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====== HW2025 note ======
===== Context =====
  * 6 days, from Monday to Saturday, check in Sunday and checkout Saturday 
  * 12-15 students, divided into three teams
  * To announce: 
===== Content =====
  * Previous camp: siPM/PMT; physics target: TOF/ muon counter
  * This year: 
    * Amplifier? 
    * DAQ
    * Nhan Tran,Duc Hoang : firmware, machine learning and intro to AI
    * Michael Holik: Timepix, FPGA
===== Period =====

  * To fix the date, somewhere between Feb. 15th to March. 30th
    * T2K beam 
    * Vietnam Tet holiday
    * Moriond? 


===== Lecturers  =====


==== FPGA / Michael Holik ====
bout FPGA topics. I have experience in development of front-end electronics dedicated for pixel detectors and SiPM detectors (involving hardware and firmware part of the design). Regarding teaching, I send you a link (see it bellow) to the subject at our faculty of electrical engineering where we teach students to work with FPGAs (generally, it is one semester long course, students become familiar with FPGA technology, its benefits and typical applications. In connection to theoretical part there are also practical exercises where they learn VHDL programming language, simulation of basic designs and finally implementation in FPGA development boards).

The link to above mentioned FPGA course:
https://portal.zcu.cz/portal/studium/prohlizeni.html?pc_pagenavigationalstate=AAAAAQAGNjQ0Nzc2EwEAAAABAAhzdGF0ZUtleQAAAAEAFC05MjIzMzcyMDM2ODU0Nzc1MDM3AAAAAA**&pc_lang=en

Considering the Hardware camp, due to the limited amount of time, I think that some reduced variant of FPGA introductory course could be involved (e.g. one or two lectures about FPGAs, practical exercises comprising work with pre-compiled designs part where students will try to use development tools by themself).

==== Timepix  ====
Regarding Timepix pixel detector, I can imagine that Timepix based demonstrations as well as hands-on exercises can be easily involved into the next Hardware camp. We have developed melodics and guidelines for teaching with pixel detectors (with task complexity ranging from high school students to university students). I am able to give a lecture about Timepix pixel detectors and their applications,  in connection to that, hands-on exercises can follow (using educational kits as we already managed it for ICISE school for medical physics or other similar instrumentation schools where I participated).

  *  Lecture (duration 1 hour)(general information about Timepix pixel detector and description of its working principle, advantages of Timepix detector, overview of typical particle tracking and imaging applications, short introduction into exercises performed with Timepix educational kit)

  * Exercises (duration 2 to 3 hours): (Real time observation of radiation interacting in Timepix, study of different tracks left in pixel matrix produced by different types of radiation, recognition alpha/gamma/beta particle tracks, study of different properties of alpha/gamma/beta, observation of background radiation field and study of its composition, comparison to other radiation fields produced by natural radiation sources like a potassium salt or uranium glass, detection of cosmic muons)