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Kamioka/Toyama, Japan

InterAction CollaborationBusiness Meeting

Membership

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2014 Collaboration members

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Full members Associate members Associate members (in-kind contributions)

CERN Argonne National Lab IPMU

DESY Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

LC Communicators

Fermilab Brookhaven National Lab

IRFU/CEA

KEK IHEP Beijing JINR

STFC IN2P3 NIKHEF

TRIUMF INFN CoEPP

SLAC

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Membership conversations over past year• APPEC (Astroparticle Physics European

Consortium) Requested to be added to interactions.org contact

list. CERN advised that APPEC is not a good fit for interactions membership; advised accordingly.

• RIKEN (Japan) Inquired about the collaboration; invited to this

meeting as observers. Explained that Interactions is for institutions with leading roles in particle physics.

• University of Tokyo Institute for Cosmic Ray Research Expressed interest to Yoshihisa but have decided to

wait. Attending as observers.

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Potential institutions to approach in 2015

• Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) Will be host facility for the DUNE far detector. Have

a communications & outreach person onboard. Unclear if they are ready for membership, but candidate to invite as observer to fall meeting.

• SNOLAB (Canada) Site for future dark matter experiments. Have a

communications & outreach person onboard. Candidate to invite as observer to fall meeting.

• Re-start search for Brazil contact to invite as fall meeting observer?

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Election for new Collaboration Board members

May 2014 – April 2015• IPMU (Yoshihisa Obayashi),

co-chair• Fermilab (Katie Yurkewicz), co-

chair• CERN (James Gillies)• TRIUMF (Melissa Baluk)• STFC (Terry O’Connor)• KEK (Saeko Okada)• DESY (Christian Mrotzek)• IHEP Beijing (Peggy Pan)• SLAC (Farnaz Khadem)

May 2015 – April 2016• STFC (Terry O’Connor), co-

chair• Fermilab (Katie Yurkewicz), co-

chair• CERN (James Gillies)• TRIUMF (Melissa Baluk)• STFC (Terry O’Connor)• KEK (Saeko Okada)• DESY (Christian Mrotzek)• Associate member• Associate member

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In-kind contributions

• NIKHEF – • IPMU – 2015 meeting• LC Communicators –• CoEPP –

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Finances

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2014 Income

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Full member contributions ($10K each) Requested Received

CERN 10,000.00 10,000.00DESY 10,000.00 10,000.00Fermilab 10,000.00 10,000.00KEK 10,000.00 10,000.00STFC 10,000.00 10,000.00TRIUMF 10,000.00 10,000.00     

Associate member contributions ($5K each)    Argonne 5,000.00 5,000.00Berkeley 5,000.00 5,000.00Brookhaven 5,000.00 5,000.00CoEPP 1,400.00 0.00IHEP Beijing 5,000.00 5,000.00IN2P3 5,000.00 5,000.00INFN 5,000.00 5,000.00SLAC 5,000.00 5,000.00     TOTAL INCOME Requested Received $96,400.00 $95,000.00

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2014 Expenses

Xeno Media contract  Website maintenance and development, Quantum Diaries editing and social media $72,900.00Travel to 2 collaboration meetings $4,608.66 Website hosting contract  Full year quantumdiaries.org  and interactions.org $6,002.00 

Executive Secretary travel  Attendance only at fall meeting $2,830.48 TOTAL EXPENSES $86,341.14

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2014 Summary

$96,400

- $86,341

$10,059

+ $ 8,428= $18,487

Contributions*

Expenses**

Net income

Carryover from 2013Carryover to 2015

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*Assumes all contributions will be received. Outstanding dues are $1,400.

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2015 Projected Expenses

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Xeno Media contract  Website maintenance and development, Quantum Diaries editing and social media (incl. annual increase) 73,740.00Travel to 2 collaboration meetings 5,000.00 Website hosting contract  Full year quantumdiaries.org  and interactions.org 6,200.00 

Executive Secretary travel  Incl. attendance at spring and fall meetings 5,000.00 TOTAL EXPENSES 89,940.00

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2015 Projected Summary

$96,400

- $89,940

$6,460

+ $18,487= $24,947

Contributions expected

Estimated expenses

Net income

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Future Meetings

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Planned meetings

• Fall 2015 – Brookhaven

• Spring 2016 – RAL, UK hosted by STFC (Doodle poll already conducted)

• Fall 2016?

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