Computational HEP Traineeship Summer School

Jul 24, 2023, 7:30 AM → Jul 28, 2023, 6:30 PM US/Eastern

Princeton Gravity Initiative (PGI), fourth floor of Jadwin Hall (Princeton University)

Isobel Ojalvo (Princeton University (US)), Jim Olsen (Princeton University (US)), Jim Pivarski (Princeton University), Kevin Black (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US)), Rafael Coelho Lopes De Sa (University of Massachusetts (US)), Sridhara Dasu (University of Wisconsin Madison (US)), Stephane Willocq (University of Massachusetts (US)), Tulika Bose (University of Wisconsin Madison (US)), Verena Ingrid Martinez Outschoorn (University of Massachusetts (US))

Tuesday-Friday July 25-28 we are meeting in the Princeton Gravity Initiative (PGI), on the fourth floor of Jadwin Hall.  

Monday July 24th we are meeting in the PCTS, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science on the fourth floor of Jadwin Hall.

Summer school for graduate students in the DOE Traineeship in Computational HEP programs TAC-HEP, WATCHEP and C2-THE-P2. The event is hosted by Princeton University. 

This training event is supported by Department of Energy grants DE-SC0023528 (TAC-HEP), DE-SC0023527 (WATCHEP) and DE-SC0023524 (C2-THE-P2) in collaboration with National Science Foundation grant OAC-1829729 (FIRST-HEP), cooperative agreement OAC-1836650 (IRIS-HEP), the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICSciE) and the Princeton Physics Department. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the developers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the Department of Energy.

Local Administrative Support: Andrea Rubinstein, Maureen Carothers, Floe Fusin-Wischusen

You will be working on your laptops, you will need a few GB of free disk space and a working browser

In addition you will need:

• Conda environment: https://scikit-hep.org/user/installing-conda
  • Note for Windows laptop, use the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), specifically version 2, WSL2: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install
• Python 3.8+
• CERN account - please get in touch with us if you do not have one
• Grid certificate: https://ca.cern.ch/ca/ - recommend using firefox browser
  • More instructions here: https://atlassoftwaredocs.web.cern.ch/ASWTutorial/basicSetup/grid_cert/
• Reana access tokens from https://reana.cern.ch/profile

Mon, July 24

8:30 AM Breakfast - Laptop Setup

1 Welcome

Speakers: Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US)), Rafael Coelho Lopes De Sa (University of Massachusetts (US)), Verena Ingrid Martinez Outschoorn (University of Massachusetts (US))

CompHEP_SummerSchool_Welcome.pdf

2 Hands-on Demo Session

Speaker: Jim Pivarski (Princeton University)

10:30 AM Coffee Break

3 The big picture about the Computational HEP Traineeship Summer School

Speaker: Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US))

4 Hands-on Demo Session

Speaker: Jim Pivarski (Princeton University)

12:30 PM Lunch

5 Hands-on Demo Session

Speaker: Oksana Shadura (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US))

3:00 PM Coffee Break

6 Hands-on Demo Session

Speaker: Alexander Held (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))

7 Coding Jam Group Exercises

6:00 PM Reception at Palmer House

Tue, July 25

8:30 AM Breakfast

8 Hands-on Demo Session

Speaker: Jerry 🦑 Ling (Harvard University (US))

Github Repo with instruction

Julia_analysis_demo.ipynb

10:30 AM Coffee Break

9 Hands-on Demo Session

Speaker: Jerry 🦑 Ling (Harvard University (US))

10 Big Picture R&D Talks

12:30 PM Lunch - Discussion on FAIR/Creating Tools for Reproducible Science

Discussion led by Heidi Schellman

11 Lightning Presentations of Projects

5' talks including:
- Presentations from students with ongoing projects
- Ideas for projects from potential mentors

jackkraus intro.pdf

lightining_talks.pdf

luclepottier_doehep_elevator.pdf

3:00 PM Coffee Break

12 Coding Jam Group Exercises

6:00 PM Reception (Joint with PyHEP.dev and MODE workshops) - Lewis A. Simpson International Building - Atrium

Wed, July 26

8:30 AM Breakfast

13 Hands-on Demo Session

Speaker: Matthew Feickert (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))

10:30 AM Group Photo (Jadwin Hall Courtyard)

10:40 AM Coffee Break

14 Big Picture R&D Talks

12:30 PM Lunch

15 Workshop on Communication

Speaker: Catherine Zandonella (Princeton University)

3:30 PM Coffee Break

16 Coding Jam Group Exercises

6:00 PM Dinner (on your own)

Thu, July 27

8:30 AM Breakfast

17 Hands-on Demo Session

Speakers: Christian Weber (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Fang-Ying Tsai (Stony Brook University (US))

10:30 AM Coffee Break

18 Big Picture R&D Talks

12:30 PM Lunch

TAC-HEP student meeting with Kelly Godfrey in the Joseph Henry Room, first floor of Jadwin Hall
WATCHEP student meeting with Jason & Heidi in 481 Jadwin

19 Pitching Your Project - A Workshop on Proposal Writing

Writing a winning proposal can be a catch-22: You must write a proposal for a fellowship or grant successfully before you can be invited to review proposals – even though reviewing proposals is in fact the best way to learn how to write them! In this workshop, we’ll circumvent the paradox by using readers’ expectations of language, science, and argument to analyze the elements of effective proposals. How do proposals compare to other scientific documents? How do the various parts fit together? How can writers ensure that every page of the proposal develops and supports their overall argument?

Speaker: Judy Swan (Princeton University)

Physics Proposal Workshop July 2023 Handout.pdf

3:30 PM Coffee Break

20 Careers in Physics

James Yang is a Staff Research Physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and an APS Career Mentoring Fellow
Presentation prepared by APS Careers

Speaker: James Yang (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL))

230711 Career talk.pdf

21 Career Panel

6:45 PM Dinner at Palmer House

Fri, July 28

8:30 AM Breakfast

22 Big Picture R&D Talks

10:30 AM Coffee Break

23 Big Picture R&D Talks

24 Coding Jam Group Exercises

25 Conclusions & Feedback Request

12:30 PM Lunch