Summary notes of the HSS meeting on 20/01/2014

Present: RB, LD, SF, MF, MG, PH, ASL, RdM, MS, GS, RV, RW.

Report from meetings

• SLM and general information -> MG
  Massimo started welcoming the new section members from former the LIS section.
  The HSS section meeting will be held every other Monday afternoon from 2pm to 3:45pm in the room 18-3-008. It will be difficult to change, even exceptionally, the date as there are several other meeting with potential overlap with HSS (LBS, TLEP).
  ABP information meetings are being organised. There were requests in the past for increasing the sharing of information about group activities. The format is not completely fixed, and feedback is requested! Here are some details:
  - These meetings are not seminars and should aim at a free exchange of information.
  - The reports could be either oral or with a very limited number of slides (no more than 5).
  - The topics should cover the main group activities.
  - In order to keep the length of the meeting reasonable, 1-1.5 hours should be assumed.
  - The meeting will be held on monthly basis.
  - In order to accommodate all possible topics some of them will be considered at each meeting, while others at every other meeting.
  - Reports should not only be the "spokespersons" of the activities, but also people working directly on the specific topic.
• Google summer of code 2014 -> RdM
  Riccardo mentioned that Google is supporting also this summer a number of students working on codes. PH-SFT got up to eight students in past years. The procedure is not completely straightforward, by J. Apostolakis (PH-SFT) volunteered to help us. Projects should be submitted and the students will select the most interesting one. The key point is that the code has to be an open source code to be eligible by Google. Some more information can be found here or also here. All people interested could contact Riccardo for further information.