Name: 28th Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2026)
Start: 2026-05-25T08:00:00+07:00
End: 2026-05-29T14:00:00+07:00
Location: Chulalongkorn University

28th Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2026)

from Monday, 25 May 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 29 May 2026 (14:00)

Monday, 25 May 2026
09:00 Opening Ceremony
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Phat Srimanobhas (Chulalongkorn University (TH))

09:40 HEP and scientific computing future - Simone Campana (CERN)

10:05 From quantum computing and quantum algorithms to high energy physics - Zoe Holmes (EPFL)
10:30 Your Survival Guide to CHEP 2026 - Thakonwat Chanwattana (Synchrotron Light Research Institute (SLRI)) Thakonwat Chanwattana (University of Oxford (GB))
Your Survival Guide to CHEP 2026
- Thakonwat Chanwattana (Synchrotron Light Research Institute (SLRI))
- Thakonwat Chanwattana (University of Oxford (GB))
10:30 - 10:40
10:40 Break
Break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 Plenary
11:10 - 12:30
Contributions

11:10 Q/A for opening plenary session talks - Simone Campana (CERN) Zoe Holmes (EPFL)

11:30 From Global HPC Trends to National Impact: The Role of HPC in Thailand’s Research Ecosystem - Krich Nasingkun (NSTDA Supercomputer Center)

12:00 Streaming Data Acquisition for Nuclear Physics Experiments: Standardization Activities of the SPADI Alliance - Shinsuke Ota (RCNP, Osaka University)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:45
13:45 Track 1 - Data and metadata organization, management and access: Tape storage, archival and long-term preservation
Tape storage, archival and long-term preservation
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK M01
Contributions

14:03 Fermilab's migration to CTA - Eric Vaandering (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

14:21 Analysis of Tape Archival Metadata Based on ATLAS Run3 Recall History - Xin Zhao (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

14:39 Preserving the Web-Based Interfaces of the RHIC/STAR Experiment: A Low-Maintenance Archival Strategy - Jerome LAURET (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:57 Ensuring Long-Term Data Sustainability: Evaluating a Migration to Rucio for the LZ Dark Matter Experiment - Tyler Anderson (LBNL)
Track 2 - Online and real-time computing
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK M02
Contributions

13:45 The ATLAS Trigger System - Stefanie Morgenstern (Heidelberg University (DE))

14:03 Development of Data Scouting program in Run 3 at the CMS experiment - Patin Inkaew (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))

14:21 A Hyperparameter Optimization Framework for Preparing ML Models for Real-Time Trigger Deployment - Anastasiia Petrovych (CERN)

14:39 An End-to-End, Unified Workflow for Sub-Microsecond Inference on FPGAs - Dimitrios Danopoulos (CERN)

14:57 AIE4ML: Leveraging Versal AI Engines to Enable More Expressive Real-Time ML Models for Next-Generation Trigger Systems - Dimitrios Danopoulos (CERN)
Track 3 - Offline data processing: Calorimeters and Particle ID
Calorimeters and Particle ID
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 201
Contributions

13:45 Accelerating charged-particle track reconstruction with deep neural networks for point-cloud segmentation - Minh-Tuan Pham (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))

14:03 TICL: The Iterative CLustering Framework for the CMS Phase-2 Event Reconstruction - Wahid Redjeb (CERN)

14:21 GNN-based end-to-end reconstruction in the CMS Phase 2 High-Granularity Calorimeter - Jose Daniel Gaytan Villarreal (Carnegie-Mellon University (US))

14:39 dN/dx reconstruction with deep learning for high-granularity TPCs - Guang Zhao (Institute of High Energy Physics (CAS))

14:57 Using Graph Neural Networks for the segmentation of overlapping objects in high granularity calorimeters - Matthieu Martin Melennec (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
Track 4 - Distributed computing: Security and AAI
Security and AAI
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 202
Contributions

13:45 The Many Faces of Authentication and Authorisation at CERN - Berk Balci (CERN)

14:03 Deployment of site-focused security event detection capabilities - David Crooks David Crooks (UKRI STFC)

14:21 Hardening and Federating INDIGO IAM for Secure and Interoperable Research Infrastructures - Francesco Giacomini (INFN CNAF)

14:39 SSH with federated identities - Marcus Hardt Marcus Hardt (KIT)

14:57 A workflow based approach to risk assessment and analysis arising from token based authentication within the WLCG - Tom Dack (STFC UKRI)
Track 5 - Event generation and simulation: Fast Simulation 1
Fast Simulation 1
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 301
Contributions

13:45 Generative Muon Punch-Through with Flow-Matching in ATLAS - Firdaus Soberi (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

14:03 Simulating the CMS High-Granularity Calorimeter with Generative AI - Oz Amram (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

14:21 DiT-based fast simulation for the CEPC long-bar crystal electromagnetic calorimeter - ZHIHAO LI (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

14:39 Modern Generative Models for Fast Calorimeter Simulation in ATLAS - Florian Ernst (Heidelberg University (DE))

14:57 Adapting PARNASSUS: A Fast Simulation Tool for the ATLAS Experiment - Abdelrahman Asem Elabd (University of Washington (US))
Track 6 - Software environment and maintainability: Performance and Heterogeneous Computing
Performance and Heterogeneous Computing
13:45 - 15:15
Room: PHYS1 204
Contributions

13:45 Automated tuning of GPU kernel parameters via RunTime Compilation for the ALICE Online reconstruction - Gabriele Cimador (CERN, Università and INFN Torino)

14:03 The alpaka C++ library for performance portability - Andrea Bocci (CERN)

14:21 Module Map Graph: A High-Performance Software Library for GNN-Based Reconstruction Pipelines on Heterogeneous Architectures for the HL-LHC - Jan Stark (Laboratoire des 2 Infinis - Toulouse, CNRS / Univ. Paul Sabatier (FR))

14:39 Incorporating Heightened Scrutiny into a Large HEP Software Project - Philippe Canal (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

14:57 Designing a robust and modular quality control framework for the construction of the SiPM-on-Tile section of the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter upgrade - Anurag Sritharan (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
Track 7 - Computing infrastructure and sustainability: Infrastructure/Tuning/(Benchmark)
Infrastructure/Tuning/(Benchmark)
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 308
Contributions

13:45 Getting to the top - Andrea Chierici (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

14:03 STARS: A representative compute metric for SRCNet radio astronomy workloads - Pablo Llopis Sanmillan (EPFL) Rohini Joshi (FHNW)

14:21 Benchmarking GPU Viability in Heterogeneous HEP Batch Computing - Tim Voigtlaender (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

14:39 Classification and Modeling the Performance and Scaling of Scientific Workflows with Resource-efficient Workflow Mini-apps - Ozgur Ozan Kilic (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Tianle Wang (Brookhaven National Lab)

14:57 Hardware technology in the AI era - Andrea Sciabà (CERN)
Track 7 - Computing infrastructure and sustainability: Standardizing HPC...
Standardizing HPC...
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 302
Contributions

13:45 Standardizing HPC-resource adaptation for HEP workflows - Tomas Lindén (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))

14:03 Global Grid User Support (GGUS) for WLCG and EGI: From Legacy to Next-Generation Helpdesk - Pavel Weber (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

14:21 Enhancing High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Kubernetes Workloads at CERN - Jack Charlie Munday Ricardo Rocha (CERN)

14:39 IHEP site cluster fine-grained scheduling optimization - Jingyan Shi (IHEP)

14:57 Evolution of Kubernetes at CERN: Automated Management of Clusters and Add-ons - Jack Charlie Munday
Track 8 - Analysis infrastructure, outreach and education: Open Data
Open Data
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 207
Contributions

13:45 From recommendations to action: your role in advancing data preservation and open science in high-energy physics - Caterina Doglioni (The University of Manchester (GB))

14:03 Rucio for Open Science: FAIR and Accessible Data at Scale from Day One - Hugo Gonzalez Labrador (CERN)

14:21 Providing Cold Storage in the CERN Open Data portal in production - Pablo Saiz (CERN)

14:39 Advancements in ATLAS Open Data for Research - Giovanni Guerrieri (CERN)

14:57 LHCb Ntupling Service: official public release with access to Run 2 open data - Piet Nogga (University of Bonn (DE))
Track 9 - Analysis software and workflows
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 208
Contributions

13:45 New Developments in ROOT's RDataFrame - Stephan Hageboeck (CERN)

14:03 Coffea Framework: Current Status, Recent Updates, and Community Impact - Iason Krommydas (Rice University (US))

14:21 MC-Run: Scalable MC event generation and Rivet analysis - Cedric Verstege (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

14:39 SMOCS - JLab’s Streaming Monitoring Optimization Control System - Torri Jeske

14:57 Framework for vectorized computations for the Final Daya Bay data release - Maxim Gonchar (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
15:15 Poster
15:15 - 16:15
Contributions

15:15 Enhancing ATLAS ITk Outer Barrel Loading Workflows through Guided Procedures and Automated Database Interactions with CLApp - Maximilian Horzela (Georg August Universitaet Goettingen (DE))

15:16 Sustainable Simulation: Reducing FullSim Dependence with Cross-Experiment Pretrained Neural Networks - Matthias Schott (CERN / University of Mainz)

15:17 CMS Storage Performance with RNTuple - Eric Vaandering (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

15:18 Development of the JUNO-TAO event display based on PHOENIX - Xuesen Wang

15:19 From In-House Tools to HashiCorp Vault: CERN's Transition to Modern Scalable Secrets Management - Ben Jones (CERN)

15:20 Data-Driven Validation of HS23 with CMS Grid Job Monitoring Data - Robin Hofsaess

15:22 A Blueprint for Emerging Centers: The NNU HEP Farm's Evolution from Local Cluster to Grid Integration - Kai Yi (Nanjing Normal University (CN))

15:23 Autonomous Quantum Machine Learning via Riemannian Gradient Optimization - Kasidit Srimahajariyapong (Chulalongkorn University)

15:24 AI-Driven Operations and Digital Twin for the LHCb Data Centre - Pierfrancesco Cifra (CERN)

15:25 LGT4HEP: Computing Traineeship in Lattice Gauge Theory for High-Energy Physics - Huey-Wen Lin

15:26 Leveraging Visualization for Enhanced Physics Analysis in BESIII - Zhijun Li (Sun Yat-Sen University (CN))

15:27 FairRoot an experiment independent framework for simulation, analysis and reconstruction - Florian Uhlig (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

15:28 Transformer-based deep learning approach to measurement of the rare top process $t \to sW$ - Woojin Jang (University of Seoul, Department of Physics (KR))

15:29 EveNet: A Foundation Model for Particle Collision Data Analysis - Ting-Hsiang Hsu (National Taiwan University (TW))

