Connected: Richard Brenner, Ulf Danielson, Vincent Hedberg, Sten Hellman, Leif Lönnblad and Mark Pearce.

Apologies: Bo Sunborg.

§1

Formalities

The agenda was approved by all present.

Mark Pearce and Sten Hellman were appointed secretary and justerare for the meeting, respectively.

The minutes of the last meeting were approved by all present.

§2

The board election

Sten reported that there had been 24 votes in the recent board election. The new board is as suggested on the voting papers (see previous minutes for a complete list). The new board will become active at the first board meeting next year.

§3

Report from SFS board meeting in Linköping

Sten reported on two points. Firstly, the SFS are reviewing the benefits of continuing membership of the European Physical Society (EPS). A. Barany will chair the review group. Secondly, the section has been asked to prepare a set of Powerpoint slides describing research activities within the group for lay people. Sten agreed to co-ordinate this.

§4

Report from our section meeting in Linköping

Sten noted that a report on the section meeting will be posted in the next issue of 'Fysik Aktuellt'. All those who contributed to the meeting were thanked by the board.

§5

ACCU representative

The board agreed that Richard should be re-elected to a second term. Richard reported that ACCU were looking into insurance issues for those working at CERN while employed by outside institutes. Concern had been raised that cover may not include spare time or radiation accidents, for example.

§6

Partikeldagarna 2002

Following the normal venue-rotation, the first choice of venue is Lund (Vincent will follow up). The next choice is Stockholm (Sten will ask Klas Hultqvist to organise). The meeting will take place in late March - early April. Post-meeting note: Lund have agreed to host the meeting.

§7

Situation in Lund.

Vincent and Leif reviewed the situation and explained that there were no major implications for the theory group. ATLAS was prioritised from the experimental activities. The full extent of the economic consequences of the review were not clear at this stage.

§8

A.O.B.

All those present warmly thanked Sten for his excellent chairing of the board over the last 2 years.

§9

Next meeting.

The first meeting of the new board will occur in mid-January next year. Richard will suggest a date shortly.