MCnet Summer School

10 Jun 2024, 08:45 → 14 Jun 2024, 23:30 Europe/Zurich

6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin (CERN)

The 17th 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.

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, and evening discussion sessions with Monte Carlo authors.

The full list of lectures is:

• Introduction to Event Generators - Michael Seymour (Manchester)
• Parton Showers, Matching and Merging - Marek Schönherr (Durham)
• Aspects of the EW Standard Model - Alessandro Vicini (INFN Milano)
• Model-Independent Measurements - Monica Dunford (Heidelberg)
• Event Generators for Heavy Ion Collisions - Korinna Zapp (Lund)
• Machine Learning and MC Event Generators - Manuel Szewc (Cincinnati)
• Software Sustainability - Caterina Doglioni (Manchester)
• Journey to Industry - Joanna Huang (Faculty AI)
• Diversity and Inclusion in HEP - CERN Diversity and Inclusion Programme

Tutorials:

• Computing on GPUs - Enrico Bothmann (Göttingen)
• Herwig7 - Stefan Kiebacher (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
• Pythia8 - Christian Bierlich (Lund)
• Sherpa - Max Knobbe (Göttingen), Peter Meinzinger (Durham)
• MadGraph5+Rivet+Contur - Jon Butterworth (UCL), Zenny Wettersten (CERN), Ramon Winterhalder (UCLouvain)

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 Sponsors:

Funding for this year's school comes from the LHC Physics Center at CERN (LPCC).
The registration fee will be 50 CHF to be paid after successful application.

Monday, 10 June

1 Welcome from the Organisers

Speaker: Christian Gutschow (UCL (UK))

2 Introduction to Event Generators I

Speaker: Mike Seymour (University of Manchester (GB))

10:00 Coffee break

3 Introduction to Event Generators II

Speaker: Mike Seymour (University of Manchester (GB))

4 Model-independent measurements

Speaker: Monica Dunford (Heidelberg University (DE))

12:30 Lunch break

Tutorials: Generator Tutorials

15:00 Coffee break

Tutorials: Generator Tutorials

18:00 Welcome reception & poster presentation

Tuesday, 11 June

5 Introduction to Event Generators III

Speaker: Mike Seymour (University of Manchester (GB))

10:00 Coffee break

6 Parton showers, matching and merging I

Speaker: Marek Schoenherr (University of Durham)

7 Introduction to Event Generators IV

Speaker: Mike Seymour (University of Manchester (GB))

12:30 Lunch break

8 Sustainable software development

Speaker: Caterina Doglioni (University of Manchester (GB))

15:00 Coffee break

Tutorials: TBA

17:30 Dinner

Discussions: Nightcap

Wednesday, 12 June

9 Parton showers, matching and merging II

Speaker: Marek Schoenherr (University of Durham)

10:00 Coffee break

10 Aspects of the EW Standard Model I

Speaker: Alessandro Vicini (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

11 Parton showers, matching and merging III

Speaker: Marek Schoenherr (University of Durham)

12:30 Lunch break

12 Machine Learning and MC Event Generators

Speaker: Manuel Szewc

15:00 Coffee break

Tutorials: TBA

17:30 School dinner

Discussions: Nightcap

Thursday, 13 June

Time off: Visit of the exhibition area

12:30 Lunch break

13 Aspects of the EW Standard Model II

Speaker: Alessandro Vicini (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

15:00 Coffee break

14 Event Generators for Heavy Ion Collisions

Speaker: Korinna Zapp

15 Panel discussion

17:30 Dinner

Discussions: Nightcap

Friday, 14 June

16 Diversity and Inclusion in HEP

Speakers: Louise Carvalho (CERN), Melania Coletta (CERN)

10:00 Coffee break

17 Journey to Industry

Speaker: Joanna Huang (University of London (GB))

18 Close-out

Speaker: Christian Gutschow (UCL (UK))

12:00 Lunch break