LIP Summer Internships - Lectures and Tutorials

Jun 4, 2025, 9:00 AM → Jul 9, 2025, 11:30 PM Europe/Lisbon

Francisco Neves (LIP Coimbra), Helena Santos (LIP), Inês Ochoa (LIP), Luis Margato (Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas), Raul Sarmento (LIP), Sofia Andringa (LIP)

LIP Lisbon: Seminar Room (3rd floor) - LIP

LIP Coimbra: Sala E.3, Physics Department, University of Coimbra, Coimbra

LIP Minho: Sala do LIP, Ed. 3 - 3.02, Campus de Gualtar, University of Minho, Braga

 

 

Zoom link (for C++ tutorial on June 11th);

https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/98806648852?pwd=5iz9VDnhBumECOvwYamlCaOty0poSK.1

 

Zoom link (for all lectures and tutorials ): 

https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/9339297238

 

 

Recordings: aqui

 

Wed, June 4

10:00 AM → 1:00 PM Introduction to particle physics and detectors

For those in Lisbon:
Seminar Room (3rd floor) - LIP
Av. Prof Gama Pinto nº 2, Lisboa

10:00 AM Welcome to LIP and instructions

Speaker: Helena Santos (LIP)

Intro2025.pdf

10:30 AM Detectors

Speaker: Alberto Blanco (LIP)

detetores_2025.pdf

11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM Introduction to Particle Physics

Speaker: João Varela (LIP)

IntroFisicaParticulas short.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Tour of LIP

Wed, June 11

9:30 AM → 12:30 PM Particles and simulation

For those in Lisbon:
Seminar Room (3rd floor) - LIP
Av. Prof Gama Pinto nº 2, Lisboa

QUIZ TIME!

Quiz on the internal structure of particles: https://quizizz.com/join?gc=65163052
Quiz on QCD and heavy ion physics: https://quizizz.com/join?gc=53759788
Quiz on Monte Carlo Simulations: https://quizizz.com/join?gc=48910124

9:30 AM The internal structure of particles

Speaker: Elmar Biernat

Structure_of_particles.pdf

10:00 AM QCD and heavy ion physics

Speaker: Liliana Apolinário (LIP)

Lecture_QCD_HI.pdf

10:30 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM Simulations

Speaker: Bernardo Tomé (LIP)

Detector_simulation_Estágios2025.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 5:00 PM Tutorials: Day 1

For those in Lisbon:
Seminar Room (3rd floor) - LIP
Av. Prof Gama Pinto nº 2, Lisboa

2:00 PM Introduction to C++

Speaker: Francisco Neves (LIP Coimbra)

CppSlides.pdf

C++ tutorial.pdf

exercises:

Wed, June 18

9:30 AM → 12:30 PM LHC and Machine Learning

For those in Lisbon:
Seminar Room (3rd floor) - LIP
Av. Prof Gama Pinto nº 2, Lisboa

QUIZ TIME!

Intro to the LHC: https://quizizz.com/join?gc=87715407
New Physics @ LHC: https://quizizz.com/join?gc=69659686
Machine Learning: https://quizizz.com/join?gc=81615676

9:30 AM Introduction to LHC physics

Speaker: Nuno Leonardo (LIP)

10:00 AM Probing the Standard Model and beyond at the LHC

Speaker: Nuno Castro (LIP and University of Minho)

10:30 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM Machine learning in particle physics

Speaker: Rute Pedro (LIP)

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 5:00 PM Tutorials: Day 2 (parallel sessions: choose one)

For those in Lisbon:
Seminar Room (3rd floor) - LIP
Av. Prof Gama Pinto nº 2, Lisboa

2:00 PM Introduction to Python

Seminar Room (3rd floor) - LIP

Speaker: Paulo Almeida (SPAC)

Wed, June 25

9:30 AM → 12:30 PM Astroparticles, dark matter and neutrinos

For those in Lisbon:
Seminar Room (3rd floor) - LIP
Av. Prof Gama Pinto nº 2, Lisboa

QUIZ Time!

Astroparticle Physics: https://quizizz.com/join?gc=75336063

Dark Matter: https://quizizz.com/join?gc=98670041

Neutrinos: https://quizizz.com/join?gc=85202432

9:30 AM Astroparticle Physics

Speaker: Raul Sarmento (LIP)

10:00 AM Dark matter

Speaker: Paulo Brás (LIP)

10:30 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM Neutrinos

Speaker: Valentina Lozza (LIP)

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 5:00 PM Tutorials: Day 3 (parallel sessions: choose one)

For those in Lisbon:
Seminar Room (3rd floor) - LIP
Av. Prof Gama Pinto nº 2, Lisboa

2:00 PM Machine learning

For those in Lisbon: Seminar Room (3rd floor) - LIP

Speaker: Fernando Souza

2:00 PM ROOT intermediate

For those in Lisbon: LIP-Lisboa/4-407 - Library
LIP Minho: Sala do LIP, Ed. 3 - 3.02, Campus de Gualtar, University of Minho, Braga

Speakers: Alexandra Fernandes, Francisco Neves (LIP Coimbra)

ROOT_Intermediate_Tutorial_2025.pdf

Wed, July 2

9:30 AM → 11:30 AM Health and dosimetry

For those in Lisbon:
Seminar Room (3rd floor) - LIP
Av. Prof Gama Pinto nº 2, Lisboa

QUIZ TIME!
Particles and Health: https://quizizz.com/join?gc=67824606

9:30 AM Dosimetry

Speaker: Jorge Sampaio (LIP / FCUL)

10:00 AM Particles and health

Speaker: Hugo Simões (LIP Coimbra)

10:30 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM Linear accelerators in radiotherapy

Speaker: Sharif Ghithan (Augusta Victoria Hospital)

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 5:00 PM Tutorials: Day 4 (parallel sessions: choose one)

For those in Lisbon:
Seminar Room (3rd floor) - LIP
Av. Prof Gama Pinto nº 2, Lisboa

2:00 PM Data analysis and fitting with ROOT

LIP-Lisboa/4-407 - Library

Speakers: Alessio Boletti (LIP, Lisboa (PT)), Guilherme Soares (Universidade de Lisboa, IST (PT)), Henrique Legoinha (IST/LIP)

2:00 PM Simulation using TOPAS

Seminar Room (3rd floor)

Speaker: Joana Antunes (LIP/FCUL)

Wed, July 9

9:30 AM → 10:30 AM Meeting with LIP PhD students

Opportunity to discuss about life as PhD students in particle physics

For those in Lisbon:
Seminar Room (3rd floor) - LIP
Av. Prof Gama Pinto nº 2, Lisboa

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Radiation in space and society

For those in Lisbon:
Seminar Room (3rd floor) - LIP
Av. Prof Gama Pinto nº 2, Lisboa

QUIZ TIME!
Radiation environment in space: https://quizizz.com/join?gc=97926492

11:00 AM Radiation environment in space

Speaker: Luísa Arruda (LIP)

11:30 AM Social Physics

Speaker: Lilia Perfeito (LIP)

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 5:00 PM Tutorials

For those in Lisbon:
Seminar Room (3rd floor) - LIP
Av. Prof Gama Pinto nº 2, Lisboa

2:00 PM Science communication and writing

Speaker: Dr Pamela Teubig (LIP)

3:00 PM Python tools in high-energy physics

Speaker: Nicola De Filippis (INFN, Bari)