EPSCI Group Meeting Nov. 29, 2021

The meeting time is 10:00am.

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Agenda:

1. Previous meeting

2. Announcements
   • JLab Covid-19 Status (personal status memos: deadlines, 9/28/2021, 5/7/2021)
   • From Nov. 17th memo: As of Tuesday, Nov. 16, 734 of 792 Jefferson Lab employees have been vaccinated. ... Of the remaining 52 employees, 22 requested an accommodation for medical or religious reasons, and the majority of these have been approved. All employees requesting an accommodation have been notified along with their supervisors. Accommodated employees are required to participate in weekly COVID-19 testing before working on-site and may be required to maintain other health and safety controls once Medical Condition levels change and controls are relaxed for vaccinated employees.

   • Fortnight paper Will be rescheduled in new time slot in Jan. (see below)

   • From the JLab Weekly
     • ZOOM testing - will be switching our meetings to this soon.
     • David J. Dean will take over from Bob McKeown as Deputy Director for Science in Jan.
     • Congrats to Diana for winning a Nintendo Switch in the United Way raffle!
     • JAG Holiday Drive Through Sat. Dec. 4 10am-1pm. See Santa, get a gift, don't leave your car.

   • CST Division Review Dec. 16,17(strategic planning w/ management 11/9)
     • 11:30 EPSCI: 30min (David)
     • 14:30 Heterogeneous Hardware 30min (Nathan)
     • Physics Div. slide review Mon. Dec. 6, 3-5pm
     • Practice Talks: Mon. Dec. 13 @ 13:30
   • Any Other Announcements?

3. Conferences and Workshops
   • NOTE: email from Mike Maier on 8/17 that JLab/DOE will not be approving any conference travel due to COVID
   • All-Hands Q&A
   • Virtual Conference Travel Authorizations

   • EIC Software Town Hall] (Dec. 16 11am-1pm) will be rescheduled
   • ACAT2021 (Nov. 29 - Dec. 3)
     • Clerical error means only David was approved
   • NeurIPS 2021 (Dec. 6-14 Tutorials, Conference, Workshops)
   • Streaming Readout IX (Dec. 8-10)

4. Reschedule EPSCI group meeting
   • Prefer morning or afternoon?
   • Tue, Wed, Thur?
   • Fortnight paper discussion will be >24hr later

5. Ongoing Activities
   • EJFAT (ESnet/JLab + FPGA +Accelerated Transport)
   • A.I.
     • Experimental Controls (AIEC)
     • Hydra (GlueX Testing, website, paper, ...)
     • Charged Pion Polarizability (CPP)
   • Offsite Computing
     • OSG, NERSC, PSC, IU
     • DIRAC
   • Scientific Software support
     • Hall A (Mike)
     • Hall B (Vardan)
     • Hall D (Nathan)
     • EIC (David)
       • ECCE - Computing Plan complete. Detector proposals due Dec. 1st.
     • JLab Common Environment (CE) + SPACK
       • Maurizio and Bob still servicing this. Need new plan to provide support.
   • DAQ systems
     • SRO
       • ERSAP: status, TriDAS integration, hall systems testing
       • INDRA-ASTRA
       • CLAS12 paper targeting EPJA (overleaf)
     • CODA (CODA3 support, EVIO-6)

6. AOT

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• Summary of Monthly Achievements:

  Teams -> SciComp -> EPSCI/Files -> Reports -> 2021 -> Accomplishments_2021-XX.docx

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