diff --git a/_gsocorgs/2025/ucl.md b/_gsocorgs/2025/ucl.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7bbf16109 --- /dev/null +++ b/_gsocorgs/2025/ucl.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--- +title: "University College London" +author: "Jon Butterworth" +layout: default +organization: UCLondon +logo: UCL-logo.png +description: | + Founded in 1826 in the heart of London, [University College London](https://www.gla.ac.uk/) is London's leading multidisciplinary university, with more than 13,000 staff and 42,000 students from 150 different countries. It is one of the UK's leading groups in the field of particle physics. +--- + +{% include gsoc_proposal.ext %} diff --git a/_gsocorgs/2025/uglasgow.md b/_gsocorgs/2025/uglasgow.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4020e2b57 --- /dev/null +++ b/_gsocorgs/2025/uglasgow.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--- +title: "University of Glasgow" +author: "Andy Buckley" +layout: default +organization: UofGlasgow +logo: UGlasgow-logo.png +description: | + The [University of Glasgow](https://www.gla.ac.uk/) is a leading UK research university based in Scotland's largest city. We work on [particle physics experiments](https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/physics/research/groups/particlephysicsexperiment/) from the LHC to neutrinos, particle theory from interpretations of Higgs and top-quark measurements to the strong force, and high-performance distributed computing. +--- + +{% include gsoc_proposal.ext %} diff --git a/_gsocprojects/2025/project_MCnet.md b/_gsocprojects/2025/project_MCnet.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..df89d2e95 --- /dev/null +++ b/_gsocprojects/2025/project_MCnet.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +--- +project: MCnet +title: MCnet +layout: default +logo: mcnet-logo.png +description: | + [MCnet](http://montecarlonet.org) is a collaboration between the developers of + the major collision-event modelling tools used at the [Large Hadron + Collider](http://home.web.cern.ch/topics/large-hadron-collider) (LHC) and + beyond. These codes are so-called "MC event generators", theoretical physics + packages that perform quantum mechanics calculations and create simulated + particle collisions. MC generators are an essential component + of both modern particle physics experiments and theory, and provide a crucial + bridge between those two communities. MCnet projects include both event + generators themselves, and tools that connect them to both experiment and + theory. +summary: | + [MCnet](http://montecarlonet.org) is a community linking the developers of + particle-theory simulations with experimentalists and others who use and + make tools for analysing the simulated events. Projects may be available + from both aspects of the community. +--- + +{% include gsoc_project.ext %} diff --git a/_gsocproposals/2025/proposal_MCnetMCviz.md b/_gsocproposals/2025/proposal_MCnetMCviz.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..68fab2a71 --- /dev/null +++ b/_gsocproposals/2025/proposal_MCnetMCviz.md @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +--- +title: MCnet/MCviz - graph and 3D-viewer tools for simulated particle collisions +layout: gsoc_proposal +project: MCnet +year: 2024 +organization: + - UofGlasgow +difficulty: medium +duration: 350 +mentor_avail: June-October +--- + +# Description + +Simulations are key to particle-physics research: many modern +theoretical models have such complex consequences that we test theory +not by comparing measurements of particle collisions to predicted +functional forms, but by _generating_ simulated collision-events from +the theory and analyzing them identically to the real ones from the +particle collider. + +This means that event generators are incredibly important to particle +physics, as the most-used link between experiment and theory, and as a +crucial data format for exchange of ideas. They are also an excellent +way to introduce new researchers and the public to particle-physics +concepts. However, the toolset for MC event manipulation and +visualisation is less powerful and coherent than it should be, and +this project seeks to improve that situation! + +## Task ideas + +This project will pick up old ideas and code for MC-event +visualisation -- both of the interaction graph that illustrates the +internal theory computation, and the external appearance of the +resulting collision decay-products -- and produce a new set of tools +useful both to physicists and for public outreach. + +## Expected results and milestones + + * Extend the mcgraph tool to be usable with