Archive of previous student meetings

For a full listing (as far back as September 2008), see the LHCb-UK Indico page (search for "Student Meeting"):

• March 25 2021: Highlights on charm physics at LHCb (Marianna Fontana) (Video Recording will be available soon)
• March 04 2021: Analysis preservation and open data at LHCb (Adam Morris)
• January 28 2021: Machine Learning at LHCb (Nikita Kazeev)
• December 3 2020: Why do Electroweak Physics at LHCb? (William Barter) Video Recording
• November 12 2020: Averaging and Combinations in Flavour Physics (Matt Kenzie) Video Recording
• October 15 2020: Semileptonics at LHCb (Gregory Ciezarek) Video Recording
• September 24 2020: The NA62 Experiment (Radoslav Marchevski) Video Recording
• August 27 2020: Spectroscopy at LHCb (Marco Pappagallo)
• July 23 2020: Allen: LHCb's upgrade HLT1 on GPUs (Dorothea Vom Bruch)
• May 19 2020: Stripping at LHCb (Nicola Skidmore) Video recording
• April 16 2020: Simulation at LHCb (Phil Ilten)
• March 26 2020: Introduction to Lattice QCD (Tobi Tsang)
• February 20 2020: Probability, Likelihood and Confidence (Roger Barlow)
• February 6 2020: The BES III Experiment (Eva Gersabeck)
• November 28 2019: The Python Ecosystem in HEP (Chris Burr)
• October 31 2019: PID with the RICH for the LHCb Upgrade (Giovanni Cavallero)
• August 22 2019: From the Muon Puzzle to the LHC (Hans Dembinski)
• August 8 2019: An Experimentalists Guide to Amplitude Analysis (Mark Whitehead)
• April 25 2019: Flavour Tagging at LHCb (Manuel Schiller)
• March 28 2019: The SuperVELO - plans for a future VELO Upgrade at LHCb (Mark Williams)
• February 12 2019: Outreach and particle physics (Harry Cliff)
• January 31 2019: Physics Coordinator Overview (Mat Charles)
• December 11 2018: Simulation in LHCb + Fast Simulation (Dominik Muller)
• November 22 2018: Science in Parliament (Alison Tully)
• May 14 2018: B2OC summary (Dan Johnson)
• April 23 2018: Goodness of fit (Diego Tonelli)
• Janurary 22 2018: The LHCb Upgrade (Massi Ferro-Luzzi)
• November 28 2017: Beyond the LHCb Upgrade (Chris Parkes)
• November 23 2017: LFU in rare decays (Harry Cliff)
• November 13 2017: Ions and Fixed Target (IFT) WG (Michael Winn)
• July 3 2017: Analysis preservation (Sünje Dallmeier-Tiessen & Pamfilos Fokianos)
• Feburary 20 2017: The LHC and running of LHCb (Federico Alessio)
• Feburary 8 2017: PID (Marianna Fontana)
• January 31 2017: Stripping (Ricardo Vazquez Gomez)
• October 24 2016: Early Career, Gender and Diversity (Barbara Sciascia)
• June 20 2016: Activities of the Rare Decays Working Group (Tom Blake)
• May 23 2016: Track isolation (Basem Khanji)
• April 18 2016: NA62 (Chris Parkinson)
• March 21 2016: CEP at LHCb (Daniel Johnson)
• March 14 2016: Introduction to CLIC (Daniel Hynds)
• February 22 2016: Reproducible Results and Data Preservation (Ana Trisovic)
• February 08 2016: Introduction to Dalitz plot analyses (Mark Peter Whitehead)
• January 25 2016: Determining statistical and systematic uncertainties (Matthew William Kenzie)
• December 14 2015: Charm physics at LHCb (Angelo Di Canto)
• December 7 2015: Tracking at LHCb (Michel De Cian)
• November 9 2015: Organisation and physics programme of LHCb (Vincenzo Vagnoni)
• November 2 2015: What's going on in BnoC? (Tom Latham)
• July 13 2015: Explaining LHCb anomalies with new physics (Andreas Crivellin)
• June 29 2015: An introduction to PV refitting (Vanya Belyaev)
• June 15 2015: Flavour tagging at LHCb? (Julian Wishahi)
• May 11 2015: What is going on in the semileptonics WG? (Mika Vesterinen)
• May 5 2015: Communicating physics research to the media and public (Tara Shears)
• April 13 2015: What is going on in B2cc? (Yasmine Amhis)
