Dear Colleagues,

As you know, the Snowmass 2013 meeting in Minnesota will be preceded by a series of pre-workshop meetings.   Most of the work that will actually be done for Snowmass will be organized and discussed at these meetings.  So, it would be good to make plans to attend some of them.

In particular, please note the following:

1.  The whole scedule of the Energy Frontier pre-Snowmass meetings is set out at:

http://www.snowmass2013.org/tiki-index.php?page=Energy+Frontier+Study+Workshops

On this page, you will find web links to all of the individual meetings, when these pages are created.   Chip and I are constantly updating this page to keep it current.

2.   We have scheduled two general Energy Frontier meetings.   These will be :

          April 3-6   at Brookhaven National Lab
          June 30 - July 3, just after Lepton-Photon 2013, at a West Coast location TBA

3.   The KITP at UC Santa Barbara has kindly agreed to host a Snowmass Theory meeting on May 29-31.  This meeting will actually cover 3 frontiers -- Energy, Intensity, and Cosmic.  The idea is to promote discussion among theorists of new results (in particular, on models of new physics) and analyses that cross the boundaries.    By KITP policy, attendance at this meeting is limited to 120.   We will announce the registration web site soon.

4.   The kickoff meetings for the Higgs, New Particles, and Electroweak groups are just around the corner.    Higgs will meet  Jan. 14-15 at Princeton.  New Particles will meet  Jan. 14-16 at U C Irvine.   Electroweak will meet   Feb. 18-20 at Duke.  The registration web sites can be found on our Workshops page.

5.   For the Higgs workshop, please find a more detailed announcement from Chris Tully below my signature.

6.  All of our 6 Energy Frontier physics working groups have email listservs.  To get on a list, please write to one of the conveners!

Thank you very much!

Michael Peskin
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From: Christopher Tully <[log in to unmask]>
Date: December 9, 2012 4:08:42 PM GMT-05:00
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [SNOWMASS-HIGGS] Snowmass Higgs:  Princeton Workshop Reminder (Jan. 14-15)

Dear Higgs Snowmass Contributors,

The first dedicated workshop on the discussion of the future of the Higgs physics program will be Jan. 14-15 at Princeton University.
The agenda is here:
http://physics.princeton.edu/snowmass
The first two sessions of the first day and the first session of the second day are organized by physics topic (and led by the named convener):
Couplings and Width (Heather),
Spin and Mixtures (Andrei),
Multiple Higgs Models (Sally).
Here we plan to hear from both experimental groups and theorists.  The idea is to gain an understanding of the precision
and range of measurements that need to be achieved to potentially observe deviations from standard model physics.  This will provide a focus for the experimental groups,  and, similarly, we hope to hear what the experimental groups believe they can achieve in various scenarios for the future Higgs program.  There will be time for discussion and we welcome participation and an active contribution of ideas.

We will also have a session on
Higgs Factory Physics (Jianming)
where we highlight dedicated measurements that can be achieved in the context of different accelerator and detector setups.

One session will focus on
Simulation Tools (Rick)
and to some extent the range of assumptions going into the modeling of detector capabilities and background processes, beam backgrounds, and high pileup conditions.

We will try to recap the proposals for the future Higgs program with a session highlighting the current understanding of the
Ultimate Physics Reach (Chris)
in the Higgs sector.
Finally, we will end the workshop with an open discussion to get feedback on the Snowmass report process and how to organize the compilation of the work into a written document by early summer.

We hope to see you at the workshop, and we will provide remote access for interactive participation in the discussion with
connection information posted on the agenda page above.
Best,
Chris
for the Higgs EF committee

[log in to unmask] (Sally Dawson)
[log in to unmask] (Andrei Gritsan)
[log in to unmask] (Rick Van Kooten)
[log in to unmask] (Heather Logan)
[log in to unmask] (Jianming Qian)
[log in to unmask] (Chris Tully)

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