The 186th SiD Optimization Meeting

Wednesday 29 Apr 2020, 09:00 → 10:00 America/Los_Angeles

Dan Protopopescu

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Attending: Andy, Amanda, Chris, Dan, Jan, Jason, Jim, Lucas, Marty (new zoom link provided by Andy)

Minutes:

Chris is preparing the SiD primer (arXiv:2002.02399) for publication in EPJ; Chris is also running SiD_o2_v03 full simulations on UO hepilc cluster (see slides for list of samples)
Jan has provided (links to) more recent SiD renderings (attached)
Austin Prior (new UTA student) is getting up to speed and working with Andrew (Myers) on HCal simulations, and comparisons with the original CALICE test beam results (see slides)
Lucas (Braun) mentioned new results from studies using Quantum Neural Networks for tau tagging
Jim mentioned a new student at UO interested to start working on SiD

Next meeting tentative date: May 13, 2020

Will send around a new Zoom link as the previous has expired!

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- 09:00 → 09:10
  
  Upload area 10m
  
  Speakers: Aidan Robson (University of Glasgow, UK), Amanda Lynn Steinhebel (University of Oregon), Andrew Myers (University of Texas Arlington), Andy White (University of Texas at Arlington), Anne Schuetz (DESY, Germany), Bruce Andrew Schumm (University of California,Santa Cruz), Chris Potter (University of Oregon), Christopher Thomas Potter (University of Oregon), Dan Protopopescu (University of Glasgow, UK), Davis Austin (University Of Oregon), James Brau (University of Oregon), Jan Strube (PNNL), Jason Barkeloo (University of Oregon), Jim Brau (University of Oregon), Joel Goldstein (University of Bristol, UK), Joey Carlson (University of Oregon), Marcel Stanitzki (DESY, Germany), Martin Breidenbach (SLAC), Mengqing Wu (DESY, Germany), Takayuki Ueno (Tohoku University, Japan), Thomas Markiewicz (SLAC), Yevgeniya Shtalenkova (SCIPP), Mr Austin Prior (University of Texas Arlington)
  
  Lucas-QNN-results.png
  
  SID30deg on platform.bmp
  
  SID30deg on platform cut.jpg
- 09:10 → 09:25
  
  Update from UO COVID-19 Lockdown 15m
  
  Speaker: Christopher Thomas Potter (University of Oregon (US))
  
  CPtalk.pdf
- 09:25 → 09:45
  
  UTA HCal Update 20m
  
  Speaker: Mr Austin Prior (University of Texas Arlington)
  
  SiD_HCal_update_04292020.pdf
- 09:45 → 09:55
  
  Round the table 10m