sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

[Gunther M Roland <rolandg AT mit.edu>]

FYI.

Begin forwarded message:

From: Michele Floris <Michele.Floris AT cern.ch>

Subject: Fwd: Announcement of the first IML Machine Learning workshop

Date: February 14, 2017 at 5:16:08 AM EST

To: Yasuyuki Akiba <akiba AT bnl.gov>, Zhangbu Xu <xzb AT bnl.gov>, Helen Caines <helen.caines AT yale.edu>, "dave AT bnl.gov" <dave AT bnl.gov>, Gunther Roland <rolandg AT mit.edu>

Dear RHIC spokespersons, 

I would like to advertise a small workshop (see below) on machine learning and HEP we are organizing at CERN, which I think could also be interesting for the RHIC community. Note in particular that there will be a session on the “Identification of physics objects” for which we are soliciting abstracts. 

I would be grateful if you could circulate this within your experiments.

Thanks,
Best Regards,
Michele.

-- 
Michele Floris

On February 13, 2017 at 00:06:40, IML Working Group Coordinators (iml.coordinators AT cern.ch) wrote:

Dear all,

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the first IML Machine Learning workshop:

https://indico.cern.ch/event/595059/

taking place at CERN from March 20th to March 22nd, 2017.

The workshop has four main parts, listed in order of occurrence in the workshop agenda:

    1. A discussion panel with industry representatives on Machine Learning

    2. The HSF Community White Paper (CWP) discussion to define the roadmap and the medium and long term plan for Machine Learning Software and Tools

    3. Identification of physics objects (i.e. jet and heavy flavour tagging, among others)

    4. Tutorials for common machine learning tools in HEP

    

Furthermore, a machine learning challenge on jet identification will take place during the workshop.

We are currently soliciting abstracts for the physics object identification session. All abstracts need to be received by March 3rd to be considered.  Interested speakers should also specify the intended length, with choices of 20 or 30 minutes.  We will do our best to respect these proposals, depending on the number of contributions received.

There is no cost to register,  but we ask that you do that as soon as possible. We will use the registration information to gauge attendance for coffee breaks and similar.

We look forward to receiving your proposals, and to seeing you at the IML workshop!

Best regards,

IML Coordinators

Lorenzo, Michele, Paul, Sergei, and Steven