IRIS-HEP Fellows "Lightning" Talks

Wednesday 17 Sept 2025, 11:00 → 18:35 US/Eastern

Robert Currier Tuck (Princeton University (US))

Talks to highlight the work of IRIS-HEP Fellows

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11:00 → 11:15 Devon Bontrager - Cooperative track building for particle tracking: A creative exploration of how to cooperatively build tracks in particle tracking.

Mentors: Liv Vage

Speaker: Devon Bontrager (IRIS-HEP)

11:15 → 11:30 Hannah Havel - HS3 Support for Combine: Provide HS3 support for the Combine statistical analysis tool.

Mentors: Massimiliano Galli, Nick Smith

Speaker: Hannah Grace Havel (Princeton University (US))

11:30 → 11:45 Oleksii Hrechykha - Completing an Array-API compliant Ragged library

Mentors: Ianna Osborne

Speaker: Oleksii Hrechykha (IRIS-HEP)

11:45 → 12:00 Eglė Lenkaitytė - Coffea for FCC

Mentors: David Lange, Prayag Yadav

Speaker: Egle Lenkaityte

12:00 → 12:15 Rūta Lomsargytė - LLM/co-pilot project focused on support for use of CMS/HEP analysis tools

Mentors: David Lange, Peter Elmer

Speaker: Ruta Lomsargyte (Vilnius University (LT))

12:15 → 12:30 Roman Petrov - Developing a Pythonic tool for smoothing histograms

Mentors: Mohamed Aly, Alex Held, Matthew Feickert

Speaker: Roman Petrov

12:30 → 12:45 Patrikas Styra - Backend update of the AlCaVal framework for validation of calibration and alignment conditions (#9 on CMS Twiki)

Mentors: Andrea Perrota, Atanu Pathak, Matheus Macedo

Speaker: Patrikas Styra (Vilnius University (LT))

12:45 → 13:00 Arvind Tawker - Creating ML Templates for HEP

Mentors: Liv Vage

Speaker: Arvind Tawker (University of California Davis (US))