Minutes of the Nov 2-4, 2006 CLAS Collaboration Meeting

	The agenda, together with the ppt or pdf files for most of the 
talks, are available on the web. I will not summarize the talks here, 
but report some elements of discussion.

* Publications:
	Large number of published papers since last meeting, as well as
papers in Ad Hoc or collaboration wide reviews (3 of them for a time
getting too long). No new submission.

* Completed (even not so recently) and on-going PhD work:
	Please check the info available on
	http://www.jlab.org/Hall-B/general/clas_thesis.html
and send the chairman an e-mail for any update and/or link to the written
document. 

* High energy operation:
	See Jay Benesch's slides. Operation at 5.7 GeV should occur
Fall 07, and at 6 GeV Fall 08.

* CLAS Approved Analyses
	The 1 CAA presented was approved.

* PAC31:
	Three proposals are anticipated at the next PAC:
		- Coherent photoproduction of mesons on He4 (see Stepan's talk)
		- Two-Photon Exchange (see Jeff's talk)
		- Some Hall C users circulated a draft proposal for an
		   experiment on hypernuclei in CLAS (together with their
		   own gas detector). This will be under discussion. 

* Larry Cardman's message to the CCC: see slide on CCC report. The
    	collaboration is strongly encouraged to exploit fully the
    	physics conclusions from the N* program (the wording is not
    	the exact one from Larry). This remark comes about after comments
    	in the physics community at large and in the US funding agencies
    	that CLAS may not have fully delivered on what it was funded for:
    	the N* program. A discussion ensued in the plenary meeting.
    	
* Mac Mestayer pointed out the difficulty that PDL have to face with
	collaborators from far away not filling their shifts after an
	accelerator schedule change. Typically, if a "Maintenance period"
	becomes with short notice a running period, then collaborators
	overseas, or from the Far West (!), most often cannot plan a trip
	and book a flight. So far, there have not been any crisis situation,
	all collaborators in the end finding a replacement. Mac encourages
	institutions to group themselves, for exemple along geographical
	criteria, to swap shifts. He also proposed that collaborators plan
	their trip even if the shifts are planned outside a running period.
	On this last proposal, Many disagreed, based on budget and planning
	considerations.
	
* A discussion took place whether to change the worker shift schedule
	to e.g. 7am-3pm-11pm-7am . The chairman may launch a survey soon,
	but we did not agree to take a vote now, either at the meeting or
	by mail.
	
* Next collaboration meeting: March 1-3, 2007, preceeded by a day devoted
	to CLAS12 technical working groups meetings