1. Welcome to the 20 th GridPP Collaboration Meeting Introduction Timeline STFC Problems Steve Lloyd, Chair of the GridPP Collaboration Board

2. Slide 2 Steve Lloyd GridPP20 Introduction Timeline 200620082007 Now (GridPP16) GridPP3 Proposal Submitted July 13 GridPP2GridPP2+ GridPP3 End of GridPP2 (31 August 2007) Start of GridPP3 (1 April 2008) First LHC Collisions November 2007 14TeV LHC Collisions Spring 2008 Autumn 2008? 900GeV 14TeV LHC: Now (GridPP18) Now (GridPP19) Now (GridPP20)

3. Slide 3 Steve Lloyd GridPP20 Introduction STFC Funding Crisis

4. Slide 4 Steve Lloyd GridPP20 Introduction STFC Funding Crisis

5. Slide 5 Steve Lloyd GridPP20 Introduction High Priority Advanced LIGO ATLAS CMS GEO 600 JCMT and SCUBA-2 Jefferson Lab KMOS Neutron EDM RISING/GSI SPIRAL SWIFT Venus Express Medium-high Priority CLOVER DES ELT R&D ExoMars GAIA GridPP Herschel Inverse Square Law Medium-lower priority ALMA Regional Centre Auger Cassini CDF Cluster D-Zero Electron EDM ING LHCb Lower priority HPC Operations INTEGRAL LCABD LCFI Legnaro Louvain-La-Neuve MAMI Maxlab MERLIN/e-MERLIN MINOS UKIRT VERITAS STFC Funding Crisis Medium-high Priority JWST MIRI LHC upgrades - ATLAS LISA and LISA Pathfinder Liverpool Telescope Planck Roadmap to XEUS SKA R&D Solar Orbiter SuperNEMO T2K Zeplin III Medium-lower priority ISOLDE MICE exploitation SOHO STEREO UKSSDC XMM Newton Lower priority ALICE and STAR Astrogrid BaBar Bepi-Colombo BiSON CALICE CASU/WFAU FP420 Gemini Ground-based STP facilities HERMES HESS Hinode Alphabetic within Categories

6. Slide 6 Steve Lloyd GridPP20 Introduction STFC Funding Crisis

7. Slide 7 Steve Lloyd GridPP20 Introduction It could be worse!