Name: ACTS4NP - Workshop on ACTS Tracking for Nuclear Physics 2025
Start: 2025-05-12T08:40:00-07:00
End: 2025-05-15T18:00:00-07:00
Location: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

ACTS4NP - Workshop on ACTS Tracking for Nuclear Physics 2025

from Monday, May 12, 2025 (8:40 AM) to Thursday, May 15, 2025 (6:00 PM)

Monday, May 12, 2025

8:40 AM Registration
Registration
8:40 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: 70A-3377

9:00 AM Introduction: Introduction
Introduction
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: B70A-3377
9:30 AM Presentation: ACTS project
ACTS project
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: B70A-3377
Contributions

9:30 AM ACTS Overview - Andreas Salzburger (CERN) Corentin Allaire (IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3)

11:00 AM Integration in an experiment: The ATLAS example - Paul Gessinger (CERN)
12:00 PM Lunch

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Experiment specific discussion: Updates
Updates
1:30 PM - 3:35 PM
Room: 70A-3377
Contributions

1:30 PM ACTS tracking for EIC-ePIC detector - Dmitry Kalinkin

1:55 PM Development of ACTS based tracking for multi-TPC at Tagged Deep Inelastic Scattering experiment - Dmitry Romanov

2:20 PM LDMX - Elizabeth Berzin (Stanford University)

2:45 PM Tracking for SoLID - Zhongling Ji (Syracuse University)

3:10 PM PIONEER: A next generation rare pion decay experiment relying on 5D tracking - Patrick Schwendimann
3:35 PM Break
Break
3:35 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM Hands-on session: Discussions: Topics for the hands-on
Discussions: Topics for the hands-on
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 70A-3377

7:00 PM Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: O'neill room
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

8:40 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
8:40 AM - 9:00 AM

9:00 AM Experiment specific discussion: breakroom discussions (contact the organisers)
breakroom discussions (contact the organisers)
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: 70A-3377
Tour to NERSC and 88inch Cyclotron
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM NERSC

10:00 AM 88inch
12:00 PM Lunch: Lunch at the Guest House (B23)
Lunch at the Guest House (B23)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: B23 (Guest House 2nd floor)
1:30 PM Tutorial: Installing, using and contributing to ACTS
Installing, using and contributing to ACTS
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 70A-3377
Contributions

1:30 PM Tutorial: Installing, using and contributing to ACTS - Paul Gessinger (CERN)
3:30 PM Break
Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM Hands-on session: Hands-on / Discussions
Hands-on / Discussions
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 70A-3377
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

8:40 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
8:40 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: NERSC building (B59-3101)
9:00 AM Topical discussion: Users Experiences
Users Experiences
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: NERSC building (B59-3101)
Contributions

9:00 AM Data structure: Interfacing ACTS and your experiement - Wouter Deconinck

10:45 AM Detector alignment - Joe Osborn (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
12:00 PM Lunch

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Tutorial: Detector geometry and ODD
Detector geometry and ODD
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: NERSC building (B59-3101)
Contributions

1:30 PM Detector geometry and ODD - Paul Gessinger (CERN)
3:00 PM Break
Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: NERSC building (B59-3101)
3:30 PM Topical discussion: Algorithm Development
Algorithm Development
3:30 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: NERSC building (B59-3101)
Contributions

3:30 PM Low-momentum tracking efficiency - Barak Schmookler

4:00 PM Track projection to non-tracking detector, and resolution evaluation - Matt Posik (Temple University) Wouter Deconinck
4:40 PM Hands-on session: Hands-on / Discussions
Hands-on / Discussions
4:40 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: NERSC building (B59-3101)
Thursday, May 15, 2025

8:40 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
8:40 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: NERSC building (B59-3101)
9:00 AM Topical discussion: Topical discussion: ML/DL for Tracking
Topical discussion: ML/DL for Tracking
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: NERSC building (B59-3101)
Contributions

9:00 AM ACTS algorithms (Ambiguity solver) - Corentin Allaire (IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3)

9:30 AM Exploring new directions in enhancing the ACTS parameter optimization suite - Rocky Bala Garg (Stanford University (US))

10:30 AM Graph Neural Network - Jay Chan (LBNL)

11:00 AM Discussion: ML/DL with ACTS
12:00 PM Lunch

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM GPU Tracking: Presentation
Presentation
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: NERSC building (B59-3101)
Contributions

1:30 PM Introduction to traccc - Beomki Yeo (University of California Berkeley (US))

1:55 PM detray - Joana Niermann (CERN)

2:20 PM Geometry alignment - Vakho Tsulaia (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
2:45 PM Break
Break
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: NERSC building (B59-3101)
3:15 PM GPU Tracking: Discussion
Discussion
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: NERSC building (B59-3101)
Contributions

3:15 PM [Discussion] GNN + traccc pipeline - Xiangyang Ju (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

3:40 PM [Discussion] Application to Celeritas (Simulation tool) - Julien Esseiva (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

4:05 PM Q&A
4:30 PM Introduction: Closing words
Closing words
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: NERSC building (B59-3101)