Category: Education
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Ideas, collaboration, and lots of coding at the 2nd NGT Hackathon
From 20 to 24 October 2025, more than 40 participants from NGT CMS, ATLAS, and other NGT work packages gathered at CERN’s IdeaSquare for the second edition of the NGT Hackathon — a week-long collaborative event designed to spark ideas, test solutions, and explore new directions for the future of trigger systems for the upcoming…
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Learning, Collaboration, and Inspiration at the 16th ESC School in Bertinoro
Recap of the 16th ESC School in Bertinoro As part of our ongoing commitment to training and development, the Next Generation Triggers project continues to support its members in strengthening their expertise in computing and data science. This year, several of our colleagues travelled to Bertinoro, Italy, to take part in the Efficient Scientific Computing…
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CHEP 2026: Call for Abstracts and Registration Now Open
The next Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP) will take place at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, from 25 to 29 May 2026. CHEP is a long-standing forum for discussing the computing, networking, and software challenges of large-scale, data-intensive scientific experiments in high-energy and nuclear physics. The conference brings together experts…
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The TH–NGT Hackathon: Exploring the NGT Cluster
From 23-26 September, TH–NGT hackathon brought together members of CERN’s Theoretical Physics department and the Next Generation Triggers (NGT) project for a hands-on introduction to the NGT Cluster. The event, held at the CMS Centre, aimed to familiarise participants with the cluster’s infrastructure and support the first steps in developing workflows on this new computing…
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NGT at ACAT 2025
Last week, members of the Next Generation Triggers project joined the international community at the 23rd International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research (ACAT 2025), held at the University of Hamburg between 8–12 September. Jointly organised by DESY and the University of Hamburg, ACAT once again brought together experts from particle,…
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Meet the students: Francisco Resende
How can machine learning boost the performance of ATLAS’s real-time event selection? That’s the question driving the work of Francisco Resende, a CERN openlab summer student from the Technical University of Munich. As part of the Next Generation Triggers project, his work focuses on bringing AI techniques into the upgraded muon trigger system for the…
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Meet the students: Sara Abdelrazeq
From Jordan to Geneva, Sara K. Abdelrazeq has joined CERN this summer through the CERN openlab programme, contributing her skills in computer science to the Next Generation Triggers project. Currently a student at the University of Bonn, she is working on one of the most critical aspects of modern particle physics: the real-time systems that…
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Meet the students: Najla Sadek
From Beirut to Geneva, Najla Sadek has brought her passion for computer science and artificial intelligence to CERN this summer. Currently studying Computer Science and Engineering with a minor in Applied Mathematics at the American University of Beirut, Najla is fascinated by how AI can be used responsibly and meaningfully to serve people. That curiosity…
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Showcasing Innovation: NGT Summer Students at the CERN openlab Lightning Talks
On 11 and 12 August 2025, the CERN openlab Summer Student Lightning Talks brought together this year’s cohort of 37 talented students from 31 nationalities, selected from more than 3,800 applicants worldwide, to present the results of their nine weeks at CERN. This year marked a milestone for the Next Generation Triggers (NGT) project, with…
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First CERN School of Computing in Latin America Opens for Applications
First CERN School of Computing in Latin America – Opens for Applications! For the first time, the CERN School of Computing (CSC) will take place in South America. The CSC Latin America 2026 will be held from 11–24 January 2026 in Santiago, Chile, in collaboration with the SAPHIR Millennium Institute and hosted at the Lo…