1. Coordinator’s Report: Training Progress Report Stefan Gieseke October 7 th 2014

2. MCnet training activities PhD studentships –Five students, in Durham, Göttingen, Lund (x2), UCL –on Pythia, Ariadne, Sherpa (x2) and CEDAR projects Senior studentships –Six, in Manchester, CERN, Durham, Karlsruhe, Louvain, Lund –on Herwig (x3), Pythia (x2), Madgraph Rolling programme of ‘residentships’: short term studentships held by experimental and theoretical users and developers Annual Schools –Göttingen 2013 –Manchester 2014 Network meetings Outreach and industrial placements

3. PhD studentships In depth training in Monte Carlo event generator physics and development, or related experimental applications –Silvan Kuttimalai, Durham, Sherpa –Piero Ferrarese, Göttingen, Sherpa –Christian Bierlich, Lund, Ariadne –Christine Overgaard Rasmussen, Lund, Pythia –Stefan Richter, UCL, CEDAR

4. PhD studentships

5. Senior studentships Additional training building on an almost- completed PhD elsewhere. Typically adding Monte Carlo expertise to grounding in some other area of theoretical physics –Jonathan Da Silva, Manchester, Herwig, 24 m –Hendrik Mantler, CERN, Pythia, 24 months –Peter Schichtel, Durham, Herwig, 24 months –Frashër Loshaj, Karlsruhe, Herwig, 24 months –Eleni Vryonidou, Louvain, Madgraph, 24 mont –Ilkka Helenius, Lund, Pythia, 12 months

6. Senior studentships –2/11 long-term appointees female = 20% of person-months 4 one-year positions remain to be filled

7. Short-Term Studentship Programme 3-6 months supplementary training during PhD elsewhere Variety of ‘use cases’ –Experimenters using MCs, wanting to understand them better, use them better –Experimenters wanting to help develop MC models needed for their analysis –Theorists wanting to incorporate new or improved models into MCs –Our own students, for inter-project mobility

8. Short-Term Studentship Programme

9. Variety of outcomes –Deeper understanding –Closer relationship with student’s home institute/experimental collaboration –Code for general use Rivet analyses Monte Carlo model modules –Conference talks –Published papers

10. Short-Term Studentship Programme Total committed/projected figures: –Number of students: 10/25 –Student-months: 36.5/98 Fraction of committed student-months: –Female: 30%

11. Annual Schools

12. 2013 school: Mariaspring (Göttingen) –40 students –13 lectures over 4 days –3 hands-on practicals –student feedback talks –lecture on ‘Predictive Analytics’: Manuel Bähr, blue yonder

13. Feedback from students very positive What is your overall evaluation of the SchoolWould you recommend the school to a colleague? What is your general impression of the lectures? What are your impressions of the tutorial sessions?

14. 2014 school: Ambleside (Manchester) –47 students –14 lectures over 5 days –3 hands-on practicals –student feedback talks –lecture on ‘Monte Carlo Modelling of Nuclear Reactions’: Albrecht Kyrieleis, AMEC Clean Energy

15. Feedback from students very positive What is your overall evaluation of the SchoolWould you recommend the school to a colleague? What is your general impression of the lectures? What are your impressions of the tutorial sessions?

16. External Training/Schools MCnet school format so successful, rolled out to: –DESY schools (annual Germany) –CTEQ schools (2013 USA, 2014 China) –MC4BSM (2013 Germany, 2014 Korea) Major impact on graduate education in Europe (and beyond) –and exported on more individual basis also

17. Network Meetings Important research training opportunity –dominated by student/postdoc status report talks and discussion sessions on topics proposed by them –Manchester October 2013 –CERN April 2014 –Karlsruhe (tomorrow)

18. Industrial and Outreach Placements Opportunity to spend 3-6 months on a research project in one of our private sector partners or collaborative project –blue yonder (partnered with Karlsruhe) –d-fine (partnered with Karlsruhe) –Ion Beam Applications (partnered with Louvain) –or an outreach project at CERN or Lund No take-up yet See dedicated discussion session tomorrow

19. Summary 5 PhD studentships 6 Senior studentships 10 Short-term students trained for 36 months 87 students trained at 2 annual schools Programme of industrial and outreach placements has not yet started Employability event will take place at CERN in March 2015