• March 9 2015: Precision luminosity measurements at LHCb (Colin Barschel and Rosen Matev)
• February 23 2015: Introduction to neural networks(Michal Kreps)
• February 9 2015: Particle identification at LHCb (Sneha Malde)
• January 26 2015: Combination of gamma measurements (Paolo Gandini)
• December 1 2014: The LHCb detector and the UK involvement in the detector upgrade (Chris Parkes)
• September 22 2014: Charm spectroscopy of X, Y and Z states (Sebastian Neubert)
• June 30 2014: Upgrade trigger (Tim Head)
• June 23 2014: Amplitude analysis techniques (Jonas Rademacker)
• June 16 2014: Data processing from front-end to HLT (Jan Buytaert)
• May 12 2014: Detection asymmetries at LHCb (Mika Vesterinen)
• April 24 2014: LHCb Simulation (Gloria Corti)
• April 14 2014: Implications of New Physics on Flavour Physics (Monika Blanke)
• March 21 2014: The MoEDAL Experiment (James Pinfold)
• March 21 2014: The LHCb RICH Detectors (Antonis Papanestis)
• Feb 17 2014: Limit Setting (Till Moritz Karbach)
• Feb 3 2014: An Introduction to Multivariate Analysis with TMVA (Helge Voss)
• Jan 21 2014: Physics of V_ub (Nazila Mahmoudi)
• Nov 26 2013: Introduction to Charm Physics (Marco Gersabeck)
• Nov 12 2013: The LHCb collaboration: structure, organisation and strategy (Timothy Gershon)
• Oct 29 2013: Track Reconstruction in LHCb (Jeroen Van Tilburg
• Sept 17 2013: The LHCb Upgrade (Daniel Hynds)
• Aug 20 2013: The LHCb Trigger (Vava Gligorov)
• Jun 25 2013: Effective field theory approaches in flavour physics (links to other lecture) (Gino Isidori)
• Apr 04 2013: Decay Tree Fitter (links to additional material) (Wouter Hulsbergen)
• Mar 26 2013: Tracking and Alignment (Maurizio Martinelli)
• Mar 12 2013: Advice on science communication (Tara Shears)
• Feb 12 2013: LHCb UK Software tutorial discussion.
• Dec 12 2012: Overview of the LHCb Physics programme (Tim Gershorn)
• Oct 30 2012: Introduction to the LHCb Detector
• Jun 12 2012: Swimming (Nick Torr)
• Feedback discussion (recording: 2012-05-29-feedback.zip)
• May 15 2012: Monte Carlo (Matthew Reid) - EVO Recording in table below
• May 1 2012: Advice on Thesis Writing (Susan Haines) - EVO Recording in table below
• Feb 28 2012: PID Efficiencies and Reweighting (Andrew Powell)
• Feb 21 2012: Silicon Detectors (Paula Collins) - EVO Recording in table below
• Dec 6 2011: The LHCb Trigger (Vava Gligorov)
• Nov 22 2011: Delta A_CP Measurement (Matthew Charles) - EVO Recording in table below
• Nov 15 2011: Introduction to the LHCb Experiment (William Barter & Matthew Reid) - EVO Recording in table below
• Oct 08 2011: Physics Overview At LHCb (Tim Gershon)
• Aug 23 2011: Neural Networks (Michal Kreps)
• Aug 9 2011: Systematic uncertainties (Roger Barlow)
• Jul 12 2011: Gaussian uncertainties and fitting (Ronan McNulty)
• May 10 2011: Beta_s at LHCb (Pete Clarke)
• Apr 12 2011: The LHC (Federico Alessio)
• Mar 29 2011: Bs -> mu mu (Laurence Carson)
• Mar 14 2011: J/psi production studies at LHCb (Wenbin Qian)
• Feb 15 2011: The LHCb vertex detector upgrade (Richard Plackett) and TORCH (Mat Charles)
• Feb 1 2011: The LHCb calorimeters (Benoit Viaud)
• Dec 7 2010: Dalitz Plots (Tom Latham)
• Nov 23 2010: All about selections (Conor Fitzpatrick, Sneha Malde, Harry Cliff)
• Oct 26 2010: The story so far (Sophie Redford, Phillip Urquijo)
• Oct 12 2010: Rough guide to LHCb (Grant McGregor, Tom Hampson, Hamish Gordon)
• Sep 28 2010: Fitting jamboree (Mat Charles, Adrian Bevan, Greig Cowan, Jonas Rademacker)
• Aug 31 2010: B -> DX and gamma (Susan Haines)
• Aug 3 2010: Tips for thesis writing (Andrew Powell) -- EVO recording (see below)
• Jul 6 2010: BABAR charm mixing results (Carlos Chavez).
