Dear Colleagues,

 

The Particle Physics Advisory Panel (PPAP) has been charged by STFC with developing a particle physics science roadmap. The Particle Physics, Astronomy and Nuclear Physics Panel (PPAN) has asked PPAP to prepare a first draft of the roadmap by September of 2009.

 

Accordingly, and after consultation at the Oxford Town Meeting in April, and subsequently with all PP grant holders, we announced a community review, to be held in Birmingham on July 13,14,15, to which ALL MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY, are invited to make input.

 

We are grateful to the Birmingham group for agreeing to host, and we
will be announcing practical details for the meeting quite soon.
The sessions each day will run from c. 10.30 until no later than 18.00.

 

We have set up a framework for the review which attempts to cover all
aspects of particle physics across the 3 days:

 

July 13: 'flavour-changing physics and QCD'
July 14: 'energy frontier physics' 
July 15: 'neutrino and non-accelerator-based physics'

 

and we hope that individuals and groups will be able to attend for several,
if not all, of the days, so that the full spectrum of opportunities, 
community interests and views can be explored.

 

To help organise the framework of presentations and discussion issues for 
each day we have invited 'programme committees' who are now working on
the agenda. The members of these groups are listed below - we are very
grateful to everyone for giving up their valuable time to help. 

 

The format for each day will comprise a small number of 'review' talks
to cover physics, experiment + theory, facilities + detectors, new
opportunities, etc. There will be generous discussion time scheduled,
and specific discussion of key questions and issues in each area.

 

Please feel free to contact the programme committee chairs if there are 
particular issues you want to explore.  
To help facilitate this we will set up a simple wiki-style web area 
where people will be able to submit questions/issues for open discussion.

We will announce the web area, programme details, and practical information
within the next couple of weeks.

 

Please plan to contribute to the review!

best wishes,
Phil Burrows
(for the PPAP)

 

http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/~thomson/ppap.html


Membership of 'programme committees' for review meeting:

( we are still awaiting confirmation from a couple of people not listed below)


'Flavour-changing physics + QCD'

Nigel Glover (IPPP) - Chair
Tim Gershon (Warwick) - Deputy
Christine Davies (Glasgow)
Guy Wilkinson (Oxford)
Cristina Lazzeroni (Birmingham) 
Val Gibson (Cambridge) 
Steve Playfer (Edinburgh) 
Chris Sachrajda (Southampton) 
Maria Smizanska (Lancaster) 


'Energy frontier physics'

Claire Shepherd-Themistocleous (RAL) - Chair
Cinzia da Via (Manchester) - Deputy 
Dan Tovey (Sheffield) 
Grahame Blair (RHUL) 
Craig Buttar (Glasgow) 
Terry Wyatt (Manchester) 
Dave Newbold (Bristol) 
Georg Weiglein (IPPP) 
Rob Edgecock (RAL) 
Paul Newman (Birmingham) 


'Neutrino and non-accelerator-based physics'

Mark Thomson (Cambridge) - Chair
Phil Burrows (Oxford) - Deputy
Neil Spooner (Sheffield) 
Simon Peeters (Sussex) 
Reuben Sakyan (UCL)
Ken Long (IC) 
Silvia Pascoli (IPPP) 
Subir Sarkar (Oxford) 
Christos Touramanis (Liverpool) 
Paul Harrison (Warwick) 
Ed Hinds (IC)