[Rivet] Rivet "collaboration meeting"?

[Andy Buckley]

Sorry for the delay... many other things taking up my time!

So Hendrik, James M, myself, and maybe Jon &| Leif are keen. David G,
Frank S, any others?

Jon suggested not hosting it at CERN since we always get caught by other
things there, and offered UCL which I think is a good option, being well
connected for both UK and international travel.

Personally, I can do 2-3 days in one of these slots:

20-23 May
28-31 May

Sorry, I should have mailed earlier before I got booked up, but
everything was up in the air until ~now. Does this suit others? If
breaking the degeneracy gets too confusing I'll resort to Doodle... but
let's try the prehistoric way first! If this can't work, then we'll do
something post-Houches.

Since Leif asked, I guess we can provide a Vidyo connection for the
discussion parts, but I hope we can spend a decent chunk of hands-on
time that couldn't be usefully shared... plus pub/dinner, which is not
at its best over a videoconference link :-)

Cheers,
Andy

PS. Hopefully both 1.8.3 and 2.0.0b1 will be released ~ this evening...
*at last* in both cases, but especially the YODA version, which is only
~4 years late!


On 15/03/13 14:47, Andy Buckley wrote:
> With the approaching release of Rivet 2, re-funding of MCnet, and the
> submission of the Rivet paper, it feels to me like we're entering a new
> era and should decide on the directions in which we want to concentrate
> development efforts (including issues like the implied philosophy in
> functions like fromDecay, as queried by David).
> 
> Also, I think it's useful to have focal events to make those
> developments -- Hendrik and I had an immensely productive few days
> recently, just by isolating ourselves from "normal" distractions.
> 
> So, how about we try to have a 2/3/4 day Rivet collaboration working
> meeting in the next couple of months? Sometime in May might be good,
> since it's still far enough away that I hope your diaries aren't already
> packed full, and will prime us for discussion and work at Les Houches at
> the start of June. (Who else is going to LH, by the way?)
> 
> So, three short questions:
> 
> 1. Would you attend? I'm assuming that some MCnet funding is possible.
> 2. Where? CERN and Durham are two obvious candidates. Others?
> 3. When? Let's take mid-May as a straw-man starting point.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
> 


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Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Edinburgh

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