1. Collaboration News and Business Pete Markowitz Chair, Hall A CC Hall A Collaboration Meeting December 4, 2008

2. Collaboration News and Business New members PAC34 proposals Hall A Annual Report April APS meeting Hall A Charter (Brad Sawatzky) CC election next spring  Need candidates for two positions (not from WM or Temple)

3. Hall Membership list The current list (on the web) is not up to date. E.g., one of the CC members is not even listed. Please read the list of members and institutions on the Hall website  Go to the Hall A website. Click on “Collaboration Information”, then “Collaboration Members”.  Check your name/institution (as well as your colleagues)  Please notify Kees (via email) of inaccuracies or discrepancies

4. New Members Proposed members  Ming Xiong Liu (LANL)  Lei Guo (LANL)  Han Liu (LANL)  Christine Aidala, (LANL)  Mark Dalton (UVa)  Ramesh Subedi (UVa)  Peter Monaghan (Hampton)  Lamiaa El Fassi (Rutgers) New Student members  Jin Ge (Uva)  Ellie Long (Kent State) Notify Kees of students working on upcoming Hall A experiments.

5. PAC34 proposals 3 proposals submitted to CC Reviews underway Several other proposals too late to be part of the process My personal thanks to our colleagues who volunteered to read the proposals and offer comments!

6. Hall A Annual Report Editing in progress: Bryan Moffit, Kees de Jager Still missing several contributions Hope to finish editing by the end of the year Next year  Formalize smaller technical reports  New requirement Updates from experiments that have published first results, but are still analyzing primary physics results Brief reports on analyses expected for archival papers

7. April APS Meeting Submission deadline 9 January April meeting will be 2-5 May in Denver, CO.  Meeting URL http://www.aps.org/meetings/april/ http://www.aps.org/meetings/april/  Instructions found under "Submit Your Abstract" link in the right-hand column. Analysis Workshop (yesterday)  Summary tomorrow (see Ole Hansen’s talk)