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MCnet Summer School 2026
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4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)
Description
The 19th MCnet school will be held CERN.
The school provides a five-day course of training in the physics and techniques used in modern Monte Carlo event generators via a series of lectures, practical sessions, and discussions with event-generator authors. The school is aimed at advanced doctoral students and early-career postdocs. Please note that the school will take place in person only; a remote participation option will not be offered.
Our core sessions comprise a series of introductory lectures on the physics of event generators, further lectures on a wider range of associated topics, a series of hands-on tutorials using all of the MCnet event generators for LHC physics, a poster session, and evening discussion sessions with Monte Carlo authors.
This year’s theme will look ahead to the precision era of collider physics, with a focus on “FCC-ee Readiness.” Alongside the established lectures on aspects of the electroweak Standard Model, the programme will include new sessions on the experimental precision targets expected at future lepton colliders and the current status of theoretical and computational tools needed to meet them. Together, these lectures will highlight both the remarkable progress achieved and the challenges that lie ahead in preparing the Monte Carlo ecosystem for the next generation of high-precision measurements.
The full list of lectures is:
- Introduction to Event Generators - Simon Plätzer, Graz
- Parton Showers, Matching and Merging - Silvia Ferrario Ravasio, Torino
- Aspects of the EW Standard Model - Stefan Dittmaier, Freiburg
- Precision Requirements and Opportunities at FCC-ee - Sarah Williams, Cambridge
- Readiness of the MC Tools for the Sub-Per-Mille Frontier - Jürgen Reuter, DESY
- Model-Independent Measurements - Andy Pilkington, Manchester
- Event Generators for Heavy Ion Collisions - Leif Lönnblad, Lund
- Modern Computing Paradigms - Enrico Bothmann, CERN
- Machine Learning and Event Generators - Michael Spannowsky, Karlsruhe
- Simulating Human Behaviour for Decision-Making in Complex Systems - Joseph Bullock, United Nations
- Invisible Dimensions of Diversity - Louise Carvalho, CERN Diversity & Inclusion Programme
Tutorials:
- Computing on GPUs - Enrico Bothmann (CERN)
- Herwig - Siddharth Sule (Manchester), Andreas Papaefstathiou (Kennesaw)
- Pythia - Leif Lönnblad (Lund), Ilkka Helenius (Jyväskylä), Albi Kerbizi (Trieste)
- Sherpa - Zara Graham-Jones (Durham), Daniel Reichelt (CERN), Peter Meinzinger (Zürich)
- Write your own Parton Shower - Daniel Reichelt (CERN), Joanne Roper (Durham), Silvia Ferrario Ravasio (Torino)
- MadGraph+Rivet+Contur - Andy Buckley (Glasgow), Theo Heimel (Louvain), Ramon Winterhalder (Milano), Luca Beccatini (Louvain)
Registration procedure:
Submit your registration by filling the form in the Registration page. Please note that a supporting reference from your supervisor is required if neither you nor your supervisor is a core MCnet member. An email reference is sufficient, but it must confirm the home institute’s willingness to cover the participant’s travel and registration fees (unless a bursary is requested). You will receive Instructions for sending the email reference automatically after registration.
The deadline for registrations (including supporting references) is April 15.
The deadline for payments is April 30.
Participants will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis upon receipt of a satisfactory supervisor reference. Applicants will be notified of the outcome as soon as possible thereafter.
Please do not make travel arrangements until you have received a confirmation of acceptance, as we may not be able to accommodate all applicants.
Once your registration has been approved, you will receive further instructions, including details on payment of the registration fee (CHF 100).
If a bursary is requested, the supervisor’s supporting email reference should briefly explain the financial circumstances motivating the request.
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This year's school has received funds by the LHC Physics Center at CERN (LPCC) and the Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation through the CERN Next Generation Triggers project under grant agreement number SIF-2023-004.
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