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LIP’s 2019/20 reports
and plans

Please insert all the information in the database until the end of this month!

• Link to the to DB https://db.lip.pt/lipdb/
• Recommendations and calendar
• If you are in trouble, please contact catarina@lip.pt or helmut@coimbra.lip.pt
  
  

Summary of last Directorate meeting

As usual in the wiki, now also in english.

Last meeting 13 Jan 2020 

Scientific Council news

• Minutes of the December 19 plenary meeting of  https://indico.lip.pt/event/651/
• Colleagues elected for the SC coordination group: Alexandre Lindote, Filipa Borges, Sofia Andringa, Rute Pedro, António Pina
  
  

New scholarship holder Status and new FCT Scholarship Regulation

With the new Decree-Law 123/2019 and the approval of the new FCT fellowship regulation, some changes have to be taken into consideration:

• Summary of main changes 
• Full new fellowship regulation
  
  

Call for SR&TD Project Grants

Open date 30 January 2020.  More info

CIENCIAVITAE Webinar in English

28 Jan 10:30. More info

FCT calls calendar

The FCT makes available the calendar of calls scheduled for the years 2020 to 2022. The information is updated regularly to reflect any change in either the financing instruments or the expected dates. There may be other specific or thematic calls not included in this list.
  
For information on open FCT calls see www.fct.pt/concursos.

 

research

Jornadas LIP 2020

Braga, 14-16 Fev

Preliminary agenda 

Please fill the doodle on logistic info by 4 Feb  

European Particle Physics strategy update 

A week-long drafting session took place in Bad Honnef. The produced draft document is not finalized yet. It will be discussed by the CERN Council in March and submitted for final approval at an extraordinary Council Session on 25 May, in Budapest. No comments shall be made on this document before final approval.

More info
 

US Department of Energy selects Brookhaven National Laboratory to host a future EIC facility.
More info 

Paper Charting the European Course to the High-Energy Frontier 

The paper was given to the European Strategy Group and to the CERN DG, for their consideration in view of the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics.

Read more

 

A new schedule for the LHC
and its successor

The LHC will restart in May 2021 and Run 3 will be extended by one year.

Read more

ProtoTera Association created 

The Portuguese Proto-Therapy and Advanced Technologies for Cancer Prevention and Treatment Association (ProtoTera) was formally created on
9 December 2019.

Read more

LIP Student Workshop 

Braga, 1-3 July 2019 — Read about this in page 24 of the latest Bulletin.

TRAINING AND OUTREACH advanced training ADVANCED TRAINING AND ECO

Portugal - CERN PhD Grants

FCT and LIP agreed to promote a program of PhD grants in particle physics and related scientific and technological domains relevant for the Portuguese participation at CERN. Two calls will open in 2020.

Read more

Advanced Training opportunities

• LIP-CFTP mini-school 
  5-7 Feb, Costa da Caparica
• LIP introductory course on Geant4  
  11-13 Feb, Braga 
• Physics at the LHC course
  March-June, Lisbon, 
• Data Science School and Symposium 
  16-20 March, Coimbra

LIP-related news on TV

Ana Peixoto: interview in Porto Canal 

STRATOSPOLCA UC student experiment with the support of LIP

Masterclasses 2020

The Calendar can be found here.

LIP in Jornadas Tecnológicas JorTec 20'

5 Feb, FCT-UNL

More info

 

Encontros de Comunicação de Ciência na FCUL

More info

Ano da tabela periódica

In 2019, year of the periodic table, we launched 47 puzzles about chemical elements and particle physics

All the puzzles can be found here. 

To all, a happy 2020!