28th EuroAD Workshop

from Monday, December 8, 2025 (1:30 PM) to Wednesday, December 10, 2025 (1:20 PM)
CERN (31/3-004)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Dec 8, 2025
Dec 9, 2025
Dec 10, 2025
AM
9:00 AM
Keynotes - Vassil Vasilev (Princeton University (US)) (until 10:10 AM)
9:00 AM How Automatic Differentiation can help Particle Physics - Jonas Rembser (CERN)  
9:35 AM Efficient Differentiable Simulation of Light - Prof. Wenzel Jakob (EPFL)  
10:10 AM
Logistics (until 10:40 AM)
10:40 AM
Contributed Talks - Jean-Luc Bouchot (until 12:40 PM)
10:40 AM qruise-toolset: differentiable quantum simulation toolbox - Yousof Mardoukhi (Qruise GmbH)  
11:00 AM Automatic differentiation with Stochastic Rounding in Julia - Dr Valentin Churavy (University of Augsburg)  
11:20 AM Differentiating Object-Oriented paradigms using Clad - Petro Zarytskyi (Princeton University (US))  
11:40 AM AD-enabled pythonOCC for CAD-based shape optimization - Mladen Banovic (German Aerospace Center (DLR))  
12:00 PM Cache optimization of tape data - Max Sagebaum (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau)  
9:00 AM
Contributed Talks - Max Sagebaum (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau) (until 10:20 AM)
9:00 AM Teaching SIMD computing with a vector forward-mode AD tool - Johannes Schoder (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)  
9:20 AM Creative Barkeeping or: How can AD be explained without jargon? - Uwe Naumann (RWTH Aachen University)  
9:40 AM Teaching Automatic Differentiation with Interactive C++ Jupyter Notebooks - Aaron Jomy (CERN)  
10:00 AM Discussion on Teaching AD - Tzu-Mao Li (UCSD) Vassil Vasilev (Princeton University (US)) Aaron Jomy (CERN)  
10:20 AM
Logistics (until 10:50 AM)
10:50 AM
Contributed Talks - Anton Kovalov (RWTH Aachen University) (until 12:20 PM)
11:20 AM AD Mission Playground: An Interactive Tool for Elimination Techniques - Mr Simon Märtens (RWTH Aachen University)  
11:40 AM Bidirectional random number generators and applications in adjoint automatic differentiation - Jean-Luc Rey (Bloomberg)  
12:00 PM Efficient Derivative Computation for Accelerator Beam Optics Calculations - Bernardo Abreu Figueiredo (RWTH Aachen University)  
PM
1:30 PM
Logistics (until 2:00 PM)
2:00 PM Welcome - David Lange (Princeton University (US)) Vassil Vasilev (Princeton University (US))  
2:15 PM
Keynotes - Vassil Vasilev (Princeton University (US)) (until 3:25 PM)
2:15 PM Automatically Differentiating Parametric Discontinuities - Prof. Tzu-Mao Li (UCSD)  
2:50 PM Computing higher-order derivatives with AD - Prof. Andrea Walther (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)  
3:25 PM
Logistics (until 3:55 PM)
3:55 PM
Contributed Talks - Petro Zarytskyi (Princeton University (US)) (until 5:45 PM)
3:55 PM Collapsing Taylor Mode Automatic Differentiation - Tim Siebert (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Zuse Institute Berlin, Berlin, Germany)  
4:15 PM Optimal Jacobian Accumulation is NP-hard - Blair D. Sullivan  
4:35 PM 2-D Shock AD: Practical Difficulties and (Im-) Practical Solutions - Alexander Fleming (RWTH Aachen University)  
4:55 PM The Abs-Normal Form and Beyond: Rethinking Piecewise Linear Models - Torsten Bosse (Institut für Informatik, FSU Jena)  
5:05 PM A clamp-function with enhanced differentiability - Cord Bleibaum (DLR, Institute of Future Fuels)  
5:25 PM Smooth relaxation of discrete structural constructs - Anton Kovalov (RWTH Aachen University)  
7:00 PM
Logistics (until 10:00 PM)
12:40 PM
Logistics (until 2:00 PM) (504/R-002)
2:00 PM
Contributed Talks - Aaron Jomy (CERN) (until 3:40 PM)
2:00 PM ADTAYL: Taylor Series, ODEs, and Lie Derivatives in MATLAB - Dr Ned Nedialkov (McMaster University)  
2:20 PM Algorithmic differentiation for plane-wave DFT: materials design, error control and learning model parameters - Niklas Frederik Schmitz (EPFL)  
2:40 PM Scalable Semi-Matrix-Free Preconditioning for Newton-Krylov Solvers: Application to a Two-Phase Flow Simulation - Mia Ohlrogge (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)  
3:00 PM Differentiable particle simulation for detector optimization - Jeffrey Krupa (SLAC)  
3:20 PM High-Order Differential Algebra with the Generalized Truncated Power Series Algebra (GTPSA) and Its Application in MAD-NG - Dr Laurent Deniau (CERN)  
3:40 PM
Logistics (until 4:10 PM)
4:30 PM
Logistics (until 5:30 PM)
12:20 PM Closing - Vassil Vasilev (Princeton University (US))