Dear all,

Many thanks for the good discussion today. One important update for all and a quick summary of the main points for those of you who could not join today:

-- Since the DOE has not made this award public yet, we cannot announce it as news, on official webpages, social media etc.  I have asked Jeremy what exactly the constraints are since we are keen to start recruiting widely. He will get back to me by next week when appropriate DOE people are back from vacation. Until then let's stay with targeted recruitment via email to specific students, small groups etc.

-- we should work on recruiting students at each of our universities keeping in mind our guidelines (US citizen/permanent resident, interested in taking formal CS courses and training in computational HEP and participating in an R&D project over a 2-year period...). Students can officially be funded via this traineeship only starting Oct 15, the award start date (though funds will likely arrive later as usual). Some students may start only in the Spring semester.

-- Interested students (including those starting with the traineeship program in the Spring) can be encouraged to take the course at Princeton which serves also as training module 0 in our proposal: https://registrar.princeton.edu/course-offerings/course-details?term=1232&am... . Pete is following up on details regarding this but the instructor has already kindly agreed to take on remote students, so we should go ahead and plan for it.  Classes start Sep 6!

-- we should plan on a curriculum focused meeting in about 2 weeks to talk about the curriculum for the other training modules. Please do meet in small groups before that to discuss the specifics of the training modules that you had signed up for.

Thanks and best regards,

Tulika