KSETA Doktoranden Workshop 2014

Session

Tutorials

Jul 21, 2014, 4:30 PM

Waldhotel Zollernblick

37. Kassiopeia particle tracking framework

Moritz Erhard (EKP), Nikolaus Trost (KIT), Stefan Groh (IEKP)

7/21/14, 4:30 PM

The Kassiopeia particle tracking framework is an object-oriented software package utilizing modern C++ techniques, written originally to meet the needs of the Katrin collaboration. Kassiopeia's target physics problem consists of simulating particle trajectories governed by arbitrarily complex differential equations of motion, continuous physics processes that may in part be modeled as...

33. What is a particle

Ivan Shvetsov (IEKP), Manuel Kambeitz (EKP, KIT), Michael Ziegler (EKP)

7/21/14, 4:30 PM

The tutorial "What is a particle?" gives an introduction to particle physics from an experimentalist point of view. It is targeted at people working outside particle physics. The first part is an overview over the Standard Model of particle physics. The most important particles and interactions are explained. Then the history of the most important discoveries leading to our current knowledge...

3. Cosmic Ray Science on the International Space Station

Stefan Zeissler (KIT), Ms Stefanie Falk (IKP)

7/21/14, 5:45 PM

This tutorial shall give a brief comparison between AMS-02 and JEM-EUSO regarding their physics objectives, flux and exposure calculations, as well as general measurement techniques for cosmic rays.

30. Genetic algorithms

Dmitriy Kostunin (IKP), Felix riehn (IKP), Roman Hiller (IKP)

7/21/14, 5:45 PM

Optimization problems are very common in high energy particle (astro-) physics. In this tutorial we want to BROADen the typical optimization toolkit known to physicists by introducing so-called genetic algorithms (GA). These algorithms are very powerful when it comes to optimizing abstract or high dimensional problems. In this course we want to discuss the main concepts and give...

29. Giving feedback

Anne Zilles (EKP), Olga Kambeitz, Simon Niemes

7/22/14, 9:00 AM

The tutorial 'Giving feedback' will focus on an open discussion accompanied by a moderator. Based on the experience of the participants, we want to encourage a discussion about giving feedback after rehearsals of talks. Using methods of adult education, the goal of the tutorial is to deduce a code of conduct for this situation which can be used in our everyday (research) life. After a short...

36. Gnuplot Workshop

Mr Benedikt Zimmermann (KIT), Mr Thomas Schuh (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

7/22/14, 9:00 AM

The KSETA Doctoral Workshop allows interested KSETA fellows to learn more about methods and tools that might support their research. Doctoral students of all KSETA research fields, from theoretical or experimental particle and astroparticle physics to software or cryogenic engineering, are invited to spend three interesting and inspiring days together and to benefit from the other...

18. TIKZ

7/22/14, 10:15 AM

8. Building a simple data acquisition system (I)

7/23/14, 9:00 AM

35. Introduction to Boosted Decision Trees - A multivariate approach to classification problems

7/23/14, 9:00 AM

The KSETA Doctoral Workshop allows interested KSETA fellows to learn more about methods and tools that might support their research. Doctoral students of all KSETA research fields, from theoretical or experimental particle and astroparticle physics to software or cryogenic engineering, are invited to spend three interesting and inspiring days together and to benefit from the other...

9. Building a simple data acquisition system (II)

7/23/14, 10:15 AM

2. Introduction to Mathematica: symbolic computing and simple simulation visualization

Ariel Bridgeman (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), David Schmidt (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

7/23/14, 10:15 AM

Mathematica is a powerful programming tool with a visually appealing graphical user interface. While possessing many of the capabilities of a more traditional programming language, it features symbolic computing, which renders mathematical expressions in a format that is easier to read and manipulate. Given these ergonomic features, Mathematica is, among other things, useful for quick...

31. Version Control with Git

David Kunz (TTP, KIT), Eileen Kuehn (SCC, KIT), Robin Roth (KIT, ITP), Sarah Mueller (EKP, KIT)

7/23/14, 11:30 AM

Git is a distributed version control system everybody should know about. It is the way to share code. It is the way to contribute to open source projects. But it is also the way to manage personal projects like the PhD thesis. It makes you capable of tracking changes (including errors), automatic backups, branching and merging, and so on. The workshop will give an introduction to Git, and...