USCMS Undergraduate Summer Internship 2022

from Monday 6 June 2022 (09:00) to Monday 22 August 2022 (17:00)
USCMS (Virtual)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
6 Jun 2022
7 Jun 2022
8 Jun 2022
9 Jun 2022
10 Jun 2022
13 Jun 2022
14 Jun 2022
15 Jun 2022
16 Jun 2022
17 Jun 2022
20 Jun 2022
21 Jun 2022
22 Jun 2022
23 Jun 2022
24 Jun 2022
27 Jun 2022
28 Jun 2022
29 Jun 2022
30 Jun 2022
1 Jul 2022
4 Jul 2022
5 Jul 2022
6 Jul 2022
7 Jul 2022
8 Jul 2022
19 Jul 2022
20 Jul 2022
26 Jul 2022
28 Jul 2022
2 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022
10 Aug 2022
12 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022
19 Aug 2022
22 Aug 2022
AM
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
09:00 Welcome by USCMS - Sudhir Malik (University of Puerto Rico (US)) Tulika Bose (University of Wisconsin Madison (US)) Meenakshi Narain (Brown University (US)) Lothar Bauerdick (FERMILAB) Kevin Black (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Kenneth Bloom (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US)) Bo Jayatilaka (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
10:00 Introductions by Interns and Mentors  
11:00 Schedule Format - Sudhir Malik (University of Puerto Rico (US))  
12:00 Introduction to CMS Computing at FNAL - Scarlet Rachel Norberg (University of Puerto Rico (US))  
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
09:00 The UNIX Shell: A guide through the basics of the file systems and the shell - Marco Mambelli (Fermilab (US))  
12:00 Overview of the Standard Model - Alexx Perloff (University of Colorado Boulder (US))  
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
09:00 Unix: Automating Tasks with Unix Shell - Marco Mambelli (Fermilab (US))  
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
09:00 Python II: Building Programs with Python - Bruno Moreira Coimbra (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
09:00
Morning (until 13:05)
09:00 Git II - In this lesson we use Git from the Unix Shell - Marco Mambelli (Fermilab (US))  
12:00 Meeting with the Mentors  
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
09:00 Python for analysis: ROOT and Jupyter notebooks  
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
09:00 Python for analysis: plots and fits with ROOT and RDataFrame  
12:00 Higgs overview and mass measurements - Guenakh Mitselmakher (University of Florida (US))  
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
09:00 Meeting with the Mentors  
10:00 Python for analysis: HEP analysis with RDataFrame  
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
09:00 Python for analysis 2: Uproot and Scikit-HEP  
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
09:00 Followup  
12:00 Calorimeter Detector Basics - Jay Dittmann (Baylor University (US))  
09:00 --- Juneteenth Observance ---
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
09:00 Machine Learning - Guillermo Antonio Fidalgo Rodriguez (University of Puerto Rico at Mayagรผez)  
12:00 Overview of BSM Higgs boson - Abdollah Mohammadi (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
09:00 Machine Learning  
12:00 Meeting with the Mentors  
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
09:00 5 min 5 slides  
11:00 Meeting with Mentors  
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
09:00 Machine Learning and followup  
12:00 Free time  
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
09:00 5 min 5 slides  
09:15 C++ Setup - Guillermo Antonio Fidalgo Rodriguez (University of Puerto Rico at Mayagรผez)  
10:00 C++ Course Material  
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
12:00 Top Quarks Physics at CMS - Susan J Dittmer (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))  
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
09:00
Morning (until 11:30)
09:00 C++ Review - Charis Kleio Koraka (University of Wisconsin Madison (US)) Guillermo Antonio Fidalgo Rodriguez (University of Puerto Rico at Mayagรผez)  
11:30 --- Early Lunch ---
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
12:00 Muon Detector - Prof. Kevin Black (University of Wisconsin-Madison)  
00:00
4th of July Holiday (until 23:59)
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
12:00 Heavy Ions at CMS - Dr Georgios Krintiras (The University of Kansas (US))  
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
12:00 Overview of Double Higgs Production - Agni Bethani (University of Maryland (US))  
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
12:00 Long-lived Particle Search Overview - Todd Adams (Florida State University) Todd Adams (Florida State University (US))  
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
12:00 Quarks and Gluons - Daniel Li (Brown University (US))  
09:00
Morning (until 13:00)
12:00 Stats in analysis - Ms Jieun Yoo (UIC)  
09:00
Interns upload posters to the website (until 17:00)
09:00
Morning: Block 1 - Interns' Final Presentations (Each 30 min slot = 15 min slides +5 min Q&A +10 min write feedback) (until 12:00)
09:30 Introducing GPUs for Electron/Photon Reconstruction - Gabriel Soto  
10:00 Searching for Extreme Events in Multi-lepton Data From the LHC - Xinyue Wu  
10:30 Predicting job idle time before execution using machine learning - Francisco Laris  
11:00 DiHiggs Production - Nathan Tercero  