15:30 Differentiable Everything: A JAX Ecosystem for Likelihood-Based Inference in HEP - Mohamed Aly (Princeton University (US))

15:31 Uproot-custom: Extend and customize TTree reading in Uproot - Mingrun Li

15:32 The tracking performance on LHCb UP detector in Upgrade II - Yisheng Fu (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))

15:33 TPC MPD GAN Fast Simulation - Alexey Boldyrev

15:34 Enhancement and Validation of Hadronic De-excitation Models in Geant4 - Nikita Chalyi (Tomsk State University (TSU))

15:35 Remote ROOT Data Access: Separating Client and Server Effects in Nginx and XRootD - Aashay Arora (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

15:36 DUNE Rucio Server Scalability Studies - Jacob Calcutt (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

15:37 Metadex: An AI-Native Conditions Metadata Exchange for DUNE - Gavin Davies (University Of Mississippi)

15:38 Update on the Canadian Belle II Tier1 Raw Data Centre - Marcus Ebert (University of Victoria)

15:39 Enhancing the ME0 Level-1 Trigger in the CMS Experiment Using Machine Learning - Woohyeon Heo (University of Seoul, Department of Physics (KR))

15:40 JUNO Raw Data Preprocessing - Tao Lin (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)) Tao Lin

15:41 GUNTAM: A Transformer for seed reconstruction - Minh-Tuan Pham (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))

15:42 Quantum machine learning and the journey to its scalability - Supanut Thanasilp (Chulalongkorn University)

15:43 Innovations for hardware-level muon trigger for long-lived particles in CMS - Pelayo Leguina (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))

15:44 A Low-Latency Muon-Shower trigger for Long-Lived Particle Signatures - Javier Prado Pico (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))

15:45 A Graph-Pipeline Framework for ALICE MC Workflows in Run 3 and Beyond - Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN)

15:46 CernVM-FS Unchained: An Update to Container Unpacking and Distribution with CVMFS - Valentin Volkl (CERN)

15:47 Driving the CMS Submission Infrastructure Towards the HL-LHC Scales - Antonio Perez-Calero Yzquierdo (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas)

15:49 Next-Generation Triggers for CMS at the HL-LHC: Toward Offline-Quality Real-Time Reconstruction - Jessica Prendi (ETH Zurich (CH))

15:50 Performance Portable Lattice Gauge Theory Simulation with Kokkos - LI Haibo lihaibo

15:51 Translating LHCb’s documentation – first experiences and ensuring maintenance - Andy MORRIS Yisheng Fu (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
16:15 Track 1 - Data and metadata organization, management and access: Rucio, data lakes and distributed data management
Rucio, data lakes and distributed data management
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK M01
Contributions

16:15 A new Rucio Service at CERN for Emerging and Established Experiments - Hugo Gonzalez Labrador (CERN)

16:33 interTwin Digital Twin Engine's Data Lake - Dijana Vrbanec

16:51 A Rucio-Based Global Data Lake for the SKA Regional Centre Network - James Collinson (SKAO)

17:09 Enhancing Rucio for Gravitational Wave Experiments with MADDEN - Federica Legger (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))

17:27 Integrating Globus as a Transfer Tool for Rucio: Bridging HEP and ASCR Data Management Infrastructure - Benjamin Gutierrez (Argonne National Laboratory) Doug Benjamin (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Douglas Benjamin

17:45 SRCNet v0.1 and the Data Path to SKA Science - James William Walder (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))
Track 2 - Online and real-time computing
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK M02
Contributions

16:15 Autoencoders for real-time event selection at the LHCb experiment - Paloma Laguarta González (University of Barcelona (ES))

16:33 Designing a Heterogeneous Computing Architecture for Level-1 Data Scouting in CMS at the HL-LHC - Giovanni Zago (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))

16:51 Online searches for long-lived particles at LHCb: BuSca (Buffer Scanner) - Valerii Kholoimov (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))

17:09 Accelerating Graph Neural Networks on FPGAs for Real-Time Level-0 Muon Triggering - Martino Errico (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

17:27 Particle-Based Representation Learning for Anomaly Detection in the CMS High-Level Trigger - Mehrnoosh Moallemi (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (GB))

17:45 Advances in the Optimisation of the LHCb First Level Trigger - Andreea-Irina Hedes (The University of Manchester (GB))
Track 3 - Offline data processing: Tracking 1
Tracking 1
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 201
Contributions

16:15 Using Line Segment Tracking to enable ML-based Track Reconstruction in CMS - Aashay Arora (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

16:33 Hybrid Track Candidate Finder Combining the Hough Transform and Neural Networks for Fast Charged-Particle Reconstruction - Carlo Varni (AGH University of Krakow (PL)) Krzysztof Cieśla (AGH University of Krakow (PL)) Marcin Wolter (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)) Tomasz Bold (AGH University of Krakow (PL))

16:51 Boosting the ATLAS Event Reconstruction Efficiency via an Improved Track-Overlay - Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US))

17:09 Graph Neural Network Based End-to-End Track Reconstruction with Drift Chamber and CGEM at BESIII - Xinyu Zhuang Yunhe Yang (Nankai University)

17:27 Track Reconstruction for the COMET Drift Chamber - 兆轲张 (中国科学院高能物理研究所)

17:45 Efficient Graph Segmentation via Global Path Inference and Learned Edge Embeddings for Scalable GNN-based Tracking - Jay Chan (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
Track 4 - Distributed computing: Scheduling and Resource Allocation
Scheduling and Resource Allocation
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 202
Contributions

16:15 Fair-Share Versus Opportunism in Multi-VO Environments: The Complexity of Job Slot Allocation at the RAL Tier-1 - Brij Kishor Jashal (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

16:33 Multicore workload scheduling, then vs. now - Jeff Templon

16:51 Advanced support for heterogeneous resources for the future CMS Offline Computing - Florian Von Cube (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

17:09 Job scheduling optimization for heterogeneous resources in the ALICE Grid - Maria-Elena Mihailescu (National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest (RO))

17:27 Whole-node scheduling in ALICE: lessons learnt during five years of operation - Marta Bertran Ferrer (CERN)

17:45 Advanced Scheduling Strategies for Improved CPU Efficiency in CMS Offline Computing - Antonio Perez-Calero Yzquierdo (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas)
Track 5 - Event generation and simulation: Fast Simulation 2
Fast Simulation 2
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 301
Contributions

16:15 Fast Hybrid Simulation for the LHCb Calorimeters - Matteo Rama (INFN Pisa (IT))

16:33 End-to-End Fast Simulation of the ALICE Zero Degree Calorimeter using Generative Models - Davide Fuligno (University of Pisa and INFN Trieste (IT))

16:51 Electro-magnetic calorimeter shower simulation using machine learning techniques at BESIII experiment - Tong Liu

17:09 Improving simulation of extreme EM calorimeter showers with deep neural networks - Minh-Tuan Pham (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))

17:27 Exploring Potential Pathways to Accelerate ePIC Detector Simulation - Sakib Rahman Sakib Rahman

17:45 Evaluation of VecGeom Solids in the Context of ALICE O2 Simulation - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
Track 6 - Software environment and maintainability: Testing, QA, and Validation
Testing, QA, and Validation
16:15 - 18:03
Room: PHYS1 204
Contributions

16:15 Tackling complexity in the development of HEP applications by introducing unit testing in the Gaudi framework - Pol Muñoz Pastor (La Salle, Ramon Llull University (ES))

16:33 Hypothesis-awkward: Property-Based Testing Strategies for Awkward Array - Tai Sakuma (Princeton University) Tai Sakuma (Princeton University)

16:51 A Record-and-Replay Workflow for Floating-Point Error Analysis of GPU Kernels - Douglas Benjamin

17:09 The ATLAS C++ static checker - Scott Snyder (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

17:27 Enabling end-to-end testing: Porting low latency gravitational wave search pipelines to kubernetes - Paul James Laycock (Universite de Geneve (CH))

17:45 Evolving the CMS software into a distributed application - Mario Gonzalez (CERN)
Track 7 - Computing infrastructure and sustainability: Environmental sustainability I
Environmental sustainability I
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 308
Contributions

16:15 Watt Matters: cluster-level frequency control for lower CO2 in HEP - Emanuele Simili

16:33 CERN IT's Approach to Environmental Sustainability - Daniele Massaro (CERN)

16:51 A study of heat reuse from a scientific computing facility - Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE))

17:09 Towards An Unified Electric Energy Monitoring for the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid - Natalia Diana Szczepanek (CERN)

17:27 European XFEL Scientific Data Infrastructure. - Janusz Malka (European XFEL GmbH)

17:45 Monitoring Sustainability at an ATLAS Tier 2 Computing Centre - Miguel Villaplana (IFIC - Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))
Track 7 - Computing infrastructure and sustainability: Heterogeneous architectures
Heterogeneous architectures
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 302
Contributions

16:15 Exploiting LHCb trigger CPU and GPU resources as Analysis Facilities - Diogo Castro (CERN) Eduardo Rodrigues (University of Liverpool (GB))

16:33 Computing Activities at the Spanish Tier-1 and Tier-2s for the ATLAS experiment in the LHC Run3 period and towards the High Luminosity Phase (HL-LHC) - Santiago Gonzalez De La Hoz (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))

16:51 Operating a Large GPU HPC Farm With a Small Team: Lessons from the ALICE EPN Project - Lubos Krcal (CERN)

17:09 Dynamic provision of GPUs at HPC centers for HEP - Nikita Shadskiy (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

17:27 From CPU-Centric to Accelerator-Aware: Operational Deployment of MIG and vGPU Partitioning in WLCG - Brij Kishor Jashal (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

17:45 A user-level network overlay to enable offloading of scientific payloads from cloud-native interfaces - Giulio Bianchini (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))
Track 8 - Analysis infrastructure, outreach and education: Preservation & reproducibility
Preservation & reproducibility
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 207
Contributions

16:15 Comprehensive Data and Analysis Preservation at RHIC: Lessons Learned and Path Forward - Eric Lancon (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

16:33 Towards fully reproducible physics analyses: lessons learned and practical implementations at LHCb - Mindaugas Sarpis (Vilnius University (LT))

16:51 Celebi: a Novel Architecture for Reproducible and Preserved Physics Analyses - Mingrui Zhao (Peking University (CN))

17:09 Building a local Virtual Research Environment for the Einstein Telescope project - Tommaso Diotalevi (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

17:27 Construction and Application of a Computing Platform for Diverse Data Analysis Scenarios at HEPS - Qingbao Hu (IHEP)

17:45 The CERN Analysis Facility: Consolidation, Evolution and Strategy - Giovanni Guerrieri (CERN)
Track 9 - Analysis software and workflows
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 208
Contributions

16:15 Particle physics data analysis on the GPU: from IO to data reduction - Jonas Rembser (CERN)

