Dear all,

I think it is important that all committees have a ToR, and very happy to work with Dave and everyone to decide what this should be. I think it ought to be a relatively simple exercise but the devil is in the detail. I agree with Dave that a sensible first step is to have a discussion in the meeting about this, and then I will follow up with him.

In terms of the structure of the committee, I have discussed the membership briefly with Dave, but I believe the key aspect is to make sure all the communities are suitably represented, along with other relevant aspects of Departmental computing activities. Dave has emphasised the benefits of a 'broad church' of keen participants, which I also am happy to see, but equally it is sensible to have a plan for how long people serve, and for how new/young/enthusiastic people can get the chance to participate and contribute their ideas.

Dave has supplied the following membership list which I have adapted to the new community structure where possible (and I deeply apologise if I got your community affiliation wrong!):

Current Membership
===================
David Colling - Chair
Rich Bantges - Space Plasma Climate & Deputy Chair

ICT people
Andy Richards - ICT Director of Research Computing.
Okan Kibarolgu - ICT Director of Customer Success

Ed Tech
James Dunbar

Physics people

Brian Appelbe - Head of 1st year computing
Alex Richards - Head of 2nd year computing
Mark Scott & Paul Dauncey - Computational Physics
Graham Axtell - Labs

Kyle Major - Light
Mark Neil - Light
Andy Thomas - Matter
Jenny Nelson - Matter
Dan Whitehouse - Particles
Simon Fayer - Particles
Ray Beuselinck - Particles
Stuart Mangles - Space Plasma Climate
Andrew Jaffe - Universe
Tim Evans - Universe

Luke White - Dept. Operations Manager
Ruth Mclauchlan  - CCAP
ph.ea - minute taking

Overall to my mind the first impression is that the committee has a nice balance of representation. I hope I can join for the first part of tomorrow's meeting; it will be good to see everyone!

Best wishes
Jonathan

From: David Colling <d.colling@imperial.ac.uk>
Sent: 22 October 2023 18:32
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Subject: Meeting on Wednesday
 
Hi All,

(cc'ing Riccardo and Jonathan in case they are interested).

At short notice, it is not really surprising that there was no really
good day. The only day that seems feasible at all is Wednesday (maybe
those who can not make it can send deputies?). I have booked 532 - teams
coords to come.

As well as the usual update from ICT, the two things that I want us to
discuss are:

1. what structure do we want in now that we have moved to communities
2.  how we can collaborate more in this area.

1. might lead to a discussion about whether or not we want to write down
terms of references. This committee has existed since the dawn of time -
well long before I came to Imperial and any terms of reference that we
might once have had have been long lost. We are in the process of
updating the FRCC ToR and that has been only been going for a few years.

Any other items of business are welcome obviously.

Best,
david