Presentation of partners

CERN, AMVA4NewPhysics kick-off meetingSeptember 16th 2015

AMVA4NewPhysicsPresentation of partner: UC Irvine

Daniel Whiteson, UC Irvine

Kick-off meeting, CERN September 16th 2015

UC Irvine overview• The University of California has 9 campuses, each of which

is an independent world-class university.• UC Irvine has a strong physics department, participating in

neutrino physics (SuperK), rare decays (MECO), collider physics (ATLAS), particle astro-physics (Fermi, LSST, IceCube) and with a top-notch phenomenology group (Jonathan Feng, Tim Tait, others)

• Whiteson focuses on dark matter and hadronic resonances at ATLAS, applying deep learning and jet substructure.

• Physics & Astronomy is located in the main building of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Reines Hall. It has a strong connection with the UCI Center for Machine Learning, located 5 mins walk from the physics building.

AMVA4NewPhysicsPresentation of node: EPFL

Mikael Kuusela, EPFL

Kick-off meeting, CERN September 16th 2015

EPFL overview• The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de

Lausanne (EPFL) is one of the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (the other being ETH Zürich)

• One of world’s leading technical universities

• Ranked as the world’s most international university by THE

• 338 faculty, 9921 students (including 2032 PhD students)

• Tremendous growth in the past 15 years• Several research groups across the

campus have experience collaborating with CERN

Staff and activities• The EPFL Institute of Mathematics for

Analysis and Applications participates in the ITN as a partner to offer statistical advisory and training

• Participating EPFL statisticians:– Victor Panaretos– Anthony Davison– Mikael Kuusela

• All have past experience of HEP applications

• Panaretos and Kuusela are actively working with the CMS Statistics Committee to develop new unfolding methodology

• Kuusela has served as a consultant for the CMS Statistics Committee since January 2012

• Related recent work includes:– Unfolding using empirical Bayes

estimation and bias-corrected uncertainty quantification (Kuusela & Panaretos, 2015)

– Statistical detection of a noisy signal (Davison & Sartori, 2008)

– Semi-supervised anomaly detection for new physics searches (Kuusela et al., 2012)

• EPFL is expecting to host four ESRs during one-month secondments

• The close proximity to CERN is an added advantage

AMVA4NewPhysicsPresentation of partner: TUM

Andreas Weiler, TU Munich

Kick-off meeting, CERN September 16th 2015

TU Munich overview

• The TU München is one of largest technical universities in Germany and was one of the first universities in Germany to be named a University of Excellence.

• The physics faculty has 39 professors, 16 of which are working on Particle and Astro-particle physics

• The physics department is localised on the Garching science campus, near five Max-Planck Institutes of physics.

Staff and activities• The TUM participates in the theoretical activities of the network

– Prof. Andreas Weiler will co-supervise a PhD student (ESR8) to be hired by CERN. He has been the PI during the application stage but has since changed institutions.

– Laura Darabas is an administrator in A. Weiler’s group• The group’s interests relevant to the network activities range

from Higgs physics to new physics searches; related recent publications include:– New Higgs observables– Re-interpreting new physics searches– Fast-limit setting tools

• TUM will mainly work on WP2 and will e.g. develop an add-on package that allows the reinterpretation of MVA type searches for any model, which is something that is not yet implement in the available recasting tools (D2.3).

• Synergies expected with UBP, UCL, CERN

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B12 ConsultingMichel Herquet

Kick-off meeting AMVA4NewPhysics

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Who we areProfessional IT Consulting firm founded in 2012 by three Physics PhD’s (cosmology,

statistical and particle physics)

Based in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, next to the CP3 center

7 consultants with mixed “academic” and “business” DNA (3 of them with particle physics background), plan to grow to 9 by the end of 2015

Serve 5-10 clients yearly, large corps, SMBs and startups, national and international, in various sectors (education, energy, healthcare, engineering/technology, marketing, …)

Focus on short/intense projects (1-3 months) and agile management methodologies

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What we do

We leverage tomorrow's IT to solve our client's toughest business challenges

This involves :

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What we can offerA practical experience in advanced data analytics techniques (Machine Learning, etc.) applied to “real world”

business issues, and in the related computing challenges (infrastructure, code performance, visualisation, etc.)

Opportunities for early-stage researchers to take an active part in real consulting engagements for renowned private clients in different sectors

Personalised help to trainees for developing important soft skills (presentation skills, project/time/ressource management, solution driven thinking, etc.) and to define their own career development plan, in collaboration with

their main supervisors

AMVA4NewPhysicsPresentation of node: MathWorks

Ilya Narsky, MathWorks

Kick-off meeting, CERN September 16th 2015

MathWorks overview• MathWorks is the leading developer of mathematical computing

software for engineers and scientists.• Over 3000 employees in 15 countries. Headquarters near

Boston.• Products:

– MATLAB is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric computation.

– Simulink is a graphical environment for simulation and model-based design of multidomain dynamic and embedded systems.

– Nearly 100 additional products for specialized tasks such as statistical analysis and machine learning.

• Recent projects using MW software:– Orion spacecraft– MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa– …

• All the AMVA4NewPhysics beneficiaries have existing access to MathWorks products, either through MathWorks Educational Support or special programs for Research Institutes.

• More info at http://www.mathworks.com

Staff and activities• People:

– Dr. Ilya Narsky is a developer at MW, former physicist (CLEO, BaBar, CMS), and co-author of a book on multivariate techniques for particle physics.

– Dr. Thomas Lane is the head of the Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox development team and former president of the Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association.

– Dr. Jeff Gruneich is Industry Manager for the Sciences with background in bioengineering and chemistry.

• We offer training opportunities with the Statistics and Machine Learning development team. The team is in the US headquarters.

• Other opportunities for trainees are available.

• MW will host up to 4 interns for 3-4 months each, up to two interns at a time.

• What interns typically do:– Read research literature, investigate

and prototype described algorithms.– Learn skills for clean and efficient

programming, software design and testing.

– Choice of MATLAB and C++.