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iamchrisg 6d ago

MCnet 6d ago

⏳ Last chance!

Registration for the MCnet Summer School 2026 (CERN, 31 May–5 June) closes in 5 days.

Hands-on training in MC event generators, QCD & collider phenomenology — with a focus on FCC-ee readiness.

👉 https://indico.cern.ch/e/mcnetschool2026
#MCnet #HEP #SummerSchool

MCnet Summer School 2026

The 19th MCnet school will be held CERN. The school provides a five-day course of training in the physics and techniques used in modern Monte Carlo event generators via a series of lectures, practical sessions, and discussions with event-generator authors. The school is aimed at advanced doctoral students and early-career postdocs. Please note that the school will take place in person only; a remote participation option will not be offered. Our core sessions comprise a series of introductory...

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iamchrisg Feb 22

CEDAR Feb 22

🚀 LHAPDF 6.5.6 released!

The first update since Dec 2024 — and while technically a patch release, it includes several significant bugfixes and performance improvements. 🧵

iamchrisg Feb 3

MCnet Feb 3

📢 Registration is now open – MCnet Summer School 2026 at CERN

📍 CERN, Geneva
📅 31 May – 5 June 2026

A 5-day in-person course on the physics & techniques of modern Monte Carlo event generators for PhD students and early-career postdocs. 🧵

iamchrisg Jan 31

Great talk at #fosdem2026 by Alya Abbott about Pull Request Etiquette and Best Practices. “Social work comes before coding work”. 💯

iamchrisg Jan 14

Andy Buckley Jan 14

Saw this on a Quora answer and... hope you like 😆 https://qr.ae/pCco95

iamchrisg Jan 7

MCnet Jan 7

📢 MCnet short-term PhD studentships now available!

We’re advertising a new suite of 3-month studentships for PhD students working on Monte Carlo event generators, QCD, ML, and HPC. Flexible location, home PhD affiliation retained. 🧵

iamchrisg Dec 8

MCnet Dec 8

📢 We’re hiring!
A postdoc position is now open at our MCnet node in Krakow, starting next autumn.
Focus areas: factorisation schemes, QCD, PDFs, MC generators & collider phenomenology.
Please apply or share!
👉 https://inspirehep.net/jobs/3088724
#HEP #ParticlePhysics #MCnet #Jobs

INSPIRE

iamchrisg Dec 4

MCnet Dec 4

👋 Hello Mastodon! This is the official account of the MCnet Collaboration — developing Monte Carlo event generators and training the next generation of particle physicists.
We'll share updates on software, schools, studentships, and events across the collaboration.
Follow along! 🚀

iamchrisg Aug 5, 2025

CEDAR Aug 5, 2025

🚀 New YODA 2.1.1 release!

The latest patch in the 2.1.x series brings:
✔️ Flexible normalisation options (yodascale)
✔️ Kolmogorov–Smirnov test support
✔️ Better Cython bindings & Python exception handling
✔️ YODA-to-HEPData export
✔️ Smarter Estimate handling in yodaenvelope & yodamerge
✔️ Plotting fixes: overflow bins, aux lines, opacity & more

🔗 https://yoda.hepforge.org/

#HEP #OpenScience #DataAnalysis #YODA #Rivet #CPlusPlus #Python

yoda – Hepforge

iamchrisg Jun 17, 2025

CEDAR Jun 17, 2025

📸 A fantastic week at the MCnet Summer School 2025 in Stirling!

From matrix elements and parton showers to neutrino generators, ML, HPC and Public Health—great lectures, hands-on tutorials, and plenty of good conversations (and Scottish weather).

Thanks to all who joined! 👏
If you’re a PhD student or early-career postdoc working with Monte Carlo event generators, keep an eye out for next year’s school—you won’t want to miss it.

#MCnet #HEP #ParticlePhysics #MonteCarlo