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# System prepended metadata

title: 'PhD Candidates Interviews October 25-26, 2023'
tags: ['#JUNO', GSI / FZJ]

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# 1st Round Interviews

## October 25

### 8:30 -- Shantanu Bhalerao

from Tuebingen, CBM 

$K^0_s$ search, selection with ML

before in India for Bc

Learned programming in Tuebingen. Did other ML things apart from the study in presentation.

Is aware of NMO, components of PMNS components, and other topics (could list them); Scintillation.

Want to deploy ML things, want to improve ML. Interested in analysis of real data. 


### 9:30 -- Ze Chen

CMS, ML, reco tau-leptons

Ms in Hamburg, DESY. 

Interested in the techniques for nu detection.

Interested in data analysis, rejection of backgrounds, event reco.

Is aware of beta-decays in reactor and IBD.

Is aware of other neutrino sources: geo and atmo and their energy range.

Seems to be interested in learning how the JUNO detector works.


### 10:00 -- Hanyi Chen

**Already worked in JUNO**

Bc, China
Ms, Saclei, France (with Anatael)

Worked with sPMTs, connected, took data.

Is aware of IBD.

Interested in simulation and data analysis.

Not very weel aware of other topics of JUNO.

#### Intership projects:

 - JINO (Ms): (prototype for dual calorimetry): hardware, simulation (Geant4), data analysis
 - TAO (Bc): Neutron simulation in TAO. Worked with simulation and real data.
 - SPMT: Signal restoring simulation.
 - TPC data anaysis: she doesn't remember it well.




### 11:00 -- Ujwal Konissery


Bc, Ms (nuclear partical phys) in India

Is well awared of IBD.

Have not much programming language skills, but attending courses for C/C++ and Python.

Read an article about geonu and understood it well.

Interested in data analysis. 

#### Projects:

 - Radionuclei in soils: he did HW work and collected data. Calibrated their detector.
 - Cosmic muon telescope: HW work, trigger logic.


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## October 26


### 8:30 Srishti Mahajan 

Bc, Ms in India

C++, ROOT

Not answerred questions well...

Two pojects:

 - Project on Data Analysis: implementation of the Marquardt method and comparison with ROOT.
 - Projects on GEMs



### 9:00 Gadis Megersa

Ethiopia 

3  minutes late.

Applied Physics, Bc, Ms in ... Tech. Uni.

Carbon Quantum Dots from Lemon Juice

no knowledge on particle physics



### 9:30 Pallav Mohan

Ms in ... Uni (Braunschweig)

decay of B+ mesons, mass reco, data analysis with BDT and multivar. analysis (ROOT)

Atomic spectroscopy

C++, Pyhton

Recent theretical background, some experience with data analysis in the past.

No knowledge about JUNO.



### 10:00 Mahima Sachdeva

Bc (2016), Ms (2018), Research Officer (202x) India

Several projects: astronomy, particle phys, engineering, ...

INO 

ICAL: operation, data analysis, ... simulation with Geant4, troubleshooting

Motivated to focus on a single research

Not aware of IBD

Very open and communicative person.

Ready to do simulations and analysis.


### 10:30 Sharma Prabhat

India, finished Ms

Working with his supervisor since then.

 - 2021: measurement of lifetime of excited states. Ge detection of gammas from decays. Own contribution: energy and eff. calibration.
 - 2022 (Ms): 
 - 2023 

No knowledge about JUNO.



### 11:00 Mohd Talha

India, Bc

Ms Strasburg (with Joao): New reco for JUNO top tracker, finished in June 2023.

Since then in ATLAS in Heidelberg: implementation of something for CPU.

Is doing ML courses. 

He wants to work on atmospheric neutrinos. 



### 11:30 Junaid Tariq 

Bc Pakistan

CMS, NA62: W and Z bosons

Did presentation about neutrinos, seems to be well informed. 

Experience: working with MC data production, HP Condor, shell scripting. Plotting (ROOT + Matplotlib)

Yeild ratio of strange hadrons: Analyzed MC data and published in EPJ A (2023)

pp collision: model simulations (published)


C++, ROOT, Linux, MC, Git, Chi2, error prop, Geant4 

Ms 2021-2022



### 12:00 Sruthy Chandran

Bc (2016-2019) India: Astrophysics, Cosmology

Ms (2021-2023) + Paris, Roma : accelerators, particle physics

Education: Accel., Exp. Part. Phys., Data Analysis and Simulation in Part. Phys. (Geant4, Markov Chains, Python, Matlab)

No knowledge on neutrino, nor on JUNO.



### 12:30 Tiago Lopez

Ms in Brazil (SW Uni), working in DUNE on photon detectors (Arapuca);

He does simulation to design it with Geant4 (he changed the code written by his advisor). He tries to replace sim. by NN

He wants to go to Germany.

Is aware of the JUNO schedule.

Easy in communication.

Ms, mid of Nov. 2023

Not aware of the main goal of JUNO.