16:33 Bridging the Vendor Gap: Enabling AMD GPU Support for Awkward Array via ROCm/HIP for the HL-LHC Era - Ianna Osborne (Princeton University)

16:51 GPU acceleration of end-user analyses at the LHC - Ianna Osborne (Princeton University)

17:09 b2luigi - bringing batch 2 luigi - Alexander Heidelbach

17:27 Flare: an open source data workflow orchestration tool - Cameron Harris

17:45 Reproducible and Modular Analysis Workflows in High-Energy Physics: Concepts and Implementation of a Code-Centric Approach - Maximilian Horzela (Georg August Universitaet Goettingen (DE))
18:15 Ice-breaking social event: Society Game
Society Game
18:15 - 20:00
Room: MHMK 507
Tuesday, 26 May 2026
09:00 Plenary
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 SRCNet — Vision, Progress, and Cross-Community Computing for the SKA Telescope - Rosie Bolton (SKA Observatory)

09:30 From Petabytes to Discovery: The Computing Ecosystem Powering Rubin Observatory's LSST - Leanne Guy

10:00 WLCG Technical Evolution: Preparing for HL-LHC with a Community-Driven Roadmap - James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US))
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 HEP Benchmarking: Journey from CPU HEPScore23 to GPU Benchmarks in the HL-LHC Era - Robin Hofsaess

11:30 The end of the x86 dominance - orchestrating the heterogeneous Grid - Maksim Melnik Storetvedt (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (NO))

12:00 Archiving 60 PB/month to tape — lessons learned and a look forward to Run-4 - Julien Leduc (CERN)
12:30 Announcement and Group Photo
Announcement and Group Photo
12:30 - 12:40

12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 13:45
13:45 Track 1 - Data and metadata organization, management and access: Data transfers, federations and infrastructure planning
Data transfers, federations and infrastructure planning
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK M01
Contributions

13:45 CMS transfer rate estimates in Run-4 - Katy Ellis (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

14:03 Advancing Global Scientific Infrastructure: Ongoing Mini-Challenges and Roadmap to WLCG Data Challenge 2027 (DC27) - Alessandra Forti (The University of Manchester (GB))

14:21 FTS4: Incremental Re-Engineering of CERN's File Transfer Service for LHC Run 4 - Nicola Pace

14:39 ATLAS journey integrating into the SENSE/Rucio Priority Data Transfer Service - Aashay Arora (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

14:57 Building a European federation for sync and share with CERNBox - Diogo Castro (CERN)
Track 2 - Online and real-time computing
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK M02
Contributions

13:45 Advancing the CMS Level-1 Trigger: Jet Tagging and pT regression with Deep Sets at the HL-LHC - Stella Felice Schaefer (Hamburg University (DE))

14:03 Modular Neural Network Deployment in hls4ml for Next-Generation LHC Trigger Systems - Enrico Lupi (CERN)

14:21 Optimizing GNNs for the Wild: PyTorch-to-ONNX Acceleration of GarNet on CPUs and GPUs - Ronald Caravaca-Mora (Consejo Nacional de Rectores (CONARE) (CR)/Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR) (CR)) Cilicia Uzziel Perez (La Salle, Ramon Llull University (ES))

14:39 It’s not a FAD: first demonstration of Flows for unsupervised Anomaly Detection at 40 MHz for use at the Large Hadron Collider - Roope Oskari Niemi

14:57 COLLIDE-2V - 750 Million Dual-View LHC Event Dataset for Low-Latency ML - Eric Anton Moreno (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US))
Track 3 - Offline data processing: New Approaches
New Approaches
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 201
Contributions

13:45 Probe-aware Self-supervised Holographic Reconstruction Network - Jiarui Hu (IHEP)

14:03 Exercising the novel and promising Mojo language in HEP frameworks - Axel Naumann (CERN)

14:21 Machine-Learning Methods for Detector Optimization in HIBEAM/NNBAR - Lucas Astrand

14:39 CMS Tracker Data Quality Certification enhanced with Machine Learning tools - Richa Sharma (University of Puerto Rico (US))
Track 3 - Offline data processing: Reconstruction 1
Reconstruction 1
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 308
Contributions

13:45 Reprocessing All IceCube Data - It Should be Easy, Right? - David Schultz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

14:03 Advancing IACT Data Analysis: A Status Update on the CTLearn Framework - Daniel Nieto (IPARCOS-UCM)

14:21 End-to-End Reconstruction with Transformers - Max Hart (University College London (GB))

14:39 Novel technique to improve anti-neutron reconstruction at Belle II - Sanjeeda Bharati Das Sanjeeda Bharati Das (Torino University and INFN)

14:57 Key techniques for performance optimization of astronomical satellite data processing - Shuang Wang (IHEP)
Track 4 - Distributed computing: Middleware 1
Middleware 1
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 202
Contributions

13:45 Advancing Workflow Validation at Scale: A Modern and Containerized HammerCloud Architecture for the WLCG - Lorenzo Valentini (CERN)

14:03 Evolving PanDA: Toward Sustainable, Intelligent, and Heterogeneous Workload Management in ATLAS and beyond - Xin Zhao (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

14:21 Scaling ePIC Simulation Production: Distributed Workflow and Data Management - Sakib Rahman Sakib Rahman

14:39 DiracX in action - Alexandre Franck Boyer (CERN)

14:57 Toward a Sustainable Workload Management Architecture for CMS at HL-LHC - Andrea Piccinelli (University of Notre Dame (US))
Track 5 - Event generation and simulation: Fast Simulation 3
Fast Simulation 3
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 301
Contributions

13:45 FastSim ML-based corrections and scale factors for CMS - Samuel Louis Bein (Northeastern University (US))

14:03 Accelerating ALICE background simulations: A WGAN Approach to slow-neutron induced TPC loopers - Marco Giacalone (CERN)

14:21 Quantum based Generative Models for Fast Calorimeter Simulation in ATLAS and Future Colliders - Matteo Franchini (University of Bologna and INFN) Matteo Franchini (University of Bologna and INFN (IT))

14:39 Machine Learning for Faster Simulations at Belle II - David Giesegh (Belle II Experiment)

14:57 step2point: Optimising point-cloud representations for fast calorimeter simulation - Anna Zaborowska (CERN)
Track 6 - Software environment and maintainability: Software Systems, Frameworks, and Integration
Software Systems, Frameworks, and Integration
13:45 - 15:15
Room: PHYS1 204
Contributions

13:45 A Feedback-Driven Evolution of the Belle II Distributed Computing System - Quinn Campagna

14:03 Building an AI Assistant for ATLAS Computing Operations and User Support - Ilija Vukotic (University of Chicago (US))

14:21 Exploring AI-Assisted Coding for Storage Systems: Practical Examples and Preliminary Evaluation - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)

14:39 RL-ABC: Reinforcement Learning for Accelerator Beamline Control - Anwar Ibrahim (HSE University)

14:57 Modernizing Financial Processes at CERN through Industry-Standard Software Integration - Catalin Codreanu (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (RO)) Cristian Schuszter (CERN)
Track 7 - Computing infrastructure and sustainability: Batch/HTC
Batch/HTC
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 302
Contributions

13:45 Evaluating the scalability of CERN’s HTCondor batch system towards the High-Luminosity LHC - Antonio Delgado Peris (CERN)

14:03 Accelerating Science, Decelerating Carbon: Towards Sustainable Computing in HEP - Ricardo Rocha (CERN)

14:21 Performance optimisations for a cloud-based grid site - Jonathan Woithe (Adelaide University (AU))

14:39 Strengthening Vulnerability and SBOM Management in the CERN Container Registry - Jack Charlie Munday Ricardo Rocha (CERN)

14:57 Building a Hybrid Cloud HPC System - Deepak Aggrawal (University of Cambridge) Shaun de Witt
Track 8 - Analysis infrastructure, outreach and education: Machine Learning
Machine Learning
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 207
Contributions

13:45 On-Premises Machine Learning Challenge Framework for High Energy Physics - Hannes Jakob Hansen Paulo Guilherme Pinheiro Pereira (Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP) (BR))

14:03 INFN Hackathons: Five Years of Teaching AI for High Energy Physics and Beyond - Francesca Lizzi

14:21 Open-Source Tools for Effective Machine Learning Education in HEP - Liv Helen Vage (Princeton University (US))

14:39 Machine Learning Training Facility at Vanderbilt University - Andrew Malone Melo (Vanderbilt University (US))
Track 9 - Analysis software and workflows
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 208
Contributions

13:45 Enabling distributed analysis for ALICE in Run 3 - Nicolas Poffley (CERN)

14:03 The Full Event Interpretation Algorithm at Belle II: Current Status and Developments - Rahul Tiwary (Toshiko Yuasa Laboratory (TYL), KEK)

14:21 Evaluating ROOT RNTuple for Physics Analysis Workflows in ATLAS - Emma Torro Pastor (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))

14:39 CMS Analysis Frameworks - Khawla Jaffel (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))

14:57 FCCAnalyses: A Core Component of the Emerging Analysis Ecosystem for FCC - Juraj Smiesko (CERN)
15:15 Poster
15:15 - 16:15
Contributions

15:15 IPVLAN Container Manager: A High-Performance, Fault-Tolerant Orchestration Framework for Distributed Scientific Computing - Geonmo Ryu (Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KR))

15:16 HEPS Large-Scale Data Challenges and Corresponding Solutions - Siqi Hou

15:18 AI_INFN Platform - a distributed Virtual Research Environment - Rosa Petrini (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))

15:19 Integrating the ATLAS Glance systems to CERN’s Group Management API - Rafaella Lenzi Romano Rafaella Lenzi Romano (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (BR))

15:20 A Geometric Graph Node Converter for PMT Non Linearity Correction in GRAPES-3 Experiment - Sambit Sarkar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai)

15:21 CRISP: A Collaborative Research Information Sharing Platform - Eric Lancon (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

15:22 A new era for the management of 10,000 Windows devices at CERN - Ben Jones (CERN)

15:23 Sustainable Open Science with Advanced Metadata: The Einstein Telescope Analysis Portal (ETAP) - Paul James Laycock (Universite de Geneve (CH))

15:24 WordPress as a service for a diverse CERN community - Berk Balci (CERN)

15:25 Research on Key Technologies for Automated Penetration Testing Oriented to High-Energy Physics Institutes - Shiyuan Fu (IHEP, CAS)

15:26 Efficient Statistical Modeling for Particle Physics Using Computational Graphs in Python - Giordon Holtsberg Stark (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))

15:27 Modeling Systematic Uncertainty in Latent Representations for Anomaly Detection at Scale - Gaia Grosso (IAIFI, MIT)

