2024 HEPCAT Summer School, SLAC (Aug.19-Aug.28, 2024)
The schedule of 2024 HEPCAT summer school is shown below. There are 14 lectures delivered by mentors across different topical groups. Students work on 8 experimental modules with hands-on activities. The lectures and experimental activities will take place at IR2, Bldg 620.
Hands-on activities (instructors):
- M1: SiPM and PSD in Scintillators (Jimmy Kingston, intro slides)
- M2: Geant4 Lab (Jianyang Qi, intro slides)
- M3: LGAD sensors (Earl Almazan, intro slides)
- M4: Liquid Argon Lab (Noah Hood, intro slides)
- M5: Ultrafast Inorganic Scintillator (Leo Borrel, intro slides)
- M6: FPGA lab (Riley Gleason, intro slides)
- M7: Fast ML on FPGA (Ben Nachman, intro slides)
- M8: RF Antenna (Joseph Levine, intro slides)
Lectures:
| 1 | Tom Shutt | Nobel Liquid Dectectors |
| 2 | Lauren Tompkins | Basics of Trigger and Data Aquisition Systems |
| 3 | Bruce Schumm | Silicon Diode Detectors: Principles and Applications |
| 4 | Noah Kurinsky | Cryogenic Detectors for HEP and Nuclear Physics |
| 5 | Gabriel Orebi Gann | Let there be light: next-generation neutrino observation with hybrid Cherenkov + scintillation detectors |
| 6 | Emilio Nanni | Future Colliders (1) |
| 7 | Julia Gonski | Fast AI/ML in Hardware for Particle Physics |
| 8 | Caterina Vernieri | Future Colliders (2) |
| 9 | Ben Nachman | Machine Learning for Instrumentation |
| 10 | Bethany Goldblum | Scintillators and their applications |
| 11 | Joesph Levine | dark radio RF lab overview |
| 12 | David Hitlin | UV-Sensitive SiPMs |
| 13 | Carl Grace | Custom Integrated Circuits for HEP |
| 14 | Liang Yang | Photosensors for Particle Physics |
