Present: Adam Parker, Dan Katz, David Lange, Erik Madison Bray, Kilian Lieret, Martino Sorbaro Sindaci, Sam Meehan, Sudhir Malik
Graeme will be late (~16h?) due to a clashing meeting.
75 people are signed up. Statistically…
CMS 36
ATLAS 23
Other 12
LHCb 4
I think ALICE just failed to advertise this at all, should we chase?
Other experiments are 1 FASER, 1 Mu2e, plus 1 from beams (BE-ABP-HSC). The rest are undeclared
By experience (duration in the field):
< 1 year 17
1 – 2 years 17
2 - 3 years 13
> 3 years 28
By PhD date:
I'm still working on it 32
<5 years 9
>= 5 years 11
A PhD is not for me 2
Aim for 60 people enrolling…
Prioritise younger people at PhD level (still doing PhD or <5 years - that would be 41 people right now, probably ok for an initial tranche of places)
N.B. one person was accepted already (the Mu2e guy) as this was to try and bootstrap the site access procedure in Indico (that was missing on Friday morning)
SC people have created an agenda (apparently they need this internally), https://martinosorb.github.io/2020-03-24-cern/
I don’t think we should tell students about this - two places to look = confusion
But we should make sure they are consistent (the SC training times looked optimistic to me)
Curriculum: we seemed to converge on this
Need to finalise how we’ll ask students to install Python
SC method is pure anaconda
StarterKit method is miniconda + conda-forge, https://hsf-training.github.io/analysis-essentials/index.html#prerequisites
Graeme’s comment: I prefer the StarterKit way as there is far less likely to be a clash with HEP packages that are only in conda-forge (ROOT+uproot+awkward), that will help avoid confusion and loss of time on Friday
Might be helpful if a few people did a trial run to see if they can make it all work...
TODO: Graeme to order the coffee and croissants!
Worries: Coronavirus and access or travel restrictions that might arise
OTOH: we have little upfront investment so fingers crossed…
