ATC Areas of Activity

Topics for collaboration

Below are potential areas of interest for ATC proposals, along with the labs interested in working in these areas. Note that these are only suggestions, and labs are likely open to other ideas. Please contact the Physics Support managers if you are uncertain about how to apply or proceed.

Physics Analysis

Detector R&D and Electronics

Core Software, Combined Performance and Computing

Educational and training opportunities

Lab-initiated opportunities Each lab is encouraged to organize educational and training activities. Students and postdocs are encouraged to take advantage of all of these opportunities, and also to suggest them to the ATC and Physics Support managers.

Faculty teaching at labs Proposals including faculty/postdocs who are willing to teach/lecture/provide education at the ATCs are highly encouraged. This may be good use case for extra travel or partial summer support. Those who are interested are encouraged to contact the Physics Support managers.

Analysis bootcamp / tutorial This is a longer-term plan in which the 4 labs will host rotating bootcamps, tutorials and hackathons for students. These programs are envisioned to take place twice a year, with each lab hosting one every other year. Some of these sessions may be of the important, baseline “Welcome to ATLAS” sessions that are also hosted at CERN, whereas others may be focused on special topics such as “Introduction to VHDL”, “Introduction to Machine Learning in HEP” and “Overview of the hardware of the ATLAS detector.” Anyone with particular interest in helping to plan such a session or with proposed topics of organization for one of these sessions are highly encouraged to write to the US ATLAS Physics Support Managers.

ATC courses These are courses taught at the ATC that can be taken for credit at the host institution by registration at a home institute. This typically involves registering for “independent study” and depends on the home institute rules and guidelines. This can be done remotely if enough students at a lab are connecting together, with work handed in electronically. Faculty teaching courses at home institutes that are willing to participate by connecting to zoom while teaching and grading extra assignments are encouraged to contact the Physics Support managers. Travel to the ATCs to lecture as well may be supported. Note that students may have the option to register for courses at Stanford / UC Berkeley while at SLAC/LBNL. US ATLAS will not pay for the course fees, but this is an additional option to consider.