From vimartin at umass.edu Tue Nov 8 14:59:21 2022 From: vimartin at umass.edu (Verena Martinez Outschoorn) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 15:59:21 -0500 Subject: [tac-hep-faculty] Summer workshop Message-ID: <7291_1667941168_0RL100FQ7RN3DS30_DF468EAD-0AB0-413C-B317-FB4DB1A78C43@umass.edu> Dear all, A few of us happened to be in DC for a workshop and had a quick chat about the summer workshop. We discussed the following points 1. Possible date & venue: ? 1 week format July 24-28 ? Held in Princeton, the week after the CODAS-HEP event (July 17-21) ?> Note the idea would be for the TAC-HEP students to participate in CODAS-HEP (see https://codas-hep.org/ for more information) ? We expect several experts will be in the area because of CODAS-HEP and a differentiable programming workshop planned. ? Can benefit from the organization of logistics from the other events (dorm room reservations, etc) ? Note CODAS-HEP overlaps with Lepton-Photon, the proposed week for TAC-HEP overlaps with the ATLAS Physics week. 2. Some of the goals: ? Get mentors & mentees together ?> this requires defining the R&D projects, identifying mentors, etc. For scientists from labs, we likely should try to make invitations well in advance due to travel approval procedures & work on finding additional travel support from other sources where possible for mentors. ? Include other non-technical aspects, such as soft skills, professional development, etc ? Develop materials for the two proposed summer modules (one is analysis facilities, tools, etc) In particular for the proposed date & venue, please let us know what your thoughts are and check your calendars about availability. In terms of the goals, this is just some initial brainstorming on a few points, we need to flesh things out and also gather inputs from everyone, this is mainly just to start to gather some points. Please let us know if you have inputs on this as well. Please chime in if I missed something in this summary! Best regards, Verena, Tulika, Isobel & Pete -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tulika at hep.wisc.edu Wed Nov 9 13:30:12 2022 From: tulika at hep.wisc.edu (Tulika Bose) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 14:30:12 -0500 Subject: [tac-hep-faculty] Fwd: [EXTERNAL] Re: Computational HEP traineeship press release In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1d580f55-f543-f146-07f4-30cb0c86972e@hep.wisc.edu> Dear all, Here is the embargoed press release. It will become official 1 pm Eastern tomorrow, November 10! Best, Tulika -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Computational HEP traineeship press release Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 19:22:05 +0000 From: Cooke, Michael To: Tulika Bose CC: Sarah Perdue , Love, Jeremy , Eckhardt, Allison , Bannan, Kate (CONTR) Dear Tulika, Please find attached the current draft of the DOE Office of Science press release for the Traineeships in Computational HEP awards. This material is embargoed until after the press release is issued, currently scheduled for 1 pm Eastern tomorrow, November 10. A list of the awards will also be posted on https://science.osti.gov/hep. Best regards, Dr. Michael Cooke (he/him/his) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Senior Technical Advisor Office of the Deputy Director for Science Programs Department of Energy, Office of Science Office: (301) 903-4140 Mobile: (301) 529-4980 -----Original Message----- From: Cooke, Michael Sent: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 2:10 PM To: Tulika Bose Cc: Sarah Perdue ; Love, Jeremy ; Eckhardt, Allison ; Bannan, Kate (CONTR) Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Computational HEP traineeship press release Dear Tulika, We are delaying the press release by one day to November 10. I expect we'll be able to provide an embargoed copy of the press release tomorrow. 