Welcome to AID2E Boot Camp 2024

This is the landing page for the AID2E Boot camp 2024 held from July 8 2024 to July 19 2024 at College of William & Mary.

Fig. 1 Boot Camp 2024 Group Picture. Outside the Department of Science at College of William & Mary

Important

The week-1 lectures are scheduled to to take place at 1291 at Integrated Science Center (ISC) 540 landrum drive 23185

Schedule

• Schedule
• Welcome and Intro by Prof. C.Fanelli
• Introduction to AID2E Boot Camp 2024

Introduction to git

• 1. Brief course on git
  • 1.1. Version Control System (VCS)
  • 1.2. What is Git?
  • 1.3. Configuring your git
• 2. Exercises on git
  • 2.1. Exercise 1: Basic Git Commands
  • 2.2. Exercise 2: Commits, push and branches
  • 2.3. Advanced exercises
  • 2.4. GitHub Actions and Workflow Tutorial

Introduction to High Performance Computing (HPC)

• 3. Introduction to High Perforamance Computing
  • 3.1. High Performance Computing
  • 3.2. SSH into a Front-End Node Using Proxy Jump
  • 3.3. William & Mary Research Computing: File Systems Tutorial
  • 3.4. Introduction to SLURM

Using VS-Code

• Installing Visual Studio Code
• Installing Extensions
• Signing up and Installing GitHub Copilot

Day 2 - Introduction to Optimization

• 4. Introduction to Optimization Theory
  • Optimization Theory
  • 4.1. Concepts in MOO
  • 4.2. Montecarlo based integration methods and applications

Day 3 - Multi Objective Evolutionary Algorithm

• Introduction to MOEA
• 5. MOEA of a test problem
• 6. Defining the problem
• 7. Initialize an Algorithm
• 8. Define a Termination Criterion
• 9. Analysis of Results
• 10. Toy tracker problem
• 11. MOEA

Day 4 - Bayesian Optimization

• 12. Bayesian Optimization
  • Introduction to Bayesian Optimization
  • 12.1. Bayesian Optimization
  • 12.2. MOBO

Day 5 - Introduction EIC software framework

• 13. Introduction to EIC Software stack.
  • 13.1. Prerequisities
  • 13.2. EIC installation and geometry

Week 2 Project week

• Project week kick off

A few Project links

1. B0 Tracker - Single Objective Optimization

2. SlurmRunner - For running B0 Tracker in parallel using slurm