Name: 28th EuroAD Workshop
Start: 2025-12-08T13:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-12-10T13:20:00+01:00
Location: CERN

28th EuroAD Workshop

from Monday, December 8, 2025 (1:30 PM) to Wednesday, December 10, 2025 (1:20 PM)

Monday, December 8, 2025

1:30 PM Logistics: Registration
Registration
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
2:00 PM Welcome - David Lange (Princeton University (US)) Vassil Vasilev (Princeton University (US))
Welcome
- David Lange (Princeton University (US))
- Vassil Vasilev (Princeton University (US))
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
2:15 PM Keynotes
2:15 PM - 3:25 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

2:15 PM Automatically Differentiating Parametric Discontinuities - Tzu-Mao Li (UCSD)

2:50 PM Computing higher-order derivatives with AD - Andrea Walther (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
3:25 PM Logistics: Coffee & Networking
Coffee & Networking
3:25 PM - 3:55 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
3:55 PM Contributed Talks: Theory & Foundations
Theory & Foundations
3:55 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

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: Social Dinner
Social Dinner
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
9:00 AM Keynotes
9:00 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

9:00 AM How Automatic Differentiation can help Particle Physics - Jonas Rembser (CERN)

9:35 AM Efficient Differentiable Simulation of Light - Wenzel Jakob (EPFL)
10:10 AM Logistics: Coffee & Networking
Coffee & Networking
10:10 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
10:40 AM Contributed Talks: Tools & Infrastructure
Tools & Infrastructure
10:40 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

10:40 AM qruise-toolset: differentiable quantum simulation toolbox - Yousof Mardoukhi (Qruise GmbH)

11:00 AM Automatic differentiation with Stochastic Rounding in Julia - 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)
12:40 PM Logistics: Lunch
Lunch
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 504/R-002
2:00 PM Contributed Talks: Applications in Science & Engineering
Applications in Science & Engineering
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

2:00 PM ADTAYL: Taylor Series, ODEs, and Lie Derivatives in MATLAB - 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 - Laurent Deniau (CERN)
3:40 PM Logistics: Coffee & Networking
Coffee & Networking
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre

4:30 PM Logistics: CERN Experimental Site Visit
CERN Experimental Site Visit
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
9:00 AM Contributed Talks: Training & Education
Training & Education
9:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

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 - Aaron Jomy (CERN) Tzu-Mao Li (UCSD) Vassil Vasilev (Princeton University (US))
10:20 AM Logistics: Coffee & Networking
Coffee & Networking
10:20 AM - 10:50 AM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
10:50 AM Contributed Talks: Tools & Infrastructure
Tools & Infrastructure
10:50 AM - 12:20 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre
Contributions

11:20 AM AD Mission Playground: An Interactive Tool for Elimination Techniques - 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)
12:20 PM Closing - Vassil Vasilev (Princeton University (US))
Closing
- Vassil Vasilev (Princeton University (US))
12:20 PM - 12:35 PM
Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre

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