UKRN Webinar: Open Meta-Analysis in Particle Physics – the OpenMAPP project

This event is open to all. We encourage UKRN Local Networks Leads to share this event widely across their local networks.

🎯 Overview of this webinar

We will discuss various approaches to data preservation and reinterpretation taken in high-energy physics and driven by the OpenMAPP project and related initiatives, and discuss complementarity with established UKRN communities.

Experimental particle physics studies the fundamental structures of matter and forces, most famously by creating vast numbers of particle collisions in giant particle accelerators such as the 27km Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva. The complexity of these experiments (each of which has hundreds to thousands of research scientists) and the vast volumes of data involved are a challenge for preservation, reproducibility, and re-use. How can we publish both the data itself and the complex computer codes that simulate, process, and analyse it, in forms that will still be usable decades from now, without unrealistic demands on computing resources?

🔍 Key Topics

• Data preservation and data reinterpretation taken in high-energy physics
• Full and lightweight approaches to data analysis preservation and reuse
• An overview of HEPData and the CERN Open Data Portal, which provide access to high-energy physics data for the global research community.

🧑‍🔬 Speakers

The webinar will feature contributions from the lead participants in OpenMAPP UK

• Andy Buckley – University of Glasgow

• Jonathan Butterworth – University College London

• Christian Gutschow – University College London

• Martin Habedank – University of Glasgow

🤝 Relevance to UKRN Communities

The purpose of UKRN is to enable researchers to collaborate, so they are better able to conduct and promote rigorous, reproducible, and transparent research. This includes: identifying the factors that affect research rigour and transparency; identifying, sharing, and integrating effective practice. This webinar will be of interest to researchers within physics and related subjects, and also to researchers wishing to understand more about the specific challenges and solutions within this discipline area. Please promote this event widely across your researcher networks.