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Students will also develop software and algorithms that can take advantage of increasingly parallel computing platforms either synchronously or asynchronously * The projects were selected by competitive peer review under the DOE Funding Opportunity Announcement for DOE Traineeship in Computational High Energy Physics * The total funding is $10 million for projects lasting up to five years in duration, with $1 million in Fiscal Year 2022 dollars and outyear funding contingent on Congressional appropriations Awards list: https://science.osti.gov/-/media/hep/pdf/Awards/Traineeships-in-Computational-HEP-2743-Awards-2022.pdf Kate Bannan Communications and Outreach Manager Contractor to DOE/Office of Science SC Communications and Public Affairs KeyLogic Systems 202-586-7814 office 703-477-4405 cell phone Kate.Bannan at science.doe.gov @KateBannan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tulika at hep.wisc.edu Tue Nov 15 20:48:32 2022 From: tulika at hep.wisc.edu (Tulika Bose) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 20:48:32 -0600 Subject: [tac-hep-faculty] TAC-HEP reviews Message-ID: <549a78fd-2ed6-a6e9-0d5b-0496517adfdc@hep.wisc.edu> Dear all, Our TAC-HEP proposal reviews are in! I still don't see the award listed though - hopefully it will change in the next days. We had 7 reviewers - all positive. Probably, the only negative point i saw was one reviewer's concern regarding the experience of the first year cohort since we were were proposing to start very soon after the expected award announcement. This is, of course, not surprising and a real challenge we are working on currently. Reviews are attached. Enjoy! My favorite snippet is below ?: "I have to admit that on reading the names of the PIs attached to this proposal, I was a bit skeptical about the quality of the proposal.? Not because I had any doubts as the the excellence of the people involved, but rather that there were just so many leaders in the HEP computing field, that I expected to find that the proposal was going to rest a bit on their name recognition and not put in the work to develop a well thought out and solid proposal.? So I kind of expected to find many deficiencies and points to criticize.? In the end, what I found was in fact the opposite.? This has been carefully designed, and clearly reads as a proposal drawn up by people who are acutely aware of the problems facing HEP computing (particularly for the HL-LHC experiments) and a comprehensive plan to address those problems by creating a more well trained set of graduate students who can go on to become the postdocs and physicists of tomorrow that will allow the field to tackle its computing challenges.? If I am being honest, I am frankly a bit jealous of the program being proposed here, but I take some solace in the fact that I will also indirectly benefit from the outcome of this program.? While I have certainly not seen all of the proposals in this call, I would be surprised if there were any other proposal that was significantly stronger than this one." Best, Tulika -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: TAC-HEP-reviews.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 175587 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Peter.Elmer at cern.ch Thu Nov 17 08:17:43 2022 From: Peter.Elmer at cern.ch (Peter Elmer) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 15:17:43 +0100 Subject: [tac-hep-faculty] TAC-HEP reviews In-Reply-To: <549a78fd-2ed6-a6e9-0d5b-0496517adfdc@hep.wisc.edu> References: <549a78fd-2ed6-a6e9-0d5b-0496517adfdc@hep.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <25678_1668694754_0RLH00JMLX41CE40_Y3ZCh4wCqlRt2aZA@mbp-2018-touch.lan> Hi, My favorite snippet was: "This proposal is [redacted] awesome!" Ok, that really didn't exist, but I was amused by parts being redacted... ;-) cheers, Peter On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 08:48:32PM -0600, Tulika Bose via tac-hep-faculty wrote: > Dear all, > > Our TAC-HEP proposal reviews are in! I still don't see the award listed > though - hopefully it will change in the next days. > > We had 7 reviewers - all positive. Probably, the only negative point i saw > was one reviewer's concern regarding the experience of the first year cohort > since we were were proposing to start very soon after the expected award > announcement. This is, of course, not surprising and a real challenge we are > working on currently. > > Reviews are attached. Enjoy! > > My favorite snippet is below ?: > > "I have to admit that on reading the names of the PIs attached to this > proposal, I was a bit skeptical about the quality of the proposal.? Not > because I had any doubts as the the excellence of the people involved, but > rather that there were just so many leaders in the HEP computing field, that > I expected to find that the proposal was going to rest a bit on their name > recognition and not put in the work to develop a well thought out and solid > proposal.? So I kind of