Computational HEP Traineeship Summer School 2025

23 Jun 2025, 08:00 → 27 Jun 2025, 16:00 US/Pacific

375 Physics North (Berkeley, CA)

Haichen Wang (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)), Jason Nielsen (University of California,Santa Cruz (US)), Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Summer school for graduate students in the DOE Traineeship in Computational HEP programs WATCHEP, TAC-HEP, C2-THE-P2 and LGT4HEP. The event will be hosted at UC Berkeley and LBNL starting from the morning of June 23 and ending on June 27, with optional tours on Friday afternoon.

This training event is supported by Department of Energy grants DE-SC0023527 (WATCHEP), DE-SC0023528 (TAC-HEP), DE-SC0023524 (C2-THE-P2)  and DE-SC0024053 (LGT4HEP). Additional support is provided by the High Energy Physics - Center for Computational Excellence (HEP-CCE).

This is the third event, following the first traineeship school held in 2023 at Princeton University and the second school held in 2024 at Fermilab.

Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the developers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Energy.

 

Google Notes and Links

Monday 23 June

1 Introduction

Speakers: Haichen Wang (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)), Jason Nielsen (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))

Welcome Computational HEP Week.pdf

2 Getting started with the Perlmutter supercomputer

Speaker: Luc Tomas Le Pottier (University of California Berkeley (US))

Perlmutter introduction

Perlmutter introduction

10:30 Morning Break

3 Using Containers for Portability

Speaker: Beojan Stanislaus (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Intro.pdf

4 Building Containers

Speaker: Beojan Stanislaus (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

building.pdf

12:30 Lunch

5 Hands-On Demo: Containers on Perlmutter

15:00 Afternoon Break

6 Workflows in Collider Physics

Speaker: Louis-Guillaume Gagnon (University of California Berkeley (US))

2025-06-23_WATCHEP_Atlas-SC_draft2.pdf

7 Workflows in Cosmic Surveys

Speaker: Stephen Bailey

Bailey-DESI-Workflow.pdf

8 Workflows in Neutrino Physics

Speaker: Matt Kramer (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

2025_06_23.NuExptWorkflows_final.pdf

9 Workshop Participant Introductions

Speaker: Jason Nielsen (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))

Personnel Introduction Slides on Google Drive

18:00 Welcome Reception

Tuesday 24 June

10 Demonstration of Coding Tools and LLM Coding Assistants

Speaker: Xiangyang Ju (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

WATCHEP Training.pdf

10:30 Morning Break

11 Hands-On Exercises

Speaker: Haichen Wang (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

12:30 Lunch

12 DOE Perspective + Q&A

Speaker: Jeremy Love (U.S. Department of Energy)

CompHEPTraineeshipEvent-HowDidWeGetHere-25.pdf

13 Career Panel

15:00 Afternoon Break

14 Big Picture Talk: Science Networking

Speaker: Eli Dart

Wednesday 25 June

15 Leveling Up in Git

Speaker: Jason Nielsen (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))

CompHepGit_Nielsen.pdf

10:30 Morning Break

16 Hands-On Exercises

CompHEP-Exercises.pdf

12:30 Lunch

17 Computing with GPUs

Speaker: Dr Charles Leggett (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (US))

2025.06.25 WATCHEP Lecutre on GPUs.pdf

15:00 Group Photo

18 Group photo

Group2.png

18:00 Group dinner

Thursday 26 June

19 Debugging Tools

Debugging_Nielsen.pdf

10:30 Morning Break

20 Hands-On Exercises

12:30 Lunch

21 Scientific Communication: Oral Presentations

Speaker: Jason Nielsen (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))

Nielsen_Presentations.pdf

22 Working in Open-Source Scientific Software

Speaker: Jarrod Millman

Friday 27 June

23 AI/ML

Speaker: Shih-Chieh Hsu (University of Washington Seattle (US))

gslide

10:30 Morning Break

24 Foundational Models

Speaker: Haichen Wang (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

DOE Computational HEP Summer School Haichen Wang.pdf

technical info.pdf

12:00 Lunch

LBNL tours: LBNL Tours

25 NERSC tours

26 ALS tours