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AMVA4NewPhysicsExecutive Board meetingNovember 24th 2015

AgendaNewsSelection 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

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Present at the meeting:

To be filled here

NewsDeliverable 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

v

http://iml.cern.ch/tiki-index.php

Summary of recruitment process at UCL



Andrea

Giammanco

Ongoing 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

LIP and CERN calls Pietro Vischia

 Paris

Sphicas

Blog 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

WORKSHOP IN VENICE

Organization 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

Tentative 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

Other 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

First 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)

HH 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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