Advanced Graduate Lectures on practical Tools, Applications and Techniques in HEP

3 Jun 2024, 08:50 → 7 Jun 2024, 17:30 Europe/London

Hamilton Room (RAL, Visitors Centre)

The Advanced Graduate Lectures on practical Tools, Applications and Techniques in HEP will be held at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory from 3rd June to 7th June.

Invited theorists and experimentalists will explain the hands-on reality of designing and running detectors and accelerators, computing, machine learning, Monte-Carlo and simulation, trigger and data acquisition, and practical statistics. Several of these topics are complemented by tutorials. This course was constructed with 1st year HEP PhD students in mind, but all students and postdocs from any scientific background who find this lecture series useful are welcome.

 

The timetable for the lecture series is preliminary and likely to change!

 

For transport to Harwell Campus, please use this link. If you come by bus, use the Diamond bus stop. You will clearly see the round silver Diamond Light Source building when you arrive at the stop. There is a regular service from Didcot Parkway to RAL though less frequent on Sundays. 

 

For people wanting accommodation during the lecture series, we have reserved rooms at Ridgeway House. Information about Ridgeway House can be found here https://www.ridgewayhousehotel.com/

 

 

Monday, 3 June

1 Welcome

Speaker: Emmanuel Olaiya (STFC)

2 New directions in computing (stewart.martin-haugh@stfc.ac.uk)

Speaker: Stewart Martin-Haugh (STFC)

11:40 coffee/tea

3 Machine Learning lectures and tutorial (emmanuel.olaiya@stfc.ac.uk)

Speaker: Emmanuel Olaiya (STFC)

13:00 Lunch

4 Machine Learning lectures and tutorial (emmanuel.olaiya@stfc.ac.uk)

Speaker: Emmanuel Olaiya (STFC)

15:40 coffee/tea

5 Machine Learning lectures and tutorial (emmanuel.olaiya@stfc.ac.uk)

Speaker: Emmanuel Olaiya (STFC)

Tuesday, 4 June

6 Simulation (Ben Smart@stfc.ac.uk)

Speaker: Ben Smart (STFC)

11:00 coffee/tea

7 Monte-Carlo simulation lectures and tutorials (andy.buckley@cern.ch)

Speaker: Andy Buckley (Glasgow University)

12:30 Lunch

8 Monte-Carlo simulation lectures and tutorials (andy.buckley@cern.ch)

Speaker: Andi Buckley (Glasgow University)

15:40 coffee/tea

9 Monte-Carlo simulation lectures and tutorials (andy.buckley@cern.ch)

Speaker: Andy Buckley (Glasgow University)

Wednesday, 5 June

10 Introductory lecture on UK HEP structure, funding, decision for future exp etc.

11 Low background searches (pawel.majewski@stfc.ac.uk)

Speaker: Pawel Majewski (STFC)

11:00 coffee/tea

12 Hands-on Statistics (Tim.Adye@stfc.ac.uk, Will.Buttinger@stfc.ac.uk)

Speakers: Tim Adye (STFC), William Buttinger (STFC)

12:30 Lunch

13 Hands-on Statistics (Tim.Adye@stfc.ac.uk, Will.Buttinger@stfc.ac.uk)

Speakers: Tim Adye (STFC), William Buttinger (STFC)

15:40 coffee/tea

14 Hands-on Statistics (Tim.Adye@stfc.ac.uk, Will.Buttinger@stfc.ac.uk)

Speakers: Tim Adye (STFC), William Buttinger (STFC)

Thursday, 6 June

15 Designing and running tracking detectors (Craig.Sawyer@stfc.ac.uk)

Speaker: Craig Sawyer (STFC)

16 Data Acquisition (alessandro.thea@stfc.ac.uk)

Speaker: Alessandro Thea (STFC)

11:00 coffee/tea

17 Trigger

12:30 Lunch

18 FPGA Programming lectures and tutorial (kristian.harder@stfc.ac.uk)

Speaker: Kristian Harder (STFC)

15:40 coffee/tea

19 FPGA Programming lectures and tutorial (kristian.harder@stfc.ac.uk)

Speaker: Kristian Harder (STFC)

Friday, 7 June

20 Designing and running calorimeters (David.Petyt@stfc.ac.uk)

Speaker: David Petyt (STFC)

21 Designing and running particle identification detectors (tai-hua.lin@stfc.ac.uk)

Speaker: Tai-Hua Lin (STFC)

11:00 coffee/tea

22 Useful things to know about accelerators (Chris.Rogers@stfc.ac.uk)

Speaker: Chris Rogers (STFC)

12:30 Lunch

23 Useful things to know about accelerators (Chris.Rogers@stfc.ac.uk))

Speaker: Chris Rogers (STFC)

24 Good-bye and departure