= LhARA Executive Board 04Mar26; 16:00 GMT =

**ZOOM:** https://cern.zoom.us/j/69273575605?pwd=K1cwVVo3UmJwL0pkVDZFSXRJcitvQT09

== Agenda ==

1. __[wiki:Research/LhARA/Governance/ExecutiveBoard/Meetings/2025/2025-12-10 Notes and actions]:__ All \\
 - **CW:** Need to pursue STFC year-end money.
  * **Superceded:** No year-end exercise this year.

2. __Update on refresh:__ KL \\
 Started.  Each institute has been contacted to ask for IB rep, comms rep, and high resolution log.  Matt Pereira (RHUL) has agreed to help collate data and update institute slide.

3. __Peer-group meetings update:__ \\
 * “Particle therapy international meeting” \\
  - Debrief
  - Section headings for white paper (here)
  - K. Parodi suggestions
  - Advisor role?
 * “Cylindrically-symmetric strong focusing of ion beams” \\
  - Next planning meeting, Friday, 10:00
 * “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. \\

3. __Meet with Manchester Christie and MCRC:__ KL/All

4. __Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2026__ PJ/All \\

5. __[https://www.gla.ac.uk/events/sciencefestival/ Glasgow Science Festival 2026]__ CW

6. __EUMateria__
 WWW site: https://eumateria.eu \\

7. __ELIMED proposal__

8. __Articles:__ RB, KL \\
 - Frontiers in Physics
  - Outline proposal; to be circulated 
 - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
 - Ion-acoustic
 - Accelerator papers (WS) \\

9. __Collaboration meeting dates:__ All
 - Spring 2026
  - 29/30 April; RAL:  Wednesday 29Apr and Thursday 30Apr morning LhARA CM.  Rutherford Lecture postponed.  
   - [https://indico.stfc.ac.uk/event/1783/ Block diagram agenda]

10. __DONM__ \\
 - Date of next meeting: 18Mar26 -- 16:00 GMT -- may need to postpone as have to attend an IN2P3 meeting

11. __AoB__ \\

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{{{#!comment
  Items to return to:
    __Planning of contribution to Frontiers in Science:__
    __CDR preparation:__
     - Discussion of title
 - Outreach Group met and have developed a 6-month plan which is being updated.  Planning round of shout-outs to institutes and flagging progress.  Planning to start with Strathclyde and success of SCAPA. 
 - RB: has proposed LhARA paper for PPCF IoP Journal; has been accepted.  We noted the invitation for a special issue that we had accepted.  Agreed that **KL and RB** would meet to discuss how to take these opportunities forward next week.
 - Applications to be considered after break:
  - RS Summer Exhibition
  - MCSA DN
  - KTP/CASE application
}}}