MCnetITN3 Mid-Term Review Coordinator’s Report Mike Seymour January 24th 2019

MCnetITN3 H2020 Innovative Training Network for Monte Carlo event generator development validation and tuning Approved for four years from 1st Apr 2017 Builds on success of FP6 RTN MCnet (2007–2010) FP7 ITN MCnetITN (2013–2016)

Why Monte Carlo? Experimental Theoretical Planning of future experiments Planning/preparation of analysis Simulating signals (response, efficiency) Simulating backgrounds (when they cannot be measured, efficiency/extrapolation when they can) Theoretical QCD cannot be solved; more from calculation ⇒ less modelling ⇒ deeper understanding

Why Monte Carlo?

MCnetITN3 . +CERN +Heidelberg +Vienna +Monash (Aus) Plugin SHERPA MadGraph PYTHIA Herwig +CERN +Heidelberg +Vienna +Monash (Aus)

MCnetITN3 objectives Training: Through Research:  Steffen Schumann To train a large section of the user base in the physics and techniques of event generators To train the next generation of event generator developers To provide broader training in transferable skills Through Research: To develop the next generation of higher precision event generators and support them for use throughout the LHC era and beyond To play a central rôle in the analysis of LHC data and the discovery of new physics there To extract the maximum potential from existing data to constrain the modeling of the data from the LHC and future experiments  Steffen Schumann  Jeppe Andersen

Coordinator’s Report Scientific Progress Report Jeppe Andersen Training Progress Report Steffen Schumann

Networking Four network meetings Short collaborative visits CERN April 2017 Karlsruhe September 2017 CERN April 2018 Louvain (this week) typical attendance ~40 70 of the 100 members attended at least 1 Short collaborative visits

Networking All projects multi-institute Most institutes multi-project 28/70 papers jointly by network members from different institutions 10/26 in 2014 + 11/27 in 2013

Non-Academic Partners Lecture on non-academic applications of our methods at each school: B12 at Lund 2017 IBA at Monash 2018 blue yonder at London 2019 Dedicated non-academic discussion session at CERN network meeting 2018 All long-term ESRs offered non-academic secondment Luca Mantani (Louvain) currently at B12

2007–2018

New web site launched this week

Management External Student & advisory postdoc committee committee (six students, one postdoc) External advisory committee (four expters, GENSER, non-academic) Management Management Committee (twenty tenured academics) Management Group (eight team leaders) Scientist in Charge and Network Project Manager Meets monthly, uses password-protected internal web Administrative departments

Deliverables/Milestones All due deliverables and milestones delivered But… D2.1: “Recruit 56 ESR-months of short-term studentships (approximately 16 students)” due 31 Mar 2019. Currently 33 ESR-months (7 students)

Impact Our biggest scientific impact is on the exploitation of LHC data Annual Schools and Short-term Studentships impact on user community Huge impact on Fellows’ careers, e.g... 2 members of management committee (permanent academic staff) 3 others in long-term (≥5 yr) postns 9 current postdocs 4 lecturers or tutors at Annual School were ESRs of our precursor networks

Summary 21 months of MCnetITN3 have seen great progress towards our research objectives Long-term recruitment completed, but currently re-opened for Göttingen position Short-term recruitment behind schedule, mainly due to slow start Schools, meetings, training events, networking, dissemination, outreach, … going as planned Secondments have started