15:28 A Snakemake-Based Workflow for Reproducible Particle Physics Analyses - Oxana Smirnova Oxana Smirnova (Lund University)

15:29 In-memory compression of Awkward Arrays with Coffea - Manfred Peter Fackeldey (Princeton University (US))

15:30 New Geant4 internal data base for neutron cross sections. - Andrei Berngardt (Tomsk State University)

15:31 Accelerating Diffusion Models for High-Fidelity Calorimeter Simulation - Anwar Ibrahim

15:32 Fast simulation for scattering muography applications using generative adversarial neural networks - Javier Prado Pico (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))

15:33 Adding a New Facility to IceCube's Long Term Archive - David Schultz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

15:34 Unifying Data and Metadata Access with PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrappers - Mwai Karimi

15:35 Benchmarking a PureStorage S500 Appliance for Physics Workflows - Gianmaria Del Monte (CERN)

15:37 An online data filtering and monitoring kit with ERSAP and streaming CODA - Torri Jeske (Jefferson Lab)

15:38 Automated Jet Energy Correction for Prompt Data in the CMS experiment - Patin Inkaew (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI)) Punnawich Chokeprasert (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI)) Theodoros Chatzistavrou (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))

15:39 Porting the CMS Tracker Raw Data Unpacker to GPUs - Aashay Arora (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

15:40 Quantum Computing Approaches to Tracking Parameter Optimization in High Energy Physics - Prajjwal Saxena (Indian Institute of Science) Prajjwal Saxena

15:41 Stagnation and false convergence in imaginary-time evolution - Suwannachad Suwannajitt (Chulalongkorn University)

15:43 Quantum Graph Network for Boosted Jet Identification - Parichehr Kangazian Kangazi (The Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (IR))

15:44 Neural network decorrelation in the LHCb topological b trigger - James Connaughton (University of Warwick (GB))

15:45 An Adaptive Serialization and Compression Optimization Framework Based on Data Feature Perception - 世园符 (高能物理研究所)

15:46 Federation of compute and storage resources for SPD offline computing - Andrey Kirianov (A.Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (AM))

15:47 Operational Evolution of FTS3: A DevOps Driven Approach to elastic operations. - Eric Vaandering (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

15:48 The SPD Software&Computing project. - Danila Oleynik (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))

15:49 Real-Time PF Clustering and Deep Learning for Soft-Tau Reconstruction in the CMS Phase-2 L1 Scouting Stream - Valentina Camagni (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

15:50 Coffea schemas modifications - Maksym Naumchyk Maksym Naumchyk (Princeton University (US))

15:51 AI Inference and Document Intelligence Service for GSI/FAIR - Alexey Rybalchenko (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

15:52 Operational Experience of a Refurbished, Energy-Efficient Data Centre at Queen Mary University of London - Caterina Doglioni (The University of Manchester (GB))
16:15 Track 1 - Data and metadata organization, management and access: XRootD ecosystem and data access
XRootD ecosystem and data access
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK M01
Contributions

16:15 Designing a Unified XRootD Monitoring Framework for WLCG and experiment Operations - Borja Garrido Bear (CERN) Panos Paparrigopoulos (CERN)

16:33 Enhancing Redirection in the CMS Data Federation - Rahul Chauhan (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))

16:51 Global Profiling of Open Science Data Federation Services using the Pelican Platform - James Letts (UCSD)

17:09 DataHarbor: A Secure Web Portal for Efficient Large-Scale Data Access via XRootD - Florian Uhlig (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

17:27 Chasing the Bottleneck: Optimizing XRootD data servers for Columnar Analysis workloads, from I/O Wait to CPU Load - Andrea Piccinelli (University of Notre Dame (US))

17:45 Transfer Learning based Resource Usage Prediction in In-network Caching - Chin Guok (ESnet) Chin Guok
Track 2 - Online and real-time computing
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK M02
Contributions

16:15 Workflow setup and configuration for the ALICE online processing - Ernst Hellbär (CERN)

16:33 Towards Collaborative, Web-Native Monitoring Dashboards for Online and Archived Histograms in ATLAS using Grafana and JSROOT - Serguei Kolos (University of California Irvine (US))

16:51 Hydra: A scalable, open-source vision system for continual data quality monitoring - Thomas Britton

17:09 ClickHouse-Based ATLAS Operational Monitoring Data Archiving Service Prototype - Igor Soloviev (University of California Irvine (US))

17:27 Optimising Memory Usage in the LHCb Online Mover with a Rust-Based Architecture - Robert Laszlo Gulyas (CERN)

17:45 Reinforcement Learning-Based Control of Polarized Target and Goniometer Systems at Jefferson Lab - Torri Jeske
Track 3 - Offline data processing: Core Software and Frameworks 1
Core Software and Frameworks 1
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 201
Contributions

16:15 Evaluating Error-Bounded Lossy Compression on HEP Data with LossBench - Amy Byrnes

16:33 Exploring lossy storage for analysis data with ROOT's RNTuple - Florine Willemijn de Geus (CERN/University of Twente (NL))

16:51 Efficient Data Layouts and heterogeneous data handling in CMSSW - Markus Holzer (CERN)

17:09 Modernizing the ATLAS Persistency Framework for the HL-LHC - Marcin Nowak (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

17:27 Lossy data compression for simulated CMS pileup datasets - Tomas Raila (Vilnius University (LT))

17:45 Usage of GPUs for ALICE Run 3 Offline Reconstruction in the GRID - David Rohr (CERN)
Track 3 - Offline data processing: Reconstruction 2
Reconstruction 2
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 308
Contributions

16:15 Optimal use of timing measurement in vertex reconstruction at CMS - Prabhat Solanki (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))

16:33 Minimising Event Size, Maximising Physics: Inclusive Particle Isolation for LHCb's Run 3 - Ching-Hua Li (Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France)

16:51 Towards more precise data analysis with Machine-Learning-based particle identification with missing data - Lukasz Graczykowski (Warsaw University of Technology (PL)) Liliana Sirko (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))

17:09 Machine Learning–Based Offline Search for Long-Lived Particles in the LHCb Muon System - Valerii Kholoimov (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))

17:27 mkFit for track fitting with the CMS Phase-2 detector - Manos Vourliotis (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

17:45 Exploiting precise timing information for improving the event reconstruction at the CMS experiment and at future colliders - Aurora Perego (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
Track 4 - Distributed computing: AI for Operations
AI for Operations
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 202
Contributions

16:15 Dr.Sai: A Pioneering LLM-Based Autonomous Agent for Physics Analysis - Zhengde Zhang (中国科学院高能物理研究所)

16:33 Artificial Intelligence for Operations at CMS - Pietro Lugato (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

16:51 An On-Grid deployment of ML Inference as a service at a Tier-2 - Albert Gyorgy Borbely (University of Glasgow (GB))

17:09 "ChatGPT run my workflow": Exploring agentic AI interfaces to workflow management - Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))

17:27 AI in the EGI e-infrastructure - Past experiences and future strategies - Sergio Andreozzi

17:45 Towards Autonomous Computing Operations with AI Assistance for Belle II Experiment. - Dhiraj Kalita (KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization))
Track 5 - Event generation and simulation: Fast Simulation 4
Fast Simulation 4
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 301
Contributions

16:15 Data Overlay for Underlying Event modeling in Heavy Ion collisions in ATLAS - Tadej Novak (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

16:33 CaloTrilogy: Toward a Breakthrough in One Step, End-to-End, Physics-Guided Shower Generation for Modern Calorimeters - Cheng Jiang Cheng Jiang (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

16:51 The electronics simulation software in the JUNO experiment - Ze Chen

17:09 Updates on ML-based fast and flash simulations at LHCb - Michał Mazurek (National Centre for Nuclear Research (PL))

17:27 CMS FlashSim: how an end-to-end ML approach speeds up simulation in CMS - Filippo Cattafesta (Scuola Normale Superiore & INFN Pisa (IT))

17:45 PARSIFAL: a parametrized simulation for µ-RWELL detectors - Riccardo Farinelli (INFN Bologna (IT))
Track 6 - Software environment and maintainability: Programming Models and Software Design
Programming Models and Software Design
16:15 - 18:03
Room: PHYS1 204
Contributions

16:15 Compile-Time Metaprogramming with C++26 and beyond - Jolly Chen (CERN & University of Twente (NL))

16:33 Standardization for sustainable and reusable software: std::simd in C++26 - Matthias Kretz (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)

16:51 Performance and integration challenges of using Julia language for trigger and reconstruction - Mateusz Jakub Fila (CERN)

17:09 Arbitrary Python Execution in C++ with Dynamic Bindings: How Far Can We Go? - Silia Taider (CERN)

17:27 A modernized interface to ROOT files - Giacomo Parolini (CERN)

17:45 Transparent integration of RNTuple into FairRoot - Radoslaw Karabowicz (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))
Track 7 - Computing infrastructure and sustainability: Environmental sustainability II
Environmental sustainability II
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 302
Contributions

16:15 Energy-aware compute resource modulation at the WLCG PIC Tier-1 site: drainage strategies, CPU frequency scaling, and predictive control - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

16:33 Estimating the Carbon Footprint of Computations in the LHCb Grid - Henryk Giemza (Warsaw University of Technology)

16:51 The WLCG Sustainability Forum: Progress and Directions - David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB))

17:09 Evaluating Performance and Power Efficiency of Ceph Storage Configurations for Large-Scale Scientific Computing - Thomas Byrne

17:27 Development of a Breathing Computing Center for HEP - Lars Sowa (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

17:45 The High-Low project: High-Performance Algorithms for Low Power Sustainable Hardware - Arantza De Oyanguren Campos (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES)) Arantza Oyanguren (IFIC - Valencia)
Track 8 - Analysis infrastructure, outreach and education: Analysis Facilities
Analysis Facilities
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 207
Contributions

16:15 Status and future of the BaBar Long Term Data Preservation and Computing Infrastructure - Marcus Ebert (University of Victoria)

16:33 Lessons learned running Integration Challenge at CMS Coffea-Casa facility - Oksana Shadura (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US))

16:51 Purdue Analysis Facility: An Interactive Platform for HL-LHC Era Analyses at CMS - Norbert Neumeister (Purdue University (US))

17:09 Offloading CMS detector performance analysis with RNTuple and RDataFrame on an Analysis Facility - Tommaso Diotalevi (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

17:27 ServiceX Update - Benjamin Galewsky (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))

17:45 Point, Click, Analyze: Enabling Zero-Install Data Exploration with Browser-Based Tools and GitLab CI at LHCb - James Connaughton (University of Warwick (GB))
Track 9 - Analysis software and workflows
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 208
Contributions

16:15 Optimizations and New Strategies for Native ROOT Data Loading for ML - Silia Taider (CERN)

