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Some news / highlights since March 2011:- Peter Watkins retired - Confirmation of joining LHCb experiment- Royal Society “Discovering Particles” Exhibition- Steve Hillier returned to Birmingham- Euro grant for outreach ???????????????- UKIERI grant for collab’n with Anju Bhasin- 5 new PhD students joined the group- 2 old PhD students graduated- 90% funded rolling grant staff issue resolved- Silicon lab building prototype boards for AEC- No changes in non-academic staff- Birmingham Fellowships process

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Academic staff (now 10, c.f. 7.5 at 2009 STFC grant round)

- Evgueni Goudzovski Marie-Curie, then Royal Society URF

Pro-leptic / Birmingham fellowship

- Kostas Nikolopoulos Offered Birmingham fellowship

- Miriam Watson Royal Soc Dorothy Hodgkin FellowHighly commended in

fellowship exercise

-Cristina Lazzeroni Now 100% PP (was 50%)

Biggest challenge is now to strengthen our new LHCb effort:… any candidates? “we are open for business” [Vice Chancellor]

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Consolidated Grant Application (Feb 2012)

- Bid for STFC funds Oct 2012 – Oct 2015 (Oct 2016)- Most of our postdoc posts, equipment, travel …- Development of case already started- First iteration with unoversity finance office imminent

- Lots of information required by group and (separately) byexperiments

please provide as promptly as possible!

(Oct 2012 – Oct 2016)

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Appendix 1

Intro PRNATLAS ATWATLAS upgrade ATWLHCb NKWLHCb upgrade NKWNA62 CLH1 PRNLHeC PRNDetector R&D NKWAccelerator R&D NKW

Our list of experimentsIs substantially broaderThan last time

… but only ATLAS, ATLAS upgrade and LHCb are officiallySTFC-supported

Please support thosewriting sections whenasked!

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Appendix 2:

PRN will contact everyone in the group about half-pagereports.

… will be asking for a draft, or itemised list of relevant information by early December

… where possible, aim to get publications etc out in time for grant application!

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Smaller things:- Group coffee- Group web pages- …

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