5th ICFA Beam Dynamics Mini-Workshop on Machine Learning for Particle Accelerators

Session

Keynotes, tutorials and lectures

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80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor (CERN)

86. Differentiable Simulations

Jan Kaiser, Chenran Xu, Andrea Santamaria Garcia (University of Liverpool), Juan Pablo Gonzalez Aguilera (University of Chicago)

Keynotes, tutorials and lectures

Invited talks

Many accelerator physics problems, such as beamline design, beam dynamics model calibration, online tuning and phase space measurements rely on solving high-dimensional optimisation problems over beam dynamics simulations. Numerical optimisers have successfully been applied to such tasks, but they struggle as the dimensionality and complexity of the objective function increase. In machine...

87. Introduction to Control Theory

Annika Eichler (DESY)

Keynotes, tutorials and lectures

Invited talks

Control theory is a pivotal field of study that focuses on the behavior of dynamical systems and the development of strategies to influence these systems towards desired outcomes. The principle of control theory find its application in plenty of disciplines including engineering, economics, biology and beyond. It were control concepts like the Kalman filter that has flew the Apollo to the...

14. Large Language Model Chatbots for Enhanced Documentation Access

Dr Florian Rehm (CERN)

Keynotes, tutorials and lectures

Invited talks

This tutorial applies Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) as a method to improve documentation retrieval in accelerator physics. Participants will learn how combining information retrieval with generative AI models can provide precise, context-aware answers from vast technical resources. The session includes a hands-on demonstration of implementing RAG in combination with Large Language...