CMS tutorials

Goals of the page

This page lists all the tutorial sessions organized by the CMS User support. It gives links to the agenda pages where you can find the slides and recording of the sessions for most recent tutorials.

Note that you can find the updated material of these tutorials in the WorkBook.

To look at the CMS Schools please click here: CMS Schools

Summary

What do you need to know?	Tutorial page	Slides and recordings
CMSSW basics	WorkBook chapter 3	July 2010- Introduction to CMSSW Framework
Where to find data	WorkBookLocatingDataSamples	April 2010 - Finding and storing data
How to generate samples	WorkBook chapter 6	July 2009 - The new Generator interface
Physics Analysis Toolkit	WorkBookPATTutorial	June 2010 - Using PAT in your analysis
Running on Grid	WorkBookCRABTutorial	April 2010 - Running grid jobs with CRAB

Upcoming Tutorials

Past Tutorials

• Advance CRAB3 session - 26 June 2015 at CERN, Switzerland
  • Indico Agenda
• Advance CRAB3 session - 22 May 2015 at CERN, Switzerland
  • Indico Agenda
• Basic CRAB3 session - 8 May 2015 at CERN, Switzerland
  • Indico Agenda
• CRAB3 Tutorial - 17 October 2014 at CERN, Switzerland
  • Indico Agenda
• CRAB3 Tutorial - 4 July 2014 at CERN, Switzerland
  • Indico Agenda
• PAT Tutorial - 30 June - 4 July 2014 at CERN, Switzerland
  • Indico Agenda
• CRAB3 Tutorial - 27 June 2014 at CERN, Switzerland
  • Indico Agenda
• PAT Tutorial - 15-19 July 2013 at CERN
  • Indico Agenda
• PAT Tutorial - 3-7 Dec 2012 at CERN
  • Indico Agenda
• cmssh Tutorial - 14 December, 2012 (Friday of CMS week)
  • Indico Agenda (Friday
• GED Workshop @FNAL (20-22 Aug 2012)
  • Indico Agenda
• b-tagging DEVELOPERS tutorial - 26 April 2012, CERN
  • Indico Agenda
• Top PAG Analysis Tools Workshop(TQAF (Top Quark Analysis Framework) Tutorial) - 8 May 2012, CERN
  • Indico Agenda
• PAT Tutorial - 2-6 July 2012 at CERN
  • Indico Agenda
• CMSDAS (CMS Data Analysis School) - 23-27 Jan 2012, INFN, Pisa, Italy.
  • Indico Agenda
• CMSDAS (CMS Data Analysis School) - 10-14 Jan 2012, LPC @ Fermilab, U.S.A.
  • Indico Agenda
• PAT Tutorial - 5-9 December 2011 at CERN
  • Indico Agenda
• PAT Tutorial - July 2011 at CERN
  • Indico Agenda
• PAT Tutorial - 4-8 April, 2011 at CERN
  • Indico Agenda
• DAS (Data Aggregation System) - new tool, new data discovery service, 1 April, 2011 at CERN
  • Indico Agenda
• RooStats tutorial - 21 January, 2011
  • Indico Agenda
• Fireworks Tutorial during the CMS week - 10 December, 2010
  • Indico Agenda
• PAT Tutorial at LPC@ Fermilab - 15-19 November 2010
  • Indico Agenda
• CRAB Tutorial at CERN - 5 November 2010
  • Indico Agenda
• PAT Tutorial at CERN - 20-24 September 2010
  • Indico Agenda
• CMS for summer students - 9 July 2010
  • Indico Agenda
• PAT Tutorial (Online and EVO, NO physical room sessions) - 21-25 June 2010
  • Course details
• Grid Tutorial at CERN - 15 April 2010
  • Indico agenda
• PAT Tutorial at CERN - 8 - 12 March 2010
  • Indico Agenda
• CMSSW Tutorial
  • 4 March 2010
• PAT Tutorial at CERN - 30 November - 4 December 2009
  • Indico agenda
• Fireworks Tutorial - 7 December 2009 ( During CMS week at CERN)
  • Indico agenda
• rooStats tutorial - November 26-27, 2009
  • Indico agenda
• rooStats tutorial - 15-16 October 2009
  • Indico agenda (slides, recordings)
  • Course platform (exercises)
• Using Physics Analysis Toolkit (PAT) in you analysis - e-learning course 31 August - 4 September, 2009
  • Indico agenda (slides, recordings)
  • Course platform (exercises)
• Training for CMSSW_3_1_x, Physics Days July 2009
