HSF Seminar - AI-assisted software tools

Wednesday 4 Jun 2025, 16:30 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

53/R-044 (CERN)

 

The HEP Software Foundation

The HEP Software Foundation facilitates copperation and common efforts in High Energy Physics software and computing internationally. 
There are several focus activity areas: Data analysis, detector simulation, physics generators, pyHEP, Julia in HEP, reconstruction and software triggers, software developer tools and packaging, and training.
The HSF hosts workshops, provides strategic input and generally raises awareness on the importance of HEP software.

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HSF Seminars

HSF Seminars were kick started in October 2024, and are nominally hosted on the last Wednesday of each month. Presentations are recorded (given consent) and put on YouTube.
See the full series on indico here!

Sign up to announcements for future HSF seminars as well as other HSF events by joining hsf-forum@googlegroups.com (sign up instructions).

** Coming up **

A summer break over July/August, restarting in September. Stay tuned.

Also take note of:

• Compute & Accelerator Forum seminar on "Julia and GPUs" NEXT WEEK Wednesday.
• European Strategy for Particle Physics Venice Symposium end June, including a session on computing.  

Have a seminar topic idea? Send an email to hsf-seminar-conveners@googlegroups.com (current organisers are Nicole Skidmore, Michel Jouvin and Claire Antel)

In particular, if today's topic inspires more showcase ideas on AI-assisted software, get in touch and we can continue the series.

 

YouTube link

16:30 → 16:35 Introduction

Speakers: Claire Antel (CERN), Michel Jouvin (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)), Dr Nicole Skidmore (University of Warwick), Ruslan Mashinistov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

Our speakers-2.pdf

Recording on YouTube

16:35 → 16:55 AI Assistants in Terminal

This talk introduces 'aider', a powerful AI coding assistant that operates directly in your terminal. I will cover its setup and usage with a live demo, including how to leverage local LLM models via 'ollama'. Additionally, I will briefly introduce the GitHub Copilot CLI as another useful command-line AI tool.

Speaker: Shuwei Ye (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

20250604_HSF-AI-in-Terminal.pdf

20250604_HSF-AI-in-Terminal.pptx

17:00 → 17:20 AI-assisted code review

This talk highlights our experience with AI-assisted code review tools.
Two tools are presented: a commercial tool CodeRabbit and a custom-made tool Pearbot.
Additionally, we describe some of the details on how to make such tools more effective.

Speaker: Alexey Rybalchenko (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

[HSF] AI-Assisted Code Review.pdf