USCMS/IRIS-HEP Analysis Software Training 2025

19 May 2025, 08:00 → 20 May 2025, 18:00 US/Central

Advanced software is a critical ingredient to scientific research. Training young researchers in the latest tools and techniques is an essential part of developing the skills required for a successful career both in research and in industry.

This two day event plans to discuss:

1. Columnar analysis and uproot 

2. Distributed analysis and Dask
3. Data Visualization techniques and libraries
4. Coffea columnar analysis framework
5. The Coffea-Casa analysis facility
6. Statistical tools 

Basic familiarity with basic shell, Python and Git will be assumed. 

This is an in person event held at Rice University just before the USCMS annual collaboration meeting.

Some travel support will be provided to attendees, supported by IRIS-HEP. See the Application Form (link in sidebar) for more information and to apply.

 

This event is sponsored by the National Science Foundation through Cooperative Agreement PHY-2323298 (Institute for Research and Innovation in Software (IRIS-HEP)) with support from the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICSciE) and the Princeton University 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.

Monday 19 May

08:30 Breakfast

Lectures (Block 1)

1 Welcome/Introduction

2 Coffea-Casa and the Compute Infrastructure for this course

3 Columnar analysis and Awkward (1)

Speaker: Ianna Osborne (Princeton University)

10:30 Coffee

Lectures (Block 2)

4 Columnar analysis and Awkward (2)

Speaker: Ianna Osborne (Princeton University)

5 Distributed Analysis and Dask

Speaker: Iason Krommydas (Rice University (US))

13:00 Lunch

Lectures (Session 3)

6 Data Visualization techniques and libraries

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

7 Coffea columnar analysis framework

Speaker: Iason Krommydas (Rice University (US))

16:00 Coffee

Interactive (Session 1)

Convener: Nick Smith (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

8 Sample game introduction

Speaker: Nick Smith (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

9 Q&A for day 1 + survey

18:00 Palmer House - BBQ

Tuesday 20 May

08:30 Breakfast

Lectures (Block 4): Statistical tools

Convener: Nick Smith (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

10:30 Coffee

Lectures (Block 4): AGC pipeline and examples

Convener: Massimiliano Galli (Princeton University (US))

Interactive (Session 2)

13:00 Lunch

Interactive (Session 3)

10 Bring your questions, topics raised during day 1

correctionlib, coffea schemas, array building, ...

11 Overflow