• CRAB tutorial June 2009 CMS week
• Summer student/newcomer lectures July
  • Introduction to CMS and to CMS computing
  • Introduction to CMSSW
• Using Physics Analysis Toolkit (PAT) in you analysis - e-learning course June, 2009
  • Indico agenda (slides, recordings)
  • Course platform (exercises)
• Using Physics Analysis Toolkit (PAT) in you analysis - e-learning course Jan-Feb, 2009
  • Indico agenda (slides, recordings)
  • Course platform (exercises)
• CMSSW tutorials - December 12, 2008
  • Introduction to CMSSW Framework
  • Fireworks Analysis Display
  • Example Analysis on CRAFT Data
• See PAT lecture at Workshop on Physics at the LHC, Mumbai, India (21-27 October, 2009)
• Data and analysis flow tutorials, September 29 - October 16, 2008
  • prompt data (what is being done to the data before you can access on DBS) - Sept 29th
  • calibration and alignment - Oct 1st
  • distributed data (overview of event contents, reconstruction algorithms, skims) - Oct 13th
  • T2 and analysis (how to access skims, how to store data, analysis tools) - Oct 16th
• Physics Analysis Toolkit tutorial (CMSSW_2_1_x), September 25, 2008
• Physics Analysis Toolkit tutorial (CMSSW_2_1_x), September 18, 2008
• CMSSW python tutorial July 30, 2008
• Summer student tutorials July 7, 2008
• Grid tutorial June 13, 2008
• Physics Analysis Toolkit tutorial (CMMSW_1_6_11) May 9, 2008
• Tutorial on commissioning data access, analyses, CAF April 29, 2008
• Physics Analysis Toolkit tutorial (CMSSW_1_6_x) April 25, 2008
• Using python for configuring CMSSW jobs (2_x_x) April 2, 2008
• Configuring CMSSW jobs (1_6_x) October 22, 2007
• IGUANA Tutorial (CMSSW_1_5_0) August 8, 2007
• CMS sw and computing tutorial for summer students, July 10, 2007
• Distributed Computing Tutorial June 11-12, 2007
• CMSSW Tutorial (CMSSW_1_3_2) May 22, 2007
  • EDM and data formats; analyzers, producers, filters; particle candidates; skimming examples
• CMSSW Tutorial (CMSSW_1_3_0) April 19, 2007 (Computing/Offline Week)
  • Reconstructed physics objects, HLT
• CMSSW Tutorial (CMSSW_1_2_0) February 07 (CMS Week)
  • Finding data, analysis patterns, HLT, storing your own data
• CMSSW Tutorial December 06 (CMS Week)
  • Finding data, analysis patterns, submitting jobs in grid through CRAB
• CSA Tutorial (CMSSW_1_0_6) November 06 (CPT Week) Video recording
  • Finding data, analysis patterns, submitting jobs in grid through CRAB
• CMSSW Tutorial (CMSSW_1_0_0) September 06 (CMS Week)
  • Framework, event generation, standard MC chain, finding data, miscalibration and misalignment
• CMSSW Tutorial (CMSSW_0_8_0) July 06 (CMS Week)
• CMSSW Tutorial (CMSSW_0_7_0) June 06 (CMS Week)
• Tracker CMSSW Tutorial June 06 (Tracker days)
• CMSSW Tutorial (CMSSW_0_6_0) May 06 (CPT Week)
• ECAL CMSSW Tutorial April 06 (ECAL Week)
• CMSSW Tutorial March 06 (CMS Week)

Tutorials outside CERN

This is an incomplete list of local tutorials

• CMSDAS (CMS Data Analysis School) - 25-29 Jan 2011, LPC @ Fermilab, U.S.A.
  • Indico Agenda
  • Link to Exercises
  • Link to CMSDAS in espace
• PAT Tutorial at LPC @ Fermilab - 15-19 November 2010
  • [[http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=107146][Indico Agenda]
• "JTerm" IV at FNAL - an overview of CMS physics analysis and tools
• Tutorial at FNAL LPC Mini-Workshop on Early CMS Physics June 2007
• CMSSW Tutorial in Naples February 2007
• 'CMSSW 101' tutorial at Cornell University May 2007
• CMSSW at FNAL March 2007
• TutorialsMar07Helsinki
• CMS-UK tutorials in Bristol Jan 2007