• Jun 22 2010: The LHCb tracking stations (Matt Needham). Also Top Tip from Andrea Contu on making webpages
• Jun 15 2010: The MoEDAL experiment (James Pinfold).
• Jun 8 2010: The LHCb muon system (Giulia Manc) -- for more, see LHCb-INT-2010-001 and CERN-LHCb-PUB-2009-017. Also Top Tip from Phil Hunt on XML summary records.
• May 25 2010: First evidence of anomalous CP violation in B0 mixing (Ian Bertrand). Also Top Tip from Loic Esteve on sshfs.
• Apr 27 2010: How to run over data (Rob Lambert); RICH alignment (Matt Coombes, Tom Hampson) -- see recording in .zip, .tar.bz2
• Feb 16 2010: Looking for Lambda and KS in the early data (Chris Blanks, Raluca Muresan)
• Jan 26 2010: Panoramix tutorial (Thomas Ruf)
• Dec 8 2009: Blind analysis (Fergus Wilson)
• Nov 24 2009: Muon reconstruction (Alessio Sarti)
• Nov 10 2009: Beauty 2009 Summary (Andrew Powell, Patrick Spradlin)
• Oct 27 2009: LHCb tracking and ghost classification (Matt Needham)
• Oct 13 2009: Monte Carlo generators and simulation (Gloria Corti, Patrick Robbe)
• Sep 15 2009: LHCb upgrade (Franz Muheim)
• Sep 1 2009: The LHCb RICHes (Susan Haines, Susanne Koblitz, Chris Jones)
• Aug 4 2009: Trigger for early running scenarios (Hans Dijkstra)
• Jul 21 2009: Dalitz plots, including D0 to KS K+ K- (Jonas Rademacker, Chris Thomas); Update on Lambda (Chris Blanks)
• Jul 7 2009: Baryon spectroscopy (Mat Charles); RICH PID calibration (Chris Blanks)
• Jun 23 2009: First VELO results from 2009 TED data (Silvia Borghi)
• Jun 9 2009: CDF Higgs mass limit (Richard St. Denis)
• Jun 2 2009: Lepton Flavour Violation (Eduardo Rodrigues)
• May 12 2009: Should we be afraid of SuperB? (Tim Gershon)
• Apr 28 2009: LHCb Calorimeters Overview (Olivier Deschamps)
• Mar 31 2009: MINT (Jonas Rademacker, Marco Gersabeck)
• Mar 24 2009: LoKI (Vanya)
• Mar 3 2009: Systematic Uncertainties (Roger Barlow)
• Feb 17 2009: The Punzi Effect (Jonas Rademacker)
• Feb 3 2009: The Feldman-Cousins paper (Vladimir Gligorov)
• Jan 20 2009: Beyond the B (Guy Wilkinson)
• Dec 2 2008: The new toplogical HLT (Hans Dijkstra)
• Nov 18 2008: Bd to K* mu mu (Jeremy Dickens, William Reece, Hugh Skottowe, Nicola Mangiafave)
• Nov 11 2008: Asymmetry measurements (Robert Lambert, Kenneth Lessnoff, Marco Adinolfi)
• Nov 4 2008: Cut optimization and multi-variate selections (Vladimir Gligorov, Laurence Carson, Marco Adinolfi)

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