[Rivet] Rivet "collaboration meeting"?

[Frank Siegert]

Ok, thanks.

I forgot to mention one issue about the collaboration meeting: When I
was in Hamburg for MC4BSM a week ago, Michele Papucci and Andreas
Weiler approached me, talking about their "Automated Testing Of Models
(AToM)" project. I don't know if you all have heard about it before,
but it's basically a usage of the Rivet infrastructure plus additional
tools, with the goal of providing model exclusion limits, i.e.
completely complementary to what we are using Rivet for so far. Here's
a link to the presentation:

https://indico.desy.de/getFile.py/access?contribId=27&sessionId=11&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=7142

We talked a little bit about what they are doing, and to which extent
(some of) their private Rivet modifications would be worth pushing
upstream, and I thought it might be a neat idea to invite them to the
Rivet collaboration meeting to discuss this. What do you think? I
could go ahead and let them know about date and place and see whether
they would care to join.

Cheers,
Frank


On 30 April 2013 11:01, Andy Buckley <andy.buckley at cern.ch> wrote:
> On 30/04/13 10:00, Frank Siegert wrote:
>> Alright, no problem. I would be available for phoning in once in a
>> while, in case you think it would helpful for some discussion.
>
> Sure... we'll arrange a Vidyo room, since Leif already asked for that.
>
>> By the way... speaking about new features: I've written a simple
>> wrapper for the AIDA histograms to take into account correlated events
>> (e.g. NLO counter events), which I've been using in a private
>> analysis. Do you think it's still worth to put something like that
>> into SVN contrib?
>
> Absolutely!
>
> That bit doesn't work *yet* in Rivet 2, but I have a plan (which I
> should send around) for how to handle this, multi-weights and
> merging/re-entering the event loop/finalize all in one. My guess is that
> the core structure is not so different from what you've done, but YODA
> is needed for anything "mergey". This is something I'd like to get
> working over the summer, maybe starting during our meeting: I'll have a
> summer student to partially work on implementing/testing, and Peter S
> has another whose project involves using this in mcplots.
>
> Andy
>
>
>> On 29 April 2013 12:44, Andy Buckley <andy.buckley at cern.ch> wrote:
>>> Based on feedback from Hendrik, Gavin and Jon I think we have to go for
>>> the second (28-31 May) slot, and UCL looks best. Maybe starting on the
>>> afternoon of the 28th. Deal? Jon/Gavin/Emily, can we get a room(s)
>>> booked for those 3-4 days?
>>>
>>> Sorry Frank -- next time! And we *should* have a next time: we make so
>>> much more progress at in-person meetings. Jon and Emily administer the
>>> MCnet "user link" node, which can provide support to anyone doing MCnet
>>> activities regardless of where they are based, so that is one source of
>>> funding. I can also supply some money through my IPPP associateship, so
>>> one way or another we can pay for you to come to the next one.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Andy
>>>
>>>
>>> On 24/04/13 09:18, Frank Siegert wrote:
>>>> Hi Andy, all,
>>>>
>>>> Sorry about the late reply, I've finally managed to do some travel planning.
>>>>
>>>> I agree that it's useful to have such a focal event, but I'm afraid I
>>>> won't be able to make it that week, since the week before LH clashes
>>>> for me with teaching duties. In the week of May 20-23 I could possible
>>>> take out two days (e.g. Tue 21st and Wed 22nd), so maybe we can wait
>>>> for Hendrik's decision this week?
>>>>
>>>> Another problem for me is funding... I don't expect to get local
>>>> funding for a Rivet meeting. Did you say that there is MCnet money
>>>> which would be available for that even if I'm not employed by an MCnet
>>>> node?
>>>>
>>>> As for the location, all would work well for me, with the (only very
>>>> slight) preference being Copenhagen, CERN, London.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Frank
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 24 April 2013 07:28, Andy Buckley <andy.buckley at cern.ch> wrote:
>>>>> With apologies to James and Leif, the 28-31 May block is looking
>>>>> preferred, as is London over Copenhagen.
>>>>>
>>>>> So I propose 28-30 May, at UCL. Jon, please object promptly if "using"
>>>>> UCL isn't an option on those days!
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Andy
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 22/04/13 16:11, David Grellscheid wrote:
>>>>>> All proposed dates are OK for me, I prefer London.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   David
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