Add two MCnet projects (#1633)

* 2024 projects

* Add two MCnet projects for 2025

* Typo

_gsocorgs/2025/ucl.md

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+---
+title: "University College London"
+author: "Jon Butterworth"
+layout: default
+organization: UCLondon
+logo: UCL-logo.png
+description: |
+  Founded in 1826 in the heart of London, [University College London](https://www.gla.ac.uk/) is London's leading multidisciplinary university, with more than 13,000 staff and 42,000 students from 150 different countries. It is one of the UK's leading groups in the field of particle physics.
+---
+
+{% include gsoc_proposal.ext %}

_gsocorgs/2025/uglasgow.md

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+---
+title: "University of Glasgow"
+author: "Andy Buckley"
+layout: default
+organization: UofGlasgow
+logo: UGlasgow-logo.png
+description: |
+  The [University of Glasgow](https://www.gla.ac.uk/) is a leading UK research university based in Scotland's largest city. We work on [particle physics experiments](https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/physics/research/groups/particlephysicsexperiment/) from the LHC to neutrinos, particle theory from interpretations of Higgs and top-quark measurements to the strong force, and high-performance distributed computing.
+---
+
+{% include gsoc_proposal.ext %}

_gsocprojects/2025/project_MCnet.md

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+---
+project: MCnet
+title: MCnet
+layout: default
+logo: mcnet-logo.png
+description: |
+    [MCnet](http://montecarlonet.org) is a collaboration between the developers of
+    the major collision-event modelling tools used at the [Large Hadron
+    Collider](http://home.web.cern.ch/topics/large-hadron-collider) (LHC) and
+    beyond. These codes are so-called "MC event generators", theoretical physics
+    packages that perform quantum mechanics calculations and create simulated
+    particle collisions. MC generators are an essential component
+    of both modern particle physics experiments and theory, and provide a crucial
+    bridge between those two communities. MCnet projects include both event
+    generators themselves, and tools that connect them to both experiment and
+    theory.
+summary: |
+    [MCnet](http://montecarlonet.org) is a community linking the developers of
+    particle-theory simulations with experimentalists and others who use and
+    make tools for analysing the simulated events. Projects may be available
+    from both aspects of the community.
+---
+
+{% include gsoc_project.ext %}

_gsocproposals/2025/proposal_MCnetMCviz.md

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+---
+title: MCnet/MCviz - graph and 3D-viewer tools for simulated particle collisions
+layout: gsoc_proposal
+project: MCnet
+year: 2024
+organization:
+  - UofGlasgow
+difficulty: medium
+duration: 350
+mentor_avail: June-October
+---
+
+# Description
+
+Simulations are key to particle-physics research: many modern
+theoretical models have such complex consequences that we test theory
+not by comparing measurements of particle collisions to predicted
+functional forms, but by _generating_ simulated collision-events from
+the theory and analyzing them identically to the real ones from the
+particle collider.
+
+This means that event generators are incredibly important to particle
+physics, as the most-used link between experiment and theory, and as a
+crucial data format for exchange of ideas. They are also an excellent
+way to introduce new researchers and the public to particle-physics
+concepts. However, the toolset for MC event manipulation and
+visualisation is less powerful and coherent than it should be, and
+this project seeks to improve that situation!
+
+## Task ideas
+
+This project will pick up old ideas and code for MC-event
+visualisation -- both of the interaction graph that illustrates the
+internal theory computation, and the external appearance of the
+resulting collision decay-products -- and produce a new set of tools
+useful both to physicists and for public outreach.
+
+## Expected results and milestones
+
+ * Extend the mcgraph tool to be usable with both the HepMC and LHE MC-event formats.
+ * Refactor mcgraph into a library capable of rendering to a web browser in a server app.
+ * Interface the Phoenix event-viewer library to display 3D events (with and without a dummy detector model) to a web browsers.
+ * Display interactive particle information and jet clustering in graph and 3D view interfaces.
+
+## Requirements
+
+ * Command-line tools
+ * Python
+ * Web technologies
+ * Gitlab CI
+ * git
+
+## Mentors
+
+ * **[Andy Buckley](mailto:[email protected])**
+ * [Chris Gutschow](mailto:[email protected])
+
+## Links
+
+ * [Phoenix event view library](https://github.com/HSF/phoenix)
+ * [Old MCview web-based MC event viewer](https://gitlab.com/hepcedar/mcview)
+ * [MC event-graph viewer](https://gitlab.com/hepcedar/mcutils/-/blob/master/bin/mcgraph?ref_type=heads)
+ * [Old MCviz event-graph viewer](https://github.com/mcviz/mcviz)
+ * [HepMC3 event format](https://hepmc.web.cern.ch/)
+ * [LHE event format](https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0609017)

_gsocproposals/2025/proposal_MCnetOpenData.md

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+---
+title: MCnet/OpenData - tools and exercises for open-data exploration with MC simulations
+layout: gsoc_proposal
+project: MCnet
+year: 2024
+organization:
+  - UofGlasgow
+difficulty: medium
+duration: 175
+mentor_avail: June-October
+---
+
+# Description
+
+CERN's experiments are committed to publishing their data in a form that
+is accessible to all, both for research purposes and for education. For
+example, the ATLAS experiment provides Jupyter notebook exercises based
+on live-analysing reduced forms of the real collider data.
+
+But particle-physics researchers also use _simulations_ of data as a
+crucial tool for testing theories and for understanding the background
+processes that new physics effects have to be isolated from. For this
+we use Monte Carlo (MC) event-generator codes, which are statistical
+implementations of the fundamental physics theory that sample
+real-looking events from the predicted particle types and
+kinematics. These are not yet represented in open-data exercises.
+
+## Task ideas
+
+In this project we will develop new tools and exercises for extending
+open-data analysis resources to include MC event simulations. It will
+both reduce the entry barriers to outreach with open data and enable more
+engaging exercises with hypothetical new-physics models.
+
+## Expected results and milestones
+
+ * Develop a library of wrapper functions to make open-data analysis more approachable for non-experts.
+ * Create functions and datasets for loading and analysing MC event samples through Jupyter.
+ * Develop a new Jupyter+Binder worksheet for outreach-oriented open-data MC analysis.
+
+## Requirements
+
+ * Python
+ * Jupyter
+ * Binder
+ * Gitlab CI
+ * git
+
+## Mentors
+
+ * **[Andy Buckley](mailto:[email protected])**
+ * [Chris Gutschow](mailto:[email protected])
+
+## Links
+
+ * [ATLAS open data](https://atlas.cern/Resources/Opendata)
+ * [Example open-data analysis notebook](https://nbviewer.org/github/atlas-outreach-data-tools/notebooks-collection-opendata/blob/master/13-TeV-examples/cpp/ATLAS_OpenData_13-TeV__analysis_example-cpp_Hyy_channel.ipynb)
+ * [Jupyter](https://jupyter.org/)
+ * [Binder](https://mybinder.org/)

gsoc/2024/mentors.md

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 * Petro Zarytskyi [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) CompRes
 * Lorenzo Moneta [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) CERN
 * Sanjiban Sengupta [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) CERN
-* Neel Shah [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) CERN
+* Neel Shah [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) CERN

gsoc/2025/mentors.md

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 **Note for contributors:** entries must be sorted in **last name** alphabetic order
 
 ## Full Mentor List (Name, Email, Org)
+* Andy Buckley [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) UofGlasgow
+* Chris Gutschow [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) UCLondon
 * Valentin Volkl [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) CERN