HSF Coordination Meeting #286, 10 April 2025

Attending

Present/Contributing: Ruslan Mashinistov, Liz Sexton-Kennedy, Claire Antel, Ianna Osborne, Michel Villanueva, Inês Ochoa, Maarten van Veghel, Juan Miguel Carceller, Sapta Bhattacharya

Apologies/Contributing: Eduardo Rodrigues, Graeme A. Stewart, Paul Laycock, Caterina Doglioni, Michel Jouvin, Christian Wessel, Alexander Moreno Briceño

News, general matters, announcements

European Strategy Update (EPPSU) final stages

Michel and Graeme unavailable, but here is the status:

The paper, The Critical Importance of Software for HEP, was finalised on time 👏.

The paper was endorsed by ALICE, ATLAS, Belle II, CMS, DUNE, ePIC, LHCb, MCnet and WLCG!

Q. Who is going to the open symposium in Venice? It would make a good topic for an HSF Seminar to report on this.

HSF/WLCG Workshop

The agenda is available here: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1484669/timetable/

HSF Seminar Series and Compute Accelerator Forum

Planned seminars:

June has a clash with the EPPSU symposium - TBD if we have a seminar.

HSF seminar conveners are reachable at hsf-seminar-conveners@gmail.com

Steering Group

Next SG meeting will take place on April 14th.

HSF Affiliated Projects and Software

The review of the nnpdf package in underway and the GDoc will soon be make available for feedback via the HSF Forum.

JENA Symposium

The Joint ECFA-NuPPEC-APPEC Seminar is ongoing in Harwell this week: https://indico.global/event/5574.

There is a long session on software and computing today - full report next meeting.

Activities Updates

Planning chats between activity conveners and SG liaisons are underway.

Group SG Liaison Status
Data Analysis Mark and Eduardo Done
Detector Simulation Torre Done
Physics Generators Stefan Done
JuliaHEP Pere Scheduled
PyHEP Eduardo Done
Reconstruction and Software Triggers Claire and Paul Done
Tools and Packaging Liz Done
Training Nicole and Graeme Done

The AA conveners should also feel free to reach out to their liaison to speed the planning!

Please remember to update your activity page on the HSF website with the names of the current conveners.

General Standing Reminders

Website banners

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Meetings

Please try and book meetings in Indico at least 2 weeks in advance!

That way they go into the calendar early and they will be included in the weekly email announcement that goes to HSF Forum.

Videos

When meetings are recorded (recommended), please try to put them onto:

Then post links to these locations. See C&AF for examples.

Data Analysis

Reconstruction and Trigger

Software Training

Future events:

Software Tools and Packaging

Ruslan Mashinistov:

Detector Simulation

Physics Generators

Check with Stefan to check with the summary of the meeting which included suggested topics and maybe even a seminar.

Reconstruction and Software Triggers

Planning a new meeting with liaisons to discuss contributions.

PyHEP

PyHEP.dev 2025 Workshop will be held at University of Washington from July 14 to 17.

JuliaHEP

JuliaHEP 2025 Workshop will be held at Princeton from July 28 to 31.

GSoC program 2025

AOB

Next Meeting

Next meeting will be 24 April.

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