News & Events

The first “European AI for Fundamental Physics Conference” (EuCAIFCon) was held in Amsterdam, from 30 April to 3 May 2024, which SMARTHEP was proud to sponsor. The aim of this event was to provide a platform for establishing new connections between AI activities across various branches of fundamental physics, by bringing together researchers that faceRead more

SMARTHEP was proud to sponsor a training workshop on workflow languages for HEP analysis in April 2024 at CERN. The workshop brought together experts on workflow languages and workflow management tools from the HEP and broader scientific open source software communities, and facilitate a dialogue between them. The workshop was aimed at developers of toolsRead more

Carlos Cocha has become the new Chair of SMARTHEP’s ESR Committee and will represent our ESRs for the next 12 months, replacing Jamie Gooding who held the post during 2023. Carlos is based at the University of Heidelberg and the focus of his PhD lies in unravelling the mysteries of Dark Matter, which despite constitutingRead more

Following the success of last year’s SMARTHEP programme meeting in Manchester (UK), the SMARTHEP network gathered at Lund University in Sweden between 27th November – 1st December 2023 for its second annual meeting. It was a chance for the ESRs to update the consortium on their research and achievements to date as well as lookRead more

The eighth iteration of the C++ course for the high energy physics community took place at the University of Manchester at the end of August. Organised in collaboration with the Software Institute for Data Intensive Sciences, the Training Working Group of the HEP Software Foundation, and the STFC-funded Swift-HEP project, 14 students attended this year’s event in-person. Many thanks to DavidRead more