16:33 ML-based Flavour Tagging for LHCb Run 3 - Borja Sevilla Sanjuan (La Salle, Ramon Llull University (ES))

16:51 Measurement of Quantum Correlations in $Z \to \tau^+\tau^-$ at DELPHI Using Machine Learning - Ting-Hsiang Hsu (National Taiwan University (TW))

17:09 Foundation Model for Physics Analysis at BESIII - Jingde Chen (Institute of High Energy Physics)

17:27 Re-discovery of $Z_c(3900)$ at BESIII Based on Quantum Support Vector Machine (QSVM) - Siyang Wu (Shandong University)

17:45 Future-Ready Restoration: A Case Study on AI RAG-Enhanced Agentic Revival of a Run-2 2016 Λb → Λγ Analysis - Cilicia Uzziel Perez (La Salle, Ramon Llull University (ES))
19:00 Welcome Reception at the Mandarin Hotel (5-10 min walk from the conference venue)
Welcome Reception at the Mandarin Hotel (5-10 min walk from the conference venue)
19:00 - 22:00
Wednesday, 27 May 2026
09:00 Plenary
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Beyond Code Generation: Building an LLM Ecosystem for Physics Analysis - Gordon Watts (University of Washington (US))

09:30 Towards AI scientists: Human-AI Collaboration in the Future of HEP - Ke LI

10:00 Good AI for Physics Needs AI Ethics and Good AI Ethics Needs Physics - Savannah Thais (Hunter College)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 AI and Cybersecurity: Power, Risk, and Responsibility - Jose Carlos Luna Duran (CERN)

11:30 Panel Discussion: Opportunities and Responsibilities for Using AI in Particle Physics - Andrea Sciabà (CERN) Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN) David Crooks David Crooks (UKRI STFC) Gordon Watts (University of Washington (US)) Harris Tzovanakis (CERN) Ke Li (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)) Savannah Thais (Hunter College)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:45
13:45 Track 1 - Data and metadata organization, management and access: Data integrity, storage reliability and evaluation
Data integrity, storage reliability and evaluation
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK M01
Contributions

13:45 ODGDFS: A High-Performance User-Space Object Storage Engine for HEP Data Challenges - zhuo meng (Institute of High Energy Physics)

14:03 Storage tests for the German Tier-2 WLCG contribution with the NHR HPC cluster Emmy: ATLAS use case - Inga Katarzyna Lakomiec (Georg August Universitaet Goettingen (DE))

14:21 Enhanced Data Integrity for Reliable WLCG Third-Party Copy Transfers - Hugo Gonzalez Labrador (CERN)

14:39 Data Integrity and Recovery System for Distributed Storage in ALICE - Andreea Prigoreanu (IT-SD)

14:57 Design and Implementation of an AI-Driven Disk Failure Prediction System for Large-Scale HEP Storage Clusters - LI Haibo lihaibo
Track 2 - Online and real-time computing
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK M02
Contributions

13:45 ATLAS Event Filter muon reconstruction for the HL-LHC - Leonardo Monaco (University of Glasgow (GB))

14:03 Filtering hits for speeding up track reconstruction at hadron colliders - Alessandro Zaio (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))

14:21 IntelliRTA: a dashboard to analyse trends and correlations for the LHCb triggers - Pawel Kopciewicz (CERN)

14:39 Development of streaming data reconstruction for ePIC experiment at EIC - Takuya Kumaoka (University of Tsukuba (JP))

14:57 Regional reconstruction of tracks for the ATLAS Event Filter using GPU accelerators - Eleni Xochelli (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ES))
Track 3 - Offline data processing: Tracking 2
Tracking 2
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 201
Contributions

13:45 Memory Layouts in the ALICE Track Reconstruction - Oliver Gregor Rietmann (CERN)

14:03 Forward decay chain reconstruction with displaced vertices inside intense magnetic fields - Izaac Sanderswood (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))

14:21 ACTS Integration for ATLAS Phase-II Track Reconstruction - Noemi Calace (CERN)

14:39 First functional prototype for the reconstruction of charged particle tracks using machine learning in the ATLAS experiment at the HL-LHC - Jan Stark (Laboratoire des 2 Infinis - Toulouse, CNRS / Univ. Paul Sabatier (FR))

14:57 Toward a Foundation Model for Neutrino Physics: Self-distillation of Reusable Sensor-level Representations - Sam Young
Track 4 - Distributed computing: Middleware 2
Middleware 2
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 202
Contributions

13:45 A generalized Workflow Manager for Continuous Gravitational-wave search - Stefano Dal Pra (INFN)

14:03 Aligning DIRAC Workflows with CWL: A Unified and Reproducible Workflow Model for Grid-Scale Computing - Ryunosuke O'Neil (CERN)

14:21 IceCube Takes Flight with Pelican - A First Experience - David Schultz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

14:39 Evolving CRIC for the HL-LHC Era: Supporting WLCG and experiment Operations - Panos Paparrigopoulos (CERN)

14:57 Workflow Architecture and Implementation for Simulation Data Production in HERD - Jingyan Shi (IHEP)
Track 5 - Event generation and simulation: Event Generation 1
Event Generation 1
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 301
Contributions

13:45 Hardware Acceleration of NLO Event Generation with MadGraph4GPU and PEPPER - Daniele Massaro (CERN)

14:03 New GPU developments in the Madgraph CUDACPP plugin: kernel splitting, helicity streams, cuBLAS color sums - Andrea Valassi (CERN)

14:21 Event Generation Acceleration on AI Engine Cores: A Case Study - Pelayo Leguina (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))

14:39 Generative AI for hadron physics - Marco Andrea Battaglieri (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))

14:57 Opticks: GPU Accelerated Optical Photon Simulation for JUNO and Other Experiments - Simon Blyth (IHEP, CAS)
Track 5 - Event generation and simulation: Full Simulation 1
Full Simulation 1
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 308
Contributions

13:45 Geant4 electromagnetic physics for future experiments at colliders - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

14:03 Full-chain Simulation and Data-driven Refinement of the BESIII CGEM Detector Response - Xinnan Wang (IHEP)

14:21 New developments in the experiment-independent Gaussino simulation software and its use in LHCb - Wojciech Krupa (CERN)

14:39 Muon simulation in JUNO - Jing Chen (Sun Yat-sen University)

14:57 Integration and Performance of the ATLAS FastChain Workflow towards Run 4 - Dominik Duda (The University of Edinburgh (GB))
Track 6 - Software environment and maintainability: Ecosystems, Collaboration, and Workflows
Ecosystems, Collaboration, and Workflows
13:45 - 15:15
Room: PHYS1 204
Contributions

13:45 Building International Research Software Collaborations in Physics - Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US))

14:03 The European Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence (EVERSE) - Stefan Roiser (CERN)

14:21 HEP Packaging Coordination: Distributing the HEP software ecosystem on conda-forge - Matthew Feickert (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))

14:39 Franklin - Your passport to running custom code on the grid - George Hallett (University of Warwick (GB))

14:57 NOvA Software and Computing: Evolution, Lessons, and Impact; Supporting a Decade of Physics - Gavin Davies (University Of Mississippi)
Track 7 - Computing infrastructure and sustainability: Network --> IPv6
Network --> IPv6
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 302
Contributions

13:45 Toward an IPv6-native, cloud-native ATLAS site: Scalable production-ready grid storage on Kubernetes - Ryan Taylor (University of Victoria (CA))

14:03 The successful removal of IPv4 from WLCG wide-area network links - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

14:21 A phased phase-out of IPv4 at a WLCG Tier-1 - Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE))

14:39 Workflow-Aware Traffic Classification for HEP Data Movement - Chin Guok Chin Guok

14:57 Scitags at Scale: Terabit Packet Marking and WLCG Data Challenge Readiness - Marian Babik (CERN) Tristan Sullivan (University of Victoria (CA))
Track 9 - Analysis software and workflows
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 208
Contributions

13:45 The ATLAS Integration Challenge: studying physics analyses towards the HL-LHC - Alexander Held (University of Wisconsin Madison (US)) Artur Cordeiro Oudot Choi (University of Washington (US))

14:03 ServiceX in the ATLAS Integration Challenge: Data Delivery for HL-LHC Analyses - Artur Cordeiro Oudot Choi (University of Washington (US))

14:21 A study of CMS analysis pipelines through the Integration Challenge - Mohamed Aly (Princeton University (US)) Oksana Shadura (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US))

14:39 Data Processing Challenges and Framework Solutions at the High Energy Photon Source - Yu Hu (IHEP, CAS)

14:57 Uncovering Hidden Systematics in Neural Network Models for HEP - Matthias Schott (CERN / University of Mainz)
15:15 Poster
15:15 - 16:15
Contributions

15:15 JobLens: A Lightweight Job Observability Collector for High-Throughput HEP Computing - Zhenyuan Wang (Computing center, Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, China)

15:16 Extending the reconstruction of displaced tracks at CMS during the HL-LHC with Line Segment Tracking - Manos Vourliotis (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

15:17 CERN STEAM Academy: Growing the future Trigger, DAQ, Software & ML experts - Anna Kravchenko (CERN)

15:18 A Path Toward Scalable FPGA Offloading in Federated Research Infrastructures - Daniele Spiga Diego Ciangottini (INFN, Perugia (IT)) Francesco Brivio (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT)) Giulio Bianchini (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT)) Massimo Sgaravatto (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)) Mirko Mariotti (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT)) Paolo Dini Simone Gennai (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

15:19 The INFN Open Access Repository: a FAIR challenge - Stefano Dal Pra (INFN)

15:20 Diffusion Models for ECAL Simulation in the LHCb experiment - Anwar Ibrahim

15:21 Overview of the Adapted German ATLAS and CMS Grid Computing Structure - Shawn Gregory Zaleski (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

15:23 Introducing ARES: the LHCb Analysis platform for Radiation Environment Simulations - Ryunosuke O'Neil (CERN)

15:24 Enhancing Secure Remote Access at CERN: Implementing Two-Factor Authentication for Windows Terminal Infrastructure - Ben Jones (CERN)

15:25 An IaC-Framework for the future of CERN’s Infrastructure and Configuration Management - Ben Jones (CERN)

15:26 Expanding CloudVeneto: seamless integration of High Performance Computing resources for enhanced scientific collaboration - Giovanni Zago (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))

15:27 Topology-Informed Jet Tagging using Persistent Homology - saurav mittal

15:28 Semi-Supervised and Manifold Learning on Multi-Modal Event Representations in the LZ Dark Matter Experiment - John Winnicki

15:29 SysVar: Consistent and scalable treatment of systematic uncertainties in template-based analyses - Ilias Tsaklidis (University of Bonn)

15:30 An Automated Data Processing Workflow Platform for Space Astronomy Satellites - Shuang Wang (IHEP)