11:30 Setting limits on the Toponium cross section - David Velasco  
09:00
Morning - Block 3 - Interns' Final Presentations (Each 30 min slot = 15 min slides +5 min Q&A +10 min write feedback) (until 12:00)
09:00 Building a GUI in python to interface with MPA testing - Aliyah Montgomery  
09:30 Dimensionality Reduction for Supersymmetry Dataset - Noah Rodarte  
10:00 Converting 2015 MiniAOD Data to NanoAOD - Sneha Dixit  
10:30 Performance of reconstruction and identification of ฯ„ leptons decaying to hadrons and ฮฝฯ„ in pp (proton-proton) collision - Amani Midgette  
09:00
Morning (until 15:00)
09:00 Talk by Don Lincoln - Don Lincoln (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Don Lincoln (Fermilab)  
10:00 Organizing committee and distribution of internship certificate  
11:00 Zoom group picture  
PM
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:00)
14:00 Overview of CMS Experiment - Indara Suarez (Boston University (US))  
15:00 Meeting with the Mentors (Plenary) - Darin Acosta (Rice University (US))  
16:00 Research disussion with Mentors (Zoom Breakout Rooms)  
17:00 Research (Zoom Breakout Rooms)  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:00)
14:00 Exercises - Guillermo Antonio Fidalgo Rodriguez (University of Puerto Rico at Mayagรผez)  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:00)
14:00 Python I: Python as built in example of data analysis - Bruno Moreira Coimbra (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
17:00 Silicon Detectors - Farrah Simpson (Brown University (US))  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:05)
14:00 Git I - In this lesson we use Git from the Unix Shell - Marco Mambelli (Fermilab (US))  
13:05 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:00)
14:00 Excercises and more python - Guillermo Antonio Fidalgo Rodriguez (University of Puerto Rico at Mayagรผez)  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:00)
14:00 Meeting with the Mentors  
15:00 Research/Exercises  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:05)
14:00 Exercises  
16:00 Research  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:05)
14:00 Research  
17:00 Meet a USCMS student - Guillermo Antonio Fidalgo Rodriguez (University of Puerto Rico at Mayagรผez)  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:00)
14:00 Research  
17:00 DEI Topic - "importance of mentors and networkingโ€ - Meenakshi Narain (Brown University (US))  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:05)
14:00 Research/Exercises  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:00)
14:00 Research/Exercises  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:20)
14:00 Research  
17:00 Meet a USCMS Postdoc - Joseph Reichert (Cornell University (US))  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:00)
14:00 Research  
15:00 Networking and Resume-building - Julie Hogan (Brown University, Bethel University (US))  
16:00 Research  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:00)
14:00 Research/Exercises  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:00)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:00)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:00)
16:00 Meet a USCMS Professor/Scientist - Douglas Ryan Berry (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
12:30
Afternoon (until 15:30)
12:30 US HEP Higgs@10 Anniversary Celebration  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:00)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:00)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:00)
13:00 --- Break ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:00)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:00)
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:00)
15:00 Meet a USCMS postdoc - Johan Sebastian Bonilla (University of California Davis (US))  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:00)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Morning (until 18:00)
15:00 Interviewing techniques - Julie Hogan (Brown University, Bethel University (US))  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:00)
16:00 Meet a USCMS student - Lindsey Tensen (Brown University (US))  
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:00)
16:00 Meet a USCMS professor/scientist - Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon (until 18:00)
14:00 Trigger Systems and Filtering Muon Events - Andrew Fonseca  
14:30 Measuring the Efficiency of Boosted Higgs to Tau-Tau Level 1 Trigger - Rosalie Williams  
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 Performance of GEM (Gas Electron Multipliers) detectors - Nia Curry  
16:30 Comparison of Profiling Results for Run 3 and High Pileup LHC Simulation and Reconstruction - Heather Thompson  
17:00 Performance Benchmarks for Analysis Grand Challenge - Holly Wingren  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon - Feedback session with interns and organizers (until 18:00)
14:00 Implementing Tracing to Monitor Job Execution in GlideinWMS - Ralph Ortiz  
14:30 Discussion and feedback session (interns and organizers) - Lothar Bauerdick (FERMILAB) Tulika Bose (University of Wisconsin Madison (US)) Sudhir Malik (University of Puerto Rico (US)) Meenakshi Narain (Brown University (US)) Kenneth Bloom (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US))