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Karlsruhe School of Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics: Science and Technology (KSETA)
Karlsruhe School of Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics: Science and Technology (KSETA)
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Dr. Marco Alexander Harrendorf
former PhD student at ETP

Primary focus of PhD research: Top and Higgs physics, MC event generation, Data analysis and Machine learning

Group: ETP

marco+kseta∂harrendorf net

Master thesis

Master thesis
Subject:Comparative studies of Monte Carlo event generationin leading order and next-to-leading order for the CMS collaboration
Type:Master thesis
Date:12. December 2013
Supervisor:

Prof. Dr. Husemann

Prof. Dr. Müller

Person in Charge:Marco A. Harrendorf
Links:Master thesis

PhD thesis

PhD thesis
Subject:Measurement of the tt≥1b-jet cross section using novel analysis techniques at the CMS experiment
Type:PhD thesis
Date:22. June 2018
Supervisor:

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Husemann

PD Dr. Stefan Gieseke

Links:PhD thesis

Stay abroad: IPPP, University of Durham, England

Stay abroad: IPPP, University of Durham, England
Subject:Contribution to the development of the Herwig7 event generator in the context of a MCnet studentship
Type:MCnet-Studentship
Date:April to August 2015
Supervisor:

Prof. Peter Richardson

Dr. Simon Plätzer

Stay abroad: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Stay abroad: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Subject:Studies on the reduction of systematic uncertainties in the context of the ttH analysis
Type:Research stay
Date:November 2015 to March 2016

Publications (Selection)

  • Christian Reuschle et al. NLO efforts in Herwig++. In Proceedings, 12th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections (Radcor 2015) and LoopFest XIV (Radiative Corrections for the LHC and Future Colliders): Los Angeles, CA, USA, June 15-19, 2015, 2016. [ bib | arXiv | .pdf ]
  • Johannes Bellm et al. Herwig 7.0/Herwig++ 3.0 release note. Eur. Phys. J., C76(4):196, 2016. [ bib | DOI | arXiv ]
  • CMS Collaboration. Search for ttH production in the H->bb decay channel with sqrt(s)=13 TeV pp collisions at the CMS experiment, 2016. [ bib ]
  • D. de Florian et al. Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 4. Deciphering the Nature of the Higgs Sector, 2016. [ bib | arXiv ]
  • CMS Collaboration. Search for ttH production in the H->bb decay channel with 2016 pp collision data at sqrt(s)=13 TeV, 2016. [ bib ]
  • CMS Collaboration. Search for ttH production in the H-to-bb decay channel with
    leptonic tt decays in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the CMS
    detector, 2017.
  • CMS Collaboration. Search for tt̄H production in the H → bb̄ decay channel with
    leptonic tt̄ decays in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV, 2018.
  • 100+X more publications as co-author of the CMS collaboration
 

Conferences / Talks (Selection)

  • 2015
    • KSETA Plenary Workshop, 04. to 06. March 2015, Durbach
    • MCnet Employability Workshop, 28. to 29. May 2015, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
    • GRK Doktoranden Workshop, 24. to 26. August 2015, Althütte
      Talk on MC event generation
    • MCnet Monte Carlo School, 31. August to 04. September 2015, Spa, Belgium
      Tutor for the Herwig++ event generator
    • GridKa School, 07. to 11. September 2015, Karlsruhe
    • MCnet Meeting, 23. to 25. September 2015, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
      Talk "Report about MCnet short-term studentship in Durham and future plans"
    • GRK Workshop, 28. to 30. September 2015, Freudenstadt
    • FSP CMS Meeting, 07. to 09. October 2015, Karlsruhe
    • Data Science Workshop, 09. to 13. November 2015, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
       
