28th EuroAD Workshop

from Monday, 8 December 2025 (13:30) to Wednesday, 10 December 2025 (13:20)
CERN (31/3-004)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
8 Dec 2025
9 Dec 2025
10 Dec 2025
AM
09:00
Keynotes - Vassil Vasilev (Princeton University (US)) (until 10:10)
09:00 How Automatic Differentiation can help Particle Physics - Jonas Rembser (CERN)  
09:35 Efficient Differentiable Simulation of Light - Prof. Wenzel Jakob (EPFL)  
10:10
Logistics (until 10:40)
10:40
Contributed Talks - Jean-Luc Bouchot (until 12:40)
10:40 qruise-toolset: differentiable quantum simulation toolbox - Yousof Mardoukhi (Qruise GmbH)  
11:00 Automatic differentiation with Stochastic Rounding in Julia - Dr Valentin Churavy (University of Augsburg)  
11:20 Differentiating Object-Oriented paradigms using Clad - Petro Zarytskyi (Princeton University (US))  
11:40 AD-enabled pythonOCC for CAD-based shape optimization - Mladen Banovic (German Aerospace Center (DLR))  
12:00 Cache optimization of tape data - Max Sagebaum (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau)  
09:00
Contributed Talks - Max Sagebaum (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau) (until 10:20)
09:00 Teaching SIMD computing with a vector forward-mode AD tool - Johannes Schoder (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)  
09:20 Creative Barkeeping or: How can AD be explained without jargon? - Uwe Naumann (RWTH Aachen University)  
09:40 Teaching Automatic Differentiation with Interactive C++ Jupyter Notebooks - Aaron Jomy (CERN)  
10:00 Discussion on Teaching AD - Tzu-Mao Li (UCSD) Vassil Vasilev (Princeton University (US)) Aaron Jomy (CERN)  
10:20
Logistics (until 10:50)
10:50
Contributed Talks - Anton Kovalov (RWTH Aachen University) (until 12:20)
11:20 AD Mission Playground: An Interactive Tool for Elimination Techniques - Mr Simon Märtens (RWTH Aachen University)  
11:40 Bidirectional random number generators and applications in adjoint automatic differentiation - Jean-Luc Rey (Bloomberg)  
12:00 Efficient Derivative Computation for Accelerator Beam Optics Calculations - Bernardo Abreu Figueiredo (RWTH Aachen University)  
PM
13:30
Logistics (until 14:00)
14:00 Welcome - David Lange (Princeton University (US)) Vassil Vasilev (Princeton University (US))  
14:15
Keynotes - Vassil Vasilev (Princeton University (US)) (until 15:25)
14:15 Automatically Differentiating Parametric Discontinuities - Prof. Tzu-Mao Li (UCSD)  
14:50 Computing higher-order derivatives with AD - Prof. Andrea Walther (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)  
15:25
Logistics (until 15:55)
15:55
Contributed Talks - Petro Zarytskyi (Princeton University (US)) (until 17:45)
15:55 Collapsing Taylor Mode Automatic Differentiation - Tim Siebert (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Zuse Institute Berlin, Berlin, Germany)  
16:15 Optimal Jacobian Accumulation is NP-hard - Blair D. Sullivan  
16:35 2-D Shock AD: Practical Difficulties and (Im-) Practical Solutions - Alexander Fleming (RWTH Aachen University)  
16:55 The Abs-Normal Form and Beyond: Rethinking Piecewise Linear Models - Torsten Bosse (Institut für Informatik, FSU Jena)  
17:05 A clamp-function with enhanced differentiability - Cord Bleibaum (DLR, Institute of Future Fuels)  
17:25 Smooth relaxation of discrete structural constructs - Anton Kovalov (RWTH Aachen University)  
19:00
Logistics (until 22:00)
12:40
Logistics (until 14:00) (504/R-002)
14:00
Contributed Talks - Aaron Jomy (CERN) (until 15:40)
14:00 ADTAYL: Taylor Series, ODEs, and Lie Derivatives in MATLAB - Dr Ned Nedialkov (McMaster University)  
14:20 Algorithmic differentiation for plane-wave DFT: materials design, error control and learning model parameters - Niklas Frederik Schmitz (EPFL)  
14:40 Scalable Semi-Matrix-Free Preconditioning for Newton-Krylov Solvers: Application to a Two-Phase Flow Simulation - Mia Ohlrogge (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)  
15:00 Differentiable particle simulation for detector optimization - Jeffrey Krupa (SLAC)  
15:20 High-Order Differential Algebra with the Generalized Truncated Power Series Algebra (GTPSA) and Its Application in MAD-NG - Dr Laurent Deniau (CERN)  
15:40
Logistics (until 16:10)
16:30
Logistics (until 17:30)
12:20 Closing - Vassil Vasilev (Princeton University (US))