NSF Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) program has funded a collaborative research project entitled "Conceptualization of an S2I2 Institute for High Energy Physics". The 2-year project involves Peter Elmer (Princeton University), Mike Sokoloff (U.Cincinnati) and Mark Neubauer (U.Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

The primary goal of the S2I2-HEP conceptualization project is to prepare a strategic plan for a potential NSF Scientific Software Innovation Institute (S2I2) to develop software for experiments taking data in the "High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider" (HL-LHC) era in the 2020s. In addition, we are working with the HEP Software Foundation to prepare a larger HEP Community White Paper (CWP) describing a global roadmap for HEP Software and Computing R&D for the 2020s. To this end we are organizing a number of workshops between Fall 2016 and Summer 2017. 

Peter Elmer (Princeton), Mark Neubauer (U.Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Mike Sokoloff (U.Cincinnati), Dan Katz (NCSA) and Doug Thain (Notre Dame) constitute the organising committee for the S2I2-HEP/CS workshop.

Project website: http://s2i2-hep.org/

NSF Awards: ACI-1558216 (Princeton), ACI-1558219 (U.Cincinnati), ACI-1558233 (U.Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)