HEP.TrackX Weekly

Monday 13 Feb 2017, 13:30 → 14:30 US/Pacific

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Paolo Calafiura, Steven Farrell

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Josh slides https://indico.cern.ch/event/472938/contributions/1150753/attachments/1275329/1891843/calorRegressionMay19-2016.pdf

Steve slides Farrell_2017_02_13.pdf

Present: Dustin, Josh, Aris, Lindsey, Paolo, Stephan, Steven, Maria

 

Hot items:

• Conference contributions:

  • Steve will present @ Connecting the Dots/Intelligent Detector - LAL Mar 6-9 https://ctdwit2017.lal.in2p3.fr/

    • We will try to participate to trackML RAMP. Lots of details @ https://indico.cern.ch/event/607400/   (access code 31415)

    • David R is putting together a starter kit (track generator, fitter)

    • There is also a call for help in these areas

      • Different starter kits

      • Scoring function (big thing)

      • Estimation of required training/testing statistics

      • Bits and pieces

  • ICLR Feb 17 arkiv 2-3 pages. Mayur working on it,

  • Confirmed talk @ IML workshop @ CERN Mar 20-22. Must nominate speaker https://indico.cern.ch/event/595059/overview

    • Dustin will give the talk

  • ACAT Seattle Aug 21: https://indico.cern.ch/event/567550/

    • Submission deadline?

• Maria: potential collaboration with google-cloud

• Summer students:

  • a couple of students will visit CalTech this summer and work on HEP.TrkX

  • One CS student from Fribourg Switzerland will visit LBNL for 8-10 weeks

Outstanding Action Items:

• Paolo → add Aris to NERSC repository. Done, sorry about the delay

• Mayur → share his ICLR abstract with group.

• Computing platform:

  • CalTech GPU servers. Jean-Roch contact person if you need access. Contact JR on skype

New Action Items:

• Paolo → Contact IML workshop organizers

Round the Table for Status Reports:

Caltech

• Josh: went through his  in situ uncertainty talk

• Dustin: try to find workaround convnet limitation that forces to use fixed length inputs. Looking at attention mechanism for image captioning (where elements are tracks)

FNAL

• Aris: still plans to use dropout method from Dustin to calculate model uncertainties

LBL

• New version of acts working for us (test data used by Mayur). Working on cell data writer. Will try to find presentation about new simulator.

• Steve slides

 

AOB

Next meeting Feb 27 (next Mon is President’s day)