Welcome to the 20 th GridPP Collaboration Meeting

1. Welcome to the 20th GridPP Collaboration Meeting Introduction Timeline STFC Problems Steve Lloyd, Chair of the GridPP Collaboration Board

2. Timeline Now (GridPP20) 2006 2007 2008 GridPP3 GridPP2 GridPP2+ GridPP3 Proposal Submitted July 13 End of GridPP2 (31 August 2007) Start of GridPP3 (1 April 2008) 14TeV LHC: 900GeV Now (GridPP16) Now (GridPP18) Now (GridPP19) First LHC Collisions November 2007 14TeV LHC Collisions Spring 2008 Autumn 2008? GridPP20 Introduction

3. STFC Funding Crisis GridPP20 Introduction

4. STFC Funding Crisis GridPP20 Introduction

5. STFC Funding Crisis • High Priority • Advanced LIGO • ATLAS • CMS • GEO 600 • JCMT and SCUBA-2 • Jefferson Lab • KMOS • Neutron EDM • RISING/GSI • SPIRAL • SWIFT • Venus Express • Medium-high Priority • JWST MIRI • LHC upgrades - ATLAS • LISA and LISA Pathfinder • Liverpool Telescope • Planck • Roadmap to XEUS • SKA R&D • Solar Orbiter • SuperNEMO • T2K • Zeplin III • Medium-lower priority • ISOLDE • MICE exploitation • SOHO • STEREO • UKSSDC • XMM Newton • Lower priority • HPC Operations • INTEGRAL • LCABD • LCFI • Legnaro • Louvain-La-Neuve • MAMI • Maxlab • MERLIN/e-MERLIN • MINOS • UKIRT • VERITAS • Lower priority • ALICE and STAR • Astrogrid • BaBar • Bepi-Colombo • BiSON • CALICE • CASU/WFAU • FP420 • Gemini • Ground-based STP facilities • HERMES • HESS • Hinode • Medium-lower priority • ALMA Regional Centre • Auger • Cassini • CDF • Cluster • D-Zero • Electron EDM • ING • LHCb • Medium-high Priority • CLOVER • DES • ELT R&D • ExoMars • GAIA • GridPP • Herschel • Inverse Square Law Alphabetic within Categories GridPP20 Introduction

6. STFC Funding Crisis GridPP20 Introduction

7. It could be worse! GridPP20 Introduction