RPM – Physics Division | Ben Nachman (LBNL) “Gearing up for the 2021 APS DPF Community Planning Process (aka Snowmass)” https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/95017728528

The American Physical Society’s Division of Particles and Fields is gearing up for its next community planning process (for historical reasons, called Snowmass).  This process will occur over the next year and culminate in a 10 year plan (with a 20 year vision) for the future.  It is critical for us to provide input to this process, which will ultimately inform the funding agencies about our community’s priorities for the future.  In this talk, I will briefly introduce the various frontiers of the 2021 Snowmass process and will then mostly focus on the Computational Frontier and its connection to the other frontiers.  In particular, this is an interesting time for computation with significant big data tools and infrastructure being developed by the broader scientific and industrial communities and with the advent of new (not part of the last Snowmass!) technologies like deep learning and quantum computing.