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U.S. Scientists Gather At Fermilab to Uncover Future of Particle Physics
The Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) is charged with developing a strategic plan for the United States that can be executed in the next 10 years.
They aren't angry and they aren't crazy, so we can't really call them mad scientists, although it would be fun.
And we can't call them madcap scientists, either, because what they're doing this weekend — Saturday, Nov. 2, through Monday, Nov. 4, 2013 — at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is pretty serious business.
What they're trying to do is figure out the priorities for U.S. particle physics research for the next decade.
And though they aren't mad scientists, they did come up with a pretty cool name. The advisory panel is called the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel, or P5, and their mission is to "develop a roadmap for the next 10 years of U.S. particle physics in the context of a 20-year, global vision for the field," according to "symmetry," a joint Fermilab, SLAC publication.
P5 will meet this weekend and during two weekends in December, gathering input from more than 200 scientists, the symmetry article said.
