Conveners
Plenary Session Thursday
- Benjamin Krikler (University of Bristol (GB))
- Jim Pivarski (Princeton University)
Numba is a Just-in-Time (JIT) compiler for making Python code run faster on CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs. This talk gives an introduction to Numba, the CUDA programming model, and hardware. The aim is to provide a brief overview of:
- What Numba is,
- Who uses it,
- Whether you should use it in your application,
- How to use it, and
- Some different ways to get access to CUDA hardware.
This talk will cover the the best practices of making a highly compatible and installable Python package based on the Scikit-HEP developer guidelines and scikit-hep/cookie. There will be a strong focus on compiled extensions. The latest developments in key libraries, like pybind11, cibuildwheel, and build will be covered, along with potential upcoming advancements in Scikit-Build + CMake.
Excursion is a python package that efficiently estimates level sets of computationally expensive black box functions. It is a confluence of Active Learning and Gaussian Process Regression. The difference between Level Set Estimation and Bayesian Optimization is that the latter focuses on finding maxima and minima while the former intends to find regions of the parameter space where the...
Recent observations from the EHT of the center of the M87 galaxy have opened up a whole new era for testing general relativity using BH (Black hole) images generated from VLBI. While different theories have their version of BH solutions, there are some ‘geometric models’ as well which can be approximated to visualize the image of a BH in addition to understand the geometric properties of the...
Over the last decades noble liquid time projection chambers (TPCs) have become one of the forefront technologies for the search in WIMP dark matter. As the detector increases in size, so do the amount of data and data-rates, leading to higher demands on the analysis software.
The "streaming analysis for xenon experiments" (strax) is a software package developed by the XENON collaboration...
Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPC) are widely used as detectors in current and future neutrino experiments.
One of the advantage of LArTPCs is the possibility to collect data from a very large active volume (up to tens of kilo-ton in the case of the DUNE experiment) with a mm^3-scale resolution. LArTPC technology using different designs are currently being tested in large-scale...
The KM3NeT collaboration builds, operates and maintains two water Cherenkov detectors for neutrino astronomy and physics studies, which are currently being built in the Mediterranean Sea. In order to operate the detector infrastructure and exploit scientifically the recorder data, a sophisticated software environment is necessary. For several tasks, e.g. the monitoring of the detector,...
At LHCb, $b$-jets are tagged using several methods, some of them with high efficiency but low purity or high purity and low efficiency. Particularly our aim is to identify jets produced by $b$ and $\bar{b}$ quarks, which is fundamental to perform important physics searches, e.g. the measurement of the $b-\bar{b}$ charge asymmetry, which could be sensitive to New Physics processes. Since this...
