<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< CRC News No.2102:2013年 5月 8日 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> CRC会員 各位                             CRC事務局 ******< Some opportunities for your students engaged in CR MC work >****** CRC会員の皆様 モンテカルロジェネレータのスクールとCERNでの短期学生受け入れの案内が きています。 興味のある方は下記の案内をご参照ください。 名大STE研/KMI さこ隆志 dear all, two points which hopefully will be of interest to you: (1) you may or may not be aware of the school on qcd event generators organized each year by the MCNet network. In relation to the discussions we've been having recently, I think that it would this school could be very useful to your students engaged in MC work for CR shower modeling. Not necessarily in terms of education in the physics behind MCs, but in terms of acquiring familiarity with the tools that the HEP MC community has created to perform automatic tests against data, as well as tuning and fitting of parameters (Rivet, Professor, etc). The link to the school page is https://indico.desy.de/confRegistrationFormDisplay.py?confId=7132 and the deadline for applications is June 15. (2) MCnet offers studentships of abut 3months for PhD students interested in some specific project led by a MCnet member. Peter Skands, here at CERN, would be very happy to interact with a student from teh Cosmic Ray MC community (both theorists or experimentalists) to help setting up possible interfaces between CR MCs and the tools I mentioned above. For example, to integrate the CR MCs in "mcplots" (http://mcplots.cern.ch/). This is a repository of comparisons between MC generators and LHC/Tevatron data, with plots covering all possible variations of MC versions, tunes, etc. etc. It's a very powerful and useful framework, which would be of great help to all of you engaged in the comparison of MC outputs and official LHC data. The use of tools like this would greatly reduce the load of work you need to do to validate new versions and alternative parameter choices. If you have candidates for these scolarships, put them in contact with me and Peter. Of course, feel free to distribute the above info to your colelagues. I hope we can find a good use for these opportunities, best wishes, michelangelo **************************************************************************