Minutes by Mark Messier
1. Scholberg: Work proceeds to finalize the LOI matrix. Will be done
prior to CPM. Need help of liaisons to identify any LOIs that have
either been misplaced or are relevant to neutrinos but not tagged so.
Q: Late LOIs? A: No guarantee they be considered, but can be at
discretion of conveners
CPM prep meeting: 10 minutes from topical groups. Status update to
inform community of our progress with LOIs and planning. In talks, we
want to inform community about status of planning activities. Ideally,
talk should give status of LOI consideration and a summary of
high-level patterns and themes and identify gaps. It is understood
that there hasn’t been much time to completely consider all the LOIs
in detail.
NF10 has 140 LOIs. Numbers are not uniform across topical groups. NF10
has 140 LOIs.
There will not be time in the CPM to discuss every LOI. Conveners need
a plan to align the LOIs along thrusts for further discussion.
2. Early Career (Gardiner). Been active in generating LOIs. Meet
every other week (Sept 23 is next). Thinking about long term future of
field (50-100 years). Includes round-table presentation of LOIs. Want
help advertising; leadership positions are still open. Want to survey
early career members about issues in the field; have questions
drafted. Open for comment.
3. Huber: Community Planning Meeting Agenda draft is in indico for
days 1 and 4. Parallel days on 2 and 3 are still in flux. 45
cross-cutting sessions, 11 with NF involved. These 11 sessions need
input from the NF topical groups and names are needed to co-organize
these sessions. Volunteers needed; discuss with your
co-conveners. Needs to be completed tomorrow (Wednesday the
16th!). Careful: session titles may not be clear; agendas for sessions
are malleable. Each session is 60 – 120 minutes and are too short for
public reading of LOIs. Will require some guidance from organizers. Q:
Can we identify lead groups for each session for clarity. A: That’s
why we need names for organizers ~now.
NF01: (Messier) Received 13 LOIs as primary, 66 tagged as
secondary. Have identified themes and possible white paper ideas to
discuss.
NF02: (Sousa) Planning workshop for Sept 25th. Have plan for some
joint sessions at CPM. Thinking about whitepaper topics.
NF03: (Yu) 110 LOIs / 32 primary. Workshops on Sept 17 and October 1
focused on understanding the scope of LOIs received and organize
work. Planning joint workshop for later in the year / early next year.
NF04 (Gann): Have divided LOIs into 6 topics based on sources. Have
five workshops planned, 1, 2 sources per session. Contacted by cosmic
frontier for joint session at CPM.
NF05 (Giunti): Reading LOIs and coordinating with NF10. Had workshops
in July and August. Thinking about joint sessions, esp. with cosmic
frontier.
NF06 (Balantekin): Looked at LOIs and tagged ones which they think are
primary on. Held workshop recently on neutrino generators.
NF07: 40 LOIs received.
TF11 (Strigari): Made commitments for CPM sessions. Mini-theory
workshop next week M-W 10-2 central time. 123 registrants (!).
NF09 (Ochoa-Ricoux): 66 LOIs received identified several as
primary. Having joint meetings with AF02 group (Accelerators for
neutrinos).
NF10 (Schmitz): 110 LOIs received. Will be organizing a joint session;
decision about that session coming today / tomorrow.
Sanchez: Instrumentation frontier held a similar meeting to this one
recently. Need to review links to NF.
Snowmass planning document (Schoberg): Snowmass planning document:
outlines schedule and milestones for planning exercises. Kate,
Elizabeth, and Patrick have a draft: Workshop in Nov/Dec to discuss
LOI-to-Whitepaper process and outline the final report. Previews of
whitepapers scheduled for February, 2021. First draft of report
(possibly an extended outline) in March. Final drafts continue through
October.
Q: Can one finalize a draft in March while preparing for meeting in
March? A: May help to focus discussions at meeting to have a document
to react to.