P5Virtual February 6 2014

Dear Colleague,

As you know, P5 is underway, building upon the yearlong Snowmass process. A public website (http://interactions.org/p5) provides news and information (including the charge and panel membership), links to meetings, and a portal for anyone in the community to submit written input. Please have a look.

Each of the three public meetings had a Town Hall, and our Virtual Town Hall experiment in early January was so successful we’d like to try it again. We will keep the same format, though the questions (see below) are somewhat different to encourage speakers to focus more on the big issues for our field and less about endorsing a particular project. A brief P5 status update will also be given at the beginning.

The second Virtual Town Hall will be held on Thursday 6 February starting at 15:00 UTC (7 AM Pacific, 8AM Mountain, 9AM Central, 10AM Eastern US) for up to 90 minutes, depending on interest. We apologize to our colleagues working in Asia for the inconvenient time.

The meeting is open to anyone working in particle physics.

As time is limited, and there likely are many issues to cover, each person will be given up to 3 minutes to speak. All are welcome; however, if it becomes necessary to limit the number of speakers, preference will be given to those who who work in US-funded groups and were not able to attend one of the four previous Town Hall meetings. If you have spoken previously, we ask you not to speak again so that more people in the community have the opportunity. An important goal of this meeting is participation by younger colleagues and those working at CERN and at universities and labs not near the locations of the previous Town Hall meetings.

The meeting will be recorded.

If you have questions or suggestions about this site please send them to:
p5virtualtownhallfeb2014@gmail.com
with subject field: Virtual Town Hall

Many thanks!

Ian Shipsey and Nick Hadley (DPF)
Andy Lankford (HEPAP chair)
Steve Ritz (P5 chair)

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* 1. Name (format: first name then family name)

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* 2. Affiliation

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* 3. E-mail address

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* 4. Date of completion of Ph.D. or highest expected degree

2000 or earlier

After 2000

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* 5. Primary research activity (examples: theory, ATLAS, SuperCDMS etc.)

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* 6. The primary topic on which I will speak at the Virtual Town Hall is:
(PLEASE NOTE: if you plan to endorse a specific project, please select question 6.)

What are the most important issues, or aspects of the charge (http://science.energy.gov/~/media/hep/hepap/pdf/201309/P5_Charge_2013.pdf), for P5 to address, and how might P5 think about these?

Process: based on the agendas of the first three meetings, what topics might P5 be missing? Are there any things P5 might do differently?

What makes a P5 report compelling to those outside the field?

Given that not everything can receive sufficient priority to be funded, what should the report include to make it convincing to you and to our colleagues? What else might be done so that the community comes together to support the P5 recommendations?

Anything else?

Are you planning to endorse a specific project?

Not planning to speak, just listening

Question Title

* 1. Name (format: first name then family name)

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* 2. Affiliation

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* 3. E-mail address

Question Title

* 4. Date of completion of Ph.D. or highest expected degree

Question Title

* 5. Primary research activity (examples: theory, ATLAS, SuperCDMS etc.)

Question Title

* 6. The primary topic on which I will speak at the Virtual Town Hall is: (PLEASE NOTE: if you plan to endorse a specific project, please select question 6.)

* 6. The primary topic on which I will speak at the Virtual Town Hall is:
(PLEASE NOTE: if you plan to endorse a specific project, please select question 6.)