both the HepMC and LHE MC-event formats. + * Refactor mcgraph into a library capable of rendering to a web browser in a server app. + * Interface the Phoenix event-viewer library to display 3D events (with and without a dummy detector model) to a web browsers. + * Display interactive particle information and jet clustering in graph and 3D view interfaces. + +## Requirements + + * Command-line tools + * Python + * Web technologies + * Gitlab CI + * git + +## Mentors + + * **[Andy Buckley](mailto:andy.buckley@cern.ch)** + * [Chris Gutschow](mailto:chris.g@cern.ch) + +## Links + + * [Phoenix event view library](https://github.com/HSF/phoenix) + * [Old MCview web-based MC event viewer](https://gitlab.com/hepcedar/mcview) + * [MC event-graph viewer](https://gitlab.com/hepcedar/mcutils/-/blob/master/bin/mcgraph?ref_type=heads) + * [Old MCviz event-graph viewer](https://github.com/mcviz/mcviz) + * [HepMC3 event format](https://hepmc.web.cern.ch/) + * [LHE event format](https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0609017) diff --git a/_gsocproposals/2025/proposal_MCnetOpenData.md b/_gsocproposals/2025/proposal_MCnetOpenData.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4afb59f19 --- /dev/null +++ b/_gsocproposals/2025/proposal_MCnetOpenData.md @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +--- +title: MCnet/OpenData - tools and exercises for open-data exploration with MC simulations +layout: gsoc_proposal +project: MCnet +year: 2024 +organization: + - UofGlasgow +difficulty: medium +duration: 175 +mentor_avail: June-October +--- + +# Description + +CERN's experiments are committed to publishing their data in a form that +is accessible to all, both for research purposes and for education. For +example, the ATLAS experiment provides Jupyter notebook exercises based +on live-analysing reduced forms of the real collider data. + +But particle-physics researchers also use _simulations_ of data as a +crucial tool for testing theories and for understanding the background +processes that new physics effects have to be isolated from. For this +we use Monte Carlo (MC) event-generator codes, which are statistical +implementations of the fundamental physics theory that sample +real-looking events from the predicted particle types and +kinematics. These are not yet represented in open-data exercises. + +## Task ideas + +In this project we will develop new tools and exercises for extending +open-data analysis resources to include MC event simulations. It will +both reduce the entry barriers to outreach with open data and enable more +engaging exercises with hypothetical new-physics models. + +## Expected results and milestones + + * Develop a library of wrapper functions to make open-data analysis more approachable for non-experts. + * Create functions and datasets for loading and analysing MC event samples through Jupyter. + * Develop a new Jupyter+Binder worksheet for outreach-oriented open-data MC analysis. + +## Requirements + + * Python + * Jupyter + * Binder + * Gitlab CI + * git + +## Mentors + + * **[Andy Buckley](mailto:andy.buckley@cern.ch)** + * [Chris Gutschow](mailto:chris.g@cern.ch) + +## Links + + * [ATLAS open data](https://atlas.cern/Resources/Opendata) + * [Example open-data analysis notebook](https://nbviewer.org/github/atlas-outreach-data-tools/notebooks-collection-opendata/blob/master/13-TeV-examples/cpp/ATLAS_OpenData_13-TeV__analysis_example-cpp_Hyy_channel.ipynb) + * [Jupyter](https://jupyter.org/) + * [Binder](https://mybinder.org/) diff --git a/gsoc/2024/mentors.md b/gsoc/2024/mentors.md index b895853d6..efd5587fb 100644 --- a/gsoc/2024/mentors.md +++ b/gsoc/2024/mentors.md @@ -41,4 +41,4 @@ layout: plain * Petro Zarytskyi [petro.zarytskyi@gmail.com](mailto:petro.zarytskyi@gmail.com) CompRes * Lorenzo Moneta [lorenzo.moneta@cern.ch](mailto:lorenzo.moneta@cern.ch) CERN * Sanjiban Sengupta [sanjiban.sg@gmail.com](mailto:sanjiban.sg@gmail.com) CERN -* Neel Shah [neelshah29042002@gmail.com](mailto:neelshah29042002@gmail.com) CERN \ No newline at end of file +* Neel Shah [neelshah29042002@gmail.com](mailto:neelshah29042002@gmail.com) CERN diff --git a/gsoc/2025/mentors.md b/gsoc/2025/mentors.md index d548b5919..cf79e9898 100644 --- a/gsoc/2025/mentors.md +++ b/gsoc/2025/mentors.md @@ -6,4 +6,6 @@ layout: plain **Note for contributors:** entries must be sorted in **last name** alphabetic order ## Full Mentor List (Name, Email, Org) +* Andy Buckley [andy.buckley@gla.ac.uk](mailto:andy.buckley@gla.ac.uk) UofGlasgow +* Chris Gutschow [chris.g@cern.ch](mailto:chris.g@cern.ch) UCLondon * Valentin Volkl [valentin.volkl@cern.ch](mailto:valentin.volkl@cern.ch) CERN