expected to find many deficiencies and points to > criticize.? In the end, what I found was in fact the opposite.? This has > been carefully designed, and clearly reads as a proposal drawn up by people > who are acutely aware of the problems facing HEP computing (particularly for > the HL-LHC experiments) and a comprehensive plan to address those problems > by creating a more well trained set of graduate students who can go on to > become the postdocs and physicists of tomorrow that will allow the field to > tackle its computing challenges.? If I am being honest, I am frankly a bit > jealous of the program being proposed here, but I take some solace in the > fact that I will also indirectly benefit from the outcome of this program.? > While I have certainly not seen all of the proposals in this call, I would > be surprised if there were any other proposal that was significantly > stronger than this one." > > Best, > > Tulika > -- > tac-hep-faculty mailing list > tac-hep-faculty at lists.physics.wisc.edu > https://lists.physics.wisc.edu/listinfo/tac-hep-faculty ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Elmer E-mail: Peter.Elmer at cern.ch Phone: +41 (22) 767-4644 Address: CERN EP-UCM, Bldg. 32 2-C14 CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From dasu at hep.wisc.edu Thu Nov 17 08:20:20 2022 From: dasu at hep.wisc.edu (Sridhara Dasu) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:20:20 +0000 Subject: [tac-hep-faculty] TAC-HEP reviews In-Reply-To: <25678_1668694754_0RLH00JMLX41CE40_Y3ZCh4wCqlRt2aZA@mbp-2018-touch.lan> References: <549a78fd-2ed6-a6e9-0d5b-0496517adfdc@hep.wisc.edu> <25678_1668694754_0RLH00JMLX41CE40_Y3ZCh4wCqlRt2aZA@mbp-2018-touch.lan> Message-ID: <07D3DD29-5126-4B40-935D-C314471D0547@hep.wisc.edu> ha ha The reviews are certainly awesome - good job everyone! > On Nov 17, 2022, at 8:17 AM, Peter Elmer wrote: > > Hi, > > My favorite snippet was: > > "This proposal is [redacted] awesome!" > > Ok, that really didn't exist, but I was amused by parts being redacted... ;-) > > cheers, > Peter > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 08:48:32PM -0600, Tulika Bose via tac-hep-faculty wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> Our TAC-HEP proposal reviews are in! I still don't see the award listed >> though - hopefully it will change in the next days. >> >> We had 7 reviewers - all positive. Probably, the only negative point i saw >> was one reviewer's concern regarding the experience of the first year cohort >> since we were were proposing to start very soon after the expected award >> announcement. This is, of course, not surprising and a real challenge we are >> working on currently. >> >> Reviews are attached. Enjoy! >> >> My favorite snippet is below ?: >> >> "I have to admit that on reading the names of the PIs attached to this >> proposal, I was a bit skeptical about the quality of the proposal. Not >> because I had any doubts as the the excellence of the people involved, but >> rather that there were just so many leaders in the HEP computing field, that >> I expected to find that the proposal was going to rest a bit on their name >> recognition and not put in the work to develop a well thought out and solid >> proposal. So I kind of expected to find many deficiencies and points to >> criticize. In the end, what I found was in fact the opposite. This has >> been carefully designed, and clearly reads as a proposal drawn up by people >> who are acutely aware of the problems facing HEP computing (particularly for >> the HL-LHC experiments) and a comprehensive plan to address those problems >> by creating a more well trained set of graduate students who can go on to >> become the postdocs and physicists of tomorrow that will allow the field to >> tackle its computing challenges. If I am being honest, I am frankly a bit >> jealous of the program being proposed here, but I take some solace in the >> fact that I will also indirectly benefit from the outcome of this program. >> While I have certainly not seen all of the proposals in this call, I would >> be surprised if there were any other proposal that was significantly >> stronger than this one." >> >> Best, >> >> Tulika > > >> -- >> tac-hep-faculty mailing list >> tac-hep-faculty at lists.physics.wisc.edu >> https://lists.physics.wisc.edu/listinfo/tac-hep-faculty > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Elmer E-mail: Peter.Elmer at cern.ch Phone: +41 (22) 767-4644 > Address: CERN