USCMS Undergraduate Summer Internship 2023

from Monday 5 June 2023 (08:00) to Friday 11 August 2023 (16:00)
USCMS (Virtual)

        : Sessions
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        : Breaks
5 Jun 2023
6 Jun 2023
7 Jun 2023
8 Jun 2023
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6 Aug 2023
9 Aug 2023
10 Aug 2023
AM
09:00
Morning Session - Sudhir Malik (University of Puerto Rico (US)) (until 13:00) (WH11NW (Pileup Room))
09:00 Welcome by USCMS  
10:00 FNAL ID and Badging Time  
11:00 Cohort building and Introductions (Interns and Mentors) - Matthew Bellis (Cornell University/Siena College (US)) Julie Hogan (Brown University, Bethel University (US))  
09:00
Morning Session (until 19:00) (WH11NW (Pileup Room))
09:00 Entering Research 1: Setting Expectations - Cristina Ana Mantilla Suarez (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Chris Palmer (University of Maryland (US))  
10:00 Unix Tutorial - Marco Mambelli (Fermilab (US))  
09:00
Morning Session (until 12:00) (WH11NW (Pileup Room))
09:00 Python I - Bruno Moreira Coimbra (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
09:00
Morning Session (until 12:00) (WH11NW (Pileup Room))
09:00 Git - Marco Mambelli (Fermilab (US))  
09:00
Morning Session (until 12:00)
09:00 Python for HEP (Scikit-HEP) - SHIVANI LOMTE  
10:00 Bonnie Fleming (FNAL Deputy Director for S&T and CRO) talks to interns  
10:30 Python for HEP (Scikit-HEP) continued  
11:40 ROC tour - David Yu  
09:00
Morning Session (until 11:30) (WH11NW (Pileup Room))
09:00 PyROOT and RDataFrame - Guillermo Antonio Fidalgo Rodriguez (University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez)  
11:30 WH 14th floor Electronics Lab visit - Danny Noonan  
09:00
Morning Session (until 12:00) (WH11NW (Pileup Room))
09:00 Entering Research 2: What to do? - Cristina Ana Mantilla Suarez (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Chris Palmer (University of Maryland (US))  
10:00 Python for HEP (Scikit-HEP)  
11:40 CMS/LPC/HEP/Vision - conversation - Boaz Klima (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))  
09:00
Morning Session (until 12:00)
09:00 Machine Learning - Nikolas Pervan (Brown University (US))   (WH11NW (Pileup Room))
09:00
Morning Session (until 12:00) (WH11NW (Pileup Room))
09:00 C++ - Nikolas Pervan (Brown University (US))  
09:00
Morning Session (until 12:00)
09:00 Containers and Apptainer - Marco Mambelli (Fermilab (US))  
09:00 5 min - 5 slides  
09:00 Interns upload posters to the website  
09:00
Morning: Session - Interns' Final Presentations (Each 30 min slot = 15 min slides +5 min Q&A +10 min write feedback)¶ (until 12:00)
09:00 Talk 1 - Training and validation of Machine Learning algorithms in the Endcap Muon Track-Finder - Emanuela Riglioni  
09:30 Talk 2 - Design of radiation hard thermal interface material for CMS Phase II Inner Tracker - Brendan Rickets  
10:00 Talk 3 - Observations of the Top Quark - Jordan Glover  
10:30 Talk 4 - Dimensionality reduction for classification using Higgs dataset - Carlos Romero  
11:00 Talk 5 - Testing the Efficiency of Machine Learning at Classifying Higgs Boson Decays and Testing the Efficiency of New Triggers in Run 3 data - Parveen Narula  
11:30 Talk 6 - Accurate Modeling of Electron Tagging Efficiency - Hailemariam Ayalneh  
09:00
Morning: Session - Interns' Final Presentations (Each 30 min slot = 15 min slides +5 min Q&A +10 min write feedback)¶ (until 12:00)
09:00 Talk 13 - Cosmic Muon Station for Outer Tracker Module Testing - Elena Vlaskovic  
09:30 Talk 14 - Cosmic Muon Station for Outer Tracker Module Testing - Luan Hernandez  
10:00 Talk 15 - Search for a heavy resonance decaying to a pair of Higgs bosons in 4tau final state (boosted) - Kristin Poppen  
10:30 Talk 16 - Exploring Geant4 Performance in Optical Processes - Felipe De Figueiredo  
11:00 Talk 17 - LLP Tagging at CMS L1 Trigger on Run 4 - Michael Miranda  
11:30 Talk 18 - GPU Acceleration of Machine Learning Inference - Hannah Green (Ohio Wesleyan University)  
PM
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Afternoon Session (until 18:10) (WH11NW (Pileup Room))
14:10 Physics Overview - Tulika Bose (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
15:10 CMS Detector - a discovery tool - Steve Nahn (Fermilab)  
16:10 Computing and Software for Physics - Andrew Malone Melo (Vanderbilt University (US))  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00 EXTERNAL Talk - Intro to Particle Physics (Evan Niner)   (Ramsey Auditorium)
14:00
Afternoon Session (until 17:00) (WH11NW (Pileup Room))
14:00 USCMS Talk - Higgs - Chris Palmer (University of Maryland (US))  
15:00 Unix Exercises - Marco Mambelli (Fermilab (US))  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Afternoon Session (until 17:00) (WH11NW (Pileup Room))
13:00 Python II - Bruno Moreira Coimbra (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
