Artifact network meeting

Tuesday 17 Dec 2024, 11:30 → 12:30 Europe/Zurich

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Meeting minutes

Date : December 17th 2024

Update : --

Subject : EU network end of the year meeting

Indico link : 

Participants

ESS Bilbao : Ibon Bustinduy, Estefania Abad | ESS : Thomas Shea, Christine Darve | GANIL : Adnan Ghribi, Sabrina Lecerf | ESRF : Simone Maria Liuzzo, Jean-Luc Revol | Soleil : Laurent Nadolski | GSI : Andrew Mistry, Sabrina Appel, Nico Madysa | Univ Granada : Begoña del Pino, Javier Diaz | IFMIF-DONES : Ivan Podadera, Ruben Lorenzo | LPGP : Brigitte Cros, Francesco Massimo | LP2IB : Frederic Druillole | ARRONAX : Freddy Poirier | Univ. Oxford : Adrian Oeftiger | Univ Malta : Gianluca Valentino | DESY : Annika Eichler | HZB : Pierre Schnizer | TUHH : Annika Eichler | CEA : Barbara Dalena | Univ Copenhagen : Kim Leffman | ESF : Jonas L'Haridon | Cosylab : None | Hopswork : None | RTU : None | EPFL : Tatiana Pieloni | IJCLab : Hayg Guler | UKRI : Amelia Pollard | Univ Liverpool : Carsten Welsch | INFN LNL : Maurizo Montis | INFN LNF : None | IPHC : None | CERN : Verena Kain, Andrea Latina, Antonio Gilardi | Paris Lodron : Simon Hirländer | KIT : Erik Bründermann| DTI : Jonas Okkels Birk | 

Summary

1. Review of national and intra-institute efforts regarding 2025 (including proposals)
2. Review of EU proposals of interest to AI for accelerators
3. Updates on network structure

 

Review of National and intra-institutes efforts

France

[ Adnan ]

- See attached presentation

Univ of Oxford

[ Adrian ]
- Planning for the next year's MSCA DN preparation to begin in the spring
- Possible funding for hackathon (STFC) to be confirmed early 2025

ESS

[ Tom ] 
- Ongoing ML project within iFast
- iFast extended to October 2025
- Ongoing work on anomaly detection at ESS with a doctoral student (RTU) on algorithms development and at ESS for FPGA embedding
- Thomas Shea the official contact on ML activities in accelerators at ESS
- Operation data framework demonstration : triggers across the machine, online monitoring, large coherent data sets.
- We need a new point of contact for beam physics at ESS
- MOU signed with DOE and biweekly meetings with Oakridge : Pulse classification
- ESS ok to be a funding member of the network but needs to wait for early january

GSI

[ Andrew ]  
- The data platform work-package in the previous ARTIFACT infra-tech-01 proposal to be the core of an `infra-eosc-04` proposal in 2025. Discussions to begin early 2025.
- Continuity of pilot feature store platform being deployed at CCIN2P3 (see presentation)
- Need to be wider than the accelerator community
`Sabrina`
- AI/accelerator meetings to resume at GSI

Univ Granada

[ Javier ]
- Continuity of the work on AI enabled systems (ending program)

CERN

[ Antonio ] 
- Ongoing work within the Efficient Particle Accelerators program
- CLEAR demonstrated to be suitable for different AI related studies (ex. Reinforcement learning)

DESY

[ Annika ] 
- Preparation of a joint university-infrastructures program `Erforschung von Universum und Materie – ErUM“ Research of universe and matter`
- Human in the loop AI work
- Realtime FPGA embedding

CEA

[ Barbara ] 
- See presentation for french programs
- Internship with Centrale Supelec funded to have a student to work on BPM data (Super-KEK B)

Soleil

[ Laurent ] 
- See presentation for french programs
- Funding possible at soleil for internships and Postdoc
- Ongoing work with new recruits on several AI related areas

Arronax

[ Freddy ]

- Continuity of the work on anomalies at Arronax with a PhD student and university collaborations.

ESS-Bilbao

[ Ibon ]

- New recruit with an interesting AI related profile

LPGP

[ Francesco/Brigitte ]

- New postdoc to work on AI based optimisation for plasma acceleration

DTI

[ Jonas ] 
- Continued interest in neutron background relating experiments with accelerator data

Univ Malta

[ Gianluca ] 
- New funding of 18M FTE in the frame of `Physics beyond collider program` with CERN. First beam tests planned next year.

Review of EU programs (2025)

- See attached presentation
- At least 3 EU programs can be pursued next year
- To be discussed early January

Network

- Very few responses for the Q&A session
- Some resistance from CNRS and CEA in France confirm the vital importance of infrastructures to fund and sustain the network
- New MOU and structure draft documents to be circulated early January