HSF-India Scientific Computing Workshop - Chandigarh

15 Sept 2025, 08:00 → 19 Sept 2025, 17:30 Asia/Kolkata

David Lange (Princeton University (US)), Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US)), Rafael Coelho Lopes De Sa (University of Massachusetts (US)), Verena Ingrid Martinez Outschoorn (University of Massachusetts (US)), Vipin Bhatnagar (Panjab University (IN)), Sunil Bansal (Panjab University (IN)), Sushil Chauhan (Panjab University (IN)), Vishal Bhardwaj (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali (IN)), Monika Bansal

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People are the key to successful software. The HSF-India project aims to promote the development of international research software collaborations. This is the sixth in a series of workshops for software and data analysis skills essential for doing research software in physics. Our curriculum builds upon the successful series of workshops. 

This workshop covers

• Scientific Python
• Parallel programming and GPUs
• Basics of machine learning
• Simulation software and medical physics applications

This event is organized primarily for PhD students and masters students from the surrounding region. However, anyone is welcome to attend. 

The dates of this workshop are 15 to 19 September 2025. Registration is now closed - please contact us with questions.  There is a registration fee of 2000 INR for students and 5000 INR for others.  The fee will be collected after registrations have been accepted. This fee covers the registration, lunches and tea/coffee breaks during the workshop.  A limited number of scholarships are available. Contact the organizers for more information in case support is necessary for you to attend.

We expect to accommodate about 50 students from Chandigarh and the surrounding region.  Feel free to contact us in case of questions. In the case that we can not accept all applications, preference will be given to PhD students from the surrounding region who are engaged in programs for high-energy physics, nuclear physics, astroparticle physics and data science pursuits. 

Learn more about the HSF-India project at http://research-software-collaborations.org. 

This event is supported by the Panjab University Chandigarh; the Department of Science & Technology New Delhi; the Chandigarh Renewal Energy and Science & Technology Promotion Society (CREST), Chandigarh Administration; and the U.S. National Science Foundation grant OISE-2201990 (HSF-India).

 

 

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Monday 15 September

09:00 → 10:00 Registration

10:00 → 10:45 Welcome presentations

Introduce yourself

10:45 → 11:15 Break for Tea

11:15 → 12:45 Introduction of High Energy Physics software and data analysis

Speaker: Verena Ingrid Martinez Outschoorn (University of Massachusetts (US))

Event Displays

HEPSW_DataAnalysis_Chandigarh_MartinezOutschoorn.pdf

12:45 → 13:00 Computing setup check

Binderhub info

Getting started

GitHub Repo for the course

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Scientific Python

Speakers: Henry Fredrick Schreiner (Princeton University), Nick Smith (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

15:30 → 16:00 Break for Tea

16:00 → 17:30 Scientific Python

Speakers: Henry Fredrick Schreiner (Princeton University), Nick Smith (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

17:30 → 18:15 Group exercise

Tuesday 16 September

09:30 → 11:00 Scientific Python

Speakers: Henry Fredrick Schreiner (Princeton University), Nick Smith (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

11:00 → 11:30 Break for Tea

11:30 → 13:00 Scientific Python

Speakers: Henry Fredrick Schreiner (Princeton University), Nick Smith (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Introduction of Machine Learning

Speakers: Gordon Watts (University of Washington (US)), Liv Helen Vage (Princeton University (US))

2025-09-16 - ML Intro.pdf

2025-09-16 - ML Intro.pptx

15:30 → 16:00 Break for Tea

16:00 → 18:00 Introduction to Machine Learning

Speakers: Gordon Watts (University of Washington (US)), Liv Helen Vage (Princeton University (US))

advanced_ml_chandigarh.key

advanced_ml_chandigarh.pdf

Wednesday 17 September

09:30 → 11:00 Scientific Python

Speakers: Henry Fredrick Schreiner (Princeton University), Nick Smith (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

11:00 → 11:30 Break for Tea

11:30 → 13:00 Introduction to Parallel Programming

Speaker: Brij Kishor Jashal (Rutherford appelton laboratory)

binderhub-link-gpu

github-url-gpu-session

Binderhub link

https://binderhub.ssl-hep.org/v2/gh/research-software-collaborations/courses-hsf-india-september2025/gpu?gpuModel=&gpuCount=1&cudaMajor=undefined&cudaMinor=undefined&site=nrp&memory=4.0&cpu=1&qos=Guaranteed


- open terminal 

- cd ..

- git clone https://github.com/brij01/GPU-HSF-India-UPunjab-2025.git

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 GPU programming

Speaker: Brij Kishor Jashal (Rutherford appelton laboratory)

15:30 → 16:00 Break for Tea

16:00 → 18:00 GPU programming

Speaker: Brij Kishor Jashal (Rutherford appelton laboratory)

19:30 → 22:00 Workshop Dinner

Thursday 18 September

09:30 → 11:00 ML Hackathon

Speakers: Gordon Watts (University of Washington (US)), Liv Helen Vage (Princeton University (US))

kagglecomp.key

kagglecomp.pdf

Kaggle updated link

11:00 → 11:30 Break for Tea

11:30 → 13:00 ML Hackathon

Speakers: Gordon Watts (University of Washington (US)), Liv Helen Vage (Princeton University (US))

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Simulation methods in HEP and applications

Speakers: Joseph Boudreau (University of Pittsburgh), Joseph Boudreau (University of Pittsburgh (US))

SimulationAtChandigarh.pdf

SimulationAtChandigarh.pptx

15:30 → 16:00 Break for Tea

16:00 → 18:00 Simulation Methods in HEP and applications

Speakers: Joseph Boudreau (University of Pittsburgh (US)), Joseph Boudreau (University of Pittsburgh)

Friday 19 September

09:30 → 10:30 Machine Learning Applications and Hackathon Wrap-up

Speakers: Gordon Watts (University of Washington (US)), Liv Helen Vage (Princeton University (US))

ML in HEP.pdf

10:30 → 11:30 Using virtual environments to manage software

Speaker: Henry Fredrick Schreiner (Princeton University)

Using venvs.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Break for Tea

12:00 → 13:00 AI applications in HEP and Medical Physics

Speakers: Ms Bhumika Mehta (Panjab University, Chandigarh), Bhumika Mehta (Panjab University, Chandigarh, India)

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Topical Lecture - What Enables Research in Experimental Particle Physics?

Speaker: Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US))

20250919-HSF-India-Chandigarh-Seminar.pdf

15:00 → 15:45 Workshop Wrapup

20250919-HSF-India-PU-Closeout.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Break for Tea