Google Summer of Code 2020Google Summer of Code is a program that allows students to contribute to development of open-source projects, mentored by participating organizations.
Particle physics is an exciting field where large collaborations of scientists collect and analyze petabytes of data from high-energy physics experiments, such as the Large Hadron Collider, hosted at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Some of the questions that we collectively ask are:
To answer these questions, particle physicists build software to simulate and analyze what happens in particle physics detectors.
The CERN software for experiments (CERN EP-SFT) group has participated in the GSoC since 2011. Since 2017 the program has expanded to involve the high-energy physics community under the umbrella of the HEP Software Foundation.
Information from last year’s GSoC can be found here.
In 2020 HSF is participating in the program as a GSoC umbrella organization. Project proposals are listed below.
N.B. This page archives the proposals from the 2020 Google Summer of Code. For information on the latest GSoC please see here.
If you are interested in the GSoC program, please start by having a look at our guidelines for students.
New projects for HSF GSoC in 2020 were published in February. The application period opened in mid-March, but discussions about application ideas with mentors took place the month before. You can monitor our website in order to get acquainted with the projects you are interested in and to be prepared for submitting an application. Meanwhile you may want to take a look at last year’s HSF GSoC projects since many of those may propose subjects also this year.
For further information, feel free to contact the HSF GSoC admins or join our new chat room
hsf-gsoc-admin@googlegroups.com
Instructions for participating projects and mentors can be found here.
We have a Google group where we handle all future announcements related to GSoC for our HSF Umbrella Organization. Please write us a mail to hsf-gsoc-admin@googlegroups.com in case you are interested to add your preferred mail to this list. Note that all 2020 HSF GSoC mentors will have to join this group.
For new HEP-related groups wishing to join HSF GSoC umbrella rather than being independent organizations: there is no formal procedure, you will just need to add a description and logo for your organization. We need however one contact person for each new group, so please write us an e-mail.
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The University of Alabama is a public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Established in 1820, the University of Alabama is the oldest and largest of the public universities in Alabama as well as the flagship of the University of Alabama System |
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Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, founded in 1764. |
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IN2P3 Computing Centre (CC-IN2P3) is a CNRS support and research unit associated to IN2P3, the coordinating body for nuclear, particle, and astroparticle physics research. As a national research infrastructure, the CC-IN2P3 designs and manages a large range of computer-related services, especially a mass storage system and mass data resources. |
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At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. They use the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments to study the basic constituents of matter – the fundamental particles. |
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Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university in Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1865, the university was intended to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge—from the classics to the sciences, and from the theoretical to the applied. These ideals, unconventional for the time, are captured in Cornell’s founding principle, a popular 1868 Ezra Cornell quotation: “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.” |
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The Center for Research in Open Source Software (www.cross.ucsc.edu), part of the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, was founded based on the success of former UCSC student Sage Weil and the Ceph storage system. At CROSS, we create open source leaders by blending open source software strategies with graduate-level research. CROSS turns OSS prototypes into successful open source software projects. |
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University of Florida is a public institution that was founded in 1853. |
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) is a Department of Energy national laboratory dedicated to particle physics research. Fermilab supports work by scientists, from across the country and the globe, who seek to further our understanding of matter, energy, space and time. |
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Florida State University is a public institution that was founded in 1851. |
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IJCLab is a French research laboratory belonging to CNRS/IN2P3 and located at UniversitéParis Saclay. The main topics of the research done at IJCLab are high energy physics, cosmology and accelerators. |
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a public institution that was founded in 1867. |
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Imperial College London is a world top ten university with an international reputation for excellence in teaching and research. Consistently rated amongst the world’s best universities, Imperial is committed to developing the next generation of researchers, scientists and academics through collaboration across disciplines. Located in the heart of London, Imperial is a multidisciplinary space for education, research, translation and commercialisation, harnessing science and innovation to tackle global challenges. |
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The Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN; “National Institute for Nuclear Physics”) is the coordinating institution for nuclear, particle and astroparticle physics in Italy. |
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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has provided critical contributions to critical challenges with systems engineering and integration, technology research and development, and analysis. |
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The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is a public research university and one of the largest research and education institutions in Germany. |
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Founded in 1958, Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont is a government-funded mixed research unit (CNRS/IN2P3and University Clermont Auvergne), in Auvergne, France. |
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The Morgridge Institute for Research is a private, nonprofit biomedical research institute in Madison, Wis., affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The institute works to improve human health by conducting, enabling and translating interdisciplinary biomedical research. Research in regenerative biology, virology, medical devices and core computational technology is currently underway. |
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Monash University Monash University is one of Australia’s leading universities and ranks among the world’s top 100. We help change lives through research and education. |
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OProject Open source organization, specialized in development of advanced scientific software with ROOT, focused mathematical/statistical tools, machine learning and high performance computing. |
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The University of Pittsburgh is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the United States. |
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Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey. |
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STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom is home to national facilities including the Diamond synchrotron and ISIS neutron spallation source. The Particle Physics Department contributes to experiments including ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and T2K. |
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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named Stanford Linear Accelerator Center is a United States Department of Energy National Laboratory operated by Stanford University under the programmatic direction of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science and located in Menlo Park, California. It is the site of the Stanford Linear Accelerator, a 3.2 kilometer (2 mile) linear accelerator constructed in 1966 and shut down in the 2000s, which could accelerate electrons to energies of 50 GeV. Today SLAC research centers on a broad program in atomic and solid-state physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine using X-rays from synchrotron radiation and a free-electron laser as well as experimental and theoretical research in elementary particle physics, astroparticle physics, and cosmology. |
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Founded in 1826 in the heart of London, University College London is London’s leading multidisciplinary university, with more than 13,000 staff and 42,000 students from 150 different countries. It is one of the UK’s leading groups in the field of particle physics. |
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Durham University, founded in 1832, enjoys a global reputation for its strengths in both teaching and research as evidenced by its World Top 100 position in the QS World University Rankings 2020 (78th). The University is home to over 18,000 students from over 120 countries and employs over 4000 staff. It hosts some of the UK’s leading groups in the fields of Particle Physics Phenomenology IPPP and Computational Cosmology ICC. |
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The University of Glasgow is a leading UK research university based in Scotland’s largest city. We work on particle physics experiments from the LHC to neutrinos, particle theory from interpretations of Higgs and top-quark measurements to the strong force, and high-performance distributed computing. |
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UMass Amherst is one of the major public research universities in America. |
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The University of Nebraska–Lincoln, often referred to as Nebraska, UNL or NU, is a public research university in the city of Lincoln, in the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. It is the state’s oldest university, and the largest in the University of Nebraska system. |
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The University of Wuppertal is a German scientific institution, located in Wuppertal, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The university’s official name in German is Bergische Universität Wuppertal, or BUW. It was founded in 1972. In 2014/15, approx. 20,000 students were enrolled in a wide range of subjects with many interdisciplinary linkages between a total of 7 faculties. |
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The University of Wisconsin-Madison is a public research university in Madison, Wisconsin. Since its founding in 1848, this campus has been a catalyst for the extraordinary. |
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Although GSoC 2020 has finished, please do not hesitate to contact the current admins if you are interested in the latest GSoC program using
hsf-gsoc-admin@googlegroups.com
HSF GSoC mentor discussion e-group
HSF GSoC administrators: Andrei Gheata, Antoine Pérus and Xavier Valls