z. and Andrey F. agreed to serve as CMS reps to ensure we are well-represented at the workshop. Andrey will give the CMS talk. http://indicobeta.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=71344 .1st Annual FNAL Holiday Party. Program at http://www.fnal.gov/directorate/Annual-Party/   It includes "potluck" dinner, skits, etc. We + CDF and D0 spokes have been asked to designate people to come up with a skit.  Volunteers?

EJTERM Green/Shipsey E-JTERM Jan 5-9 42 registrants as of Noon today (many we know are coming have yet to register) many more will do so in the coming weeks 2nd batch pre-EJTERM exercises released 3rd batch mature (GRID) will be presented by Sudhir & Eric today already being beta tested. 4th batch fitting, simple macro, accessing custom software (in process)

EJTERM 2nd batch feedback Will remind attendees to perform exercises! Green/Shipsey

EJTERM Recall EJTERM structure short exercises 1st half of workshop longer exercises 2nd half of workshop We have the following outside-LPC commitments so far:   short exercises: 1) Jeff Temple and Ken Rossato UMD 1 or 2 exercises HCAL info from collision data Details tbd 2) Nhan Tran JHU Alignment exercise plus a talk on alignment 3) Evan Friis UCDavis (tau and pixel expert)- TBD   4) Matthew Jones and David Silvers (Purdue) tracking efficiency    I'm also still discussing with Rice, Lisbon, Cornell, Rochester, UCSB, Brown and a number of other groups. In addition we have  longer exercises from two of the three of us: “photons”  Yuri et al Rutgers  Vanessa Gaultney (FIU) and Tia Miceli (Davis)    Y(nS) cross section Ian, Nuno Leonardo, Zoltan Gecse, Yu Zheng Purdue  Each LPC group to develop an exercise (manpower from members of the group not based at LPC encouraged) asked for reports on your thinking at last weeks meeting. Let’s go around the room… Green/Shipsey

EJterm In discussions with Rice, Lisbon, Cornell, Rochester, UCSB, Brown and a number of other groups. Will know more next week about further commitments. Each LPC group to develop an exercise (manpower from members of the group not based at LPC encouraged) asked for reports on your thinking at last weeks meeting. We’ll be going around the room after Ian Fisk’s talk