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/ 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