USCMS Undergraduate Summer Internship 2025

from Tuesday, May 27, 2025 (7:30 AM) to Friday, August 1, 2025 (4:35 PM)
WH11NW (Pileup)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
May 27, 2025
May 28, 2025
May 29, 2025
May 30, 2025
Jun 2, 2025
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Jul 27, 2025
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Jul 31, 2025
Aug 1, 2025
AM
7:30 AM
Morning (until 12:00 PM)
7:30 AM Shuttle/Transport from Aspen East to Wilson Hall 1  
8:00 AM Badging at Wilson Hall SEMD 1NW (8:00 AM - 9:30 AM)  
9:30 AM Welcome - Sudhir Malik (University of Puerto Rico (US)) Santanu Banerjee (Tougaloo College) Tulika Bose (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
9:50 AM Introductions (Slide Deck) - Interns and Mentors  
10:30 AM One on one students mentor introductions (in person and zoom) - Sudhir Malik (University of Puerto Rico (US)) Marco Mambelli (Fermilab (US))  
9:00 AM
Morning (until 12:00 PM)
9:00 AM The UNIX Shell: A guide through the basics of the file systems and the shell - Iliomar Rodriguez Ramos (University of Puerto Rico (US))  
9:00 AM
Morning (until 12:00 PM)
9:00 AM Git I - In this lesson we use Git from the Unix Shell - Marco Mambelli (Fermilab (US))  
9:00 AM
Morning (until 12:00 PM)
9:00 AM Introduction to Python - Bruno Moreira Coimbra (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
9:00 AM
Morning (until 12:00 PM)
9:00 AM Python for HEP - Roy Cruz Candelaria (University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez)  
Material
9:00 AM
Morning (until 12:00 PM)
9:00 AM PyROOT and RDataFrame - Xiaohe Shen (Brown University (US))  
9:00 AM
Morning (until 12:00 PM)
9:00 AM Machine Learning - Arghya Chattopadhyay (University of Puerto Rico (US))  
9:00 AM
Morning (until 12:00 PM)
9:00 AM C++ - Ameya Thete (University of Wisconsin-Madison (US))  
10:45 AM Transition from Pileup to Sidet (Interns will be taken in turns by our cars (Sudhir, Kelsey, Santanu etc))  
11:00 AM Tour of Sidet (Silcon Detector Facility) - Irene Zoi (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
9:00 AM
Morning (until 12:00 PM)
9:00 AM Coding Dojo - Ameya Thete (University of Wisconsin-Madison (US)) Roy Cruz Candelaria (University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez) Iliomar Rodriguez Ramos (University of Puerto Rico (US)) Xiaohe Shen (Brown University (US)) Arghya Chattopadhyay (University of Puerto Rico (US)) Bruno Moreira Coimbra (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Marco Mambelli (Fermilab (US))  
12:00 AM Poster Submission  
9:30 AM
Morning (until 12:30 PM)
9:30 AM Talk 1: Search for Beyond Standard Model Higgs Decays in the 4 b-Jet Final State - Adiba Amira Saddiqa (Bryn Mawr College)  
10:00 AM Talk 2: Improving Symmetry Preserving Attention Network (SPANet): Top-k+Chooser Pipeline - Mateo Lisondo di Tada (University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez)  
10:30 AM Talk 3: Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks for Event Simulations and Classification - Jesse Webb (Lousiana Tech University)  
11:00 AM Talk 4: Improvements to the coffea framework at the Nebraska coffea-casa facility - Fernanda Morais (Amherst College)  
11:30 AM Talk 5: Database optimization for the Concentrator Mezzanine Test for the HL-LHC - Emmanuel Oladele Oladeji  
12:00 PM Talk 6: ITST DGI: 3D Printing and Composites - Jalynn Sanders (Tougaloo College)  
9:30 AM
Morning (until 12:30 PM)
9:30 AM Talk 13: Improving searches for long lived heavy ionizing particles - Michael John Noamesi (Gettysburg College)  
10:00 AM Talk 14: Phase-2 Outer Tracker Module Testing & POTATO software in Analysis and Grading - Nhi Lê (Gettysburg College)  
10:30 AM Talk 15: Testing and Validation of HGCAL front-end electronics for the CMS phase-2 upgrade - Sharmila Mustari Nandita (Mount Holyoke College))  
11:00 AM Talk 16: Training a neural network to differentiate transversely and longitudinally polarized W bosons - Aimen Obaid (Smith College)  
11:30 AM Talk 17: Probing high jet multiplicity signatures in proton-proton collisions - Ayshah Shahab (Coe College)  
12:00 PM Talk 18: Statistical Manifolds Clustering & Regression: K-Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Collider Physics - Yulin Zhai (Claremont McKenna College)  
PM
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:00 PM
Afternoon (until 5:00 PM)
1:00 PM CMS Physics Overview - Tulika Bose (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
2:00 PM CMS Detector - a discovery tool - Steve Nahn (Fermilab)  
3:00 PM Entering Research - Chris Palmer (University of Maryland (US))  
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:00 PM
Afternoon (until 5:30 PM)
1:00 PM Cohort building - Sudhir Malik (University of Puerto Rico (US)) Matthew Bellis (Cornell University/Siena College (US))  
2:30 PM The UNIX Shell: A guide through the basics of the file systems and the shell - Iliomar Rodriguez Ramos (University of Puerto Rico (US))  
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:00 PM
Afternoon (until 5:00 PM)
1:00 PM How to do Particle Physics in a Climate Emergency? (Curia II-WH2SW) - WH11NW - Pileup - Kenneth Bloom (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US))  
2:00 PM Git II - In this lesson we use Git from the Unix Shell¶ - Marco Mambelli (Fermilab (US))  
