Name: ACTS Workshop 2026 @NIKHEF
Start: 2026-04-20T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-24T21:00:00+02:00
Location: NIKHEF

ACTS Workshop 2026 @NIKHEF

from Monday, April 20, 2026 (10:00 AM) to Friday, April 24, 2026 (9:00 PM)

Monday, April 20, 2026

10:00 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Presentations: Introduction
Introduction
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Colloquium
Contributions

10:30 AM Introduction - Pierfrancesco Butti (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

10:45 AM Project Overview and Status - Andreas Salzburger (CERN)

11:05 AM ColliderML dataset overview - Doğa Elitez (CERN)

11:15 AM pip install (py)acts - Benjamin Huth (CERN)
12:00 PM Box Lunch
Box Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM Hands-on

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Electron, Library, Bottom

3:30 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
9:00 AM Experiments
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Colloquium
Contributions

9:00 AM SHiP - James Maitland Webb (University of Freiburg (DE)) Oliver Lantwin (Universitaet Siegen (DE))

9:25 AM Experiment 320 experience with Acts planar geometry tracking - Roman Urmanov (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))

9:45 AM ACTS at the proposed Lohengrin experiment in Bonn - Cedric Carl Breuning (Universität Bonn)

10:05 AM CMS - Lorenzo Damenti (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))
10:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM Presentations
10:50 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Colloquium
Contributions

10:50 AM traccc integration - Neza Ribaric (Duke University (US))

11:10 AM Integration of new Graph Based Seeding Algorithm in ACTS - Jasper Preston (University of London (GB))

11:30 AM Vertex fitting in the variable magnetic field - Vadim Kostyukhin (Universitaet Siegen (DE))
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM Hands-on

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Electron, Library, Bottom

3:30 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Hands-on
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Electron, Library, Bottom
Contributions

4:00 PM ACTS Governance Discussion - Andreas Salzburger (CERN)
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
9:00 AM Presentations: Alignment
Alignment
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Colloquium
Contributions

9:00 AM ACTS ❤️ MILLEPEDE - Maximilian Emanuel Goblirsch-Kolb (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

9:30 AM Global alignment with tracks fitted with a Kalman filter - Wouter Hulsbergen (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

9:50 AM Alignable (super) structures - Andreas Salzburger (CERN) Knut Zoch (CERN)
10:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

10:50 AM Hands-on

10:50 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Electron, Library, Positron

12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM Hands-on

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Electron, Library, Positron

3:30 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Experiments: Afternoon 2
Afternoon 2
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Colloquium
Contributions

4:00 PM sPHENIX - Joe Osborn (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

4:25 PM EPIC - Barak Schmookler Wouter Deconinck (University of Manitoba (CA))

4:50 PM LDMX - Mathew Graham (SLAC)

5:15 PM Muon Collider - Samuel Ferraro

5:40 PM ATLAS - Noemi Calace (CERN)
7:30 PM Social dinner
Social dinner
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Thursday, April 23, 2026
9:00 AM Experiments: Morning
Morning
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Colloquium
Contributions

9:00 AM STCF - Hao Li (Zhengzhou University (CN)) Xiaocong Ai (Zhengzhou University)

9:25 AM LUXE - Thomas Madlener (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)) Yufeng Wang

9:50 AM ALICE - Igor Altsybeev (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE)) Pierfrancesco Butti (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))
10:15 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:15 AM - 10:35 AM
10:35 AM Presentations: Machine Learning
Machine Learning
10:35 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Colloquium
Contributions

10:35 AM Transformer tracking - Sebastien Rettie (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

11:05 AM Hybrid pattern recognition for charged particle tracking: Hough transform and convolutional neural networks - Carlo Varni (AGH University of Krakow (PL))

11:35 AM GUNTAM: A Transformer for seed reconstruction - Corentin Allaire (IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM Hands-on: Hands-on time
Hands-on time
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Electron, Library, Bottom

3:30 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Presentations: Presentations: Displaced Tracking
Presentations: Displaced Tracking
4:00 PM - 5:20 PM
Room: Colloquium
Contributions

4:00 PM Large Impact Parameter Track Reconstruction in ATLAS Using ACTS (25+10) - Jackson Carl Burzynski (University of Oklahoma (US))

4:35 PM Combined primary and secondary vertexing at future colliders (25+10) - Vadim Kostyukhin Vadim Kostyukhin (Universitaet Siegen (DE)) Vadim Kostyukhin (Bonn)

5:10 PM Close-out - Andreas Salzburger (CERN)
Friday, April 24, 2026

9:00 AM Hackathon

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Electron, Bottom, Positron

12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM Hackathon: Hackathon
Hackathon
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Electron, Bottom, Positron