Sudhir Malik

University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez

(IRIS-HEP Training, Education and Outreach Coordinator)

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Training, Education and Outreach

IRIS-HEP Retreat, UW Seattle 4-6 Sep 2024

IRIS-HEP Retreat, UW Seattle 4-6 Sep 2024

Software Training

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Cumulative Statistics

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Cumulative Statistics

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Training across categories

Sum of above is 3183

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Community

Training requires significant personpower:

• Authors who create new material
• Instructors who teach
• Mentors who support the events
• Facilitators who organize events

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Scaling up (and even sustaining) the current effort needs new faces.

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Visitors on training web pages

Jointly with HSF

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https://plausible.io/docs/metrics-definitions

• O(5000) page views / week (!)

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2018 - 2022

Democratized science,

Scaled out basic/ intermediate training

2023

Rebuild Training Center

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The Training Grand Challenge

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New Training Web Page

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Training Snapshot

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Outreach

Coding Camp Fermilab

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Call was made to IRIS-HEP for 2024 to host coding camps (Nebraska and Cincinnati responded, wished for much more)

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New IRIS-HEP/Quarknet Coding Camps in 2024

1,2,3 numbers means number of time coding camps in that place

(past+upcoming)

Coding Camps (2023 +2024)

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Outreach snapshot

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Indico Category

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2024 Coding Camp stats

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2024 Coding Camp on pictures

Puerto Rico

Fermilab

Fermilab

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• 2024 - The first intermediate-advanced training modules are being taught.
• 2025 - 80% of all cross-experiment software topics that apply to Ph.D. students should be covered by standardized training modules.
• 90% of HEP Ph.D. students should be aware of the material offered by the IRIS-HEP/HSF Training group.
• 50% of HEP Ph.D. students should participate in at least one intermediate/advanced training.
• 2026-2028 Additional focus on workshops, networking opportunities, and discussion platforms for aspiring developers and CI professionals within HEP.
• 20% of Ph.D. students and postdocs should be enrolled in software-related communities or have attended advanced workshops.
• 20% of HEP Ph.D. students should teach or support a software workshop at one point during their Ph.D.
• Take Coding Camps to new places

SSC Plans

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Backup

Additional Information

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• IRIS-HEP Training website : https://iris-hep.org/ssc.html
• Training events: https://indico.cern.ch/category/11386/
• Weekly Training Meetings: https://indico.cern.ch/category/10294/
• IRIS-HEP Outreach events: https://indico.cern.ch/category/17100/
• Material (open access): All the training modules developed so far resides:

https://hsf-training.org/training-center/

• Training Community: Our training community is listed here:

https://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/training/community.html

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SSC Milestones and Deliverables

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SSC Metrics

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SSC Risks

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Centralized Help-desk

• Current HEP help is decentralised
• Idea is that the tool would act like a router to connect people-with-questions to the people-who-can-answer-them
• first responds to user questions by automatically pointing out existing discussions on other sites that could help
• if that’s not good enough, user asks for more help and is assisted by helpers-on-shift
• is not a replacement for the expert fora that already exist*
• Tools to be used still open, and example use of GitHub is on the right snapshot
• Would be a good way to scale training as well as people notice it

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• ROOT Forum (async) for ROOT
• Gitter (chat) and GitHub (async) for Scikit-HEP projects
• Software on GitLab uses GitLab (async)
• LHC experiments use Mattermost (chat)
• IRIS-HEP Slack, other Slacks (chat)
• MadGraph is on LaunchPad (async)
• StackOverflow (async) tags [uproot], [awkward-array], and [root-framework]
• Discord? Skype? Email?

“helpathon”?

HSF Training group has run an “online, asynchronous” training events, questions were answered on Slack. While not year-round it is similar to ROOT team members taking a week “on shift” to answer questions on ROOT Forum

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Finding contributors & contributions

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IRIS-HEP fellows

• Experience: two 1 month FTE training fellows in 2023, but of limited success (not enough prior knowledge)
• Plans: “Hybrid fellows” combining technical work with training activities (won’t work for all projects)

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Collaborations with Experiments

Experience: Generally prioritize experiment specific material; bystander effect

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Topical groups

• Idea: Bringing together people who already train and try to create something universal together
• Experience: Currently trying with training on Generators

In-person hackathon to work on material

Idea: Easier to get real commitment in-person; hackathon could be back-to-back with other event

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Other volunteers

Experience: Generally looking for one-off contributions; not often experts in subject-matter

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Bottom line

• Need meaningful commitment from institute members
• Unlikely to happen without direct support (and pressure) from PIs
• Example of “meaningful commitments”: One year of 20% FTE of PhD Student �(but everything counts)

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• Develop and teach standardized training modules covering essential software prerequisites
• Establish and grow a training group that coordinates and sustains cross- experiment training efforts
• Seed topical subgroups that create new intermediate/advanced training material
• Rebuild and expand the Training Center to become a focal point of all software training resources in HEP.
• Strengthen collaborations with experiments and new organizations that support the career path of CI Professionals

SSC (2018-2023)

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hsf-training.org

Training Old Website

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2023 Coding Camp stats

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2023 Coding Camps and Coding Camp-2

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Coding Camp Info 2024

First Outreach Paper

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Quarknet does (no IRIS-HEP involvement) for many years

• Master Classes (1-day) - for students
• Description here
• Data Camp (at Fermilab), week long
• Description here
• started with using spreadsheets to analyze CMS data but now mostly has teachers code the analysis

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Coding Camp 2 (at Fermilab and in person)- Week-long workshop for high school teachers on using Python to analyze HEP data in a Jupyter environment to use with their students (Data Camp and Coding Camp 1 level experience required/prerequisite), dives deeper and gives teachers who have participated in Coding Camp 1 the chance to gain expertise and become ready to learn about advanced topics like machine learning, AI, and quantum computing that are now at the fore in particle physics. Teachers experience FNAL facilities and tours as well. IRIS-HEP started finding this 2022 and 2023

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Coding Camp 0 (virtual) - Two-day workshop for high school teachers with no coding experience. Led by QuarkNet teacher Fellows with support from IRIS-HEP

• Description here
• We had 4 Coding Cap in Summer 2023 - Alabama, Rice, Washington, Puerto Rico

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Coding Camp 1 or just Coding Camp (in person) - Three-day workshop for high school teachers with no coding experience. Led by QuarkNet teacher Fellows with support from IRIS-HEP.

• was established in 2020 to give teachers more direct experience in coding not only CMS data but other data that they can access online.

Description of Coding Camps

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Supporting the full journey