The 2018 CTEQ Summer School on QCD Analysis and Electroweak Phenomenology which will be held on the campus of the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. The school will be organized by the CTEQ Collaboration and the local host will be the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, USA.

Since 1992, over one thousand physicists have attended the CTEQ Summer Schools which have played a seminal role promoting the knowledge of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), its applications to electroweak precision measurements, and new physics searches. The milestone discovery of the Higgs Boson at the LHC highlights the need to better understand these tools as we investigate whether this is purely a Standard Model (SM) Higgs or an admixture with an exotic component. Some of the early students have returned as lecturers at more recent schools. The CTEQ schools have proven to be extremely useful for students involved at both the Intensity Frontier and the Energy Frontier.

The schools consist of eight days of lectures and discussion where students interact closely with distinguished experts with a broad range of expertise. The audience for these schools is primarily the younger generation of high energy elementary particle physicists—typically advanced graduate students and postdocs, and are roughly evenly divided between experimental and theoretical disciplines. We expect to have about 50 - 80 qualified students to participant in the school.

This school will provide the participants with a deeper understanding and improved competency of the fundamental ideas, tools, and techniques that serve as the foundation for all our current investigations of the Standard Model (SM) and beyond. The broader impact is conveyed through the students’ strengthened awareness of the context of their research in the overall endeavor of fundamental physics. The interactive nature of the schools encourages the skills necessary for communicating the excitement and results within the diverse community of collaborations, and also to the wider public.