Pythia week Spring 2025

12 May 2025, 09:30 → 16 May 2025, 15:30 Europe/Stockholm

Lund University

Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE)), Leif Lönnblad (Lund University (SE))

Welcome to the annual PYTHIA meeting! This year in Lund.

The Lund group is looking forward to welcome you in Skåne. Here are some quick links for convenience:

Directions to the Department of Physics on Google Maps. Enter through the door indicated on the map, go up one flight of stairs, and you are there.

Nearest airport: Copenhagen (CPH).

Local public transport: Skånetrafiken (their app is the most convenient for tickets)

Taxi: Taxi Lund

Monday 12 May ¶

09:30 Welcome Coffee & Tea

Thematic discussion: Welcome: Goals for the week¶

Conveners: Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE)), Leif Lönnblad (Lund University (SE))

Developer's meeting: Assorted agenda items: feedback from experiments, feedback on release, start issue desk¶

Convener: Dr Ilkka Helenius (University of Jyväskylä)

12:00 Lunch

Thematic discussion: Hadronization bug and its impact on tuning¶

Conveners: Stephen Mrenna, Tony Menzo

14:45 Fika

Free discussions and hacking: dedicated mainly to closing all open issues in the issue desk¶

Excursion: Welcome reception and after-hours at Lund Brewery¶

Tuesday 13 May ¶

Developer's meeting: How do we continue or end the tuning project?¶

Convener: Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE))

Seminars: Local Science Coffee Seminar, given by Manuel¶

Convener: Manuel Szewc

12:00 Lunch

Thematic discussion: Common projects vs. overlapping projects vs. individual projects. Do we need a process for starting Pythia projects with thematic overlap?¶

Convener: Leif Lönnblad (Lund University (SE))

Thematic discussion: Funding opportunities, common funding¶

Convener: Leif Lönnblad (Lund University (SE))

14:45 Fika

Seminars: Project presentations: junior collaborators: Albi Kerbizi and Torbjörn Lundberg¶

Free discussions and hacking¶

Wednesday 14 May ¶

Developer's meeting: Panscales¶

Convener: Peter Skands (Monash University (AU))

10:30 Coffee & Tea

Developer's meeting: Code architechture going forward¶

Convener: Philip Ilten (University of Cincinnati (US))

12:00 Lunch

Seminars: Project presentations: junior collaborators, TBD and TBD¶

Convener: Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE))

Excursion: "City tour" and BBQ at Leif's place in Malmö¶

Thursday 15 May ¶

Developer's meeting: How to clean up the weights class: Weights and biases in an overall sense¶

Convener: Christian Preuss (University of Wuppertal)

10:45 Coffee & Tea

Developer's meeting: Gitlab migration¶

Convener: Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE))

12:00 Lunch

Thematic discussion: Summary discussion of code architechture and weights¶

Convener: Philip Ilten (University of Cincinnati (US))

14:45 Fika

Free discussions and hacking¶

Friday 16 May ¶

Developer's meeting: Management review and future collaboration members¶

Conveners: Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE)), Dr Ilkka Helenius (University of Jyväskylä), Leif Lönnblad (Lund University (SE)), Philip Ilten (University of Cincinnati (US))

10:30 Coffee and tea

Thematic discussion: Summary¶

12:00 Lunch and farewell

Free discussions and hacking¶

15:00 Department fika