LhARA Executive Board 17Sep25; 16:00 BST

Present: KL, CW, PP, CJ, JP, RA, WS, RB

Summary of actions:

• KL: Liaise with TG re Liverpool dates
• KL, CW, JPar: Draft LhARA business plan

Notes

1. Notes and actions: All
   
   • KL: Date for PPD seminar
     • Done:. Will be 14Jan26.
   • KL: Check on NLRC presentation
     • Done. 21Oct25
   • KL: Liaise with TG re Liverpool dates
     • Ongoing.

2. CDR update: KL
   
   • Status: JMcGarrigle now working through references, LaTeX errors and text, flagging issues. With T.Price updates now in, permissions to edit slimmed down to KL and JMcG. Working to complete as soon as may be.
   • Author list refresh: initiate when CDR finalised.
   • Arizona State University interested to join. Have high-power pulsed laser facility. Interested to make short focal length activity. All welcomed their interest; agreed to include ASU in author list refresh.

3. Brm collaboration meeting debrief: JPar, All
   
   • Successful meeting; follow up in terms of money raising, engagement, etc.

4. Business plan, intro and discussion: KL, All
   
   • Headings
   • Discussion of business plan: agreed to flesh out details and defined working group: KL, CW, JPar.

5. Redrawing the logo: PP
   
   • Agreed to remove text and to ask D.Laird to redraw.

4. Peer-group meetings update: KL
   Slide sent to LhARA comms as definition of activity
   “Particle therapy international meeting”
   
   • Marco Durante: confirmed 13Feb
   • Meet next week to refocus. “Cylindrically-symmetric strong focusing of ion beams”
     
   • C.Dyson and P.Rucksasakchai recruited to help ortanised. “Novel time-resolved and high-resolution imaging”
     
   • To be organised. “Biology, measurement, simulation and interpretation of radiation biology”
     
   • To be organised.

4. Articles: RB, KL
   
   • Frontiers in Physics
   • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
   • Ion-acoustic
   • Accelerator papers (WS)
     No update this week.

6. Collaboration meeting dates: All
   • Spring 2026
     • Agreed to go to RAL. Try to propose dates on Friday.

7. DONM
   
   • Date of next meeting: 15Oct25 -- 16:00 BST

8. AoB
   
   • Royal Society Summer Exhibition 2026 proposal: present draft
   • Spark scheme; WS will re-apply.

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