The workshop brings together high energy physicists to discuss the recent progress in the development of b and c jet identification techniques and its applications in physics analyses at CMS. The main topics of the workshop will cover the latest improvements in the simulation of heavy hadron production at the LHC, the application of deep learning techniques to the identification of displaced reconstructed objects, as well as the latest results from various physics analyses exploiting heavy flavour identification methods.
The main topics of the workshop include:
• Simulation of b hadron production and decay
• Reconstruction of tracks and vertices
• Identification algorithms for heavy flavour jets
• Performance of heavy flavour tagging in data
• Jet substructure and heavy flavour tagging in boosted topologies
• Application of heavy flavour tagging in physics analysis
• Heavy flavour tagging at future colliders
The first day of the workshop will be devoted to open discussions together with the event generator and theory experts. The workshop then proceeds with CMS internal sessions in the following days. It is the first time that such workshop is organised by CMS.
Contacts
For any question, please, contact:
ivan.marchesini@cern.ch
kirill.skovpen@cern.ch
Workshop fee
On the practical side. For the workshop we foresee a fee of 120 euros (70 euros for those just participating to the first open day and the workshop dinner), which covers three lunches, coffee breaks, a nice dinner on Wednesday evening at Les Foudres restaurant (http://www.lesfoudres.be/index.cfm?langue=EN) and a workshop drink on Thursday evening.
The fee should be paid in cash upon arrival to Marleen Goeman
Accomodation
We let participants take care of the hotel, as Brussels offers plenty of good opportunities for nice accommodations.
The closest housing option to VUB is the U-residence: http://www.u-residence.be/en/ (located at VUB campus), but attention: there is no breakfast! There are efficient tram, bus and metro connections to VUB from the Brussels center (more info on http://www.stib-mivb.be), so we recommend participants to have a look at booking.com for available hotel options in Brussels.
Venue
The workshop, the lunches and the workshop beer, will all take place on the VUB campus:
https://www.google.be/maps/place/Vrije+Universiteit+Brussel
If you come directly from Brussels Airport (Zaventem) you can reach the VUB campus Etterbeek very easily by train: our campus is located next to the railway station "Etterbeek". A taxi from the airport will cost you aprox. 30,- EUR. You can search for your train connection here:
http://www.belgianrail.be/en/Default.aspx
Indicating:
- From: Brussels Airport - Zaventem
- To: Etterbeek
(If you arrive on Tuesday evening an need to go to the city center first, you can also use the train from the airport to reach Brussels center.)
Note for those coming by taxi: instruct the chauffeur to go to Pleinlaan 2/Avenue de la Plaine 2. Beware that there are both a Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), which are *not* the same university and not necessarily at the same location either. Our institute is at the VUB. Specify to the taxi driver the address above mentioned, if you just say to take you to the University he/she may take you to the wrong ULB campus.
If you come from your hotel in the city center, you can arrive by bus or metro. The connections are available here: http://www.vub.ac.be/sites/vub/files/campussen/112a_VUB_Etterbeek_1406.pdf
The closest stops are:
- metro 7, 25: stops "VUB" or "Etterbeek Gare"
- bus 95: stop "Etterbeek Gare"
You can plan your trip from the city center here: http://www.belgianrail.be/en/Default.aspx
inserting as arrival location: "ETTERBEEK GARE/ETTERBEEK STATION [STIB/MIVB]".
The workshop will take place in Building Q, in the Amphi B. A map to reach this room is displayed below, for instance for those arriving from Etterbeek train station.
If you arrive by metro (station Petillon is served by metro 5):
If you arrive by train or by tram (station Etterbeek):
Lunches
The lunches are included in the workshop fee. Tickets will be provided when registering. The lunch will be provided in the VUB Resto, which is a few minutes walk from the conference venue, as shown below
Dinner
The workshop dinner is included in the workshop fee and will take place on Wed 11 April at 19:30 at Les Foudres restaurant. We will walk together to the restaurant from the conference venue. However, the directions are also displayed below.
Beer tasting evening
On Thursday evening we will have a beer tasting event taking place in Building G, a few minutes walk from the conference venue, as shown below. We will walk there together after the last talk.
Wifi
Eduroam will be available in the venues. Instructions how to install eduroam from CERN are available here: https://information-technology.web.cern.ch/book/eduroam-cern-users/how-configure-eduroam
Participants should possibly arrange an Eduroam account with their institute. We will provide an alternative account, if necessary, to those that do not have an Eduroam account.
