LhARA Executive Board 07Jan26; 16:00 GMT

Present: AG, KL, RA, WS, CW, PP,

Agenda

1. Notes and actions: All
   
   • KL: Liaise with TG re Liverpool dates
     • Stands.

2. CDR update: KL
   All but ready now. HO is working on the cover page. Need to agree form of words for back cover where responsibility and author list will appear. Discuss and agree at the meeting. Agree timescale too. Also, what should our comms plan be?

HO proposal for back page was agreed. Some typos were noted, KL will communicate with HO.

5. Peer-group meetings update:
   
   • “Particle therapy international meeting”
     
     • IoP not ready to co-sponsor the meeting. The warm meeting from the IoP was shared by email. We need to take this meeting forward as the first in the series and bring the second and subsequent meetings forward seeking to bring the IoP on board as soon as may be.
     • Need now to write to MRC. How best to do that. Ashleigh Wilcox and low-key to start with?
     • Need now to get flier sent out as widely as possible.

Advertising actions:

• RA/KL: Update flier to include idea of writing a document as outcome of meeting.
• RA: EFOMP, ASTRO, ESTRO, RSNA, PTCOG, IPEM, HiPhi, APM

also:

• RA: LinkedIn, Neil Burnett, Adrian Crellin, ...
• KL: Matt Williams
• JPar: Anthony Chalmers and other bio folk
• CW: M.Boyd and Strathclyde folk.

• “Cylindrically-symmetric strong focusing of ion beams”
  
  • No update; status remains: need to progress to find next meeting of organisers.
    

• “Novel time-resolved and high-resolution imaging”
  
  • To be returned to later.
    

• “Biology, measurement, simulation and interpretation of radiation biology”
  
  • To be returned to later.
    

6. Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2026
   • Beginning organisation in earnest. Background organisation at the moment. Meeting series of the "RSSE project team" will start next week; P.Jurj has agreed to take the lead.
   • Meeting with Imperial and RS comms leads tomorrow to agree how to coordinate comms in the run up to the Exhibition and beyond.

7. Glasgow Science Festival 2026 Expressions of interested for 12Jan26; can meet the deadline using material that exists.

Date of the event is 04-14Jun2026; Health Care section will be in the \Botanic Gardens; also particular satellite events.

Details at: ​https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_1216677_smxx.pdf

We agreed to propose a LhARA pitch at the Glasgow Science Festival.

8. EUMateria WWW site: ​https://eumateria.eu
   

I have been asked by Professor Carla Andreani (Rome, Tor Vorgata), the lead on the proposal, to write a science case and the challenges that would be addressed as part of the biomedical section of the EUmaterial document that will be reviewed in the week of 23Feb26 by ESFRI. This is to be done before the end of the month. Input and comments on drafts will be vital.

We agreed to grasp this opportunity.

9. ELIMED proposal Call not yet announced. Will take it forward as part of the development of the rbio/PoPLaR activity.

10. Articles: RB, KL
    
    • Frontiers in Physics
      • Solicited again by the journal.
    • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
    • Ion-acoustic
    • Accelerator papers (WS)
      

Agreed to try and deliver the variety of review articles we've been asked to contribute.

KL: to work with RB and KP and SB to work out a plan.

11. Collaboration meeting dates: All
    • Spring 2026
      • 29/30 April; RAL: Wednesday 29Apr and Thursday 30Apr morning LhARA CM. Rutherford Lecture on 30Apr26.
    • Autumn 2026:

12. DONM
    
    • Date of next meeting: 21Jan26 -- 16:00 GMT

13. AoB
    
    • CW: Need to pursue STFC year-end money.

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