Every decade the US Particle Physics community gathers to lay out ideas, plans, and priorities for the next decade - called the Snowmass process. The year long study covers everything from detector design, the potential of proposed future accelerators, new physics models, and, of course, computing. The process starts with members of the particle physics community, both national and international, submitting Letters of Interest. These letters of interest (LOIs) are short two page summaries of plans for the next two years. They serve as a notice of work to be done and as an advertisement meant to attract other like-minded individuals. They are an excellent grass-roots gauge of what the community is thinking for the next decade!
LOI’s submitted
Members of IRIS-HEP submitted 11 LOI’s. The computational frontier received more than 120 LOIs. Listed here, along with links and a short summary:
- Snowmass 2021 Letter of Interest: Analysis Ecosystem at the HL-LHC, G. Watts Snowmass 2021 Letter of Interest (10 Sep 2020).
- Snowmass 2021 Letter of Interest: Graph Data Structures and Graph Neural Networks for High Energy Physics, X. Ju, M. Neubauer, L. Gray, A. Aurisano, T. R. F. P. Tomei, J.-R. Vlimant, J. Hewes, K. Terao, S. Thais, D. Murnane, Snowmass 2021 Letters of Interest (31 Aug 2020).
- Snowmass 2021 Letter of Interest: Fast Machine Learning, M.-A. Flechas, M. Atkinson, G.-Di Guglielmo, J. Duarte, F. Fahim, P. Harris, C. Herwig, B. Holzman, R. Kastner, M. Liu, C.-S. Moon, M. Neubauer, K. Pedro, A.-Q. Parra, D. Rankin, R. Rivera, N. Tran, M. Wang, T. Yang, J. Agar9, and E.-A. Huerta, Snowmass 2021 Letters of Interest (31 Aug 2020).
- Snowmass 2021 Letter of Interest: Jets and Jet Substructure at Future Colliders, The BOOST Community, Snowmass 2021 Letters of Interest (31 Aug 2020).
- Snowmass 2021 Letter of Interest: Emerging Computational Techniques for Jet Physics, Sebastian Macaluso, Kyle Cranmer, Matthew Drnevich, Johann Brehmer (New York University); Duccio Pappadopulo (N.A.); Atılım Gunes Baydin (Oxford); Matthew Schwartz (Harvard), Snowmass 2021 Letters of Interest (31 Aug 2020).
- Snowmass2021 Letter of Interest : Coherent Vision for Enabling Software Training in HEP, Daniel S. Katz, Clemens Lange, Kilian Lieret, Sudhir Malik, Samuel Meehan, Kevin Nelson, Robin Newhouse, Meirin Oan Evans, Adam Parker, Mason Proffitt, Eduardo Rodrigues, Amber Roepe, Giordon Stark, Graeme Stewart, Sadhana Verma, Leonora Vesterbacka, and Claire David, Snowmass 2021 Letters of Interest (31 Aug 2020).
- Snowmass 2021 Letter of Interest: Differentiable Programming in High-Energy Physics, Atilim Gunes Baydin, Kyle Cranmer, Matthew Feickert, Lindsey Gray, Lukas Heinrich, Alexander Held, Andrew Melo, Mark Neubauer, Jannicke Pearkes, Nathan Simpson, Nick Smith, Giordon Stark, Savannah Thais, Vassil Vassilev, and Gordon Watts, Snowmass 2021 Letters of Interest (31 Aug 2020).
- Snowmass 2021 Letter of Interest: Software Sustainability and HEP, Daniel S. Katz, Sudhir Malik, Mark S. Neubauer, and Graeme A. Stewart, Snowmass 2021 Letters of Interest (31 Aug 2020).
- Snowmass 2021 Letter of Interest: Long Term Reproducibility and Sustainability of Scientific Software, Matthew Feickert, Giordon Stark, Steven Gardiner, and Yu-Dai Tsai, Snowmass 2021 Letters of Interest (31 Aug 2020).
- Snowmass 2021 Letter of Interest: Matrix Element Method in the Machine Learning Era, P. Chang, M. Feickert, and Mark S. Neubauer, Snowmass 2021 Letters of Interest (31 Aug 2020).
- Snowmass 2021 Letter of Interest: Particle Physics and Machine Learning in Education, Mark S. Neubauer, Snowmass 2021 Letters of Interest (31 Aug 2020).
All LOI’s can be found on the main Snowmass website.