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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Dear Colleagues!</div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"> Happy New Year to you and your loved ones! </span><br>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">In view of the completion of the Yellow Report initiative, and the great <span style="margin:0px">interest the IR2@EIC initiative </span><span style="margin:0px">has created and demonstrated with the preparatory </span><span style="margin:0px">meeting
held December 15/16, I think it is important to resume our </span><span style="margin:0px">meetings on exclusive processes. </span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><span style="margin:0px">The aim would be to develop science proposals </span><span style="margin:0px">for various reaction </span><span style="margin:0px">channels that should be worked out in some detail with the focus
on the </span><span style="margin:0px">IR2@EIC properties and kinematics. </span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><span style="margin:0px">This is </span><span style="margin:0px">also in view of the call for detector proposals expected to come in March 2021. </span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><span style="margin:0px">For several reasons it will be necessary to change the meeting date to Thursday 10:30am. Initially we would meet every other week. </span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><span style="margin:0px">If Thursday is okay with most, we could start the kickoff meeting next week Thursday January 14, 2021 at 10:30am. </span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">If you know of colleagues who might be interested in participating in the meetings, please tells them about the meeting. We will continue using the BJ link: </div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><a href="https://bluejeans.com/4037935955" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin:0px">https://bluejeans.com/4037935955</a><br>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">The agenda will be posted here: <br style="font-size:14.666666984558105px">
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Hope to see you all soon,</div>
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