EP-UCM, Bldg. 32 2-C14 CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > tac-hep-faculty mailing list > tac-hep-faculty at lists.physics.wisc.edu > https://lists.physics.wisc.edu/listinfo/tac-hep-faculty From jolsen at princeton.edu Thu Nov 17 08:34:34 2022 From: jolsen at princeton.edu (James D. Olsen) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:34:34 +0000 Subject: [tac-hep-faculty] TAC-HEP reviews In-Reply-To: <25678_1668694754_0RLH00JMLX41CE40_Y3ZCh4wCqlRt2aZA@mbp-2018-touch.lan> References: <549a78fd-2ed6-a6e9-0d5b-0496517adfdc@hep.wisc.edu> <25678_1668694754_0RLH00JMLX41CE40_Y3ZCh4wCqlRt2aZA@mbp-2018-touch.lan> Message-ID: <9029_1668695682_0RLH00JN1XTTWE20_MN2PR04MB69092DE07CFD194E02CAAB0EC7069@MN2PR04MB6909.namprd04.prod.outlook.com> The unredacted versions are in a safe at Mar-a-Lago... -----Original Message----- From: tac-hep-faculty On Behalf Of Peter Elmer Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2022 9:18 AM To: Tulika Bose Cc: tac-hep faculty Subject: Re: [tac-hep-faculty] TAC-HEP reviews Hi, My favorite snippet was: "This proposal is [redacted] awesome!" Ok, that really didn't exist, but I was amused by parts being redacted... ;-) cheers, Peter On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 08:48:32PM -0600, Tulika Bose via tac-hep-faculty wrote: > Dear all, > > Our TAC-HEP proposal reviews are in! I still don't see the award > listed though - hopefully it will change in the next days. > > We had 7 reviewers - all positive. Probably, the only negative point i > saw was one reviewer's concern regarding the experience of the first > year cohort since we were were proposing to start very soon after the > expected award announcement. This is, of course, not surprising and a > real challenge we are working on currently. > > Reviews are attached. Enjoy! > > My favorite snippet is below ?: > > "I have to admit that on reading the names of the PIs attached to this > proposal, I was a bit skeptical about the quality of the proposal.? > Not because I had any doubts as the the excellence of the people > involved, but rather that there were just so many leaders in the HEP > computing field, that I expected to find that the proposal was going > to rest a bit on their name recognition and not put in the work to > develop a well thought out and solid proposal.? So I kind of expected > to find many deficiencies and points to criticize.? In the end, what I > found was in fact the opposite.? This has been carefully designed, and > clearly reads as a proposal drawn up by people who are acutely aware > of the problems facing HEP computing (particularly for the HL-LHC > experiments) and a comprehensive plan to address those problems by > creating a more well trained set of graduate students who can go on to > become the postdocs and physicists of tomorrow that will allow the > field to tackle its computing challenges.? If I am being honest, I am > frankly a bit jealous of the program being proposed here, but I take some solace in the fact that I will also indirectly benefit from the outcome of this program. > While I have certainly not seen all of the proposals in this call, I > would be surprised if there were any other proposal that was > significantly stronger than this one." > > Best, > > Tulika > -- > tac-hep-faculty mailing list > tac-hep-faculty at lists.physics.wisc.edu > https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flist > s.physics.wisc.edu%2Flistinfo%2Ftac-hep-faculty&data=05%7C01%7Cjol > sen%40princeton.edu%7Ccfe58c8ae8fe4457dc9908dac8a6b686%7C2ff6011674314 > 25db5af077d7791bda4%7C0%7C0%7C638042915617495948%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb > 3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D% > 7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=uoNKfuqgsvqksf3vq0O1mYXuweShza1U1Ck%2FVueLi5 > E%3D&reserved=0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Elmer E-mail: Peter.Elmer at cern.ch Phone: +41 (22) 767-4644 Address: CERN EP-UCM, Bldg. 32 2-C14 CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- tac-hep-faculty mailing list tac-hep-faculty at lists.physics.wisc.edu https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.physics.wisc.edu%2Flistinfo%2Ftac-hep-faculty&data=05%7C01%7Cjolsen%40princeton.edu%7Ccfe58c8ae8fe4457dc9908dac8a6b686%7C2ff601167431425db5af077d7791bda4%7C0%7C0%7C638042915617495948%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=uoNKfuqgsvqksf3vq0O1mYXuweShza1U1Ck%2FVueLi5E%3D&reserved=0