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Sudhir Malik

University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez

26 May 2020

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IRIS-HEP Retreat - SSC plans

https://iris-hep.org/ssc.html

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• Slides on training from Tuesday:
• https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YKKt6oGPCkD6pfl9SC_GbNJzdo-6BRZ-UF_2uCMBHao/edit?usp=sharing
• Training Blueprint:
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uUGOJPp0kH0kTofe5GocfRNhbxm1oPxR9KTSbzvuoIQ/edit
• Training Events
• https://indico.cern.ch/category/11386/
• Training Material
• https://github.com/hsf-training

Training Links

Challenges

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• No dedicated personnel
• Success in training depends on voluntary participation from experts and developers in (non-)IRIS-HEP community
• Building a community (from HEP) of instructors

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Year 3 (HEP training)

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• Produce Software Training curriculum
• https://demo.codimd.org/x_XjjowgSDacKRNaeTS-yg?view#
• Standard basic carpentry curriculum
• Produce a HEP specific training curriculum
• Scale up the activities basing off the above
• Integrate Sustainability
• Training & best practices beyond just coding
• Project-level guidance - how to start and maintain projects, how to build community
• Policy, including how to provide credit to software developers and maintainers
• Blueprint Meeting - experts from outside HEP community (Computing, Carpentries etc.)

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Year 3 (HEP training)

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• Have beta testers work through
• Topics for basic carpentry (non-HEP)
• Topics for basic carpentry (HEP)
• Have next few events (on-your-own-mode) with minimal instructions
• Engage IRIS-HEP Fellows in training (expand community)
• Next Training blueprint (next year-ish)
• Workshop - sustainability directions (Dan Katz)

Year 3 (Education/Outreach)

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• Material for the above in github repository
• Partnering with Quarknet
• Reach the established K-12 teachers community
• Integrate Software training with established programs
• Data Camps, Masterclasses, e-labs
• Expand the STEM programming outreach via universities other than UPRM (e.g. other IRIS-HEP universities)

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Years 3+ (Beyond Basic Curriculum)

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• Intermediate
• Parallel Programming, Workflows (e.g. yadage) & Reproducibility (e.g Reana) Machine Learning

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• Advanced
• Documentation (doxygen, sphinx), Event generation and MC (pythia, sherpa, madgraph, …), GEANT

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