Heavy Ion Summer School

11 Sept 2025, 09:30 → 12 Sept 2025, 12:00 Europe/Berlin

The third German Polish Heavy Ion Physics School takes place form the 10th to the 12th of September in Nürmbrecht, Germany. The main topic of the school will be an introduction to Transformer Models, which will play a crucial role in heavy ion physics in the coming years-

Thursday 11 September

09:30 → 10:30 Introduction to Transformers

IntroductionToTransformers.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffe Break

11:00 → 12:00 Setting up the infrastructure

Clone the following repository: https://gitlab.uni-bonn.de/tsaala/transformertutorial

Set up a python environment (python 3.12).
You can either set up the environment manually (using e.g. conda -> https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.html) or you can set up an environment in VS Code -> https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/environments

Install the packages included in the requirements.txt file in this environment
(pip install -r requirements.txt)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 → 17:00 Hands-On Session 1

TechnicalNotes.pdf

Friday 12 September

09:00 → 12:00 Hands-On Session 2