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Based on the recommendation of the expert evaluators and in accordance with the Evaluation Summary Report it is reuqested that the following be implemented:

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Each school will be based on a core four/five hour lecture course on Monte Carlo event generators covering the basic techniques of Monte Carlo integration, the parton shower formalism, hadronization models and the simulation of the underlying event. This will provide a basic core for all the schools on which a series of more specialized lectures and practical sessions will build. The specialized lectures will be chosen to met the demands on the LHC programme at the time of the school. We foresee topics such as simulating high multiplicity jet processes, simulation of underlying events and next-to-leading order simulations being of particular relevance but following early data taking others may be added. In addition we will include lectures on which Monte Carlo related issues have been important for specific experimental analyses, e.g. the effect of different simulations in photon-jet balancing to establish the jet energy scale or the effect of fragmentation uncertainities on the recent Bs oscillation measurement. At later schools we hope that these talks can be provided by students who have participated in the previous round of the short term residence programme.

A major part of each school will be the series of practical sessions. These sessions will have a mix of both sessions where a physics issue is studied to support the lecture programme, for example comparing the simulation of multi-jet production using different approaches to reinforce lectures on multi-jet simulations or the predictions of different multiple scattering models for the underlying event, and sessions where training is provided on individual simulation programs.

In addition to the main particle physics part of the programme at every school there will be a lecture on the wider application of Monte Carlo techniques in for example modelling financial markets, biological systems, health care and the nuclear industry.

Opportunities for more general HEP activities

to incorporate the different approaches in different groups in one framework

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Based on the recommendation of the expert evaluators and in accordance with the Evaluation Summary Report it is reuqested that the following be implemented:

other networks

Opportunities for more general HEP activities

to incorporate the different approaches in different groups in one framework

The various groups will work closely together to achieve interoperability without interdependence in their code. Interoperability means using:

common tools for code development, as provided via [[http://hepforge.cedar.ac.uk] [HepForge]]. Specifically this means bugtracking, software management, documentation and version control. This will allow developers to move between projects with minimum relearning required.

common data-exchange formats will be used, as provided by HepML. In particular these provide schema for parameter specification.

a common validation framework will be used, based upon JetWeb and Rivet.

Lack of interdependence means that:

we avoid common-mode failure in design an implementation of different physics models.

we allow complementary approaches to prosper.

users can install the smallest number of components required to perform their desired task, rather than having to install a large software infrastructure.

We believe such an approach applied to physics Monte Carlo development maximises both effective code development and ease of use.

licensing and IPR

-- JonButterworth - 16 May 2006

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