1. MCnetITN3 Mid-Term Review
Coordinator’s Report
Mike Seymour
January 24th 2019

2. MCnetITN3 H2020 Innovative Training Network
for Monte Carlo event generator
development
validation and tuning
Approved for four years from 1st Apr 2017
Builds on success of
FP6 RTN MCnet (2007–2010)
FP7 ITN MCnetITN (2013–2016)

3. Why Monte Carlo? Experimental Theoretical
Planning of future experiments
Planning/preparation of analysis
Simulating signals (response, efficiency)
Simulating backgrounds (when they cannot be measured, efficiency/extrapolation when they can)
Theoretical
QCD cannot be solved; more from calculation ⇒ less modelling ⇒ deeper understanding

4. Why Monte Carlo?

5. MCnetITN3 . +CERN +Heidelberg +Vienna +Monash (Aus) Plugin SHERPA
MadGraph
PYTHIA
Herwig
+CERN
+Heidelberg
+Vienna
+Monash (Aus)

6. MCnetITN3 objectives Training: Through Research:  Steffen Schumann
To train a large section of the user base in the physics and techniques of event generators
To train the next generation of event generator developers
To provide broader training in transferable skills
Through Research:
To develop the next generation of higher precision event generators and support them for use throughout the LHC era and beyond
To play a central rôle in the analysis of LHC data and the discovery of new physics there
To extract the maximum potential from existing data to constrain the modeling of the data from the LHC and future experiments
 Steffen Schumann
 Jeppe Andersen

7. Coordinator’s Report Scientific Progress Report
Jeppe Andersen
Training Progress Report
Steffen Schumann

8. Networking Four network meetings Short collaborative visits
CERN April 2017
Karlsruhe September 2017
CERN April 2018
Louvain (this week)
typical attendance ~40
70 of the 100 members attended at least 1
Short collaborative visits

9. Networking All projects multi-institute Most institutes multi-project
28/70 papers jointly by network members from different institutions
10/26 in /27 in 2013

10. Non-Academic Partners
Lecture on non-academic applications of our methods at each school:
B12 at Lund 2017
IBA at Monash 2018
blue yonder at London 2019
Dedicated non-academic discussion session at CERN network meeting 2018
All long-term ESRs offered non-academic secondment
Luca Mantani (Louvain) currently at B12

11. 2007–2018

12. New web site launched this week

13. Management External Student & advisory postdoc committee committee
(six students,
one postdoc)
External
advisory
committee
(four expters,
GENSER,
non-academic)
Management
Management Committee
(twenty tenured academics)
Management Group
(eight team leaders)
Scientist in Charge and
Network Project Manager
Meets monthly,
uses password-protected internal web
Administrative
departments

14. Deliverables/Milestones
All due deliverables and milestones delivered
But…
D2.1: “Recruit 56 ESR-months of short-term studentships (approximately 16 students)” due 31 Mar 2019.
Currently 33 ESR-months (7 students)

15. Impact
Our biggest scientific impact is on the exploitation of LHC data
Annual Schools and Short-term Studentships impact on user community
Huge impact on Fellows’ careers, e.g...
2 members of management committee (permanent academic staff) 3 others in long-term (≥5 yr) postns
9 current postdocs
4 lecturers or tutors at Annual School
were ESRs of our precursor networks

16. Summary
21 months of MCnetITN3 have seen great progress towards our research objectives
Long-term recruitment completed, but currently re-opened for Göttingen position
Short-term recruitment behind schedule, mainly due to slow start
Schools, meetings, training events, networking, dissemination, outreach, … going as planned
Secondments have started