The inaugural cohort of WATCHEP students participated in the first computational HEP traineeship summer school, held July 24-28 at Princeton University. WATCHEP joined forces with the TAC-HEP and C2-THE-P2 training programs to provide an intense schedule of hands-on demos, coding jam exercises, and big picture R&D talks. Student trainees also presented lightning talks about their research projects.

Participants in the 2023 Computational HEP Traineeship Summer School
Participants in the 2023 Computational HEP Traineeship Summer School at Princeton University

The list of summer school topics included the following highlights:

  • Columnar analysis using Dask or the Coffea Casa analysis facility
  • Introduction to Julia for analysis
  • Anomaly detector for HEP
  • Workshop on communication
  • Workshop on proposal writing
  • Career panel
  • Future computing R&D

The school was hosted at the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICSciE) and the Princeton Physics Department.

More information about the event is in the detailed agenda and timetable.