From the desk of the CB Chairperson

The CB Chair team is pleased to issue the second newsletter of the year.

Draft minutes of the last CB meeting at CERN (28 Feb. 2014) are here.

Some highlights of the CB meeting during this CMS Upgrade Week in Karlsruhe are outlined below. In particular, a decision may be taken concerning the upgrade options for the endcap calorimetry. The progress of the draft for the Technical Proposal on the Phase II Upgrade will be assessed. The transition to the start of the terms in September rather than January for the Spokesperson and the CB Chair will also be on the agenda. Several options for consideration have been worked out, as requested by the CB (https://cms-docdb.cern.ch/cgi-bin/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=12239). The transition to the new scheme has already been accepted for the L1 coordinators. Experimental Physics Responsibilities (EPR) will replace Experiment Services and Pledges (ESP), and there will be a brief update on the status.

The temporary CB Committee "Theorists in CMS", under the leadership of Hannes Jung and Joseph Lykken has finalized its recommendations. Rules and guidelines for publications by individual CMS members (https://cms-docdb.cern.ch/cgi-bin/DocDB/RetrieveFile?docid=12238), worked out by the so-called "Hindawi" temporary committee of the CB under the leadership of Kerstin Borras, and the use of open access CMS data (https://cms-docdb.cern.ch/cgi-bin/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=12242) to be released later this year, have been worked out and will be presented at the CB meeting for discussion and possible approval. It is important that we adopt a proper code of conduct, without curtailing scientific freedom.

New co-chairs of the Career Committee, Archana Sharma and Paolo Giacomelli, will be proposed for approval as well. We thank the outgoing co-chairs Sarah Eno and Jorgen D'Hondt for their dedicated work, for the benefit of the young in particular. A call for new members of the Conference Committee will soon go out to the Collaboration. We remind you also to nominate candidates for L1 coordinators, to start in September 2014, if you have not already done so. You may send your nominations to the Spokesperson and the CB Chair, until 18 April, preferably through your Institute Representative.

The Thesis Award Committee with Greg Snow as Chair has made a selection of three award winners this year. We congratulate Dr. Lorenzo Bianchini (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau), Dr. Joern Lange (Hamburg University) and Dr. Giovanni Petrucciani (Pisa). Giovanni's thesis was selected to be published by Springer. The Committee also coordinates Named Lectures. The first ones will be held in the names of Lorenzo Foà and Peter Sharp.

We are keen to hear from you. Please contact us at any time at cms-cbchairteam@cern.ch, or by stopping by the CB Office: 40-2-B28. On Skype we are: claudia-elisabeth.wulz, shepherd-themistocleous and jorgen.dhondt

Selected key issues passed at the February 2014 CMS Physics Week

• New L1 coordinators will start their mandates in September
• Subsystem Institution Board Chairs become ex-officio members of the Collaboration Board
• Approval of Claire Shepherd-Themistocleous as Deputy CB Chair
• Approval of Joao Varela as Project Manager of the Joint CMS-TOTEM Precision Proton Spectrometer project (CTPPS)
• Approval of Costas Foudas as co-subsystem-manager for the Trigger project
• Approval of Liz Sexton Kennedy as second Deputy Offline Coordinator

Meeting of the CB (#95) on Friday, 4 April 2014, at 13:30 at Tulla Hörsaal, KIT Campus South, Karlsruhe

A password-protected Vidyo connection will be available for CB members as usual. However, a webcast is not possible this time. Some of the items on the agenda:

• Report from the Spokesperson, including news and decisions on upgrade for approval
• Approval of Archana Sharma and Paolo Giacomelli as co-chairs of the Career Committee
• Approval of CMS-TOTEM-PPS Deputy Project Manager Nicola Turini and Deputy Technical Coordinator Jonathan Holler
• Transition for September start terms of Spokesperson / CB Chair
• Proposed rules on publications by individuals and use of open access data
• Proposal to release a subset of 2010 data for open access
• Recommendations from the Theorists in CMS working group
• Report from the Authorship Committee
• News from the Young CMS Committee and from CMS Schools
• Vote on the candidacies for associate membership in CMS: Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) and Tsinghua University, China