MCnet Summer School 2023

Europe/London
Physics Department

Physics Department

Marek Schoenherr (IPPP Durham)
Description

The 16th MCnet school will be held in Durham in the United Kingdom. 

The school provides a four day course 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 -- Stefan Gieseke (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  • Matching and Merging -- Leif Gellersen (Lund University)
  • Aspects of the EW Standard Model -- Jonas Lindert (University of Sussex)
  • Model-independent measurements -- Jon Butterworth (University College London)
  • Machine Learning and Monte Carlo Event Generators -- Ramon Winterhalter (UC Louvain)
  • Monte Carlo Event Generators and heavy ion collisions -- Christian Bierlich (Lund University)
  • Computing on GPUs -- Enrico Bothmann (University of Goettingen)
  • Quantum Computing -- Stefan Prestel (Quantum Brilliance)
  • Industrial Applications -- Jennifer Thompson (Bosch)
  • Diversity in HEP -- Mathilde Jauzac (Euclid Consortium Diversity Committee Chair, Durham University)
     

Tutorials:

  • Tutorial coodinator -- Christian Gutschow (University College London)

Sponsors:

  

 

    • Registration Reception (John Snow College)

      Reception

      John Snow College

    • Tea / Dinner Collingwood College

      Collingwood College

    • Registration Reception (John Snow College)

      Reception

      John Snow College

    • Night Cap: Discussion & Drinks Bar (John Snow College)

      Bar

      John Snow College

    • Lectures Ph8

      Ph8

      Physics Department

      • 1
        Welcome
        Speaker: Marek Schoenherr (IPPP Durham)
      • 2
        Introduction to Event Generators 1
        Speaker: Stefan Gieseke (Institut f Theoretische Physik, Univ. Karlsruhe)
      • 10:00 AM
        Coffee break
      • 3
        Introduction to Event Generators 2
        Speaker: Stefan Gieseke (Institut f Theoretische Physik, Univ. Karlsruhe)
      • 4
        Model-independent Measurements
        Speaker: Jonathan Butterworth (UCL)
    • Lunch
    • Lectures Ph8

      Ph8

      Physics Department

    • Tutorials Ph8, OC218, OCW017, Ph132

      Ph8, OC218, OCW017, Ph132

      Physics Department

      • 6
        Monte Carlo Event Generators -- Introduction
        Speaker: Christian Gutschow (UCL)

        We'll meet in Ph8 first for a quick intro, then split into groups.

        Tutorial rooms:

        Herwig -- Ph132
        Pythia -- OC218
        Sherpa -- OCW017

        Please try to pull the relevant Docker image before the session (cf. instructions on the respective gitlab README).

    • Tea / Dinner Grey College

      Grey College

    • Night Cap Bar (John Snow College)

      Bar

      John Snow College

    • Lectures Ph8

      Ph8

      Physics Department

      • 7
        Introduction to Event Generators 3
        Speaker: Stefan Gieseke (Institut f Theoretische Physik, Univ. Karlsruhe)
      • 10:00 AM
        Coffee break
      • 8
        Matching, Merging, and Higher-Order Corrections 1
        Speaker: Leif Gellersen (Lund University)
      • 9
        Student Presentation of MW Challenge Results
    • Lunch
    • Tutorials Ph8, OC218, OCW017, Ph132

      Ph8, OC218, OCW017, Ph132

      Physics Department

    • Tea / Dinner Grey College

      Grey College

    • Night Cap Bar (John Snow College)

      Bar

      John Snow College

    • Lectures Ph8

      Ph8

      Physics Department

      • 11
        Introduction to Event Generators 4
        Speaker: Stefan Gieseke (Institut f Theoretische Physik, Univ. Karlsruhe)
      • 10:00 AM
        Coffee break
      • 12
        Matching, Merging, and Higher-Order Corrections 2
        Speaker: Leif Gellersen
      • 13
        Aspects of the EW Standard Model
        Speaker: Jonas Lindert (IPPP)
    • Lunch
    • Lectures Ph8

      Ph8

      Physics Department

    • Tutorials Ph8, OC218, OCW017, Ph132

      Ph8, OC218, OCW017, Ph132

      Physics Department

    • Tea / Dinner Grey College

      Grey College

    • Night Cap Bar (John Snow College)

      Bar

      John Snow College

    • Lectures Ph8

      Ph8

      Physics Department

    • Lunch