Having a background in physics and a keen interest in computational applications, the CSiS master program was the ideal next step after completing my bachelor. The compulsory courses offer a wide variety of insight in different topics related to computer simulation, computer science and numerical methods that usefully relate to the optional courses of the different specializations. The presence of good lecturers to present these topics make them more accessible and this was especially useful for me in the case of the Theoretical Particle Physics specialization, where topics taken from the first semester up to the last one were relevant for the development of my thesis, making these two years an extremely useful learning experience that I was able to fully take advantage of. An important note on this is to make sure that one has the suggested previous knowledge on the studied subjects, specially related to math, either by studying them beforehand or attending the preparatory courses also offered in the program.

At the end of the program I did my thesis in the topic of lattice QCD, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Francesco Knechtli and Dr. Tomasz Korzec, where I measured the masses of mesons composed of charm and anti-charm quark via an optimized version of the method known as Distillation, where high dimensional matrices dependent on data obtained via Monte Carlo simulations are projected onto lower dimensional subspaces to extract useful information. This work included topics of numerical linear algebra, parallel computing, statistical data analysis and particle physics, bringing together into a single project several of the concepts presented in the program. As a continuation of this I am currently doing my doctorate in the same area and continuing to apply what I learned in the master program.

26.11.2019