11th MCnet School

2 Jul 2017, 13:00 → 7 Jul 2017, 14:00 Europe/Zurich

Lundmarksalen (Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University)

The Monte Carlo School in 2017 will take place at the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Sweden, with arrival on Sunday July 2nd and departure on Friday (afternoon) July 7th 2017.

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 and practical sessions. The school is aimed at advanced doctoral students and young postdocs.

Our core sessions comprise a series of introductory lectures on the physics of event generators, further lectures on a wide range of topics, a series of hands-on tutorials using all of the MCnet event generators for LHC physics, and evening discussion sessions with Monte Carlo authors. The full list of lectures is:

• Introduction to event generators - Peter Skands (Monash, Melbourne)
• Matching and merging - Stefan Höche (SLAC, Stanford)
• Heavy-ion and cosmic-ray generators - Klaus Werner (SUBATECH, Nantes)
• Simulation of Beyond-the-Standard-Model physics - Valentin Hirschi (ETH, Zürich)
• Effective field theories - Eleni Vryonidou (NIKHEK, Amsterdam)
• Simulation of neutrino physics - Costas Andreopoulos (Rutherford & Liverpool)
• Tuning of generators - Holger Schulz (Durham)
• Machine learning and applications - Michel Herquet (B12 Consulting, Louvain-la-Neuve)
• Outreach - Christina Isaxon (Lund)

MCnet_school_2017_factsheet.pdf

MCnet_school_2017.jpg

Sunday 2 July

13:00 → 20:00 Arrival

Arrival at Hotel Sparta for Students. No special program so far.

Monday 3 July

08:50 → 09:00 Welcome

Speaker: Torbjorn Sjostrand (Lund University (SE))

09:00 → 10:00 Introduction to event generators (1)

Speaker: Peter Skands (Monash University (AU))

17-MCnet-School-1.pdf

10:00 → 10:20 Coffee

10:20 → 11:20 Simulation of BSM physics (1)

Speaker: Dr Valentin Jonathan Hirschi (ETH Zurich)

LUND_MCNET_school_BSM.pdf

11:20 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 Tuning of generators

Speaker: Holger Schulz (Durham University)

hschulz.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 18:00 Tutorials: Tutorial 1

18:00 → 19:30 Dinner

19:30 → 21:30 Evening discussions

Tuesday 4 July

09:00 → 10:00 Introduction to event generators (2)

Speaker: Peter Skands (Monash University (AU))

17-MCnet-School-2.pdf

10:00 → 10:20 Coffee

10:20 → 11:20 Simulation of BSM physics (2)

Speaker: Valentin Jonathan Hirschi (ETH Zurich)

Same PDF file as from monday's BSM lecture

11:20 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 Matching and merging (1)

Speaker: Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)

lund_17-07.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 18:00 Tutorials: Tutorial (2)

18:00 → 19:00 Dinner

19:00 → 20:00 Outreach

Speaker: Christina Isaxon (Lund University)

20:00 → 22:00 Evening discussions

Wednesday 5 July

09:00 → 10:00 Introduction to event generators (3)

Speaker: Peter Skands (Monash University (AU))

17-MCnet-School-3.pdf

10:00 → 10:20 Coffee

10:20 → 11:20 Effective Field Theories

Speaker: Eleni Vryonidou (Nikhef)

EFT_LUND.pdf

11:20 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 Matching and merging (2)

Speaker: Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)

lund_17-07.pdf

12:30 → 21:30 Excursion: Packed lunch, excursion and dinner

Thursday 6 July

09:00 → 10:00 Introduction to event generators (4)

Speaker: Peter Skands (Monash University (AU))

17-MCnet-School-4.pdf

10:00 → 10:20 Coffee

10:20 → 11:20 Simulation of neutrino physics

Speaker: Costas Andreopoulos (University of Liverpool & STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

costas-mcnet2017-v2.pdf

11:20 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 Machine learning and applications (Industrial applications)

Speaker: Michel Herquet (B12 Consulting)

MCNet_MH_2.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 18:00 Tutorials: Tutorial (3)

18:00 → 19:30 Dinner

19:30 → 21:30 Evening discussions

Friday 7 July

09:00 → 10:00 Heavy Ion and cosmic ray generators (1)

Speaker: Klaus Werner (University of Nantes)

lund2.20.pdf

10:00 → 10:20 Coffee

10:20 → 11:20 Heavy Ion and cosmic ray generators (2)

Speaker: Klaus Werner

11:20 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 13:00 Student presentations

MCnetSlide.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Departure