1. News/General Oct 9 2009 Green/Shipsey Guest programs we have 3: 1)LPC Guest Experimentalist (starts October) Wesley Smith October 9 All LPC conveners are asked to suggest names- Guenther Dissertori visiting week of October 27 Guido Tonnelli visiting LPC week of Nov 3 (several days) Name to face page created initially for USCMS GS & PD, Heather Anthrop @ Purdue in process of importing ~200+ photos and data from a previous page set up by Susan Hagopian. New page is here- announce next week https://www.physics.purdue.edu/particle/whoiswhoatuscms/p ostdocs

2. News/General Green/Shipsey LPC activity summaries were used in the budget presentation last Friday topology groups summaries are complete the DPG, POG, support summaries when from zero to almost compete in a few days- thanks! Posters and coffee Oct 28-30 (CMS upgrade workshop) Please upload poster plans. So far: E/gamma Electron efficiency measurements Kalanand Mishra E/gamma Electron energy scale measurements Yuri Maravin Gen/Sim SLHC phase 1 upgrade simulations Pratima Jindal Gen/Sim SLHC phase 2 upgrade simulations Eric Brownson

3. LPC – DPG, POG and Support

5. News/General Green/Shipsey CTEQ/Higgs workshop Nov 19 LPC as host Joey Huston leads 1 st organizing meeting yesterday. Detailed agenda in 1 week then announcement to TeV/LHC communities E-JTERM Date: Finally chose Jan 5-9 (Tues.-Sat.) it has both pros and cons… Plans for event were given to LPCAB for comment prior to announcement- and consulted widely… E-JTERM announced to USCMS last Sunday evening, then to CMS Monday, also personal invites extended to CMS management Start pre-EJTERM activities October 15