diff --git a/_activities-archive/analysisfacilitiesforum.md b/_activities-archive/analysisfacilitiesforum.md index b2a30d3ea..fa5ae0def 100644 --- a/_activities-archive/analysisfacilitiesforum.md +++ b/_activities-archive/analysisfacilitiesforum.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ redirect_from: ## Overview -The Analysis Facilities (AF) Forum provides a community platform for those interested in contributing to the development of analysis facilities for use by HEP experiments, serving as a space to develop and exchange ideas. We interpret “development” in the broad sense, including the contribution of ideas from potential end users for functionality to support the analysis of HEP data, specification and planning of the facilities themselves, and technical developments needed to realize AFs. HEP experiments have their own internal processes for developing and deploying AFs; this AF Forum is intended to support and strengthen those efforts by sharing amongst a broader community the key ideas and developments. The AF Forum also collaborates with related [HSF Working Groups]({{site.baseurl}}/what_are_WGs.html), such as the [Data Analysis Working Group]({{site.baseurl}}/workinggroups/dataanalysis.html) and the [PyHEP Working Group]({{site.baseurl}}/workinggroups/pyhep.html), and with [WLCG](https://wlcg.web.cern.ch) and [IRIS-HEP](https://iris-hep.org) projects. +The Analysis Facilities (AF) Forum provides a community platform for those interested in contributing to the development of analysis facilities for use by HEP experiments, serving as a space to develop and exchange ideas. We interpret “development” in the broad sense, including the contribution of ideas from potential end users for functionality to support the analysis of HEP data, specification and planning of the facilities themselves, and technical developments needed to realize AFs. HEP experiments have their own internal processes for developing and deploying AFs; this AF Forum is intended to support and strengthen those efforts by sharing amongst a broader community the key ideas and developments. The AF Forum also collaborates with related [HSF Activity Areas]({{site.baseurl}}/what_are_activities.html), such as the [Data Analysis Activity Area]({{site.baseurl}}/workinggroups/dataanalysis.html) and the [PyHEP Activity Area]({{site.baseurl}}/workinggroups/pyhep.html), and with [WLCG](https://wlcg.web.cern.ch) and [IRIS-HEP](https://iris-hep.org) projects. The development of future analysis facilities is of great interest to the HEP community, with considerable recent progress. There are numerous ongoing efforts to stand up AFs that utilize new tools and techniques to help make data analysis tasks easier, more performant, and more reproducible. diff --git a/_activities/detsim.md b/_activities/detsim.md index 71294de37..6534ffb28 100644 --- a/_activities/detsim.md +++ b/_activities/detsim.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ redirect_from: - /workinggroups/detsim.html --- -The Detector Simulation Working Group considers approaches to making +The Detector Simulation Activity Area considers approaches to making detector simulation faster and more accurate for HEP experiments. Simulation that produces a traditional digitised detector output, as well as more radical approaches to generate reconstruction or analysis diff --git a/_activities/generators.md b/_activities/generators.md index 2916c3267..4a271286a 100644 --- a/_activities/generators.md +++ b/_activities/generators.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ redirect_from: - /workinggroups/generators.html --- -The Physics Generators Working Group is a common forum for discussion and +The Physics Generators Activity Area is a common forum for discussion and technical work on the physics event generators used by HEP experiments. It promotes the collaboration of experimental and theoretical physicists from different experiments and generator teams and of software and computing @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ engineers, with the aim of having them work together on improving the current codes and production workflows and on making new theoretical advances easier to implement in a computationally efficient way. -The working group was set up as a follow-up of the Physics Event Generator +The group was set up as a follow-up of the Physics Event Generator Computing Workshop that was held at CERN in November 2018, during which an initial program of work in this area was identified. diff --git a/_activities/juliahep.md b/_activities/juliahep.md index a7479eebe..f759a9f05 100644 --- a/_activities/juliahep.md +++ b/_activities/juliahep.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ redirect_from: - /workinggroups/juliahep.html --- -The JuliaHEP working group brings together a community of developers and users of [Julia](https://julialang.org) in Particle Physics, +The JuliaHEP Activity Area brings together a community of developers and users of [Julia](https://julialang.org) in Particle Physics, with the aim of improving the sharing of knowledge and expertise, as well as unify effort in developing Julia packages useful for the community. ## Conveners diff --git a/_activities/pyhep.md b/_activities/pyhep.md index 078c5a579..e4ff380f1 100644 --- a/_activities/pyhep.md +++ b/_activities/pyhep.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ redirect_from: - /workinggroups/pyhep.html --- -The PyHEP working group brings together a community of developers and users of Python in Particle Physics, with the aim of improving +The PyHEP Activity Area brings together a community of developers and users of Python in Particle Physics, with the aim of improving the sharing of knowledge and expertise. It embraces the broad community, from HEP to the Astroparticle and Intensity Frontier communities. # Conveners diff --git a/_activities/recotrigger.md b/_activities/recotrigger.md index 51da5be01..eab144030 100644 --- a/_activities/recotrigger.md +++ b/_activities/recotrigger.md @@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ redirect_from: ## Mandate and Goals -The Reconstruction and Software Triggers Working Group considers +The Reconstruction and Software Triggers Activity Area considers approaches and solutions to common challenges across HEP in the area of event reconstruction and software triggering (e.g., algorithms and data structures designed for online and offline processing of raw detector -data). The working group targets challenges identified during the CWP +data). The group targets challenges identified during the CWP process as well as new ones arising as the state of R&D advances. This forum should foster collaboration on design and implementation challenges, the adoption of common approaches, and raise awareness of