3rd International Summer School on INtelligent Signal Processing for FrontIEr Research and Industry

Registration and Posters Installation in SR4, 2nd Floor

Registration and Posters Installation in SR4, 2nd Floor

A set of introductory lectures will review why increased signal processing on- detector (local intelligence) capability is requested for the instruments that are developed for future frontier projects in Astrophysics, Particle Physics and for Next generation Medical Imaging devices. 

A set of introductory lectures will review why increased signal processing on- detector (local intelligence) capability is requested for the instruments that are developed for future frontier projects in Astrophysics, Particle Physics and for Next generation Medical Imaging devices. 

The first Lab session of the school that will be held on the morning. This is the only day where the Lab session will be held in the morning and the Lectures in the afternoon.

Intelligent devices as those reviewed in the previous day lectures need compact and closely integrated Front-End processing. The micro-electronic engineers are thus challenged to use cutting-edge Very Deep Sub Micron (VDSM) technology and novel integration techniques for designing this new generation of Front-End circuits, both for the fundamental research and many areas in the applied life. This is a very exciting and fast evolving technology field, tackled by this session that will also show how high tech and Fundamental Physics Research are closely linked here. 

The real time, high performance, high rate high speed data processing is a demand in many fields of the modern life. Big data it is a very active and fast evolving industrial field on both the hardware and software sides. Today lectures will review what are the main aspects of this topic and its novel developments and industrial trends for confronting  the new Big data challenges in Astrophysics.This session will be continuying on Sept 24 with the High Energy Physics case.

Intelligent calorimeters are the first application that will illustrate what was discussed in the lectures given on September 16. They review i) the high processing capability included in the Front-End ASIC sitting on the detectors; ii) how the new technology allows confronting very difficult environmental conditions (non-accessibility, high radiation levels, extreme reliability requirements (high fault tolerance) etc.) ; iii) real time sophisticated filtering and triggering architectures already available or prepared on the front-end electronics and readout system on the detectors. 
The second application concerns the instruments in Astrophysics filled with Noble gases for Neutrino or Direct Matter searches.

Smart tracking devices are another case both for HEP and also some spatial Experiments. Today lecture will address large area tracking devices built with Silicon strips or strixels (short strips) being developed for future High Energy Experiments at HL-LHC or future colliders. The Physics motivations and related performance leading to the need of high tech devices will be discussed together with the use of the high tech introduced Day 2, including sometime novel triggering capability. 
Laser Interferometric based instruments for Gravitational Waves experiments will be the other on detector application.

The application of Intelligent Pixel-based devices is largely increasing both in research and applied life. They greatly benefit of the advances in the semi-conductor technology and in advanced CMOS technology as introduced on Day 2. Combining these technological advances on both the sensors and their associated FEE  (as shown with some detailed examples), the pixels are becoming more and more intelligent devices with an increasing role for challenging applications in Astrophysics, Particle Physics as well as Novel Medical Imaging. 

In most of today real life applications and Fundamental research fields, the high speed, high rate and highly reliable data transmission is a major request. The Telecom Industry is evolving very fast and some trends particularly in Optical Wireless Communication, new Si Photonics will be introduced in the today lectures, preceeded by a basic introduction about data transmission. 

Once the Front-End (on-detector) signal processing has been achieved, the filtered and compacted data must be sent to the next step of the full processing chain. This means in most of today life or fundamental research devices: high rate, high-speed data transmission very often in difficult environmental conditions. To perform the data transmission in those high performance conditions, the new Telecom technologies introduced in the previous day lectures are used or under active R&D.
Some illustrative examples from Astrophysics and Particle Physics are reviewed. 

The real time, high performance, high rate high speed data processing is a demand in many fields of the modern life. Big data it is a very active and fast evolving industrial field on both the hardware and software sides. Today lectures will review what are the main aspects of this topic and its novel developments and industrial trends for confronting  the new Big data challenges in Astrophysics.This session will be continuying on Sept 24 with the High Energy Physics case.

Intelligent devices as those reviewed in the previous day lectures need compact and closely integrated Front-End processing. The micro-electronic engineers are thus challenged to use cutting-edge Very Deep Sub Micron (VDSM) technology and novel integration techniques for designing this new generation of Front-End circuits, both for the fundamental research and many areas in the applied life. This is a very exciting and fast evolving technology field, tackled by this session that will also show how high tech and Fundamental Physics Research are closely linked here. 

This session is in continuation of the one started the day before and will present the case of the new demands in MPC and HPC in Medical (PET) Image Reconstruction and in the new generation of HEP experiments

The session started yesterday with an example of the synergy between Particle Physics and Medical Physics will be pursued by two lectures applied to the Particle and Medical Physics cases.
Developing fancy and challenging on-detector circuits with a high filtering and processing potential is quite appealing. Similarly developing high performance data transmission system, sophisticated overall signal processing architecture in extreme running conditions are as well requested and exciting topics to work on. But besides developing such devices based on very advanced technology tools sometimes, it is of the utmost importance to ensure that what is developed fulfils all the requests before building the final instrument. It means developing the proper test benches using the best characterization tools. It is an essential step in the R&D process where the engineering and physicists “worlds” work in close collaboration. 

The presentation of the Posters are presented in this session during which sandwiches will be served. A number of the students attending the School did prepare a Poster for the school on their current research work. 

The posters are currently included in this section with the photographs taken in the SR4 2nd Floor Room where they were posted during the full duration of the School and in the order of presentation. They have been largely seen and commented by the students themselves and the Lecturers during the whole school.

They represent a certain amount of the large scope work covered by the students that attended the school. They include mainly young researchers from Astrophysics, Particle and Medical Physics and also some young engineers working as well in the related technological areas in collaboration with these research fields.

The ,pdf version of the posters will be added in the next few days by their authors.