ACAT 2024

Scientific Programme

Track 1: Computing Technology for Physics Research

This track includes topics that impact how we do physics analysis and research that are related to the enabling technology. Here is a fairly detailed list of possibilities (which isn't, of course, complete!).

• Software
  • Language interoperability
  • Software development and quality
  • Analysis Libraries and tools
• Computing
  • Distributed and parallel computing, including programming models
  • Architectures, from accelerators (GPU, ASIC, FPGA) to HPC
  • Floating-point models
  • Hardware abstractions
  • Online computing, including data transfer, High Level Triggering (HLT)
  • Advanced computing models such as Quantum Computing
• Data
  • Data transfer, networking
  • Data formats and compression
• Simulations and visualization
  • Detector and accelerator simulations, full and fast
  • Visualization techniques; event displays

Track 2: Data Analysis - Algorithms and Tools

There are as many different algorithms and methods as their are physicists. New and novel categories of algorithms are part of what this conference is looking for.

• Machine Learning
  • Neural network architectures and their applicability
  • Automation of science: data to formula
  • Hyperparameter tuning
  • Optimization and Deployment
• Differentiable programming
• Statistical methods
• Novel reconstruction algorithms, such as for track finding

Track 3: Computations in Theoretical Physics: Techniques and Methods

Computing techniques and algorithms used in the theoretical side of physics research.

• Automatic Systems
  • Automatic Computation Systems: from Amplitudes to Event Generators
  • Multi-dimensional Integration: Methods and Tools
  • Intensive High Precision Numerical Computations: Algorithms and Systems
• Higher Orders
  • Matching NNNNLO Calculations to Event Generators
  • Multi-loop Calculations and Higher Order Corrections
• Computer Algebra Techniques and Applications
• Computational Physics: Theoretical and Simulation Aspects
  • Cosmology, Universe Large Scale Structure, Gravitational Waves
  • Nuclear Physics N-body Computation
  • Plasma Physics
  • Earth Physics, Climate, Earthquakes