Institute of Nuclear Physics
Polish Academy of Sciences

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Program

In 2020, IFJ PAN PPSS programme will start on July, 6^th and end on July, 31^st. It will be divided in two parts: common for all participants (one week) and individual (three weeks).

In 2020 programme will be held fully remotely:

• lectures will be transmitted via Zoom or Vidyo (connection details will be send later to participants),
• online support during Hands-on Training,
• ROOT exercises supervised by project tutors,
• projects done in pairs, with remote consultation (details to be arranged between participants and tutors).
• mini-conference summarizing all project with presentations given by participants on the last day of the programme given by Zoom or Vidyo.

First part (common)

The first part consists of a series of lectures and classes (all held in English). The goal is to introduce the participants to the basics of particle physics, research methodology and statistical data analysis.

Please note that hours are given in local time (CEST, Warsaw, see here).

A tentative programme of the first week:

Second part (individual)

The second part of the PPSS programme lasts three weeks and is devoted to work on an individual project. Participants collaborate in small groups (usually in pairs) under tutor's supervision.

The following categories of projects are planned:

• searches for "new physics",
• physics of strong interactions (QCD),
• physics of b-quarks,
• neutrino physics,
• cosmic air showers,
• collisions of ultra-relativistic heavy ions,
• detector control systems in large experiments,
• machine learning,
• particle physics outreach.

Topics of the projects from previous editions can be found in History (up to 2017 edition, all lectures, classes and student presentations were in Polish, but it is possible to use e.g. Google Translate).

The topics of the projects will be chosen from a list that will be distributed during the first week a week before start of programme. A possibility of discussing the topics with the supervisors is foreseen during the first day of programme (Monday). The participants will choose their first, second and third preference. The final decision about the assignment to topics will be taken by the organisers and announced at the end of the common part on Wednesday.