Coordinators Report Training Progress Report Stefan Gieseke October

Coordinator’s Report: Training Progress Report Stefan Gieseke October 7 th 2014

MCnet training activities • Ph. D studentships – Five students, in Durham, Göttingen, Lund (x 2), UCL – on Pythia, Ariadne, Sherpa (x 2) and CEDAR projects • Senior studentships – Six, in Manchester, CERN, Durham, Karlsruhe, Louvain, Lund – on Herwig (x 3), Pythia (x 2), Madgraph • Rolling programme of ‘residentships’: short term studentships held by experimental and theoretical users and developers • Annual Schools – Göttingen 2013 – Manchester 2014 • Network meetings • Outreach and industrial placements

Ph. D studentships • In depth training in Monte Carlo event generator physics and development, or related experimental applications – Silvan Kuttimalai, Durham, Sherpa – Piero Ferrarese, Göttingen, Sherpa – Christian Bierlich, Lund, Ariadne – Christine Overgaard Rasmussen, Lund, Pythia – Stefan Richter, UCL, CEDAR

Ph. D studentships 0 12 24 Month Durham Sherpa Goettingen Sherpa Lund Pythia 1 Lund Ariadne UCL CEDAR ESRs Matching years 36 48

Senior studentships • Additional training building on an almostcompleted Ph. D elsewhere. Typically adding Monte Carlo expertise to grounding in some other area of theoretical physics – Jonathan Da Silva, Manchester, Herwig, 24 m – Hendrik Mantler, CERN, Pythia, 24 months – Peter Schichtel, Durham, Herwig, 24 months – Frashër Loshaj, Karlsruhe, Herwig, 24 months – Eleni Vryonidou, Louvain, Madgraph, 24 mont – Ilkka Helenius, Lund, Pythia, 12 months

Senior studentships Month 0 12 24 36 48 Manchester Herwig Durham Ariadne Goettingen Madgraph Karlsruhe Herwig Louvain Madgraph Lund Pythia 2 CERN Pythia/Vincia CERN CEDAR Short-term studentships Ind. /outreach secndmnts Annual meetings Employability event ESRs Schools/Meetings Short-term Matching years – 2/11 long-term appointees female = 20% of person-months 4 one-year positions remain to be filled

Short-Term Studentship Programme • 3 -6 months supplementary training during Ph. D elsewhere • Variety of ‘use cases’ – Experimenters using MCs, wanting to understand them better, use them better – Experimenters wanting to help develop MC models needed for their analysis – Theorists wanting to incorporate new or improved models into MCs – Our own students, for inter-project mobility

Short-Term Studentship Programme

Short-Term Studentship Programme • Variety of outcomes – Deeper understanding – Closer relationship with student’s home institute/experimental collaboration – Code for general use • Rivet analyses • Monte Carlo model modules – Conference talks – Published papers

Short-Term Studentship Programme • Total committed/projected figures: – Number of students: 10/25 – Student-months: 36. 5/98 • Fraction of committed student-months: – Female: 30%

Annual Schools

2013 school: • Mariaspring (Göttingen) – – – 40 students 13 lectures over 4 days 3 hands-on practicals student feedback talks lecture on ‘Predictive Analytics’: Manuel Bähr, blue yonder

Feedback from students very positive What is your overall evaluation of the School Would you recommend the school to a colleague? What is your general impression of the lectures? What are your impressions of the tutorial sessions?

2014 school: • Ambleside (Manchester) – – – 47 students 14 lectures over 5 days 3 hands-on practicals student feedback talks lecture on ‘Monte Carlo Modelling of Nuclear Reactions’: Albrecht Kyrieleis, AMEC Clean Energy

Feedback from students very positive What is your overall evaluation of the School Would you recommend the school to a colleague? What is your general impression of the lectures? What are your impressions of the tutorial sessions?

External Training/Schools • MCnet school format so successful, rolled out to: – DESY schools (annual Germany) – CTEQ schools (2013 USA, 2014 China) – MC 4 BSM (2013 Germany, 2014 Korea) • Major impact on graduate education in Europe (and beyond) – and exported on more individual basis also

Network Meetings • Important research training opportunity – dominated by student/postdoc status report talks and discussion sessions on topics proposed by them – Manchester October 2013 – CERN April 2014 – Karlsruhe (tomorrow)

Industrial and Outreach Placements • Opportunity to spend 3 -6 months on a research project in one of our private sector partners or collaborative project – blue yonder (partnered with Karlsruhe) – d-fine (partnered with Karlsruhe) – Ion Beam Applications (partnered with Louvain) – or an outreach project at CERN or Lund • No take-up yet • See dedicated discussion session tomorrow

Summary • • • 5 Ph. D studentships 6 Senior studentships 10 Short-term students trained for 36 months 87 students trained at 2 annual schools Programme of industrial and outreach placements has not yet started • Employability event will take place at CERN in March 2015