[Rivet] Rivet "collaboration meeting"?

Andy Buckley andy.buckley at ed.ac.uk
Mon Mar 18 13:38:55 GMT 2013


I've had NO replies! Amazing: no-one loves Rivet at all. Please answer
soon :-)

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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Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Edinburgh

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