15:31 Harmonizing Relativistic Nuclear Collision Models via Multi-Discriminator GANs - Aleksandr Svetlichnyi (INR RAS, MIPT(NRU))

15:32 GPU-Accelerated Simulation of 3D Diamond Sensors Using the TeRABIT Infrastructure - Rosa Petrini (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))

15:33 Scalable Tape Data Management at INFN-CNAF: Extending GEMSS for Multi‑Library Support and High‑Performance Buffering - Andrea Chierici (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)) Andrea Chierici (INFN-CNAF)

15:34 Towards the Italian national scientific datalake: case studies and insights - Diego Ciangottini (INFN, Perugia (IT))

15:35 TileCalibWeb Robot evolution towards HL-LHC: from COOL to CREST - Yuri Smirnov (Northern Illinois University (US))

15:37 Optimizing the LHCb HLT2 selections framework - Daniel Magdalinski (Nikhef)

15:38 Real-Time Trigger Architectures for the CTAO LST Advanced Camera: From Logic to CNNs - Daniel Nieto (IPARCOS-UCM)

15:39 GlueX-Demon: a compact Python and JSROOT package for interactive data quality monitoring - Naomi Jarvis (Carnegie Mellon University)

15:41 Track-based Alignment of the BESIII CGEM Inner Tracker Using Cosmic-ray Data - Jiajv Wang Linghui Wu

15:42 Machine Learning Approaches for Mass Composition Estimation in Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays at the Pierre Auger Observatory - Daniele Martello (Università del Salento & INFN Lecce)

15:44 Data quality monitoring system in the JUNO experiment - Jize Yang (Sun Yat-Sen University)

15:45 CMS Site Monitoring and Run 3 Hammercloud Setup - Chan-anun Rungphitakchai (Chulalongkorn University (TH))

15:46 Integrating User Data Tokens in IceCube's Production Workflow Manager - David Schultz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

15:48 Trigger-Level Analysis for Multi-Billion-Event Datasets - Tobias Fitschen (The University of Manchester (GB))

15:49 Enhancing the Performance of the SCAB SuperSearch in the ATLAS Speakers System - Leonardo Mira Marins (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (BR))

15:50 A novel library for Monte-Carlo simulation of relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions systematization - Savva Savenkov (INR RAS, MIPT(NRU))
16:15 Track 1 - Data and metadata organization, management and access: FAIR data, metadata standards and preservation
FAIR data, metadata standards and preservation
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK M01
Contributions

16:15 The Paradox of persistence: Strategies for metadata versioning and FAIR publication in NAPMIX - Ivan Knezevic (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

16:33 Multi-Layer Metadata Architecture for Cross-Community Metadata Management in PUNCH4NFDI - Victoria Tokareva (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

16:51 Evolution of the ATLAS EventIndex towards HL-LHC - Dario Barberis (University of California Berkeley (US))

17:09 Making Astroparticle Physics Data Reusable beyond Its Original Context - Victoria Tokareva

17:27 Unified Cloud-Native Metadata Interface with Trino, Superset, and Ibis in the LZ Dark Matter Experiment - Eli Mizrachi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

17:45 ILDG 2.0: FAIR data management in Lattice QCD and beyond - Hubert Simma (DESY)
Track 1 - Data and metadata organization, management and access: Storage systems and file system protocols
Storage systems and file system protocols
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 308
Contributions

16:15 Towards a standardized language-neutral StoRM Architecture - Francesco Giacomini (INFN CNAF)

16:33 dCache project status and updates - Dmitry Litvintsev (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Marina Sahakyan Tigran Mkrtchyan (DESY)

16:51 Toward HPC with Recent Improvements in the dCache NFSv4.1 Interface - Tigran Mkrtchyan (DESY)

17:09 CERN Storage technology explorations: Adding NFS 4.2 as a Strategic Protocol for EOS - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)

17:27 A Scalable Architecture for Metadata-Intensive Distributed NFS - Andreas Joachim Peters (CERN)

17:45 JWanFS: A WAN-Oriented Distributed File System for Multi-Data Center Collaboration in High Energy Physics - 隗立畅 weilc (IHEP)
Track 2 - Online and real-time computing
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK M02
Contributions

16:15 The backward realtime tracking strategy in the LHCb experiment - Jiahui Zhuo (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))

16:33 Studies of FPGA accelerated track reconstruction for the ATLAS Event Filter - Ioannis Maznas (Northern Illinois University (US)) Ioannis Maznas (A)

16:51 Real-time 40 MHz Track Reconstruction: The Readout and Processing Chain of the CMS Outer Tracker for HL-LHC - Marco Riggirello (Scuola Normale Superiore & INFN Pisa (IT))

17:09 Neural network cluster finding for the ALICE TPC online computing - Christian Sonnabend (CERN, Heidelberg University (DE))

17:27 A heterogeneous and vectorized sequence for the HL-LHC full tracking reconstruction of the CMS experiment - Manos Vourliotis (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

17:45 Studies of track reconstruction performance in the ATLAS Event Filter for the HL-LHC - Federica Piazza (University of Oregon (US))
Track 3 - Offline data processing: Core Software and Frameworks 2
Core Software and Frameworks 2
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 201
Contributions

16:15 The development and upgrades of BESIII Offline Software - Ziyan Deng

16:33 Offline Data Processing for JUNO's first-year commissioning and physics data taking - Tao Lin (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))

16:51 RNTuple Integration in the Flexible Object Read/write Model for DUNE - Andrew Olivier (Argonne National Laboratory) Andrew Paul Olivier (Argonne National Laboratory)

17:09 L'Arlesienne de ROOT: How to lift a 30 years old limit in the heart of ROOT I/O. - Philippe Canal (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

17:27 Status of the ROOT Project: not only LHC, not only HENP! - Danilo Piparo (CERN)

17:45 Recent developments in Key4hep - Juan Miguel Carceller (CERN)
Track 4 - Distributed computing: Computing Model and Distributed Computing Ops
Computing Model and Distributed Computing Ops
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 202
Contributions

16:15 Gravitational-wave computing for O4 and beyond - Stefano Bagnasco (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Torino)

16:33 The Einstein Telescope Computing Model - Paul James Laycock (Universite de Geneve (CH))

16:51 ATLAS Distributed Computing towards LHC Run4 - Ivan Glushkov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

17:09 The ePIC Streaming Computing Model - Holly Szumila-Vance (Florida International University)

17:27 JUNO distributed computing production experience for first-year data taking - Xiaomei Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))

17:45 Distributed computing system for the SPD experiment - Artem Petrosyan (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))
Track 5 - Event generation and simulation: Full Simulation 2
Full Simulation 2
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 301
Contributions

16:15 Energy efficiency of GPU-based Monte-Carlo simulation using AdePT - Severin Diederichs (CERN)

16:33 Towards the future SHiP simulation framework and geometry - Oliver Lantwin (Universitaet Siegen (DE))

16:51 Full Simulation of the CMS experiment progress: from Run3 to Run4 - Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

17:09 Updated eCARD：A graphical, wizard-driven radiation simulation software based on Geant4 - Qingmin Zhang

17:27 Detector identifier and geometry service in JUNO offline software - Yuning Su (Sun Yat-Sen University (CN))
Track 6 - Software environment and maintainability: AI for Software and Operations
AI for Software and Operations
16:15 - 18:03
Room: PHYS1 204
Contributions

16:15 LHCb Brain: Agentic Assistant for the LHCb Experiment - Pawel Kopciewicz (CERN)

16:33 SciBot: A Secure, High-Performance AI Assistant for Long-Term Preservation of RHIC Knowledge and beyond - Jerome LAURET (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:51 Root-cause Analysis of Data Discrepancies in the ATLAS Software Stack with CelloAI - Ozgur Ozan Kilic (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

17:09 Adaptive Fault Management at CERN using Large Language Models - Panagiotis Gkonis (CERN)

17:27 INSPIREHEP Search and Discovery with AI driven Retrieval and MCP Server - Harris Tzovanakis (CERN)

17:45 From Clicks to Conversation: A Dialogic and Collaborative Software Interaction Paradigm - FU Shiyuan fusy
Track 7 - Computing infrastructure and sustainability: Network
Network
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 302
Contributions

16:15 Can We Fill a 400 Gbps WAN? - Jiri Chudoba (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))

16:33 Distributed Performance Testing of High-Speed Scientific Networks in Preparation for Exabyte Scale Workflows - Lael Verace (University of Wisconsin-Madison (US))

16:51 Investigating Routing Anomalies and Performance Degradation in WLCG Networks: Case Studies Toward HL-LHC Operations - Petya Vasileva (University of Michigan (US))

17:09 WLCG Mini-Capability Challenge: Host Tuning to Improve WAN Data Transfers - Andrew Malone Melo (Vanderbilt University (US))

17:27 Entanglement Distribution with Quantum–White Rabbit Coexistence over Metropolitan Distances - Marian Babik Marian Babik (CERN)

17:45 Making WLCG Networks Visible: An Alarm and Visualization Platform - Petya Vasileva (University of Michigan (US))
Track 7 - Computing infrastructure and sustainability: Site/Sustainability
Site/Sustainability
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 207
Contributions

16:15 SCOPE: A Sustainable Computing Prototype for the Einstein Telescope - Stefan Krischer (RWTH Aachen University)

16:33 How CERN openlab is supporting the experiments at the HL-LHC by unlocking new sustainable technologies through partnerships with industry - Thomas Owen James (CERN)

16:51 SRCNet Distributed Computing: Architecture, Progress, and Lessons Learned - Rohini Joshi (FHNW) Rohini Joshi

17:09 SPECTRUM: A Strategic Framework and Technical Blueprint for European Exascale Research Data and Compute Infrastructure - Sergio Andreozzi

17:27 An Integrated Management System for Data Processing of the AliCPT Primordial Gravitational Wave Telescope - Siqi Hou

17:45 CMS Tier-0 Performance in Run-3 under Increased Luminosity and Throughput - Antonio Linares (CERN)
Track 9 - Analysis software and workflows
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 208
Contributions

16:15 ROOT’s New Histograms - Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN & Goethe University Frankfurt)

16:33 Histogramming as a Service - Manfred Peter Fackeldey (Princeton University (US))

16:51 Harnessing JAX for a Differentiable Analysis Setup - Felix Philipp Zinn (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

17:09 Doppio: Differentiable Optimization for Pair Peak Identification - Andrzej Novak (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

17:27 GRAEP: A framework for smart gradient-based optimization of HEP analyses - Lino Oscar Gerlach (Princeton University (US)) Mohamed Aly (Princeton University (US))

17:45 The latest developments of the Combine tool - Tom Runting (Imperial College (GB))
Thursday, 28 May 2026
09:00 Plenary
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Next-Generation Triggers: Rethinking Trigger Tracking for the HL-LHC in ATLAS and CMS - Noemi Calace (CERN)

