Teaching:
Advanced Physics Laboratories (P3/P4)
Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics ETHZ
Higgs Physics ETHZ
Statistical Methods and Analysis Techniques ETHZ
Jupyter-book:
Summer schools:
2014 Higgs Physics - Zuoz (CH)
2016 Higgs Physics - ITEP School (RU) - Best teacher prize
A collection of HEP slides:
Experimental Foundations of the Standard Model
Basic relativistic kinematics
Passage of particles through matter
Structure of a HEP analysis
Structure of a HEP paper
LEP electroweak fits
Higgs Signal Strengths, STXS, and Fiducial Differentials cross sections
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Completed Master Thesis:
- J. Brunner - "DeepSuperCluster optimization" - with D. Valsecchi - FS25 Master thesis Prof. R. Wallny
- R. Amella Ranz - "HH4b: Jets-Higgs matching with SPANet" / with A. Calandri - FS24 Master thesis Prof. R. Wallny
- A. Petre - "MEMFlow: Computing the Matrix Element Method with Normalizing Flows" / with D. Valsecchi - FS23 Master thesis Prof. R. Wallny
- X. Chang - "Electromagnetic shower corrections for precise simulation in CMS using neural-network-based chained quantile regressions" / with S. Pigazzini - FS22 Master thesis Prof. R. Wallny
Completed Semester projects:
- P. Wagner - "Reweighting Monte Carlo simulations in particle physics using neural networks" - with D. Valsecchi - FS25
- S. Spallaci - "Optimization of ttH(bb) classifier in the dileptonic channel." / with D Valsecchi - FS26 Semester project
- M. Rebro - "Studies on pairing strategies for ttH(bb) analysis" - with D. Valsecchi - FS25
- M. Jeanfavre - "Flavour tagging efficiency parametrisation using Graph Neural Networks" / with A. Calandri - FS24 Semester project
- R. Cirrincione - "Comparison between legacy and graph-network-based reconstruction of electrons and photons in the CMS ECAL" / with D. Valsecchi - FS24 Semester Project
- N. Feci - "Parametrized Classifiers for Effective Field Theory likelihood ratios" / with D. Valsecchi - FS24 Semester Project
- F. Ammirati - "Normalizing Flows validations for ttHbb measurements" / with D. Valsecchi - FS24 Semester project
- M. Croci - "HH->4b analysis at CMS with LHC Run 3 data: improving the reconstructed 4b signal final state pairing efficiency to Higgs boson candidate" / with A. Calandri - FS24 Semester project
- R. Amella Ranz - "HH4b: Jets-Higgs matching with SPANet" / with A. Calandri - FS24 Semester project
- T. Fluhmann - "Investigating the use of normalizing flows for electromagnetic shower corrections in CMS." / with M. Galli - HS23 Semester project
- Y. Maidannyk - "Jet-parton tagging with transformers for ttH(bb) semileptonic analysis" / with D. Valsecchi FS23 - Semester project
- M. Mantovani - "Validating the Performance of Conditional Normalizing Flows" / with D. Valsecchi FS23 - Semester project
- S. Kakha - "ttHbb event interpretation, resolving the combinatorics with GNNs" / with D Valsecchi HS22 - Semester project
- A. Oliver - "Low energy electrons calibration using a data driven approach, case study for CMS detector" with S. Pigazzini HS22 - Semester project
- M. Franzke - "Studies on constraints on VHbb anomalous couplings using Effective Field Theory approach" with A. Calandri - FS22 Semester project
- P. Hummler - "Efficiency parametrisations using GNN for HF tagging" / with A. Calandri - FS22
- X. Chang - "ECAL alpha calibration" / with S. Pigazzini - HS21 Semester project
- Q. Bardh - "EFT studies for Hgg" / with S. Pigazzini - FS20 Semester project
- M. Marchegiani - "Study of broken clusters in L1 with data" / with A. Calandri - FS19 Semester project
- O. Kiss - "Bayesian optimization for machine learning in the context of Higgs searches at the CMS experiment" / with F. Micheli - FS19 Semester project
- B. Kaech - "Study of neural net loss functions in e/gamma gamma regression" / with F. Micheli FS19
- G. Poddar - "Sstudy of model dependence using multidimensional classifiers in HHbbgg" / with F. Micheli - HS 18 Semester project
- A. Bally - "Photon energy corrections using artificial neural networks at the CMS Experiment" / with F. Micheli - FS 18 Semester project
- K. Gedia - "bjets/light jets separation in ttbar events using kinematics-discriminator and sPlots" / with P. Musella - FS 18 Semester project
- J. Andrejkovic - "Study of model dependence using multidimensional classifiers" / with P. Musella - FS 17 Semester project
- G. Isacchini - "Data/MC corrections with quantile regressions" / with P. Musella - FS 17 Semester project