HSF Steering Group Meeting, 19 November 2024
- Attending
- News
- Activity Areas
- European Strategy Update 2025
- Seminar Series
- HSF Affiliated Projects
- Advisory Group
- AOB
Attending
Present/Contributing: Graeme Stewart, Paul Laycock, Benedikt Hegner, Eduardo Rodrigues
Apologies: Stefan Roiser, Liz Sexton-Kennedy, Torre Wenaus
News
Talks
Graeme gave an HSF talk at DESY last week: slides on Zenodo.
Experiment Discussions
Good discussion with Mike Kirby from DUNE about increasing their HSF involvement.
LHCC
- Eduardo’s presentation on behalf of the HSF and various projects was well received.
- It was appreciated that the proposals made earlier in the year are now put into practice.
- Interest in seeing more projects/libraries as affiliated.
Activity Areas
| Activity | SG Responsible | Met? |
|---|---|---|
| Data Analysis | Eduardo + Mark | Y (Graeme+Michel) |
| Detector Simulation | Torre + Graeme | Y |
| Physics Generators | Liz + Stefan | Y |
| JuliaHEP | Pere | Y (implicit) |
| PyHEP | Eduardo | Y (implicit) |
| Reconstruction and Software Triggers | Michel + Paul | Y (Graeme+Michel) |
| Tools and Packaging | Liz + 1? | Y |
| Training | Graeme + Nicole | Y |
Graeme and Michel had the chance to meet with Data Analysis and Reconstruction and Software Triggers conveners at CHEP. We discussed general activity strategy, HSF Seminars and EPPSU.
Coordinators 2025
We are asking coordinators if they want to stay on for next year (needs pushed a bit!).
Would anyone like to volunteer for the search committee? Currently this is Graeme, Liz, Michel, Benedikt and Claire, but we are open to rotation. Paul will join the team.
European Strategy Update 2025
Things are in motion!
Activity area mini-workshops are being organised:
- Detector Simulation Community input on the European Strategy for Particle Physics Update, Friday 22 November, 15h-18h CET, https://indico.cern.ch/event/1475445/ (at CERN meeting in 2/R-030)
- Reconstruction and Software Triggers Mini workshop: Input for European Strategy for Particle Physics 2025, Wednesday 27 November, 14-16h CET, https://indico.cern.ch/event/1475492/
Data Analysis and Physics Generators should announce their dates soon.
In discussions with the experiments about them endorsing the final document - ALICE and LHCb are favourable.
Seminar Series
Future dates:
- 27 November - Event Generation on GPUs
- 29 January - ?
- 26 February - 4D Tracking
Indico; Coordinators: Benedikt, Michel.
We need an additional organiser here.
HSF Affiliated Projects
First review, prmon, is done.
We are struggling to find people to do these reviews. NNPDF asked more than a month ago to be included, but so far we have no reviewer.
- Eduardo happy to do it with someone else. Ask our generator conveners?
Also start to approach our previous projects.
Advisory Group
The Advisory Group mandate was published. Large HEP experiments (ALICE, ATLAS, Belle II, DUNE, CMS, LHCb), WLCG and the theory community (MCnet) were contacted and all responded positively.
Intention would be to have a first AG meeting early next year.
AOB
Coordination Meetings
As ever… Chairing sign up document. Slots are in for 2025.
Domain
Torre made enquiries with BNL who seem to be willing to take over ownership of the domain. Any news?
- Procedure is established, but this will take a bit of time (there is a prior knowledge on this from https://www.usatlas.org).
Next Meeting
We really did not find a good regular slot for this meeting. Should we return to the Monday 15h slot? Use alternate Thursday 15h slots? Or pick a non-HSF Seminar Wednesday 16h30 slot? Or just newdle on demand, given these are occasional meetings…?
- Looks like Mondays 15h might be easier for LHCb people now
If we need another meeting this year, w/b 9 December would be an option - but we can continue to track things via the usual Coordination meetings.