U.S. FCC Hackathon

from Monday, August 11, 2025 (9:00 AM) to Friday, August 15, 2025 (2:00 PM)
Building 510 (Large Seminar Room)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Aug 11, 2025
Aug 12, 2025
Aug 13, 2025
Aug 14, 2025
Aug 15, 2025
AM
9:00 AM --- Breakfast / Planning session ---
9:30 AM "Lessons Learned from Past Detector Design" + discussion - Charlie Young (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
10:30 AM Group Photo 📸  
10:45 AM --- Break ---
11:15 AM Tuesday morning work session: first meeting and setting goals for the week  
9:00 AM --- Breakfast / Planning session ---
9:30 AM Delphes tutorial - Jan Eysermans (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
9:30 AM Wednesday morning work session 1  
10:30 AM --- Break ---
11:00 AM Wednesday morning work session 2  
9:00 AM --- Breakfast / Planning session ---
9:30 AM Thursday morning work session 1  
10:30 AM --- Break ---
11:00 AM "Monte Carlo challenges in pp vs e+e- collisions" + discussion - Stefan Hoeche (Fermilab)  
9:00 AM --- Breakfast ---
9:30 AM Matt Rudolph - Garfield++ - Matthew Scott Rudolph (Syracuse University (US))  
9:35 AM Caden Glenn - Garfield++ - Caden Max Glenn (Purdue University (US))  
9:40 AM Deniz Yilmaz - Drift Chamber Cell Simulation - Deniz Zeren Yilmaz  
9:45 AM Ang Li - Drift Chamber Cell Design - Ang Li (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
9:50 AM Liangyu Wu - IDEA DCH-like Cell Array Simulation - Liangyu Wu (Stanford University)  
9:55 AM Hooman Davoudiasl - BSM physics at FCC-ee - Hooman Davoudiasl  
10:05 AM Clara Del Pio - SMEFT Higgs decays at NLO - Clara Lavinia Del Pio (Brookhaven National Lab)  
10:15 AM Marvin Schnubel - Marvin Schnubel  
10:20 AM Robert Szafron - Robert Szafron (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
10:30 AM --- Break ---
11:00 AM Sahibjeet Singh - ALLEGRO digitization - Dr Sahibjeet Singh (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
11:10 AM Aditya Agarwal - CalVision - Aditya Agarwal (Stony Brook University (US))  
11:20 AM Jennifer Roloff - Jennifer Roloff (Brown University (US))  
11:30 AM Chris Rasmussen - jet reconstruction - Chris Rasmussen (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
11:40 AM Iza Veliscek - pi0/gamma reconstruction - Iza Veliscek (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
11:50 AM Noe Gonzalez - ALLEGRO calorimeter resolution - Noe Benjamin Gonzalez (Stanford University (US)) Noe Gonzalez  
PM
1:00 PM --- Arrival and Registration ---
1:30 PM Welcome and Introduction to the US FCC Hackathon - Liza Brost (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
1:45 PM Intro: Work Package #1 (Pandora PFlow for ALLEGRO) - Chris Rasmussen (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
2:10 PM Intro: Work Package #2 (Digitization in noble liquid calorimetry) - Denis Oliveira Damazio (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Dr Sahibjeet Singh (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
2:35 PM Intro: Work Package #5 (tools for drift chamber design) - George Iakovidis (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
3:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
3:30 PM Intro: Work Package #4 (CalVision) - Bob Hirosky (University of Virginia (US))  
3:55 PM Intro: Work Package #3 (HFCC Integrated Detector Concepts Design Challenge - first steps) - Liza Brost (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Julia Lynne Gonski (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Loukas Gouskos (Brown University (US))  
4:20 PM Intro: Work Package #6 (Theory challenges @ e+e- colliders) - Robert Szafron (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:00 PM Tuesday afternoon work session 1  
3:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
3:30 PM Tuesday afternoon work session 2  
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:00 PM ATLAS ITk Lab tours - Abraham Tishelman-Charny (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
1:00 PM Wednesday afternoon work session 1  
3:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
3:30 PM Wednesday afternoon work session 2  
12:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:00 PM Thursday afternoon work session 1  
3:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
3:30 PM Thursday afternoon work session 2: prepare slides for Friday's closeout presentations  
12:00 PM Goodbye + safe travels! - Liza Brost (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))