ACTS Workshop 2026 @NIKHEF

from Monday, 20 April 2026 (10:00) to Friday, 24 April 2026 (21:00)
NIKHEF

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
20 Apr 2026
21 Apr 2026
22 Apr 2026
23 Apr 2026
24 Apr 2026
AM
10:00 --- Coffee ---
10:30
Presentations (until 12:00) (Colloquium)
10:30 Introduction - Pierfrancesco Butti (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
10:45 Project Overview and Status - Andreas Salzburger (CERN)  
11:05 ColliderML dataset overview - Doğa Elitez (CERN)  
11:15 pip install (py)acts - Benjamin Huth (CERN)  
09:00
Experiments (until 10:30) (Colloquium)
09:00 SHiP - James Maitland Webb (University of Freiburg (DE)) Oliver Lantwin (Universitaet Siegen (DE))  
09:25 Experiment 320 experience with Acts planar geometry tracking - Roman Urmanov (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))  
09:45 ACTS at the proposed Lohengrin experiment in Bonn - Cedric Carl Breuning (Universität Bonn)  
10:05 CMS - Lorenzo Damenti (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
10:50
Presentations (until 12:00) (Colloquium)
10:50 traccc integration - Neza Ribaric (Duke University (US))  
11:10 Integration of new Graph Based Seeding Algorithm in ACTS - Jasper Preston (University of London (GB))  
11:30 Vertex fitting in the variable magnetic field - Dr Vadim Kostyukhin (Universitaet Siegen (DE))  
09:00
Presentations - Andreas Salzburger (CERN) (until 10:30)
09:00 ACTS ❤️ MILLEPEDE - Maximilian Emanuel Goblirsch-Kolb (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
09:30 Global alignment with tracks fitted with a Kalman filter - Wouter Hulsbergen (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
09:50 Alignable (super) structures - Knut Zoch (CERN) Andreas Salzburger (CERN)  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
10:50
Hands-on (until 12:00) (Electron, Library, Positron)
09:00
Experiments (until 10:15) (Colloquium)
09:00 STCF - Hao Li (Zhengzhou University (CN)) Xiaocong Ai (Zhengzhou University)  
09:25 LUXE - Yufeng Wang Thomas Madlener (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))  
09:50 ALICE - Igor Altsybeev (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE)) Pierfrancesco Butti (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
10:15 --- Coffee ---
10:35
Presentations (until 12:00) (Colloquium)
10:35 Transformer tracking - Sebastien Rettie (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
11:05 Hybrid pattern recognition for charged particle tracking: Hough transform and convolutional neural networks - Carlo Varni (AGH University of Krakow (PL))  
11:35 GUNTAM: A Transformer for seed reconstruction - Corentin Allaire (IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3)  
09:00
Hackathon (until 12:00) (Electron, Bottom, Positron)
PM
12:00 --- Box Lunch ---
13:30
Hands-on (until 15:30) (Electron, Library, Bottom)
15:30 --- Coffee ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Hands-on (until 15:30) (Electron, Library, Bottom)
15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00
Hands-on (until 17:30) (Electron, Library, Bottom)
16:00 ACTS Governance Discussion - Andreas Salzburger (CERN)  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Hands-on (until 15:30) (Electron, Library, Positron)
15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00
Experiments (until 18:00)
16:00 sPHENIX - Joe Osborn (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
16:25 EPIC - Barak Schmookler Wouter Deconinck (University of Manitoba (CA))  
16:50 LDMX - Mathew Graham (SLAC)  
17:15 Muon Collider - Samuel Ferraro  
17:40 ATLAS - Noemi Calace (CERN)  
19:30 --- Social dinner ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Hands-on (until 15:30) (Electron, Library, Bottom)
15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00
Presentations - Benjamin Henry Hooberman (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US)) (until 17:20)
16:00 Large Impact Parameter Track Reconstruction in ATLAS Using ACTS (25+10) - Jackson Carl Burzynski (University of Oklahoma (US))  
16:35 Combined primary and secondary vertexing at future colliders (25+10) - Dr Vadim Kostyukhin Dr Vadim Kostyukhin (Universitaet Siegen (DE)) Vadim Kostyukhin (Bonn)  
17:10 Close-out - Andreas Salzburger (CERN)  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Hackathon (until 16:00) (Electron, Bottom, Positron)