09:30 Status and Prospects of the HEP Statistical Inference Ecosystem - Massimiliano Galli (Princeton University (US))

10:00 Analysis Productions: an exascale analysis data processing and management service for LHCb - Chris Burr (CERN)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Production-quality, high-throughput detector simulation with GPUs - Severin Diederichs (CERN)

11:30 DUNE Computing & Prompt Processing - Amit Bashyal (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Jacob Calcutt (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

12:00 From quarks to quasars: unifying the universe through scalable computing - Giovanni Guerrieri (CERN)
12:30 Announcement - Phat Srimanobhas (Chulalongkorn University (TH))
Announcement
- Phat Srimanobhas (Chulalongkorn University (TH))
12:30 - 12:31
12:31 Lunch
Lunch
12:31 - 13:45
13:45 Track 1 - Data and metadata organization, management and access: Compression and I/O optimization
Compression and I/O optimization
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK M01
Contributions

13:45 Characterizing Event I/O Access Patterns in HEP Workflows Using Darshan - Wesley Patrick Kwiecinski (University of Illinois Chicago)

14:03 Real-Time I/O Traffic Shaping in EOS - Gianmaria Del Monte (CERN)

14:21 Efficient data movement for Machine Learning inference in heterogeneous CMS software - Markus Holzer (CERN)

14:39 Boa Constrictor: A Mamba-based Lossless Compressor for High Energy Physics data - Akshat Gupta

14:57 Impact of Compression Algorithms on I/O performance for ATLAS MP Derivation Workflows in new ROOT data formats for analysis (RNtuple) - Bralyne Matoukam (University of the Witwatersrand)
Track 2 - Online and real-time computing: DAQ
DAQ
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK M02
Contributions

13:45 New DAQ software for the NEXT-100 experiment - Jose Maria Benlloch Rodriguez (Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) (ES))

14:03 The online event classification software in the JUNO experiment - Wenxing Fang

14:21 Dynamic Timeslice Building for CBM Using UCX - Jan de Cuveland (Goethe University Frankfurt (DE))

14:39 The SPD Online filter. - Danila Oleynik (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))

14:57 Service-Based DUNE Run Control Architecture for High-Availability Data Acquisition - Pawel Maciej Plesniak (Imperial College (GB))
Track 2 - Online and real-time computing: Machine Learning
Machine Learning
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 308
Contributions

13:45 Yukti: A Unified Interface to ML Runtimes for Inference across Heterogeneous Architectures - Sanjiban Sengupta (CERN, University of Manchester)

14:03 When Less is More: Towards Lightweight and Distilled Graph Neural Networks and for Efficient Particle Reconstruction in LHCb’s Next-Generation Calorimeter - Cilicia Uzziel Perez (La Salle, Ramon Llull University (ES)) Irvin Jadurier Umana Chacon (Universidad de Costa Rica - Consejo Nacional de Rectores (CR))

14:21 Conceptual Design and Operation of the Calibration Loop for the Next Generation Triggers in the CMS Experiment - Jessica Prendi (ETH Zurich (CH))

14:39 Towards AI-Driven Automation for Data Quality Monitoring in ALICE - Zeta Sourpi (Universite de Geneve (CH))

14:57 PQuantML: A Tool for End-to-End Hardware-aware Model Compression - Roope Oskari Niemi
Track 3 - Offline data processing: Tracking 3
Tracking 3
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 201
Contributions

13:45 Offline quality track reconstruction on heterogeneous hardware with ACTS/traccc - Fabrice Le Goff (University of Oregon (US))

14:03 ColliderML: the High-Luminosity benchmark dataset - Anna Zaborowska (CERN)

14:21 3+1D GPU reconstruction of the Inner Tracking System (ITS2) for ALICE Run 3 - Felix Schlepper (CERN, Heidelberg University (DE))

14:39 Multi-Modal Graph Neural Network Tracking for Belle II with an ONNX-based Integration - Giacomo De Pietro (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

14:57 A Lightweight and Agnostic Heterogeneous Framework for Track Reconstruction - Adriano Di Florio (CC-IN2P3)
Track 4 - Distributed computing: HPC & Advanced Systems
HPC & Advanced Systems
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 202
Contributions

13:45 Systematic studies of RDataFrame-based CMS analysis distributed over an HPC-Bubble - Luca Pacioselli (INFN, Perugia (IT))

14:03 Extending PanDA/Harvester to US HPC Through Facility and Edge Service APIs - Doug Benjamin (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Douglas Benjamin

14:21 Cross-Facility Workflow Portability for HEP Experiments: Integrating JustIN with the NERSC Superfacility API using DUNE 2x2 - Ozgur Ozan Kilic (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:39 CernVM-FS Filebundles for low-latency software distribution in interactive usecases - Valentin Volkl (CERN)

14:57 Real-time supervision and control of Grid workflows - Marta Bertran Ferrer (CERN)
Track 5 - Event generation and simulation: Event Generation 2
Event Generation 2
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 301
Contributions

13:45 On numerical validation within MadGraph5 for performance and efficiency enhancement - František Stloukal (CERN)

14:21 New techniques for reducing negative-weight events in MC@NLO-type simulations - Andrea Valassi (CERN)

14:39 Cell Reweighting Algorithms for Pathological Weight Mitigation in LHC Simulations using Optimal Transport - Lauren Meryl Hay (SUNY Buffalo) Rishabh Jain (Brown University (US))

14:57 Revisiting the Fermi Break Up model for the Geant4 library - Aleksandr Svetlichnyi (INR RAS, MIPT(NRU))
Track 7 - Computing infrastructure and sustainability: Monitoring
Monitoring
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 302
Contributions

13:45 Exabyte-Scale Automation, Alarms and Monitoring at CERN - Octavian-Mihai Matei (CERN)

14:03 Anomaly Detection in the LHCb Computing Infrastructure - Pierfrancesco Cifra (CERN)

14:21 Tag based Resource Monitoring for CMS Sites - Carlos Borrajo Gomez (CERN)

14:39 JobLens: A Lightweight Job Observability Collector for High-Throughput HEP Computing - Zhenyuan Wang (Computing center, Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, China)
Track 8 - Analysis infrastructure, outreach and education: Training
Training
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 207
Contributions

13:45 HEP Software Training with IRIS-HEP/HSF - Richa Sharma (University of Puerto Rico (US))

14:03 heptraining.cern.ch – A catalogue for HEP training resources and events - Kenneth Rioja (CERN)

14:21 Teaching ROOT - Danilo Piparo (CERN)

14:39 ePIC User Learning Training and Documentation Strategies - Alexandr Prozorov

14:57 A Hosted BinderHub Service as a Scalable Training Platform for HEP - Fengping Hu (University of Chicago (US))
Track 9 - Analysis software and workflows
13:45 - 15:15
Room: MHMK 208
Contributions

13:45 Leveraging Neural Simulation-Based Inference for an EFT Analysis in CMS - Eddie Mcgrady (University of Notre Dame (US))

14:03 Neural Simulation-Based Inference at the LHC - Jay Ajitbhai Sandesara (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))

14:21 Simulation-Based Inference (SBI) in Precision Physics - Ethan Lee

14:39 Differentiable Simulation-Based Inference in RooFit with Neural Surrogates - Jonas Rembser (CERN)

14:57 NEEDLE: A Columnar Workflow Orchestrator for Large-Scale Neural Simulation-Based Inference in HEP - Kylian Schmidt (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
15:15 Poster
15:15 - 16:15
Contributions

15:15 Using HyperQueue to increase utilization of EuroHPC resources by ATLAS Experiment - Michal Svatos (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))

15:16 Training and Deployment of Transformers in ATLAS - Alessandro Zaio (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))

15:17 SparKer: sparsity, locality and competition for statistical anomaly detection at scale - Gaia Grosso (IAIFI, MIT)

15:18 Simulation Studies of a Brute-Force χ² Alignment Framework for the CBM Silicon Tracking System - Nora Bluhme (Goethe University Frankfurt (DE))

15:19 Scalar-Tensor Extension of Non-Metricity Gravity - AVIK DE (universiti malaya)

15:20 Reproducible Dask workflows in the REANA reusable analyses platform - Tibor Simko (CERN)

15:21 Replacing the Legacy Tier-0 Accounting System with Standard Technologies for WLCG Accounting - Ben Jones (CERN)

15:22 Real-Time Training in Hardware Upstream of the Trigger - Bostjan Macek (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

15:23 Rapid Deployment and Plugin-Based Architecture Design of Interactive Analysis Workbench (INK) at IHEP - Jingyan Shi (IHEP) Xuantong Zhang (Institute of High Enegry Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))

15:25 PRAETOR - Provenance generation of Astronomical Workflows - Michael Johnson (University of Manchester)

15:26 Optimizing XRootD-Ceph plugin performance for RAL disk storage - Alexander Rogovskiy (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) Jyothish Thomas (STFC)

15:27 Next-Generation of Calibration Management System for ATLAS Tile Calorimeter - Avetisyan (David) David Avetisyan (A.Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (AM))

15:28 NetDRIVE: NetZero Digital Research Infrastructure Vision and Expertise. A UK perspective on NetZero Research Computing - Caterina Doglioni (The University of Manchester (GB))

15:29 Machine Learning-Based Enhanced Soft Muon Tagging in Atlas - Federico Andrea Corchia (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

15:30 Migrating INSPIREHEP Document Harvesting and Curation Workflows to Apache Airflow - Ioannis Tsanaktsidis (CERN)

15:31 MC tuning from the commissioning to the physics data taking in JUNO - Peidong Yu (IHEP)

15:32 Improving GlideinWMS Factory Compute Resource Configuration with Automation Tools - Florian Von Cube (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

15:33 GPT-like transformer model for silicon tracking detector simulation - Tadej Novak (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

15:34 From Hits to Tracks: A Transformer Approach for Track Reconstruction in Drift Chambers - Yipu Liao (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, Beijing)

15:35 Integration of JupyterHub with the Slurm cluster at GSI - Florian Uhlig (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

15:36 From database-backed to stateless OAuth2 access tokens in INDIGO IAM - Berk Balci (CERN) Francesco Giacomini (INFN CNAF)

15:37 Fast Simulation Of FARICH Detector Using Generative Adversarial Networks - Alexey Boldyrev

15:38 Developing reusable systems in the Glance project at CERN - Pedro Glaser De Senna (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (BR)) Pedro Glaser de Senna

15:39 Demonstrating the Processing Chain for the Next Generation Triggers in the CMS Experiment - Mateusz Zarucki (CERN)

15:40 Closing the VM Capacity Gap: Native and Container Solutions to Improve Volunteer Computing Throughput - Lorenzo Valentini (CERN)

