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FACET-II 2025

Summer Student Program

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Welcome!

Welcome to SLAC and welcome to FACET-II. We are excited to have you!
This document contains onboarding tasks specific to FACET-II.
You should have received an email about SLAC Windows and UNIX accounts.

If you haven’t yet, please let us know!

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Resources

We will give you tons of information about FACET-II when you arrive at SLAC. Here are some useful resources that you can look at during your virtual week.

FACET-II wiki: https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/FACET/FACET-II+Home
FACET-II website: https://facet-ii.slac.stanford.edu/
FACET-II 3D scan: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=E6rRJHvAB27
USPAS Course on Plasma Wakefield Acceleration: https://sites.google.com/view/uspas-particle-driven-pwfa/home

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Slack

You will receive an invite to FACET-II Slack workspace at your home institute email. In case you do not receive invite, or prefer to use a different email, go here to request access: facet-ii.slack.com

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Wiki (Confluence)

Log in using SLAC Windows credentials (top right) and then go here to request editor access: https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/FACET/FACET+Confluence+Editors

https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/FACET/FACET-II+Home

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UNIX, facet-srv, and fastx – Ivan Rajkovic on Tuesday

You will work with the SLAC control system during your time at FACET. We will have a computing tutorial to make sure that your UNIX accounts are setup correctly and that you have access to fastx and facet-srv: https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/FACET/Remote+access+to+facethome+and+facet-srv01

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Git repos – Ivan Rajkovic on Tuesday

Our git repos are hosted at SLAC but also available on github: https://github.com/slaclab/facet-matlabTNG

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Science Overview – Doug Storey, Wednesday Lunch

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Overleaf – Nathan Majernik *Now on Thursday*

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Next Week In-person

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FACET-II Code Tutorials – Sharon Perez,Nathan Majernik, River Robles

We will provide tutorials on the following topics after you arrive at SLAC.

Date TBD, Week of June 23

Python GUI development (PyDM: https://slaclab.github.io/pydm/)
Matlab GUI development (https://github.com/slaclab/facet-matlabTNG)
Particle-in-Cell Tutorial (https://fbpic.github.io/)

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FACET-II Tunnel Training – Ivan Rajkovic

SLAC is an awesome place to work! During the summer we will:

Work in the FACET tunnel (Training AD103)

This will happen during the week of the 23rd!

Radiation Worker Training (RWT 116 and RWT 116PRA)
Work in the Accelerator Control room (Training AD112)

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Later this summer

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Conduct of Research - Auralee Edelen

Collaborative research can benefit everyone involved!

How do you acknowledge your collaborators work?
How do you find related research for citation?
How do you resolve scientific disagreements?