November 24 th 2015 Agenda News S election process at UCL finished and UOXF in progress A dvertisement of LIP and CERN positions B log creation and contributions O rganization ID: 783667
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AMVA4NewPhysicsExecutive Board meetingNovember 24th 2015
Slide2AgendaNewsSelection process at UCL (finished) and UOXF (in progress)Advertisement of LIP and CERN positionsB
log
creation and contributions
O
rganization
of meeting in
Venice
First activities in UNIPD
AOB
Present at the meeting:
To be filled here
Slide3NewsDeliverable 7.1 (creation of Supervisory Board of the network)
has
been
submitted
to the EU
The
consortium
agreement
is
(
still
)
converging
Last
sticking
point
: the
warranties
that
one
party
makes
on
products
that
it
shares with
other
parties
Oxford and INFN
admins
have
been
struggling
to
agree
on the text.
Now
it
looks
like
they
are, so I do
not
expect
further
delays
Those
of
you
who
are
recruiting
:
please
remember
that
after
the
contract
is
signed
with the ESR, I
have
20
days
to
make
a «
researcher
declaration
» to the EU
It
is
important
that
you
keep
me
informed
of the
whole
process
!
So far I
only
«
declared
»
Grzegorz
Kotkowski
;
others
although
selected
have
not
signed
the
contract
yet
.
The Data Science workshop
at
CERN
was
a big success.
Had
a chat with
Sergey
Gleyzer
afterwards
–
there
is
a forum
being
set up
which
will
continue to operate on
development
of SL
tools
.
We
should
subscribe
to
it
and/or
keep
an
eye
on
it
.
Remember
that
next
year
we
will
want
to be
directly
involved
in the
organization
of a
similar
event
. I
am
in the
international
advisory
committee
but
was
not
asked
to
participate
in
any
way in the
organization
this
time
Slide4v
http://iml.cern.ch/tiki-index.php
Slide5Summary of recruitment process at UCL
Andrea
Giammanco
Slide6Ongoing recruitment at UOXFThe Oxford call closed on November 12thThey
received
11
applications
I have the feeling
we did too little to advertise this time
We are now in the process of shortlisting the candidates. Expect to interview 3-4 of them in one week
Selection board includes D. Bortoletto, A. Sarkar, N. Saoulidou, T. Dorigo
More news from Daniela
Slide7LIP and CERN calls Pietro Vischia
Paris
Sphicas
Slide8Blog creationThis is deliverable 7.2 – due December
31st
Sabine
is
in the
process
of
creating
the site and soon we will "go public" by advertising it
around
Remember
that
we
will
be
judged
by the
effectiveness
of
this
outreach
action
at
some
point
down the line
We
need
to produce
good
content
for the blog
So far Pietro
has
encouraged
submissions
, in
order
to create a
backlog
of
articles
we
could
publish
It
will
become
important
to
provide
this
feedback
soon
One
thing
we
will
want
to do
is
to
publish
short
articles
describing
the
nodes
of the network in turn, and
posts
by the
ESRs
we
hire
,
who
will
present
themselves
So
this
will
become
a
formal
request
to
each
node
at
some
point
next
month
Slide9WORKSHOP IN VENICE
Slide10Organization of network meeting in VeniceThe date which
works
is
March 3th – 4th
The agenda
could
be something like what is shown in
next
slide
The Ca'
Sagredo
hotel can
give
us
the
space
for 1.5
days
and the use of the
facilities, plus 3 coffee breaks, and drinks with munchies at the end of the public lecture, for 2300 euro including VAT This also includes support to make the public event a successThe hotel also offers a dozen rooms for Eur 160+10% tax for participants, buffet breakfast includedINFN does not agree to organize the meeting in Venice, due to its internal rules, so I have asked UNIPD to organize itBruno Scarpa (UNIPD) agreed to take care of the organizationWith my support and that of our Press Office (Dr. Hemmer) The hotel expense for this workshop should be paid with our common pocket funds (the INFN M&O)I am asking the SB to vote on this; we will do this by e-mailThen INFN will also spend some money for advertisement (printed matter) from our own funds
Slide11Tentative AgendaThursday, March 3rd Sessione
1: 14.15-18.00
14.00 - 14.15 Welcome
and introduction
14.15
- 16.00 Activities
reports
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break16.30 - 18.00 Activities reports18.15 - 19.30 Public
event: conference by D
.
Bortoletto
19.30 - 20.00 Drinks
and refreshments served by hotel
20.00 - 23.00
Social dinner
Friday, March 4th
Sessione
2: 9.00 - 12.30
9.00
- 11.00 Organization of common work
activities11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break11.30 - 12.30 Outreach session12.30 - 14.00 Lunch break Sessione 3: 14.00 - 17.3014.00 - 15.30 Organization of events and future calls15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break16.00 - 18.00 Supervisory Board meeting18.00 End of workshop and tour of city center
Slide12Other detailsWe need to set up a registration
web page
No
fee
,
but
we
need to know the number of participantsYou
should
ensure
that
at
the
very
least
a
couple
of participants (hopefully 3 or more) from your node attend this meeting One reason is: we want this to be our real "startup" workshop, getting together to meet and organize our common activities. We also want to give a good impression to the PO (who should be able to join us in person)I would like to finalize early the whole thing, such that cheap plane tickets and hotels can be booked, and that people do not fill otherwise their agendasFor the time being, mark the datesAn idea might be to invite somebody for a ML seminar (e.g. on deep NNs) for workshop participants. We can also think of enriching the program with theory talks on topics of interest to WP1 and WP2
This is probably a bit costly and we should
think
whether
it
can be
useful
Slide13First activitiesUNIPD has already
started
research
activities
in the area of the
hh
bbbb classification problem
Annalisa Balata,
undergraduate
student
,
is
working
at
this
for
her Laurea thesis (due March 2016)Grzegorz Kotkowski is also working at this in his spare time (first year in UNIPD is heavy with statistics courses)
Slide14HH discriminationAnnalisa started to look into
the
discrimination
of
hh
bbbb
events
Comparing
results
with standard (
loosely
optimized
) BDT from TMVA
Slight
improvement
using
RF or NN
toolsWork in progress
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