15:41 Charged Particle Tracking with Reinforcement Learning for Drift Chambers - Yao Zhang

15:42 Background jobs for recovering CPU usage during draining phases: ATLAS use case - Sebastian Wozniewski (Georg August Universitaet Goettingen (DE))

15:43 Attention-Driven Context Enrichment for Stabilized Real-Time Jet Tagging - Tarik Ourida

15:44 Application of Unity-based Visualization in HEP experiments - Minghua Liao (Sun Yat-Sen University (CN))

15:45 Anomaly Detection in dCache Billing Data - Christian Voss Marina Sahakyan Tigran Mkrtchyan (DESY)

15:46 An XRootD Agent as A Unified Storage Interface for INK Platform - Haibo Li (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Xuantong Zhang (Institute of High Enegry Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)) Yujiang BI (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

15:47 Agentic Assistant in the LHCb Real-Time Analysis - Pawel Kopciewicz (CERN)

15:48 Advances in Awareness of Sustainability in the community of Research on Universe and Matter - Stefan Krischer (RWTH Aachen University)

15:49 40 MHz Data Scouting at CMS during LHC Run 3 and beyond - Thomas Owen James (CERN)

15:50 Upgrade of the KEDR detector DAQ system and beyond - Dmitriy Maximov
16:15 Track 1 - Data and metadata organization, management and access: Databases for experiment data and operations
Databases for experiment data and operations
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK M01
Contributions

16:15 Scaling the HSF Conditions Database Across Experiments - Ruslan Mashinistov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

16:33 CREST Conditions Data Model for HL-LHC in ATLAS - Andrea Formica (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

16:51 Migration of Conditions data caching from Squid to Varnish in the ATLAS experiment - Ilija Vukotic (University of Chicago (US))

17:09 Enhancing the use of the Calibration and Conditions Database in ALICE Grid jobs - Martin Øines Eide (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (NO))

17:27 A Distributed Event Sourced Configuration Database for the ATLAS ITk Pixel Detector - Gerhard Immanuel Brandt (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))

17:45 Intelligent Database of ZTF and LSST Alerts - Julius Hrivnac (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
Track 2 - Online and real-time computing: DAQ
DAQ
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 308
Contributions

16:15 The upgrade of the ATLAS Trigger and Data Acquisition system for the High Luminosity LHC - Marcos Vinicius Silva Oliveira (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

16:33 The data handling library of the DUNE Data Acquisition System - Deniz Tuana Ergonul

16:51 Wall-time-driven data aggregation for the CBM FLES input interface - Dirk Hutter (Goethe University Frankfurt (DE))

17:09 Networking in KM3NeT - Emidio Maria Giorgio (INFN LNS)

17:27 Performance evaluation and optimization of ethernet-based data acquisition servers in DUNE - Deniz Tuana Ergonul Xinyue Yu (University of Toronto (CA))

17:45 Development of a common platform for streaming readout DAQ systems within the SPADI Alliance - Tomonori Takahashi (RCNP, University of Osaka)
Track 2 - Online and real-time computing: Trigger
Trigger
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK M02
Contributions

16:15 Mitigating Deadtime in Distributed Optical Arrays: A Liveness-Aware Trigger Approach for High-Energy Neutrino Detection - Thammarat Yawisit (King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (TH))

16:33 Scheduling for Next Generation Triggers - Mateusz Jakub Fila (CERN)

16:51 Real-Time Uncertainty Quantification for Jet Tagging Models on the Level-1 Trigger - Tarik Ourida

17:09 Recursive Manifold Coherence: A Geometric Framework for Deadtime Recovery in Distributed Trigger Systems - Thammarat Yawisit (King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (TH))

17:27 New trigger algorithms for detecting Long-Lived particle decays inside the LHCb magnet region - Volodymyr Svintozelskyi (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))

17:45 The phase-1 upgrade of the ATLAS level-1 calorimeter trigger - Jared Little (Indiana University (US))
Track 3 - Offline data processing: Core Software and Frameworks 3
Core Software and Frameworks 3
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 201
Contributions

16:15 Accelerating ML Inference on heterogeneous architectures using SOFIE and alpaka - Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)

16:33 Leveraging Inference as a Service technology for executing ML models by the Derived AOD production applications of the ATLAS experiment - Vakho Tsulaia (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

16:51 Accelerating GNN Inference for the GNN4ITk Pipeline in ATLAS - Jay Chan (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

17:09 Redesigning the ATLAS In-File Metadata and Navigational Infrastructure for HL-LHC - Nathan Jihoon Kang (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

17:27 Robust by Design: A Meta‑Algorithm for Stable Deep Learning - Alexey Boldyrev

17:45 GPU Acceleration of Awkward Arrays: Using Python cuda.compute - Maksym Naumchyk Maksym Naumchyk
Track 4 - Distributed computing: Monitoring and Accounting
Monitoring and Accounting
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 202
Contributions

16:15 CMS Monitoring infrastructure beyond Run 3 - Carlos Borrajo Gomez (CERN)

16:33 Next-Generation Accounting Architecture for WLCG and EGI - Panos Paparrigopoulos (CERN)

16:51 A look inside the ALICE Grid: visualisation tools to better understand how the system operates - Marta Bertran Ferrer (CERN)

17:09 Enabling monitoring of GPU accelerators in the ALICE Grid - Maksim Melnik Storetvedt (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (NO))

17:27 MONIT: Evolution towards new observability ecosystems - Borja Garrido Bear (CERN)

17:45 The AUDITOR Ecosystem: High‑Performance, Low‑Memory Accounting with Integrated CO₂ Utilization Reporting for Distributed HEP Computing - Raghuvar Vijayakumar (University of Freiburg (DE))
Track 5 - Event generation and simulation: Simulation Tuning, Calibration & Validation
Simulation Tuning, Calibration & Validation
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 301
Contributions

16:33 Deploying the new LHCb simulation framework based on Gaussino for distributed production of simulated samples - Wojciech Krupa (CERN)

16:51 Reweight Me No More: Transformer-Based Mitigation of Multi-Dimensional Mismodelling in HEP Simulations - Matthias Schott (CERN / University of Mainz)

17:09 Simulation-based Inference for Precision Neutrino Physics through Neural Monte Carlo Tuning - Arsenii Gavrikov

17:27 Differentiable particle simulation for detector optimization - Jeffrey Krupa (SLAC)

17:45 A Phase-Space Inclusive Figure of Merit based in Optimal Transport for Validating Monte Carlo Reweightings - Rishabh Jain Rishabh Jain (Brown University (US))
Track 7 - Computing infrastructure and sustainability: Infrastructure/Site
Infrastructure/Site
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 302
Contributions

16:15 A Next Generation (Triggers) Computing Platform for HEP - Hannes Jakob Hansen Raulian-Ionut Chiorescu

16:33 A Computing Cluster for Technology Tracking in Einstein Telescope. - Lia Lavezzi (INFN Torino (IT)) Lia Lavezzi

16:51 Upgrading the RO-03-UPB site to a Tier 1 facility in 2025-2026 - Sergiu Weisz (National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest (RO))

17:09 Design and Cooling Strategy of the LHCb Data Acquisition System for Run 4 - Francesco Sborzacchi (CERN)

17:27 Offloading AI/ML inference as-a-service on “any” remote HPC center - Diego Ciangottini (INFN, Perugia (IT))

17:45 Digital Twin for Server Network Analysis with LLM-Driven RAG Integration - Andrey Shevel (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute named by B.P. Konstantinov of National Research Centre «Kurchatov Institute» (NRC «Kurchatov Institute» - PNPI))
Track 8 - Analysis infrastructure, outreach and education: Outreach & Visualization
Outreach & Visualization
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 207
Contributions

16:15 Revamping the ATLAS Open Data for Outreach and Education - Giovanni Guerrieri (CERN)

16:33 Enabling Accessibility to CERN audiovisual content via Automated Speech Recognition - Pablo Saiz (CERN)

16:51 A comprehensive Pedagogical Pipeline for the H to WW Search Using CMS Open Data - Anuj Raghav (University of Delhi (IN))

17:09 ALICE Event Display - lessons learned and future enhancements - Lukasz Graczykowski (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))

17:27 CMS Open Data Visualization with FireworksWeb - Yuxiao Wang (Tsinghua University (CN))

17:45 Zero-Download Visualization: Accelerating Remote ROOT Analysis via Server-Side Range Slicing and Data Reduction - 隗立畅 weilc (IHEP)
Track 9 - Analysis software and workflows
16:15 - 18:03
Room: MHMK 208
Contributions

16:15 ROOT 7: Getting Ready for HL-LHC - Stephan Hageboeck (CERN)

16:33 ROOT's new Python Interfaces based on CppInterOp: Performance, Correctness, and Future-Proof Design - Aaron Jomy (CERN)

16:51 Enhancing LLM for HEP code generation - Yue Sun (The Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Science)

17:09 From Query to Plot: Implementing a Tool-Based LLM Framework for ATLAS Analysis - Gordon Watts (University of Washington (US))

17:27 Towards a Complete Search for New Physics: Active Learning in the 19-dimensional pMSSM - Jonas Wurzinger (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))

17:45 Comparative study of Tabular Foundation Models for particle physics with the FAIR Universe HiggsML Dataset - Ragansu Chakkappai (IJCLab-Orsay)
18:40 Conference Dinner
18:40 - 22:00
Contributions

18:40 How to go there? - Phat Srimanobhas (Chulalongkorn University (TH))
Friday, 29 May 2026
09:00 Wrap up
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Track 4: Distributed Computing Conference Summary - Silvio Pardi (INFN) Silvio Pardi (University Federico II and INFN, Naples (IT))

09:15 Track 3: Offline Processing Conference Summary - Carla Marin Benito (University of Barcelona (ES))

09:30 Track 2: Online Computing Conference Summary - Peilian Li (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

09:45 Track 1: Data/Metadata organization Conference Summary - Marta Bertran Ferrer (CERN)

10:00 Track 9: Analysis Software Conference Summary - Emma Torro Pastor (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))

10:15 Track 8: Analysis Infrastructure Conference Summary - Liv Helen Vage (Princeton University (US))
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Wrap up
11:00 - 12:10
Contributions

11:00 Track 7: Computing Infrastructure Conference Summary - Marcus Ebert (University of Victoria)

11:15 Track 6: Software Track Conference Summary - Ruslan Mashinistov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

11:30 Track 5: Event Generation and Simulation Conference Summary - Rui Zhang (Nanjing University (CN))

11:45 Poster Session Awards & EDI
12:10 Closing Ceremony
12:10 - 12:30
Contributions

12:10 Closing Ceremony - Phat Srimanobhas (Chulalongkorn University (TH))

12:20 29th Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30