  • 2016
    • ATLAS-CMS-Theory Monte Carlo Generator Workshop, 11. to 12. January 2016, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
      Representative of the CMS ttH group
    • CMS Generator Meeting: Discussion about huge ttH Samples, 18. January 2016, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
      Defending large ttH samples being the ttH-MC-Contakt
    • ttH Sync Exercise, 25. to 26. January 2016, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
      Representative of the ETP working group
    • Fire Extinguisher Course, 01. February 2016, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
    • Introduction to International Masterclasses, 04. February 2016, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
    • Tracker-DOC-Training-Shift, 08. to 14. February 2016, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
      Contact person for the operation of the CMS silicon-stripe detector
    • Tutor International Masterclasses, 15. and 17. February as well as 10. March 2016, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
    • KSETA Plenary Workshop, 22. to 24. February 2016, Durbach
    • DPG-Conference Hamburg, 28. February to  04. March 2016, Hamburg
      Talk about own research
    • CMS Herwig7 Meeting, 07. March 2016, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
      Organizer and key speaker
    • GRK Doktoranden-Workshop, 21. to 23. March 2016, Otterberg
      Talk on neural networks
    • KSETA Workshop Philosophy of Physics, 04. to 05. April 2016, Karlsruhe
    • MCnet School of Scientific Computing, 16. to 20. May 2016, Göttingen
    • European Summer School of High-Energy Physics, 15. to 28. June 2016, Skeikampen, Norway
    • KCETA Julius-Wess-Preis Lisa Randall, 07. and 08. July 2016, Karlsruhe
    • Tracker-DOC-Shift, 07. to 15. August 2016, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
      Contact person for the operation of the CMS silicon-stripe detector
    • Tracker-DOC-Shift, 28. August to 05. September 2016, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
      Contact person for the operation of the CMS silicon-stripe detector
    • GRK meeting, 26. to 28. September 2016, Freudenstadt
    • Herwig7 Tutorial, 06. to 07. October 2016, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
      Organizer and speaker for the CMS specific part
    • Top Cross Sections Round Table Meeting, 14. October 2016
    • Tracker-DOC-Shift, 13. to 21. November 2016, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
      Contact person for the operation of the CMS silicon-stripe detector
       
  • 2017
    • DPG-Conference Münster, 27. to 31. March 2017, Münster
      Talk about own research
    • University of Virginia, 19. April 2017, Charlottesville, USA
      Talk "Searching for the ttH(Hbb) and ttbb signal with novel techniques at CMS", additionally tutorial on usage of Tensorflow and NNFlow
    • University of Notre Dame, 25. April 2017, Notre Dame / South Bend, USA
      Talk "Searching for the ttH(Hbb) and ttbb signal with novel techniques at CMS"
    • GRK Workshop, 11. to 13. October 2017, Bad Liebenzell
      Talk "tt+bb Analyse"
    • Higgs Couplings 2017, 06. to 10. November 2017, Heidelberg
      Talk "Machine learning in Higgs analyses"

       
    • More than 40 further talks given within the CMS collaboration  
 
Supervised theses
Research topic Thesis title Student
Masterarbeit zur Multiklassifizierung mit neuronalen Netzen Multivariate Klassifizierung mit künstlichen neuronalen Netzen zur Trennung von Unterprozessen der Top-Quark-Antiquark-Paar-Produktion Lukas Hilser
Master thesis on event generation and related uncertainties Study of ttˉ+bbˉ Modelling and Uncertainties of Monte Carlo Generators for the ttˉH(bbˉ)-Analysis at the CMS Experiment Andrej Saibel
Bachelorarbeit zur Multiklassifikation von tt+Boson Prozessen Entwicklung und Erprobung eines NN-Klassifizierers für eine multivariate tt+Boson-Analyse am CMS-Experiment Lars Sowa
Bachelorarbeit zur binären Klassifikation mit neuronalen Netzen MVA-Studien mit binären neuronalen Netzen in der Suche nach ttH-Produktion am CMS-Experiment Jan van der Linden
Bachelorarbeit zum Herwig7-Ereignisgenerator Validierungsstudien zum Herwig7-Ereignisgenerator am CMS-Experiment Dominik Beutel
Bachelorarbeit zur Verwendung von neuronalen Netzen mit Tensorflow Trennung von Signal und Untergrund mit TensorFlow in einer Suche nach ttH-Produktion am CMS-Experiment Maximilian Welsch
Bachelor thesis on the Herwig++ event generator Validation of the Herwig++-Matchbox framework for event generation at the CMS experiment Julia Hunt
Bachelor thesis on the Sherpa+OpenLoops event generator Comparative studies in event generation at leading and next-to-leading order perturbation theory with the Sherpa+OpenLoops event generator for the ttH analysis at the CMS experiment Ralf Farkas
Bachelorarbeit zur Verbesserung einer Rivet-Analyse Verbesserung einer Rivet-Analyse und Visualisierung simulierter Kollisionsereignisse am CMS-Experiment Frederik Schaaf
Bachelorarbeit zur Ereignisgenerierung Neue Jet-Merging-Algorithmen für Monte-Carlo-Generatoren in nächstführender Ordnung für die t+Jets-Produktion Korbinian Schweiger
Bachelorarbeit zur Ereignisgenerierung Vergleich von Monte-Carlo-Generatoren in nächstführender Ordnung für die Top-Quark-Antiquark-Produktion Denise Müller