Connecting The Dots 2025

from Monday, November 10, 2025 (9:00 AM) to Friday, November 14, 2025 (12:40 PM)
The University of Tokyo (FUKUTAKE Learning Theater)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Nov 10, 2025
Nov 11, 2025
Nov 12, 2025
Nov 13, 2025
Nov 14, 2025
AM
9:00 AM Welcome - Koji Terashi (University of Tokyo (JP))  
9:10 AM
Session - Koji Terashi (University of Tokyo (JP)) (until 10:40 AM)
9:10 AM The CERN Quantum Technology Initiative: initial results and research perspective on Quantum Computing for HEP - Dr Sofia Vallecorsa (CERN)  
9:50 AM Scalable Track Reconstruction at the LHC with QAOA - Miriam Lucio Martinez (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))  
10:15 AM Quantum-Enhanced Graph Neural Networks for Particle Tracking in High Energy Physics - Santosh Parajuli (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))  
10:40 AM --- Coffee ---
11:10 AM
Session - Ryu Sawada (University of Tokyo (JP)) (until 12:40 PM)
11:10 AM Utilizing quantum computers for HEP simulations and event generation - Yutaro Iiyama (University of Tokyo (JP))  
11:50 AM Track reconstruction at collider experiments using quantum-inspired simulated annealing - Daiya Akiyama (Waseda University (JP))  
12:15 PM Quantum Chebyshev Probabilistic Models for Fragmentation Functions - Dr Sofia Vallecorsa (CERN)  
9:00 AM Welcome - Masaya Ishino (University of Tokyo (JP))  
9:10 AM Introduction - Ryu Sawada (University of Tokyo (JP))  
9:20 AM
Session - Alexis Vallier (L2I Toulouse, CNRS/IN2P3, UT3) (until 10:50 AM)
9:20 AM A Fully GPU-Based Track Reconstruction Pipeline for HEP Experiments - Neza Ribaric (Duke University (US))  
9:50 AM Track fitting at the full LHC collision frequency: Design and performance of the GPU-based Kalman Filter at the LHCb experiment - Lennart Uecker (Heidelberg University (DE))  
10:20 AM Improvements of the ALICE GPU TPC tracking and GPU framework for online and offline processing of Run 3 Pb—Pb data - David Rohr (CERN)  
10:50 AM --- Coffee ---
11:20 AM
Session - Noemi Calace (CERN) (until 1:00 PM)
11:20 AM FPGA-accelerated track reconstruction and clustering using classical and machine-learning approaches for the ATLAS Event Filter - Julian Wollrath (CERN)  
11:50 AM The Tiny Triplet Finder - a low silicon resource track finding scheme and its test implementation in FPGA - Dr Jinyuan Wu (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
12:20 PM An ultrafast FPGA fitter for the LHCb Downstream Tracker - Federico Lazzari (Universita di Pisa & INFN Pisa (IT))  
12:40 PM A Geometry Agnostic Heterogenous Framework for Track Reconstruction for HEP Experiments - Adriano Di Florio (CC-IN2P3)  
9:00 AM
Session - Yu Nakahama Higuchi (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)) (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM Graph-Based Multi-Modal Track Reconstruction in the Belle II Drift Chamber and Vertex Detectors - Lea Reuter  
9:30 AM Exploring the potential of cooperative track building - Liv Helen Vage (Princeton University (US))  
10:00 AM Expected physics and computing performance of the ATLAS ITk GNN-based Track Reconstruction Chain - Benjamin Huth (CERN)  
10:30 AM --- Coffee ---
11:00 AM
Session - Salvador Marti I Garcia (IFIC-Valencia (UV/EG-CSIC)) (until 12:50 PM)
11:00 AM Uncertainty Quantification in an ML Pattern Recognition Pipeline - Lukas Peron (ENS Paris)  
11:30 AM Efficient Point Transformer for Charge Particles Track Reconstruction - Yuan-Tang Chou (University of Washington (US))  
12:00 PM Transformer for seed reconstruction in ACTS - Corentin Allaire (IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3)  
12:30 PM Tracking in Dense Environments with Transformers - Max Hart (University College London (GB))  
9:00 AM
Session - Kunihiro Nagano (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)) (until 10:40 AM)
9:00 AM Antihydrogen annihilation reconstruction in the ALPHA apparatus at CERN - Andrea Capra (TRIUMF (CA))  
9:30 AM Tracking Cosmic-Ray Nuclei with the RadMap Telescope - Luise Meyer-Hetling (Technical University of Munich)  
10:00 AM Ultra-displaced dimuon vertexing for LLP signatures in ATLAS - Makayla Vessella 🐏 (University of California Irvine (US))  
10:20 AM Direct reconstruction of LLPs and charged heavy flavour at LHCb - Maarten Van Veghel (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
10:40 AM --- Coffee ---
11:10 AM
Session - Tsunayuki Matsubara (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)) (until 12:20 PM)
11:10 AM CNN-based event separation using 2D and 3D images for the charged-current electron neutrino cross-section measurement with the SuperFGD of the T2K near detector - Tomochika Arai (University of Tokyo (JP))  
11:40 AM Improving positron tracking using machine learning in the MEG II experiment - Atsushi Oya (The university of Tokyo)  
12:00 PM Track direction identification via track-fitting quality for cosmic-ray background suppression in the COMET experiment - Manabu Moritsu (Kyushu University)  
9:00 AM
Session - Shima Shimizu (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)) (until 10:10 AM)
9:00 AM Real time learning on heterogeneous devices for detector calibration - Akshay Malige (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
