NPPS Leadership Team

[Torre Wenaus <wenaus AT gmail.com>]

Good news... finally a very useful way to use the former US ATLAS/CSI postdoc funds (and some other DOE funds)

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From: Torre Wenaus <wenaus AT gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: Vince
To: Rajagopalan, Srini <srinir AT bnl.gov>
Cc: Ma, Hong <hma AT bnl.gov>, Klimentov, Alexei <aak AT bnl.gov>, Butehorn, Charles J <butehorn AT bnl.gov>

Thanks Srini for your support! I had a very positive conversation today with Meifeng and Shantenu on having a Physics component to Vince Pascuzzi’s work. Summary:

• CSI anticipates two projects for him: complex workflows with Shantenu, and HEP-CCE PPS with Meifeng (Vince is currently working on PPS at LBNL, so good continuity)

• Meifeng’s interest is in having him work on ACTS in PPS (we (ATLAS) succeeded in having PPS accept ACTS as a targeted app)

• We in Physics completely share the ACTS interest, both for ATLAS and sPHENIX (and very likely EIC). Finally we can begin building up some in-house ACTS expertise rather than just training up an ORNL person :-) ACTS work involves not only accelerators but AI/ML as well, where we also need to build expertise.

• Proposed division of his time is 40% Shantenu/workflow, 30% Meifeng/PPS, 30% Physics/PPS. The PPS work would be one coherent work program centered on ACTS, so his project split would be 40/60 workflow/ACTS.

• From Physics we would treat Vince as an NPPS group member, in which context we can connect his ACTS work to ATLAS, sPHENIX and others.

• Vince’s career path interest is CS more than physics, his career advancement will depend on CSI and a CS publication record, making me think it would be best to collaborate on the basis of Vince being a full CSI employee, rather than a joint appointment with Physics. But I have no experience with joint appointments, maybe there are considerations I’m not aware of.

• We agree that the complex workflow program is not part of the collaboration at this point. Of course over time it would be very desirable to leverage that 40% of Vince too, but that’s a different discussion for later.

• Vince will start with BNL on Sep 7, if plans hold, and will move to LI not long thereafter. Oct 1 would be a natural date to start the collaboration if it proves possible, else asap thereafter.

So, bottom line, an investment from us to support 30% of Vince, leveraging a valuable program on ACTS occupying 60% of his time, the program agreed between us and Meifeng. A one year plan for now with the expectation that it continues if it goes well and funds are available. Sound OK? Comments?

  Torre

On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 1:49 AM Rajagopalan, Srini <srinir AT bnl.gov> wrote:

This is fine. Go ahead. There is some Lali funds left.. can cover for first year in a separate account - Chuck knows the details. Use that.

It would be good to define the scope of work and make sure we can agree. 

I assume no M&O support for authorship is needed.

srini

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