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)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (NERSC building (B59-3101))

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
May 12, 2025
May 13, 2025
May 14, 2025
May 15, 2025
AM
8:40 AM --- Registration ---
9:00 AM
Introduction - Shujie Li (Berkeley Lab) (until 9:30 AM) (B70A-3377)
9:30 AM
Presentation (until 12:00 PM) (B70A-3377)
9:30 AM ACTS Overview - Andreas Salzburger (CERN) Corentin Allaire (IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3)  
10:30 AM --- Break ---
11:00 AM Integration in an experiment: The ATLAS example - Paul Gessinger (CERN)  
8:40 AM --- Coffee break ---
9:00 AM
Experiment specific discussion (until 11:30 AM) (70A-3377)
9:00 AM
Tour to NERSC and 88inch Cyclotron (until 11:00 AM)
9:00 AM NERSC  
10:00 AM 88inch  
8:40 AM --- Coffee break ---
9:00 AM
Topical discussion - Shujie Li (Berkeley Lab) (until 12:00 PM)
9:00 AM Data structure: Interfacing ACTS and your experiement - Wouter Deconinck  
10:15 AM --- Break: group photo ---
10:45 AM Detector alignment - Joe Osborn (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
8:40 AM --- Coffee break ---
9:00 AM
Topical discussion - Corentin Allaire (IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3) (until 12:00 PM)
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))  
10:00 AM --- Break ---
10:30 AM Graph Neural Network - Jay Chan (LBNL)  
11:00 AM Discussion: ML/DL with ACTS  
PM
12:00 PM
Lunch (until 1:30 PM)
1:30 PM
Experiment specific discussion - Andreas Salzburger (CERN) (until 3:35 PM) (70A-3377)
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   (70A-3377)
2:20 PM LDMX - Elizabeth Berzin (Stanford University)   (70A-3377)
2:45 PM Tracking for SoLID - Zhongling Ji (Syracuse University)   (70A-3377)
3:10 PM PIONEER: A next generation rare pion decay experiment relying on 5D tracking - Patrick Schwendimann   (70A-3377)
3:35 PM --- Break ---
4:00 PM
Hands-on session (until 5:30 PM) (70A-3377)
7:00 PM --- Workshop Dinner ---
12:00 PM
Lunch (until 1:30 PM) (B23 (Guest House 2nd floor))
1:30 PM
Tutorial (until 3:30 PM) (70A-3377)
1:30 PM Tutorial: Installing, using and contributing to ACTS - Paul Gessinger (CERN)  
3:30 PM --- Break ---
4:00 PM
Hands-on session (until 6:00 PM) (70A-3377)
12:00 PM
Lunch (until 1:30 PM)
1:30 PM
Tutorial - Paul Gessinger (CERN) (until 3:00 PM)
1:30 PM Detector geometry and ODD - Paul Gessinger (CERN)  
3:00 PM --- Break ---
3:30 PM
Topical discussion (until 4:40 PM)
3:30 PM Low-momentum tracking efficiency - Barak Schmookler  
4:00 PM Track projection to non-tracking detector, and resolution evaluation - Wouter Deconinck Matt Posik (Temple University)  
4:40 PM
Hands-on session (until 6:00 PM)
12:00 PM
Lunch (until 1:30 PM)
1:30 PM
GPU Tracking - Beomki Yeo (University of California Berkeley (US)) (until 2:45 PM)
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 ---
3:15 PM
GPU Tracking - Beomki Yeo (University of California Berkeley (US)) (until 4:30 PM)
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 (until 5:00 PM)