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:00 PM
Afternoon (until 5:00 PM)
1:00 PM CMS Computing - Andrew Malone Melo (Vanderbilt University (US))  
2:00 PM Python II: Building Programs with Python - Bruno Moreira Coimbra (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:00 PM
Afternoon (until 5:30 PM)
1:00 PM Visit to Quantum Garage (IARC)  
2:15 PM Python for HEP - Roy Cruz Candelaria (University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez)  
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
12:50 PM
Afternoon (until 5:15 PM)
1:00 PM ROC Tour (WH Atrium)  
1:45 PM What is a jet? (Remote talk from CERN) - Garvita Agarwal (University of Notre Dame (US))   (Pileup)
2:45 PM PyROOT and RDataFrame - Xiaohe Shen (Brown University (US))  
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:00 PM
Afternoon (until 5:00 PM)
1:00 PM Calorimeters current and future - Grace Cummings (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
2:00 PM Machine Learning Exercises - Arghya Chattopadhyay (University of Puerto Rico (US))  
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:00 PM
Afternoon (until 5:00 PM)
1:00 PM Particle Physics Career Mentoring - Robert Harris (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab)) Robert Harris (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   (Pileup)
2:00 PM Containers and Apptainer - Marco Mambelli (Fermilab (US))  
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:00 PM
Afternoon (until 7:00 PM)
1:00 PM Future Collider (Muon Collider) - Sergo Jindariani (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
2:00 PM Talk to Fermilab Engineer (Sergey Los) - Sergey Los (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
2:30 PM CMS 101 - Roy Cruz Candelaria (University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez) Sudhir Malik (University of Puerto Rico (US))  
3:30 PM Classes Q&A and Assignments - Iliomar Rodriguez Ramos (University of Puerto Rico (US)) Ameya Thete (University of Wisconsin-Madison (US)) Xiaohe Shen (Brown University (US)) Arghya Chattopadhyay (University of Puerto Rico (US)) Roy Cruz Candelaria (University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez) Bruno Moreira Coimbra (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Marco Mambelli (Fermilab (US))  
4:30 PM Coordination with mentors and sendoff  
1:00 PM Higgs Physics - Philip Chang (University of Florida (US))  
1:00 PM 5 min - 5 slides - Iliomar Rodriguez Ramos (University of Puerto Rico (US)) Richa Sharma (University of Puerto Rico (US)) Roy Cruz Candelaria (University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez) Sudhir Malik (University of Puerto Rico (US))  
1:00 PM Dark Matter - Don Lincoln (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
1:00 PM Luminosity (Reschedule to Next Friday 27 June) - Chris Palmer (University of Maryland (US))  
1:00 PM Meet a USCMS Physicist (Dr. Ierene Dutta, Fermilab) - Irene Dutta (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
1:00 PM Grad school prep - resumes and networking - Julie Hogan (Bethel University (US))  
1:00 PM Talk - High-energy Collisions through the Ages - Chris Quigg (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
1:00 PM Luminosity - Chris Palmer (University of Maryland (US))  
1:00 PM Higgs physics and why we care - Marko Stamenkovic (Brown University (US))   (Pileup)
1:00 PM CMS Heavy Ions physics - Yi Chen (Vanderbilt University (US))   (Sunrise)
1:00 PM No strings attached - Arghya Chattopadhyay (University of Puerto Rico (US))  
1:00 PM Statistics and uncertainties - Nick Smith (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
1:00 PM The detector determines the physics - Corrinne Elaine Mills (University of Illinois Chicago (US))  
1:15 PM Science Advocay and Funding - David Yu (University at Buffalo (US))  
1:00 PM CMS Trigger - Kiley Elizabeth Kennedy (Princeton University (US))  
1:00 PM Grad school prep - how grad school works and the personal/research statement - Julie Hogan (Bethel University (US))  
1:00 PM Presenting your research - Marco Mambelli (Fermilab (US))  
1:30 PM Q&A with PURSUE alumni - Casandra Saxon (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Luis Felipe Koehler Domingues Ada Carolyn Collins (University of Colorado Boulder (US))  
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Afternoon (until 4:30 PM)
1:30 PM Talk 7: Simultaneous Fit Approach for Relative Nonlinearity/Nonlinear Response in CMS Luminometers - John Tran (McMurry Christian University))  
2:00 PM Talk 8: Beam Halo Trigger for the Phase-2 EMTF - Jalane Mendo (Skidmore College)  
2:30 PM Talk 9: Search for exotic decay of the Higgs boson in 8 b-jets final state - Eve Zeng (Pomona College)  
3:00 PM Talk 10: Assembly and Testing of Scintillator Tile Modules for the High-Granularity Calorimeter Upgrade - Simran Bimb (Cypress College)  
3:30 PM Talk 11: Harnessing the Power of AI and CI/CD to Fuel Scientific Discovery - Alex Chidera Umeasalugo (Grambling State University)  
4:00 PM Talk 12: Improving Monitoring of the CERN Tape Archive - Danijela Concion (Saint Mary’s College of California)  
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Afternoon (until 3:00 PM)
1:30 PM Interns fill 10-week feedback form  
3:00 PM Distribution of Certificates  
3:30 PM Discussion and goodbye