16:00 USCMS Talk - The Standard Model - Titas Roy (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00 EXTERNAL Talk - Neutrino Physics (Bryan Ramson)¶   (Ramsey Auditorium)
14:15
Afternoon Session (until 17:00) ( WH11NW (Pileup Room))
14:15 Git Exercises - Marco Mambelli (Fermilab (US))  
16:00 USCMS Talk - Muons - Prof. Kevin Black (University of Wisconsin-Madison)  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Afternoon Session (until 18:00) (WH11NW (Pileup Room))
13:00 Python for HEP (Matplotlib and other tools) - Bruno Moreira Coimbra (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) SHIVANI LOMTE  
16:00 USCMS Talk - How to do Particle Physics in a Climate Emergency? - Kenneth Bloom (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US))  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Afternoon Session (until 19:00) (WH11NW (Pileup Room))
13:00 PyROOT and RDataFrame Exercises - Guillermo Antonio Fidalgo Rodriguez (University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez)  
14:00 Searching ni shell and collaborating with Git - Marco Mambelli (Fermilab (US))  
16:00 USCMS Talk - Supersymmetry - Nadja Strobbe (University of Minnesota (US))  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00 EXTERNAL Talk - Cosmology: Dark Matter and Dark Energy (Dan Hooper)  
14:00
Afternoon Session (until 17:30)
14:00 Review Exercises and Q/A  
16:00 Don Lincoln - TOE - Don Lincoln (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Afternoon Session (until 18:00)
13:00 Sidet Tour - Jennet Dickinson  
14:15 Machine Learning Exercises - Nikolas Pervan (Brown University (US))   (WH11NW (Pileup Room))
16:30 USCMS Talk - PURSUE Alumni (Xinyue Wu - Rochester) - Xinyue Wu  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00 EXTERNAL Talk - Wormholes in the Laboratory (Joseph Lykken)  
14:00
Afternoon Session (until 17:00)
14:15 Excercises  
16:00 USCMS Talk - CMS Tracker - Jennet Elizabeth Dickinson (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Afternoon Session (until 17:00)
13:00 Coding Dojo Exercise   (WH11NW (Pileup Room))
16:00 USCMS Talk - Muon Colliders - Sergo Jindariani (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
13:00 USCMS Career Talk - Scarlet Norberg - Scarlet Rachel Norberg (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
16:30 USCMS alumni - Intern (David Velasco) - David Velasco  
13:00 Career Development Session - Julie Hogan (Brown University, Bethel University (US))   (Pileup (WH11NW))
16:00 Long-lived Particle Search Overview - Todd Adams (Florida State University) Todd Adams (Florida State University (US))   (Pileup (WH11NW))
16:00 HL-LHC Computing - Oliver Gutsche (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   (Pileup (WH11NW))
15:00 "Office Hour" - Tulika Bose (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
16:00 Top Physics - Robin Erbacher (University of California Davis (US))   (Pileup (WH11NW))
16:00 CMS Trigger - Christian Herwig (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
16:00 The Big Picture - Chris Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   (Pileup (WH11NW))
16:00 Dark Matter - Deborah Pinna (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
16:00 CMS calorimeters - David Yu (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US))  
13:00 Meet a USCMS scientist - Douglas Ryan Berry (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
13:00 Career Development Session - Julie Hogan (Brown University, Bethel University (US))  
13:00 Theories Beyond the Standard Model - Bogdan Dobrescu  
16:00 ML basics - Gleyzer Sergei V  
12:00 --- Lunch - Fermilab Cafeteria ---
13:00
Afternoon Session: Interns' Final Presentations (Each 30 min slot = 15 min slides +5 min Q&A +10 min write feedback)¶ (until 18:30)
13:00 Talk 7 - Search for a right-handed W boson decaying to a heavy neutral lepton - Trong Le  
13:30 Talk 8 - Comparison of Profiling Results for Run 3 and High Pileup LHC Simulation and Reconstruction - Bongiwe Mkwananzi  
14:00 Talk 9 - Reconstruction of mass Using SVfit - Gabriel Soto  
14:30 Talk 10 - Quality Control of ME0 and GE2/1 Test Stands for Phase 2 Upgrade - Sama Abbadi  
15:00 Talk 11 - Optimizing the signal over background ratio in the search for Vector Like-Leptons - Andrea Ola  
15:30 Talk 12 - Analysis Grand Challenge - Christina Mondelli (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US))  
12:00 --- Lunch - Fermilab Cafeteria ---
13:00
Afternoon Session: Interns' Final Presentations (Each 30 min slot = 15 min slides +5 min Q&A +10 min write feedback)¶ (until 14:00)
13:00 Talk 19 - Quality assurance of Macro-Pixel Sub-Assemblies (MaPSA) before installation in CMS - I-see Warisa Jaidee  
13:30 Talk 20 - The search for Di-Higgs production in bbWW - Steve Liang  
14:00 Summary, Discussion and feedback session (interns and organizers)  
15:00 Organizing committee - distribution of internship certificates