9:20 AM The OpenDataDetector High-Luminosity Physics Benchmark Dataset - Paul Gessinger (CERN)  
9:50 AM Sustainability studies of big data processing in real time for HEP - Arantza De Oyanguren Campos (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))  
10:10 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:40 AM
Session - Andreas Salzburger (CERN) (until 12:00 PM)
10:40 AM Performance of 4D tracking and vertexing with ACTS - Pierfrancesco Butti (CERN)  
11:10 AM Hypergraph Neural Network 4D track reconstruction pipeline for HL-LHC experiments - Rodrigo Estevam De Paula (Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP) (BR))  
11:40 AM ACTS-based 4D tracking studies - Yanqi Wang (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))  
PM
12:40 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Session - David Lange (Princeton University (US)) (until 3:55 PM)
2:00 PM Cutting‑Edge AI/ML for HEP - Masahiro Morinaga (University of Tokyo (JP))  
2:40 PM Token-Based Transformer Models for Pattern Recognition on Point Clouds - Xiangyang Ju (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
3:05 PM Semi-Supervised Transfer Learning with Convolutional Autoencoders for Hybrid Pixel Detectors - Mr Tomáš Čelko (Charles University)  
3:30 PM ML-Assisted Tracking in the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer - Jonathan Renusch (CERN | Technical University of Munich (TUM))  
3:55 PM --- Coffee ---
4:30 PM
Session - Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US)) (until 6:10 PM)
4:30 PM Beyond-CMOS Systems for Fast Machine Learning in Physics - Dr Valerio Ippolito (INFN Sezione di Roma (IT))  
4:55 PM GPT-like transformer model for silicon tracking detector simulation - Tadej Novak (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))  
5:20 PM DNN-based particle flow and jet flavor tagging for Higgs factories - Taikan Suehara (ICEPP, The University of Tokyo (JP))  
5:45 PM Rapid ML inference using logic gate neural nets - Liv Helen Vage (Princeton University (US))  
1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:30 PM
Session - Markus Elsing (CERN) (until 3:50 PM)
2:30 PM Optimization and Outer Tracker Extension of the Cellular Automaton Algorithm for CMS Phase-2 Tracking - Jan Schulz (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))  
3:00 PM TICL: A Reconstruction Framework for the CMS Phase-2 High-Granularity Calorimeter Endcap - Felice Pantaleo (CERN)  
3:30 PM Muon Tracking at the CMS High-Level Trigger for the HL-LHC Upgrade - Luca Ferragina (Universita Di Bologna (IT))  
3:50 PM --- Coffee ---
4:20 PM
Session - David Lange (Princeton University (US)) (until 4:50 PM)
4:20 PM Track Reconstruction with the ATLAS Inner Tracker and ACTS at the High-Luminosity LHC - Noemi Calace (CERN)  
4:50 PM
Poster lightning talks (until 5:15 PM)
4:50 PM Challenges Deploying a Hybrid PV-finder Algorithm for Primary Vertex Reconstruction in LHCb’s GPU-Resident First Level Trigger - Mohamed Elashri (University of Cincinnati)  
4:53 PM GNN-based Track Finding for a new multiple TPC detector - Shujie Li (Berkeley Lab)  
4:56 PM Advances in Low-Energy Particle Track Reconstruction with Interaction Graph Networks at the PANDA experiment. - Nikolai in der Wiesche (Institute of Nuclear Physics, University of Münster)  
4:59 PM Machine Learning implementation in Front-End Electronics of Belle II Central Drift Chamber for cross-talk noise reduction - Yun-Tsung Lai  
5:02 PM Graph Neural Network Acceleration on FPGAs for Real-Time Muon Triggering at the HL-LHC - Davide Fiacco (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))  
5:05 PM Application of Point Cloud Classification to Particle Identification in the SuperFGD neutrino detector - Hikaru Tanigawa (KEK)  
5:08 PM Development and performance of electron reconstruction with Acts and the OpenDataDetector (ODD) - Andreas Stefl (CERN)  
5:15 PM
Poster session (until 6:00 PM)
6:00 PM --- Reception ---
12:50 PM --- Lunch ---
2:30 PM
Session - Xiaocong Ai (Zhengzhou University) (until 3:50 PM)
2:30 PM Fast Track Fitting and Anomaly Detection with Machine Learning - Makayla Vessella 🐏 (University of California Irvine (US))  
3:00 PM Charged Particle Tracking with Reinforcement Learning for Drift Chambers - Yao Zhang  
3:30 PM GNN Track Reconstruction of Generalized Non-Helical Signatures - Levi Condren (University of California Irvine (US))  
3:50 PM --- Coffee ---
4:20 PM
Session - Alberto Annovi (INFN Sezione di Pisa) (until 5:40 PM)
4:20 PM New Approaches of End-to-end GNN Track Reconstruction Based on Spacepoint Doublet Embedding and Double Metric Learning for Building Directed Graphs with Chain Connections for the ATLAS ITk Detector - Jay Chan (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
4:40 PM LHCb Tracking Reconstruction and Ghost Rejection at 30 MHz - Da Yu Tou (Tsinghua University (CN))  
5:10 PM Application of ACTS to the CEPC Reference Detector - Yizhou Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics)  
12:20 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM --- Excursion (optional) ---
6:00 PM --- Banquet ---
12:00 PM Closing - Alexis Vallier (L2I Toulouse, CNRS/IN2P3, UT3)