Fwd: [compsnowmass21conv-l] Heads up: Snowmass newsletter about delay

[Jean-Luc Vay]

FYI. See below.

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From: Oliver Gutsche <gut...@fnal.gov>

Subject: [compsnowmass21conv-l] Heads up: Snowmass newsletter about delay

Date: January 28, 2021 at 1:32:15 PM PST

To: "compsnowma...@list.indiana.edu" <compsnowma...@list.indiana.edu>

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Hi all,

In the Frontier convener meeting held Monday, January 25, we again had a long discussion about pause vs. slow down. The majority of the frontiers advocated for a pause. A compromise to allow some low level frontier activity but pausing the high level frontier activities like workshops was struck, and the newsletter was finalized by the steering committee (dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ie6jtczrxi0gqjc/210128%20-%20Snowmass%20Newsletter%20Jan.2021.pdf?dl=0) to be released soon.

Here are the guidelines from the newsletter:

After extensive consultation with our community and the frontier conveners/advisors, the Snowmass Steering Group recommends the following general guidelines for the implementation of the Snowmass delay.

• High-level activities will be on hold until the end of June, 2021.

• These activities include Frontier-level and Topical Group-level workshops, All-conveners meetings, Advisory Group meetings and Newsletters.

• Other Topical Group and cross-frontier activities should be either paused or reduced to a significantly lower level, proceeding only as necessary to ensure scientific continuity, meet essential programmatic needs, or maintain collaborative work with other units and communities.

• No critical decisions will be made during the hiatus.

• No individuals should feel obligated to participate in these activities.

• Individual, collaborative and self-organized work can continue at the discretion of the individuals involved.

All paused individual or group activities will continue to receive full consideration once the Snowmass process formally resumes.

Here is the timeline from the newsletter:

• White Paper submission to arXiv: no later than March 15, 2022. Late submissions and updates are likely not to be incorporated in the working group reports, but will be included in the Snowmass on-line archive documents.

• Preliminary reports by the Topical Groups due: no later than May 31, 2022.

• Preliminary reports by the Frontiers due: no later than June 30, 2022.

• Snowmass Community Summer Study (CSS): July, 2022 at UW-Seattle.

• All final reports by TGs and Frontiers due: no later than September 30, 2022.

• Snowmass Book and the on-line archive documents due: October 31, 2022.

We favored a white paper deadline of January 31, 2020. The discussion concluded that we (CompF) can set our deadline earlier.

Also according to this schedule, the hold is only till the end of June 2021. We favored to pause till August 2021. We want to keep pausing till August 2021, as do other frontiers as well. 

Every frontier is clarifying their individual plans in the same newsletter. This is the paragraph for CompF:

“The Computational Frontier plans to pause until August 2021. This means that there will be no frontier-level activities during this period. Some of the topical groups will continue work already started on existing defined directions, but with meetings at a lower frequency. Other topical groups will pause their work. Any topical group activities will be advertised in advance via email and Slack. The Small Experiments Software and Computing Workshop we had started planning will be rescheduled for after the restart of frontier activities. 
To allow topical group conveners sufficient time to consider white papers, we ask all who wish to contribute to submit their white papers by the end of January, 2022. Papers submitted later are not guaranteed full consideration. Those who cannot meet the January deadline are encouraged to coordinate with the appropriate topical group conveners and submit a draft by the January 2022 deadline.”

We have to change our wiki pages and inform the community after the newsletter is out. 

We need your help: please post a message on your slack forum and write a mail to your email list about the delay and how we’re going to implement it after the newsletter is out.

Thanks,

Ben, Steve and Oli